Free micro-courses, with a certificate and a badge.
Tier 1 of the credential ladder. Three short courses, self-paced, each ending in an easy final knowledge check that unlocks a certificate you generate yourself and a digital badge you can add to LinkedIn. Beta offer: free with a subscription to the GOVBRM Newsletter, which is itself free. Each micro-course is usually £25.
Cost
Free during the beta; usually £25 a micro-course
Access
One code, sent to newsletter subscribers, opens every micro-course
Assessment
A final knowledge check of ten questions; seven to pass; retake freely
Certificate
Generated on your device with your name, plus a digital badge
Three micro-courses
Each one teaches part of the framework and ends in a credential.
Micro-course one · Live · Beta offer: free, usually £25
AI Demand Foundation
The six-unit course AI Demand Shaping for BRMs: the request is not the need, evidence before attention, value is not priority, a named owner and a number, deployment is not use, and month nine. About an hour of reading with a knowledge check in each unit, then a final check across all six.
Credential
AI Demand Foundation, credential ID GBRM-ADF-2026-XXXXX
Continue with AI
Every unit has a button that opens your own AI assistant with a prompt to practise what the unit taught
How to run the three value conversations, planning, realisation and optimisation, using the GOVBRM Value Orchestration Workbook: one partner area, one quarter, a value map, a leak map, an evidence ledger and a thirty-day plan. The workbook itself is available now, free, and saves on your own device.
Credential
AI Value Associate, credential ID GBRM-AVA-2026-XXXXX
Applies to
The Value Orchestration Workbook and toolkit canvases 06, 09, 18 and 19
The responsible-AI routines a demand shaper runs before anyone else has to: the risk flag at the Shape gate, the register row with a cause, an owner and a condition, the four agent questions, the lowest rung that solves the task, prompt governance and human oversight that is designed in rather than promised.
Credential
Responsible AI Practitioner, credential ID GBRM-RAP-2026-XXXXX
Applies to
Toolkit canvases 05, 11 and 13
How the certificate works
Pass the final check, type your name, download.
Pass
The final knowledge check has ten easy questions across all the units. Seven correct passes it, and you can retake it as often as you like.
Generate
The Generate certificate button appears on passing. Type your name as it should appear; the certificate is drawn on your device, and the name is never sent anywhere.
Download
Save it as a PDF or a PNG, and download the digital badge for your LinkedIn profile, your email signature or your CV.
Share
One click adds it to the Licenses and certifications section of your LinkedIn profile, with the credential ID and a verification link filled in.
Each certificate carries a credential ID such as GBRM-ADF-2026-XXXXX, and anyone can check it at govbrm.com/verify. The Academy keeps no record of foundation learners; the certificate is yours, on your device.
Foundation credentials are continuing professional development credentials issued by GOVBRM Academy. They are not academic qualifications and are not accredited by a third party. The knowledge check is deliberately easy: its job is to confirm you read the course, not to rank you.
Digital badges
One badge per credential, six in the set.
Badges are square PNG images in the Academy's colours, with the credential name and its level. Use them anywhere a picture is accepted: a LinkedIn profile entry, an email signature, a slide, a CV. They are not yet issued through an Open Badges platform; the verification route is the credential ID.
Dates come to subscribers first
Courses and certifications are announced in the GOVBRM Newsletter before anywhere else.
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