AI Adoption Learning Pathways
Build your AI adoption skills stack
The GenAI Belt program is the structured path through these skills. This page shows the full skill set, including complementary resources you can layer in along the way.
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Begin with the GenAI White Belt — $39 →The GenAI Belt progression
GenAI White Belt
$393 hours · Self-paced
Build the foundation every AI leader needs. Understand what AI is, how it works in plain terms, and where it fits into your day-to-day work, so you can speak confidently and make informed decisions from day one.
Learn more about GenAI White Belt →GenAI Yellow Belt
$42920 hours · Self-paced
Move from understanding AI to applying it. Develop the hands-on skills to support and contribute to AI initiatives with confidence, and start building the track record that earns you a seat at the table.
Learn more about GenAI Yellow Belt →GenAI Green Belt
$2,39940 hours · Peer cohort with group sessions & Practice Advisor
There's a gap between organizations that talk about AI and organizations that actually use it. Green Belt is built for the people who close that gap. Over 40 hours of applied practice, you'll design and run a structured AI pilot inside your own organization, using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle trusted by quality improvement leaders for decades.
Learn more about GenAI Green Belt →GenAI Black Belt
$6,20080 hours · Live group sessions, Practice Advisor & capstone portfolio
You've run a pilot. You've proven something works. Now you need to scale it across a department and make it stick — not as a special project, but as how the work gets done. The GenAI Black Belt teaches you how to embed AI into daily operations so it survives the handoff, which is a different skill entirely, and the one most pilots never make it past.
Learn more about GenAI Black Belt →GenAI Master Black Belt
$11,500160 hours · Live group sessions, Practice Advisor & capstone portfolio
Your organization has Black Belts who have scaled AI inside their departments. Each one has built something that works. What's missing is someone to pull the best of it together: the workflows, the prompts, the lessons, the guardrails, into a shared organizational toolkit backed by a unified strategy and executive sponsorship. Master Black Belt is for that person.
Learn more about GenAI Master Black Belt →Complementary skills to layer in
The belt program covers outcome-delivery fundamentals — change management, process thinking, and practical GenAI use. These external resources complement your training with deeper knowledge in adjacent disciplines.
Green Belt +
Change Management
Prosci ADKAR, Kotter's 8 Steps, Leading Change
Green Belt +
Process Improvement
Lean Six Sigma concepts, PDSA cycle, A3 thinking
Black Belt +
AI Governance
NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act basics, internal policy frameworks
Yellow Belt +
Data Literacy
Understanding data quality, bias, and measurement
All levels
Responsible AI
Ethics frameworks, fairness, transparency in AI systems
Green Belt +
Facilitation
Running workshops, managing resistance, building coalitions
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Take the free assessment to find your recommended starting belt, or dive straight into the White Belt.