Set business priorities
Decide which business goals AI should serve first, before choosing any tool or vendor.
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Overview
Adopting AI is a leadership call. This course walks you through making it.
AI Leadership is a free, self-paced three-hour OpenAI Academy course, standalone and not tied to one product. It centers on setting business priorities and turning an AI initiative into a first-draft strategy, plus governance and adoption. Passing the assessment at 80% earns a badge that OpenAI says is not a certification, and it leads to no pathway certificate.
8Modules
10–20Questions
3Hours
7Roles
What it covers
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Draft an AI strategy
Turn an AI initiative into a first-draft strategy you can take to colleagues and refine.
Plan the governance
Set out who decides what, and what rules apply, as AI use spreads through the organization.
Build a roadmap people follow
Sequence the work and plan how people will adopt it, so the strategy does not stay on paper.
Course outline
Start from the business goal,
Start from the business goal,
end with a roadmap people follow.
We design this course ourselves. OpenAI issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of OpenAI.
Leaders decide better when they know what the technology really does. You learn the main kinds of AI capability, where each earns its keep in a business, and the limits that should shape expectations.
- Generative AI, predictive AI and automation compared
- What AI does reliably and what it does not
- Where AI changes a process and where it only speeds it up
- Why pilots succeed and then fail to scale
- Questions leaders should ask of any AI claim
You build A plain-language briefing on AI for your leadership team.
Start with goals, not tools. You identify the outcomes the business cares about most and test every AI idea against them, so effort follows strategy and not novelty.
- Turning company goals into AI-relevant outcomes
- Finding pain points across functions
- Separating priorities from enthusiasm
- Agreeing success measures with the business
- Knowing which priorities AI cannot help
You build A short statement of the business priorities AI work should serve.
Ideas arrive from every direction. You collect them, size their value, effort and risk, and sort them into a portfolio that mixes quick wins with larger bets.
- Collecting ideas from every team
- Estimating value, cost and effort
- Assessing data, skills and risk
- Balancing quick wins and larger bets
- Deciding what to leave out
You build An opportunity portfolio with each idea assessed against the same criteria.
A first draft gets colleagues talking. You turn the initiative into a strategy that states the goal, the focus areas, the approach to people and data, and what you will not do, then prepare it for feedback.
- What a strategy must say and what it can leave out
- Choosing focus areas and sequencing them
- Build, buy or partner for each area
- Data and skills the strategy depends on
- Writing the draft so others can challenge it
- Gathering and using feedback
You build A first-draft AI strategy for an initiative of your choice.
As AI use spreads, someone must decide what is allowed. You set who approves what, which rules apply and how exceptions are handled, so teams can move without waiting for case-by-case answers.
- Who decides: roles and decision rights
- Setting approval levels by risk
- Policies for data and tool use
- Handling exceptions
- Keeping governance light enough to use
You build A governance outline with decision rights and approval levels.
Leaders carry the risk of what AI does in their name. You map risks such as privacy, bias, error and misuse, and decide on controls, human oversight and how to respond when something goes wrong.
- Mapping risks by use case
- Privacy, security and confidentiality
- Bias, errors and unfair outcomes
- Human oversight for high-stakes decisions
- Responding when an AI system goes wrong
You build A risk register for one AI use case, with controls and owners.
A tool nobody uses changes nothing. You plan how people learn, trust and apply AI in their work, address the worries they hold, and make good use visible to others.
- Why adoption stalls
- Building skills across roles
- Addressing fear and resistance
- Champions and communities of practice
- Measuring real use, not licenses issued
You build An adoption plan for one team.
Join priorities, strategy, governance and adoption into one sequenced plan. You set milestones and measures, name owners, and prepare to present and defend the plan to the people who must back it.
- Sequencing initiatives and dependencies
- Milestones, owners and measures
- Budget and capacity in outline
- Anticipating objections
- Presenting the roadmap to decision-makers
- Reviewing and updating it over time
You build A roadmap with milestones, owners and measures, ready to present.
Issued by
Certifying body · Independent of LUNARTECH
OpenAI
A certification in early pilot, and free Academy courses across Foundations, Codex and the API. OpenAI says its Academy badges and certificates of completion are not certifications, and don’t guarantee eligibility for one. Availability is still changing, so check OpenAI’s own pages before planning around any of these.
How you get there
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Here’s how you get there.
Know where you start.
Standalone course level. Check OpenAI’s official page for what it expects before you begin.
Work through the course.
