FOR ORGANISATIONS
If your board asked you to demonstrate your organisation's AI governance
capability today — what would you show them?
Your Leaders are Using AI Every Day.
Who is Accountable For Those Decisions?
Most organisations have AI tools.
Very few have the leadership governance to match.
The Human Layer is a 20-day professional formation programme that builds verifiable AI governance
capability across your entire leadership cohort — from manager level through to executive.
Not compliance training. Not a policy document.
A structured, CPD-accredited formation programme that changes
how your leaders think, decide and hold accountability over AI.
Permanently.
Discovery calls are 30 minutes. No obligation.
We will tell you exactly whether this programme is right for your organisation.
Founding cohort pricing available now
The Governance Gap is NOT in your AI Tools. It is in your Leadership Layer.
Your leaders are receiving AI-generated recommendations every day.
They are acting on outputs from systems they did not design, do not fully understand, and cannot always explain.
When something goes wrong and in any organisation operating at scale with AI, something will - the question will not be what the system did.
The question will be what the leader did.
Who reviewed that output? Who challenged it? Who held accountability for the decision that followed?
In most organisations right now, no one can answer those questions with confidence.
That is not a technology failure. It is not a policy failure.
It is a leadership governance failure — and it exists at every level of your management structure. Compliance training does not close this gap. It teaches people what the rules are. It does not form the judgement, the challenge behaviour, or the accountability culture that genuine AI governance requires. The Human Layer closes this gap through leadership formation — structured, daily, applied, and audit-ready.
It teaches people what the rules are.
It does not form the judgement, the challenge behaviour, or the accountability culture that genuine AI governance requires. The Human Layer closes this gap through leadership formation — structured, daily, applied, and audit-ready.
TThe Human Layer closes this gap through leadership formation — structured, daily, applied, and audit-ready.
A Verifiable Governance Audit Trail
Across Your Entire Leadership Structure
The Human Layer is built on a three-tier credential architecture that maps directly to your leadership hierarchy.
Each tier produces a Certificate of Completion and a CPD-accredited record of formation - creating a documented, verifiable governance capability trail that your board can see, your auditors can reference and your leaders can stand behind.
foundations
For All Managers
Phase 1: Individual Formation (Days 1–7)
Every manager in your organisation who uses AI tools — or leads people who do — builds personal governance awareness, decision-making practice and the foundational habit of pause, challenge and accountability.
Certificate of Completion: AI Governance Leadership: Foundations
Eq. 17.5 CPD Hours
professional
For Senior Leaders
Phases 1 + 2: Individual + People Leadership (Days 1–14)
Senior leaders extend their individual governance formation into their team culture - building the conversation frameworks, accountability structures, and coaching behaviours that create a governance-capable team, not just a governance-aware individual.
Certificate of Completion: AI Governance Leadership (Professional)
Eq. 35 CPD Hours cumulative
CAGL
For Your Executive Team
All 3 Phases: Full Programme (Days 1–20)
Executive leaders complete the full formation journey - including the enterprise phase, which moves through the practical work of defining, documenting, implementing and reviewing the governance architecture that only a leader at their level can build.
Certificate of Completion: Certified AI Governance Leader (CAGL)
Eq. 53 CPD Hours cumulative
This three-tier structure creates what no compliance training can: a leadership cohort where every level has a verifiable, CPD-accredited record of governance formation - mapped to their role, their responsibilities and the decisions they are accountable for.
Everything You Need for a Governance-Capable Leadership Cohort.
No Pressure. No Performance Theatre.
Accessible via Desktop and the Zenler mobile app on iOS and Android.
Full Programme Access
for ALL Seats
All enrolled leaders access the complete Human Layer content relevant to their tier - self-paced, digital, available from day one of enrolment.
CAGL Certificate of Completion
Every leader who completes their designated phase receives a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion. Verifiable, professional, audit-ready.
Compliance Reporting & Governance Audit Documentation
Full cohort completion reporting available for board-level governance audit. Demonstrates active investment in leadership governance formation across the organisation.
