Tanja Settele
Microsoft Copilot · Creative AI · Practical AI Application
Brings practical AI applications into the context of strategic decision-making.
CERTIFIED AI STRATEGIST
Assess AI strategically and steer it effectively.
The Certified AI Strategist combines use-case development, organizational readiness and strategic steering into a sound foundation for AI transformation.
The training is designed for people who want to assess and prioritize AI initiatives and translate them into a clear organizational framework.
WHAT IS THE CERTIFIED AI STRATEGIST?
The strategic specialization for effective AI transformation.
The Certified AI Strategist develops the competence to identify relevant AI opportunities, assess organizational conditions and translate priorities into a structured strategic direction.
While the Certified AI Specialist deepens operational implementation, the Strategist focuses on use cases, priorities, readiness and organizational steering.
The Frequent User provides a broad foundation for practical application. The Certified AI Governance Professional specializes in governance, compliance, risk and responsible AI structures.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
Identify opportunities. Set priorities. Steer transformation.
Identify relevant AI opportunities and use cases for the organization
Assess use cases through Usecase Scouting and Value Mapping
Evaluate organizational readiness and the conditions for AI transformation
Connect structure, responsibility and competence development with organizational change
Steer AI activities beyond individual use cases as an organizational priority
Assess Microsoft Copilot and generative media as practical application contexts within AI strategy
Consider quality, traceability and legal requirements
WHO IS IT FOR?
For people who shape AI strategically.
- Leaders
- Project leads
- Transformation leads
- Decision-makers
FACULTY & EXPERTISE
Strategy, integration and transformation from different perspectives.
Michaela Benkitsch
AI Integration · Positioning
Connects positioning and AI integration with embedding AI within the organization.
Florentina Zach
Technical Foundations · Prompting · Module Introductions
Provides technical foundations to support the strategic assessment of AI applications.
Mario Burger
Law · Governance · EU AI Act
Places legal and governance requirements within the framework of strategic AI decisions.
FROM POTENTIAL TO STRATEGY
Anchor AI strategically.
Strategic AI work does not begin with the tool, but with relevant use cases, organizational readiness and clear priorities.
The Certified AI Strategist creates the foundation for assessing AI initiatives systematically and translating them into a sustainable strategic direction.
THE TRAINING
Strategic. Modular. Organization-focused.
33 learning units in blended learning combine on-demand content and live modules. The pathway ranges from AI foundations and use-case scouting to readiness, organizational steering and selected application contexts.
UNDERSTAND & ASSESS
Foundations & Context
Assess the development, opportunities and limitations of AI and its economic value for work and organizations.
ANALYZE & PRIORITIZE
Use Cases & Readiness
Identify AI opportunities, establish a sound basis for decisions and bring organizational conditions together.
ANCHOR & STEER
Organization & Application
Steer AI as an ongoing organizational priority and place application contexts such as Microsoft Copilot and generative media within the broader strategic architecture.
CERTIFIED AI STRATEGIST AT A GLANCE
Certified AI Strategist
- FORMAT
- Blended Learning
- SCOPE
- 33 learning units
- TRAINING
- Institute for AI
- PERSON CERTIFICATION
- Quality Austria Academy
EN ISO/IEC 17024
On-demand content, live modules, expert exchange and assessment combine into a strategic training architecture.
EDUCATIONAL STACKING
Learn modules individually. Combine them into a qualification.
The Certified AI Strategist is modular. Individual learning modules can be completed separately and combined into the certified learning pathway in accordance with the defined training and assessment requirements.
Individual competence modules form a structured training architecture with a clearly defined qualification.
MODULE
Develop specific competence
LEARNING PATHWAY
Combine modules into the Certified AI Strategist
PERSON CERTIFICATION
Independent certification by Quality Austria Academy under EN ISO/IEC 17024
LEARNING MODULES
The modules of the Certified AI Strategist.
The assigned learning modules combine strategic orientation, organizational steering and concrete application contexts. These include Prompt Design & LLM and Smart Office with Microsoft Copilot as an application context within the strategic learning pathway.
Prompting & Application
Prompt Design & LLMs: Understanding Technology, Guiding Language
Understand how large language models work and guide their outputs through targeted prompt design.
Book nowPrompting & Application
Smart Office with Microsoft Copilot
Integrate Microsoft Copilot into typical office workflows, combining productivity with quality, traceability and control.
Book nowStrategy
Strategic Use Case Scouting & Value Mapping
Identify AI opportunities, assess relevant use cases and establish an informed basis for organizational decisions.
Discuss learning pathwayStrategy
AI Transformation & AI Readiness
Introduce AI systematically by connecting structure, responsibility, competence development and organizational change.
Book nowGovernance
Guiding AI Strategically and Practically: Center of Excellence
Bring AI activities together beyond individual use cases and manage AI as an ongoing organizational priority.