Eight modules, designed by LUNARTECH, at your own pace.
Earn it with OpenAI.
OpenAI issues the credential, so you earn it directly with them.
Support
Support at every stage.
Support at every stage.
You won’t be working through this alone.
Before you start
Try it first.
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While you learn
Mentors within reach.
Stuck on a concept? Reach out to a mentor whenever you need help.
While you learn
One-on-one sessions.
On the yearly plan, one-on-one sessions give you dedicated support.
Any time
A team behind you.
Write to info@lunartech.ai at any point, from your trial onwards. If your employer is funding you, we’ll set it up with them directly.
All the way through
A schedule that fits around your life.
Your own paceFrom anywhereAt any hour
After the last lesson
Stay in the network.
Your alumni network stays with you: ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Career support
Career support, past the last lesson. Coaching, a sharper resume, real interview preparation and the people to know.
Career direction
Tailored coaching helps you decide where to aim and how to get there.
Strong portfolio
Hands-on projects become work you can show, not just claim.
Resume and profile
Personalized refinement, so what you send says what you can actually do.
Interview preparation
Preparation for the questions that decide it, so you walk in ready.
Network and search
Connections with industry leaders, and an alumni network that stays with you.
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The programme’s clear, bite-sized content and practical projects dramatically improved my speed from fuzzy idea to MVP and my ability to communicate AI value. I followed the system, and it works.
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Why choose us
Built around how you actually learn.
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Hands-on practice
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We keep courses current with the tools, techniques and skills the field asks for.
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Certificate of completion
Finish the course and earn a certificate that shows what you have learned.
Focus on your success
Personalized learning plans and support structures carry you through the hard parts.
Lifetime alumni network
Stay connected after you finish, with ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Your certificate
It doesn’t raise its voice. Neither will you.
Finish a LUNARTECH course and its certificate is issued in your name, under our signature. OpenAI’s credential comes from OpenAI.
Certificate of completion
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AI Leadership course
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Pricing
This course comes with the membership.
This course comes with the membership.
So does everything else.
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In practice
Seven roles.
Seven roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Priorities
- 02Strategy
- 03Governance
- 04Adoption
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Strategy comes before tooling. A roadmap makes it something teams can follow.
Priorities, Strategy, Adoption
Enterprise leadership, Operations
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Governance decides who may use AI for what. Adoption is where plans succeed or stall.
Governance, Adoption
Operations, Enterprise leadership
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Public bodies need rules before rollout. A draft strategy gives them something to test.
Governance, Strategy
Public sector
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Tech choices follow business priorities, not the reverse. A first-draft strategy gives the board something to react to.
Priorities, Strategy
Enterprise leadership
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Governance is easiest to set before adoption spreads. Clear rules turn compliance questions into answers.
Governance
Enterprise leadership, Operations
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An AI initiative needs a priority, an owner and a path. The roadmap section turns intent into milestones.
Priorities, Strategy, Adoption
Enterprise leadership, Operations
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Clients want a strategy they can start on Monday. A first draft gets the conversation moving.
Strategy, Adoption
Consulting
- Enterprise leadership
- Public sector
- Consulting
- Operations
AI Leader & Manager
Strategy comes before tooling. A roadmap makes it something teams can follow.
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The field
Anyone can use AI.
Anyone can use AI.
Few can engineer it. This is where that starts.
+340%growth in open roles requiring AI skills
Roles and pay
~35,000 open roles right now
Open roles: Built In, Greenhouse, LinkedIn.
Typical salaries: Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Payscale, Indeed, Ravio, JobRise, U.S. BLS. Military: 2026 U.S. basic pay, drone officers with aviation incentive pay.
Updated November 2026.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
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No. We design this course ourselves, around what the credential covers. OpenAI has no part in it, and you still earn the credential directly with OpenAI.
10–20 questions, 3 hours, online, self-paced. The passing score is 80% on the assessment.
We last reviewed it on 5 November 2026, from excerpts of OpenAI’s official pages, because its site doesn’t accept automated readers. Details change, so check the official page before you book.
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The course
Build the skills behind AI Leadership.
Learn to set AI priorities and draft a strategy for your organization. Start with a free trial, or enroll in a plan and work through the course at your own pace. OpenAI issues the credential.
LUNARTECH is independent of the vendors and certifying bodies listed here. Their names, exam titles and marks belong to them, exams are run by them, and credentials are issued by them. Reviewed 5 November 2026. Catalogues change often, so confirm the details on the official page before you book.