Team Completion Dashboard
Track cohort progress, completion rates and CPD hours across your leadership group in one place.
Dedicated Account Onboarding
Your cohort is set up and supported by Karen Bachmann directly.
Not a help desk.
The programme founder.
White Label and Custom Branding
Available for organisations who want to integrate The Human Layer into their existing learning and development identity. Custom branding available on request.
Customisation for alignment to policies and procedures available on request.
CPD Alignment Across
Four Frameworks
AQF (Australia), RQF (UK), US and Canadian professional frameworks. Accreditation in progress across all four primary markets - relevant for global organisations and those with internationally mobile leadership cohorts.
Expected Q3 2026.
Facilitator-led Cohort
Debrief Sessions
Available as an add-on. Priced separately on request. Ideal for executive cohorts who benefit from facilitated group reflection on formation content.
Compliance Training Teaches Leaders What the Rules Are. Formation Changes How They Lead.
There is no shortage of AI governance compliance training.
Courses that explain the EU AI Act, the Australian AI framework, data privacy obligations, and risk categorisation.
These programmes have their place and they are not what The Human Layer is.
Compliance training produces knowledge.
It does not produce judgement. It does not build the habit of challenge.
It does not form the accountability culture that survives contact
with a real AI-generated recommendation under time pressure.
The Human Layer is a formation programme.
Every day is structured around the reflect–practice–integrate cycle.
Leaders are not taught about governance. They are formed into governance-capable leaders — through structured reflection on their own practice, real-world leadership tasks completed with their actual teams and daily CPD evidence documentation that creates a genuine audit record, not a box-ticking exercise.
The result is not a cohort that has passed a governance test.
It is a cohort that governs — and can demonstrate it.
Our Pricing List
Founding cohort pricing for organisations.
All cohort sizes include full programme access (all 3 phases) for all seats.
For phased deployment (different tiers for different leadership levels), contact us. Available on request post-launch.
Tax invoice: Enterprise purchases are invoiced directly. Contact karen@veritexspark.com to discuss your cohort and receive a formal proposal and tax invoice. Payment terms by arrangement.
Designed by Someone Who Has Been Inside Your Problem
"Leadership accountability in the age of AI is not a technology problem — it is a governance and formation problem."
Karen Bachmann
Karen Bachmann
Founder, Veritex Spark™ | Programme Author
Karen has spent three decades designing the systems and programmes that make organisations accountable - in government, regulated industries and elite higher education.
- As Director of King's Online at King's College London, she designed and scaled online professional education across nine faculties.
- As Deputy Director of Workforce Australia, she led workforce planning across Queensland's community services and health sectors, reporting directly to the Australian National Training Authority, informing national training expenditure and skilled migration policy
- Karen co-authored an evidence-based training programme: Fostering Changes - published in English and German - and delivered across England and within the UK, Europe and Australia as part of her role with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).
- She led taxation compliance implementation in regulated industries and built training systems and programmes for high-stakes environments including for the London 2012 Olympics and Westfield, Stratford construction sites.
Karen devised The Human Layer because every organisation she has worked in or with is now navigating the same unresolved question: who is accountable when an AI makes a recommendation that drives a consequential decision?
The answer is always a leader and most leaders are not yet formed to carry that accountability with confidence.
The Human Layer is the programme she wished existed. It is built with the same evidence-based rigour she has applied across thirty years of professional formation design.
Let us Find Out if This is Right For Your Organisation
A 30-minute discovery call covers three things:
- The governance gaps your organisation is currently experiencing
- How The Human Layer maps to your leadership structure an
- What a cohort programme would look like in practice for your team.
We respond to all enterprise inquiries within one business day.
karen@veritexspark.com · A Veritex Spark™ Programme
CPD ALIGNED
AQF · RQF · US · Canada CPD accreditation in progress expected Q3 2026.
COHORT DELIVERY
10, 25 or 50 leaders
Self-paced with cohort reporting
FULL PROGRAMME
All 3 phases for all seats
CAGL for all completers
FOUNDING PRICING
Closes 31 July 2026 or at
100 individual members
