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For career changers and professionals exploring AI governance careers or advisory work

Before TechFlow Deploys AI:
The AI Governance Decision Challenge

Learn it. Build and defend it. Use it in your career.

In one live weekend, learn how to check a company's plan to use AI. Practice with a made-up company and create a report you can explain. Defending your work means explaining why you made each choice and answering questions about it.

Learn how to describe that work in a job interview, on your resume, and in a portfolio, a collection of work samples. You will also explore advisory work: helping a company understand its choices and decide what to do next.

Join the Live Challenge | $297

You May Not Need Another Course Before You Understand the Work

You may be new to AI governance and unsure where to begin. Or you may already have a degree, certifications, or years of work experience.

Either way, the question is the same: How do I turn what I know into work I can do, explain, and use in my career?

Studying helps you learn. But you may still find that:

  • You have never made the kind of report or other work sample a job requires.
  • You cannot picture what you would do each day in the role.
  • You have not practiced explaining why you made a decision.

When I surveyed people who attend my career sessions, most were career changers. About half said they had not started because they did not know where to begin. The most common problem was having no hands-on work to show. The next was not knowing how to explain what they had learned to a hiring manager.

They wanted a clear path, practice with realistic company situations, and work samples they could show.

The missing step is learning how to use what you know and show why it matters.

One Set of Skills. Two Ways to Help Companies.

AI governance means helping a company set rules, check possible problems, and decide how it should use artificial intelligence, or AI. This includes understanding the plan, checking the company information, finding unanswered questions, and suggesting what to do next.

Build toward a job inside a company. Explore work on teams that manage AI use, protect private information, check company rules, or help prevent problems.

Develop toward paid advisory work. As you gain knowledge and experience, a company may pay you to help with a clearly defined task. You agree on what you will check, what information you need, what work you will give the company, and where your job ends.

This Challenge introduces both paths through one assignment. The company's leaders remain responsible for its decisions.

This is also for people still deciding between GRC and AI governance. GRC work helps companies manage risks and follow rules.

Why I Connect Learning to the Work

About three years ago, a former colleague introduced me to someone who wanted to move into cybersecurity. She had advanced degrees and a professional certification. Her resume looked strong, and I referred her for an interview.

Afterward, the hiring manager called. Her qualifications showed that she had studied the subject. But he wanted to know whether she could use what she had learned. She had a college project, yet could not clearly explain what she had made or why she had made certain choices.

That helped shape how I teach. People need to learn the ideas, use them in realistic work, explain their choices, and show how the work fits their career goals.

My Build-and-Defend Method

1. Learn It

Learn what you need for the assignment before you start.

You will learn why a company should check an AI plan before moving ahead. You will learn what to ask about its purpose, the people involved, the information it uses, the company supplying the tool, and the decisions people will still control.

You will also learn to separate what the records support from what people believe or assume. You will spot missing information and learn what a first review can and cannot tell you.

2. Build and Defend It

Use what you learned to complete the assignment.

Read the TechFlow company information, describe its AI plan, make a first check of it, and suggest the next step.

Then explain your choice: what you found, what supports it, what you still do not know, and why you chose that next step.

3. Use It in Your Career

Learn how to use your work beyond the classroom.

For the career route, learn how to describe this practice assignment in your portfolio, resume, and interviews. Connect it to skills from your past work and decide what to learn next.

For the advisory route, explore how to offer this type of task to a company: what the task includes, what information you need, what you will give the company, and which questions your work will not answer.

Learn what the work means. Do it and explain your choices. Then show how it fits your next step.

Start With One Piece Before Investing in the Whole Field

You do not need to finish a full AI governance program to find out whether you enjoy the work.

Learn what you need for one assignment. Complete it, explain it, and consider how it fits your interests and past experience.

If you have the free guide, you have already seen some of the questions. Here, you learn why those questions matter and use the TechFlow company information to work through them.

Your Assignment: Before TechFlow Deploys AI

TechFlow Solutions is a made-up company thinking about using FlowAssist, an AI assistant for its customer-support team.

The plan says FlowAssist will read customer requests, search help articles, and draft replies. An employee will check each reply before sending it. The company's leaders expect faster responses and want the tool running in six weeks.

You will receive an Evidence Pack: a set of company information to read and use. Some statements have support. Others are things people believe or have assumed. Important information is missing.

What does TechFlow know, what is still missing, and what should happen next?

What You Will Build

You will create the TechFlow AI Use-Case Profile and Preliminary Assessment. That is the formal name for your report: a description of the planned AI use and a first check of it.

Your report will explain what the tool should do, who will use it, who else could be affected, what information it uses, and who supplies it. You will also describe where people stay in control, what the tool must not do, and what still needs checking.

You will suggest one of five next steps:

  • Check the plan in full.
  • Check a smaller version of the plan.
  • Get more information first.
  • Put the plan on hold.
  • Stop the plan.

This is a first review. It is not a full check of every possible problem or permission to start using the AI tool.

Prepare a two-minute explanation of your choice. More than one answer may make sense. Your task is to show why the information supports yours.

