AI governance advisor, ex-Meta, ex-MSFT

Soribel Feliz

Why AI Governance Careers Are So Confusing Right Now

Microsoft

Department of State

Ex-Meta, ex-Microsoft, ex-DHS, former Senate AI governance lead and risk advisor

You’ll walk away understanding how hiring managers actually evaluate AI governance candidates, and why job descriptions.

Decode the real signals hiring teams use

Learn how to talk about your policy, privacy, or compliance background in ways that sound understandable and valuable.

Bridge policy expertise to operational credibility

You’ll know the language and framing mistakes that keep good professionals stuck and how to fix them.

Spot and avoid common positioning traps

This isn't a training about AI governance theory. It's a course about DOING AI governance. Here's what you'll be able TO DO not just KNOW

AI Governance Advisor & Ph.D. Scholar

ISACA

Centene

Cyber Pros Training

Trenton Health Team

Western Governors University

Francois B. Arthanas

AI Governance Advisor & Ph.D. Scholar (CISSP, CISA, AAIA) | Founder, Cyber Pros 

For professionals who need to govern, secure, test, monitor & prove trust in enterprise AI agents.

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<h2>Every company is deploying AI. Almost nobody is governing it.</h2>Organizations are plugging AI into hiring, lending, healthcare, and fraud detection with zero governance frameworks in place. No risk assessments. No audit trails. No compliance programs. Nothing.And regulators have noticed.The EU AI Act is live. Penalties hit €35 million or 7% of global revenue. Every major jurisdiction is building enforcement and most organizations don't have a single person who can stand up an AI governance program.Here's what nobody in cyber wants to say out loud: the traditional GRC job market is crowded, the certifications are commoditized, and the salaries have plateaued.AI governance is the opposite. The demand is exploding. The talent pool is nearly empty. And the professionals who build real expertise now with real frameworks, real projects, and real proof won't just enter this field. They'll define it.This program is how you do it in 8 weeks. You will master NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, &amp; the EU AI Act. You'll build 8+ portfolio-ready deliverables. And you'll walk out with the one thing no certificate gives you: proof you can do the job before you ever get the job.No deep tech background required.

Get hired in AI Governance. Build the portfolio that proves you can do the work.

Lead Enterprise AI Governance Program Design

Conduct AI Risk Assessments Using NIST AI RMF

Design ISO 42001-Aligned AI Management Systems

Navigate EU AI Act Compliance for High-Risk Systems

Plan, Execute AI System Audits & Report AI Risk to Executive Leadership

Design Multi-Layered AI Control Frameworks & Manage Third-Party AI Vendor Risk

You do not need:

Coding skills, 

Machine learning experience, 

Advanced cybersecurity background

There are NO technical prerequisites

Basic familiarity with GRC concepts risk management, internal controls, compliance frameworks, audit fundamentals

You should have

Career switchers who want lower technical barriers cyber career that is very in demand

GRC Professional who knows AI governance is the future of their career and are ready to stop reading about it and start doing it

IT auditor, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, consultant &amp; security professionals who want influence, stability, and relevance in the AI era

Most AI governance courses teach ideal conditions. This one doesn't. 

US Top 100 Most Influential AI Leaders

Thomson Reuters

Concordia

Ciena

Deloitte

Temi Odesanya

AI Governance Practitioner & Educator

A hands-on workshop for professionals expected to govern AI with limited authority, incomplete visibility, and real institutional resistance. It's built on real AI governance challenges, not framework walkthroughsYou have accountability for AI governance. You did not get the authority, budget, or timing required to prevent every bad outcome. The business moves fast. Deployments go live before governance reviews them. Vendors say the model is proprietary. Senior leaders want answers you're still trying to piece together. And you're expected to have defensible governance posture regardless.This workshop is built for the Monday morning problem - the deployment that's three weeks from go-live, the shadow AI discovered through a customer complaint, the escalation memo you need to send without ending your career.Temi teaches from active practitioner experience — operating simultaneously under institutional pressure at a large enterprise and building the actual deliverables this course is designed around. The structural spine of this course — high accountability, limited authority — is not a concept drawn from research. It is the operating condition this course was built from.

You leave as a practitioner who knows how to govern AI under the pressure and build a record that is defensible regardless of the company

You will leave with AI governance decision templates, questionnaires

Embedding AI Governance Into Delivery Without Disrupting Innovation 

Bonus included: AI Governance Prompt Book  

Make AI risk concrete enough that it cannot be dismissed.

