Artificial Intelligence Management Professional (AIMP) Certification

Who it is for

Executives, managers, product and operations leaders, policy and compliance professionals, consultants and technical leads who decide how AI gets used and are accountable for the results. No programming is required and none is taught. If you can read a business case, you can complete this program.

What you will be able to do

• Build and tier an AI inventory, publish an AI use policy and stand up an AI Management Office sized to your organization.
• Explain how modern AI systems work, where they fail and what they cost, well enough to make and defend decisions.
• Build a scored use-case portfolio with baselines, capture mechanisms and kill criteria, and write a business case finance will sign.
• Design and govern AI agents with the right level of autonomy, least privilege, approval gates and audit logs.
• Apply the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001, and decide whether and when to certify.
• Map the EU AI Act, US federal and state law, privacy law and sector rules to your systems and run a compliance rhythm.
• Run risk assessments, fairness testing, red teaming, monitoring and incident response.
• Govern data for AI, apply GDPR and the California rules, and recognize the OWASP Top 10 risks for LLM and agentic applications.
• Select models, platforms and vendors on your own evidence, and negotiate the contract, the total cost and the exit.
• Take a use case from pilot to production, lead workforce adoption, and operate AI with a runbook.
• Measure AI with a four-layer metrics stack, run credible experiments, compute ROI with ranges and brief a board.
• Lead the change: close the trust gap, communicate honestly about jobs, and write a twelve-month AI leadership plan.

How the program works

• Every topic opens with learning objectives and an estimated time, teaches without filler, works through a documented real-world case or a clearly labeled scenario, ends with something you can use at work the next day, and closes with a two-question knowledge check. Every module shows its “Last reviewed” date and cites its sources.
• Scenario labs. The third topic of every module ends with a decision exercise: make your call, then open our analysis.
• Module quizzes. Six questions per module with explained answers; 5 of 6 correct to pass, unlimited retakes.
• The toolkit. Seven branded documents, in the Materials tab: AI Use Policy Template, AI Risk Assessment Worksheet, Vendor Evaluation Scorecard, AI ROI Calculator Worksheet, AI Implementation Roadmap, Prompt and Workflow Library, and the Capstone Template and Rubric.
• The capstone. An AI Implementation Plan for your own organization, reviewed by IAIM against a published rubric, with your result and written feedback six days after you submit.
• The final exam. Fifty questions drawn at random from a bank covering all twelve modules; 90 minutes; 80 percent to pass; three attempts.
• Your certificate. Issued the moment you pass the final exam (which opens once your capstone is approved), with your name, the completion date, a unique Certificate ID and a QR code that anyone can scan to verify it on iaim.ai. Share it to LinkedIn from your account.

The curriculum

1. Module 0 Orientation: how the AIMP program works 15 min
2. Module 1 The AI Management Mandate 75 min
3. Module 2 How Modern AI Works, for Managers 80 min
4. Module 3 AI Strategy and Value 80 min
5. Module 4 Agentic AI and Automation 80 min
6. Module 5 Governance Frameworks: NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 80 min
7. Module 6 Law and Regulation: the EU AI Act, US federal posture and state laws, sector rules 90 min
8. Module 7 Risk, Safety and Responsible AI 80 min
9. Module 8 Data, Privacy and Security 80 min
10. Module 9 Vendor, Model and Platform Selection 75 min
11. Module 10 Implementation and Change Management 80 min
12. Module 11 Measuring Performance and ROI 75 min
13. Module 12 Leading AI Transformation 70 min
14. Capstone Your AI Implementation Plan 8 to 12 hrs
15. Final exam 50 questions, 90 minutes, 80 percent to pass 90 min

Keeping the credential current

AIMP is valid for one year from the day you earn it. Ninety days before it expires, the annual renewal course opens to you: an updated course on the year’s developments in AI management and a 50-question exam. Renewal is $149 a year, or included in the AIMP Certified tier ($229 a year, with every IAIM Member benefit and a listing in the AIMP Directory). Your certificate’s verification page shows its current status.

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