How the Weekend Works

Saturday, September 26 | Learn It and Begin Building

10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Learn what you need for the assignment, meet TechFlow, read the first set of company information, and start your report with guidance.

Between sessions: Read the rest of the information and choose the next step you think TechFlow should take.

Sunday, September 27 | Build and Defend It, Then Use It in Your Career

10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Finish your report and practice explaining your choices. Then learn how to describe the work for your career and explore how an adviser would approach the same task for a company. Choose the career or advisory route worksheets that fit your next step.

After the Weekend | Receive Personal Feedback

Send your work by Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Receive written personal feedback within seven days after you send it.

Your $297 Registration Includes

  • Five hours of live teaching and guided practice.
  • The TechFlow company story and Evidence Pack.
  • Participant worksheets and forms to help you write your report.
  • Guided working time and practice giving your two-minute explanation.
  • Help describing the practice assignment in your portfolio, resume, and interviews.
  • An introduction to advising companies: agreeing on the task, asking for information, explaining what you will provide, and setting clear limits.
  • Your selected career or advisory route worksheets.
  • Written personal feedback on the work you send in.
  • Session recordings.
  • A Certificate of Achievement from The Tech Academy and matching digital badge when you complete the requirements.

Join the AI Governance Decision Challenge | $297

Refunds: You can get a full refund until Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. After that, your place may be moved to a future group.

Your Certificate of Achievement

Sample Certificate of Achievement from The Tech Academy for completing and defending the TechFlow AI Use-Case Profile and Preliminary Assessment in Before TechFlow Deploys AI: The AI Governance Decision Challenge.

Sample. Your name, completion date, and a unique certificate number appear on yours.

You receive a downloadable certificate and a matching badge you can add to LinkedIn. To earn them from The Tech Academy, take part in the teaching, finish and send in your report, and give your two-minute explanation.

The certificate records your completion of this practice assignment. It is not a PECB certification or a professional license.

Taught by Dr. Rose Shumba

Dr. Rose Shumba is a cybersecurity educator with more than 20 years of experience preparing students and professionals for technology and cybersecurity careers, and a former director of an NSA and DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. That is a program recognized by U.S. national security agencies for its cybersecurity education. She holds a PhD in Computer Science.

Her professional certifications include the following awards from PECB, which checks a person's knowledge and work experience before awarding these titles.

PECB Certified ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer

This certification recognizes her ability to lead the work of setting up and improving a company's AI management system. That means the rules, people, and checks that guide how the company uses AI. ISO/IEC 42001 is the international standard for this work. It covers who is responsible, what could go wrong, and how to keep checking and improving the way AI is managed.

PECB Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Senior Lead Implementer

This certification recognizes her ability to lead the work of setting up and improving a company's information security management system. That means the rules, people, and checks used to protect company information. ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for this work. The Senior Lead level also requires years of relevant work and project experience, not just passing an exam.

She created the TechFlow case, teaches the Challenge live, and reviews your work herself.

View Dr. Shumba's professional badges

Where This Can Lead

The Challenge is the first stage of the Applied AI Governance Pathway, a series of programs that build on each other.

Five later stages take you through a fuller review of TechFlow's AI plan, closer checks of possible risks and harms, a collection of AI governance work, practice advising companies, and setting up the way a company manages AI.

Those programs are offered separately. They are not included in the $297 Challenge.

Your choice now is whether to start with one useful assignment. You do not have to sign up for the whole pathway.

See the Full Applied AI Governance Pathway

More interested in non-coding cybersecurity? See the Programs page to explore that path, too.

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Questions You May Have

Will you teach me what I need, or should I already know it?

We teach what you need before and during the assignment. You do not need previous AI governance experience or coding skills.

Does the Challenge introduce advisory work?

Yes. You will explore how an adviser would approach the assignment for a company. Taking on paid client work on your own requires more learning, practice, and experience.

Will we check every risk or design the company's safeguards?

No. You will describe the planned AI use, spot concerns, and suggest what to do next. Deeper checks, designing ways to prevent problems, and testing them belong to later training.

Can I use the work in my portfolio or resume?

Yes. You will learn to describe it clearly as practice with a made-up company. It is not work for a real employer or client.

What if I cannot attend both live sessions?

Recordings are included. Contact The Tech Academy before signing up to check how you can meet the participation and speaking requirements if you will miss a session.

Learn It. Build and Defend It. Use It in Your Career.

Start with one realistic assignment. Learn what the work involves, practice with guidance, and explore how it fits a job inside a company or future paid advisory work.

September 26 to 27, 2026 ยท 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time each day ยท Live online ยท $297

Join the AI Governance Decision Challenge | $297

Important to Know

The Tech Academy is the education program of Kudzai Consulting Group.

TechFlow and FlowAssist are made up for learning. This program gives you teaching and practice, not job or client experience. It does not promise a job, income, clients, or readiness to advise companies on your own.

The Tech Academy's certificate and badge record your learning and completed work. They are not professional licenses or certifications from an outside body. PECB training and exams are not included.

The materials may refer to guidance from NIST, a U.S. government agency, and standards from ISO, an international standards organization. Neither organization sponsors or endorses the Challenge.

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