Govern generative AI and AI Agent specifically

This course skips the orientation. We build on existing foundational knowledge, frameworks — not from scratch 

Exposure to AI Governance, Risk or Compliance in a professional context

 If you've never had exposure to AI projects, this course will feel advanced. If you have, it will feel like finally having the right words

Exposure to AI/ ML projects in a professional context

Risk and compliance professionals whose portfolio now includes AI — applying old frameworks and finding the fit is off.

AI governance leads and responsible AI program managers with a mandate but limited authority — writing policies teams route around.

Legal counsel, CPOs, and digital ethics leads making AI architecture decisions that will shape governance for years, without a playbook.

You figure out what kind of career you actually want. Then you build the work to show for it.  This is what getting hired in 2026 looks like

Medical Student to Prisoner to CEO.

Sobanan Narenthiran

Medical student. Prisoner. CEO. The most unconventional hire you'll ever meet.

Human Rights Law to Marketing (somehow)

Jasmine Hasmatali

Applied to 50+ jobs in 8 months. Kept knocking on doors till one opened.

Biology + Curiosity = Videographer?

Sarrujan Jayakumaran

Bio major turned creative director. Followed curiosity rather than tradition.

Master's in AI, she knows what's up.

Amira Al-Shabazz

Chief of Staff at 24. Knows that feeling ready is overrated. Permission? Nope.

June 2026

Graduate hiring in 2026 looks nothing like it did two years ago. Employers are redesigning assessments, watching for AI-polished answers, and rejecting candidates who can't explain their own work.At the same time, they still want people who can use AI well.The people getting hired right now aren't the ones with the best AI prompts. They're the ones with real skills, real taste, and real proof of their work.This course is built around that shift. You'll cover the things graduate programmes and university careers services mostly aren't teaching yet: how to build a career AI can't replace, how to actually use AI tools well, why taste is becoming the word of 2026, how to tell a story about your work that lands, and how to stop waiting for permission and start making things happen.You'll build the thing almost no one else applying alongside you will have: proof.Proof of what you can do without AI.Proof of how you use it when you do.Leave with something most graduates don't have yet: a clear, defensible story about how you work in an AI era. That's the thing that's getting people hired right now.

Build a career AI can't replace.

Figure out what kind of career you actually want and which path gets you there

Understand the shift you are living through, not just the tools in front of you

Develop the taste and judgement that employers are now screening for

See the full range of routes into work, not just the traditional ones

Final-year or recent grad chasing a scheme. Using AI daily. Worried your applications sound like everyone else's.&nbsp;

Graduated a while ago, stuck in a "just for now" job, and ready to move. You need evidence, not another CV template.&nbsp;

You're not chasing a scheme. You want to build, create, freelance, or carve a path the old careers service can't map.

Design AI governance, manage risk & compliance—become a trusted enterprise leader

Ex-JPMorgan Data Leader | AI Governance

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

NatWest

Centrica

Barclays

Prajesh Jha

Founder-GravitasETRM | Ex - JPMC | ADNOC, BP, ENI, Centrica, NatWest, Barclays

Most AI courses teach you how to build models. Almost none teach you how to control them once they’re in production—and that’s where careers are being made (or broken).Today, organizations are deploying AI faster than they can govern it. That creates real risk: regulatory exposure (EU AI Act, model audits), reputational damage from biased or opaque decisions, and financial loss from poorly controlled models. Leaders are under pressure to answer questions like: Who owns this model? How is it monitored? Can we explain it to regulators? Most teams don’t have clear answers.This program focuses on that gap. You’ll learn how to design and implement practical AI governance frameworks—policies, controls, risk models, and oversight structures that actually work in enterprise environments. Not theory, but how to operationalize governance across the AI lifecycle.If you’re already working with data or AI, this is the layer that elevates you—from building systems to owning accountability, influencing decisions, and operating at leadership level.

Lead AI Governance: Control Risk, Meet Regulation, Drive Decisions

Design Enterprise AI Governance Frameworks

Control AI Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Exposure

Operationalize AI Governance End-to-End

Influence Stakeholders & Lead Governance Decisions

Build Career Path in AI Governance Leadership

Deliver Real-World AI Governance Implementation

Mid–senior data/AI professionals aiming to lead governance, risk &amp; strategy roles

Risk, compliance &amp; audit professionals expanding into AI governance &amp; regulation

Tech leaders &amp; consultants driving enterprise AI adoption with accountability &amp; control

Why AI Governance Careers Are So Confusing Right Now

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