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Become the Fractional Chief AI Officer every organization needs

A dense, standalone education in AI leadership: the strategy, the governance, and the disclosure that turn AI risk into trust. Read the book, then learn it live in a 3-session workshop taught by Vinnie Fisher.

$997$497

One-time / lifetime accessIncludes the book + the 3-session workshop

Workshop seat reserved on purchase.

~81%

of consumers say they do not trust companies to use AI responsibly

<5%

of companies have any formal AI disclosure or governance in place

30+

U.S. states with AI legislation active or in progress

role that closes the gap: the fractional Chief AI Officer

Figures are directional and drawn from widely reported industry surveys and legislative trackers; they vary by source and are cited here to indicate scale, not a precise measurement. Regulatory counts change frequently.

The Opportunity

AI arrived faster than accountability. Someone has to close the gap.

AI came into business through the side door, into marketing, customer service, hiring, and product decisions, while almost no one wrote a policy, told the public anything, or could say who was accountable when something went wrong. That distance between how fast AI was adopted and how completely accountability was missing is the widest unmanaged exposure most companies carry today.

It is not a technology problem. It is a leadership problem. And it is the same pattern every major accountability wave has followed: financial controls created the governance profession, data privacy created the privacy profession, and AI accountability is the next wave.

"Being early, with genuine competence, is the most valuable place to stand in any emerging field."

This book makes you the person your CEO calls when AI comes up, not the person who forwards the email to IT, but the one who walks in with a plan. Full-time in a large enterprise, or fractional across the many organizations that need this leadership and cannot hire it any other way.

After You Finish

What you will be able to do

Not what you will know, what you will be able to do, defend, and lead. Built around the situations an AI leader faces every week.

Set an AI strategy a board can act on

Walk into an executive meeting with a defensible AI vision, an honest readiness assessment, and a prioritized roadmap built for the specific organization in front of you.

Brief technical teams without bluffing

Build the fluency to translate strategy into a technical brief engineers respect, evaluate vendors with a clear eye, and make defensible build-versus-buy calls.

Map where AI actually lives

Run the AI inventory that shows leadership the full footprint, always bigger than they guessed, and turn it into the foundation for governance and disclosure.

Stand up governance that survives an audit

Build the three-tier structure, classify risk proportionately, run a risk register and ethics review, and navigate the regulatory landscape honestly.

Lead the human side of AI

Address the workforce strain AI creates, the failure that looks like a success, with change leadership that makes the whole program actually take hold.

Earn the AI mandate

Run the four-pillar diagnostic, report to leadership in language they act on, and become the trusted, credentialed authority organizations retain.

The Curriculum

Three modules, module by module

The book is built on three modules, the same arc taught live across the 3-session workshop. Each ends with a hands-on exercise against a real organization.

Module 1

AI Readiness & Strategy

Strategic vision / organizational capabilities / opportunity mapping

You will buildAn AI Readiness Assessment and a board-ready AI Vision Statement, with accountability built in, not bolted on.

Why leadership, not technology, is the scarce thingThe counterintuitive truth that makes your value real without a computer-science degree.

The five-dimension readiness assessmentScore any organization honestly and turn each low score into the first move.

The AGENT lens for opportunity mappingAligned, Governable, Explainable, Net-positive on trust, Timely.

The Leadership Lens & the Four-Pillar DiagnosticFour questions that reveal where the work begins without pitching anything.

Writing a vision a board can act onThe shape of a statement that names the purpose and commits to accountability.

Module 2

Technology, Execution & Prototyping

Fluency / the AI inventory / vendors / build-versus-buy

You will buildA complete AI inventory and a technical brief a team can execute, with governance and disclosure specified before a line of code.

Fluency, not masteryEnough to ask the sharp question and smell when something is off.

The concepts that matter, in plain languageTraining vs. inference, hallucination, agentic AI, and why governance follows.

The AI inventory: mapping where AI livesThe single most valuable concrete thing you will do inside an organization.

Evaluating vendors & the five data questionsCut through the pitch; kill premature projects at the whiteboard.

The objections you will hear, and what they meanDiagnose, illuminate, and let the truth do the persuading.

Module 3

Governance, Ethics & Implementation

Risk / ethics / regulation / organizational change

You will buildA governance framework and implementation roadmap, the raw material of a real AI Leadership Playbook.

The three-tier governance modelStrategic, executive, operational, and the authority to halt a deployment.

Classifying risk & the risk registerMatch oversight to risk; turn a fog of anxiety into a managed list.

Ethics in practice & the front-page testThe three questions that catch problems before they go public.

Navigating the regulatory landscapeInternational, federal, and the fast-moving state patchwork, honestly.

Leading the human change & reporting upThe five mistakes that sink governance, and the four-question board report.

Included / 3-Session Workshop

The 3-session workshop, taught by Vinnie Fisher

The book stands on its own. But every purchase also reserves your seat in the 3-session workshop, where Vinnie teaches the three modules himself across three sessions, with the reasoning behind every decision and exercises you run against a real organization.

All three modules taught across three focused sessions

Four hands-on exercises against your own chosen company

The reasoning and judgment behind each framework

A clear path toward becoming a Certified Transparency Advisor

Who It's For

You're not starting over. You're redirecting experience you already have.

The qualification for this work is not technical expertise. It is business maturity. If you can sit across from a leader and talk plainly about risk, trust, and what to do next, you already have the hardest part.

Experienced professionals & consultants

Redirecting decades of business judgment into the fastest-forming advisory category.

Executives & operators

Ready to own AI accountability inside their organization, full-time or as an added mandate.

Future Certified Transparency Advisors

Building the capability first, then earning the credential to practice under a recognized standard.

Get Started

One purchase. The book and the room.

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AI Leadership

$997$497one-time

Lifetime access / book + live workshop seat

The complete AI Leadership book, a standalone education in the fractional CAIO role
A seat in the 3-session workshop taught by Vinnie Fisher
All three modules: Readiness, Execution, and Governance
The four-pillar diagnostic, the AI inventory method, and the governance frameworks
A clear next step toward the Certified Transparency Advisor path

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Questions

Before you buy

Do I need a technical background?+

No. This is leadership work, not engineering. You will never write code or tune a model. What the role requires is judgment and structure, and the book builds the fluency you need to lead technical teams without bluffing.

What exactly do I get for $497?+

The complete AI Leadership book and a reserved seat in the 3-session workshop taught by Vinnie Fisher. One purchase, lifetime access to the material.

Is the book useful on its own, without the workshop?+

Yes. It is written as a complete, standalone education. You could read it cover to cover and be ready to lead. The workshop adds live teaching, the reasoning behind each decision, and hands-on exercises.

How is this different from the Advisory Practice book?+

The Advisory Practice book is about building the business: revenue streams, pricing, and a 90-day roadmap. AI Leadership is about building the capability: the strategy, governance, and disclosure skills of the fractional Chief AI Officer role itself.

Does this lead to becoming a Certified Transparency Advisor?+

It is designed to. The book builds the underlying capability, and the final chapter shows how the CTA credential lets you practice that capability for clients under a recognized standard.

Lead from the front. Because someone has to.

The market rewards the people who build real competence while the category is still forming. That is now, and this is where it starts.