Book nowMedia & Communication
AI in Marketing: Images, Videos and Avatars
Use generative AI for images, videos and avatars while keeping relevant legal requirements in view.
Book nowFoundations
Introduction to AI
Understand the development, opportunities and limitations of AI and its economic value for work and organizations.
Book now
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Support, Assessment Preparation & Completion
Q&A and assessment support the learning pathway and are presented separately from the subject modules.
Live
Live Q&A (Strategist)
Clarify questions about Strategist modules and consider what the content means for your organization.
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Exam Preparation Q&A (Strategist)
Strengthen understanding of assessment topics and resolve remaining questions before the Strategist assessment.
View detailsLive · Assessment
Strategist Assessment
Formal completion at Strategist level through Quality Austria Academy, assessing content at organizational and decision-making level.
View detailsCOMPLETION
Demonstrate strategic competence independently.
The pathway concludes with a multiple-choice test. Assessment preparation provides an opportunity to clarify relevant connections and resolve questions about the content.
Independent person certification is provided by Quality Austria Academy under EN ISO/IEC 17024.
View Strategist AssessmentQUALITY & CERTIFICATION
Build competence. Certify independently. Make competence visible.
Institute for AI designs and delivers the training. Independent person certification is provided by Quality Austria Academy under EN ISO/IEC 17024.
- TRAINING
- Institute for AI
- INDEPENDENT PERSON CERTIFICATION
- Quality Austria Academy
- STANDARD
- EN ISO/IEC 17024
- CERTIFICATE DATABASE
- Transparently documented
HOW TO START
Choose your pathway. Gain orientation. Learn strategically.
01 · BOOKING
Choose how to start
Start through the existing booking process or discuss your learning pathway in a personal conversation.
02 · ORIENTATION
Kick Off
The Kick Off explains the training structure, learning platform and how to book live sessions and Q&A.
View Kick Off03 · LEARNING & COMPLETION
Develop competence
On-demand content and live modules are combined with expert exchange, assessment preparation and completion.
ROLE-BASED DEVELOPMENT
Strategic competence as a foundation for advanced roles.
In the current Institute model, two of the three specializations — Certified AI Specialist, Certified AI Strategist and Certified AI Governance Professional — form the basis for advanced roles with their own person certification. The Strategist alone does not grant these roles.
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING PATHWAY
Certified AI Consultant
Advise organizations professionally on AI application, strategy and transformation.
Explore the Consultant pathwayINTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE
Certified AI Strategy & Transformation Officer
Build and coordinate AI competence and transformation within the organization.
Explore the organizational roleCertified AI Expert is a separate WKO pathway outside the 2-out-of-3 model.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Certified AI Strategist explained.
The strategic AI specialization from Institute for AI. It combines use cases, organizational readiness and steering as a foundation for AI transformation.
For leaders, project leads, transformation leads and decision-makers who want to assess AI initiatives and shape them strategically.
The Specialist deepens operational implementation. The Strategist focuses on use cases, priorities, readiness and organizational steering.
The assigned learning modules include Prompt Design & LLMs: Understanding Technology, Guiding Language; Smart Office with Microsoft Copilot; Strategic Use Case Scouting & Value Mapping; AI Transformation & AI Readiness; Guiding AI Strategically and Practically: Center of Excellence; AI in Marketing: Images, Videos and Avatars; Introduction to AI. Q&A and assessment are listed separately.
They help identify AI opportunities, assess relevant use cases and establish a sound basis for organizational decisions.
The pathway brings together structure, responsibility, competence development and organizational change for the systematic introduction of AI.
The pathway considers AI beyond individual applications. The Center of Excellence module addresses the deliberate steering of AI as an ongoing organizational priority.
33 learning units in blended learning combine on-demand content and live modules. Q&A and assessment preparation support the pathway.
The pathway concludes with a multiple-choice test. Independent person certification is provided by Quality Austria Academy under EN ISO/IEC 17024.
Quality Austria Academy provides independent person certification under EN ISO/IEC 17024. Institute for AI designs and delivers the training.
An internationally established standard for certifying persons. Person certification is separate from training by Institute for AI.
The training model is modular. Individual learning modules can be completed separately and combined into the certified pathway in accordance with the defined training and assessment requirements.
Individual competence modules combine into a structured learning pathway. Independent person certification is a separate completion step under the applicable training and assessment requirements.
Two of the three specializations — Specialist, Strategist and Governance Professional — form the basis for Certified AI Consultant or Certified AI Strategy & Transformation Officer, each with its own person certification. The Strategist alone does not grant these roles. Certified AI Expert remains a separate WKO pathway.
Through the existing booking process or a personal learning-pathway conversation. The assigned Kick Off explains the training structure, learning platform and booking of live sessions and Q&A.
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