Purpose without ethics is merely performative. This course empowers you to move beyond abstract ideals by building robust frameworks that embed ethical guardrails directly into your organization's daily decision-making processes. You’ll learn to design sophisticated ethics decision trees that systematically incorporate Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles and checkpoints. Furthermore, you’ll develop comprehensive compliance checklists for new AI initiatives, ensuring that innovation remains aligned with your core values.

Ethics and Responsible Change

Ethics and Responsible Change
This course is part of Microsoft Purpose Driven Leadership Professional Certificate

Instructor: Microsoft
Access provided by Vanderbilt University
Recommended experience
What you'll learn
Design ethics decision trees with Responsible AI checkpoints and audit real decisions against them.
Create Responsible AI compliance checklists and evaluate AI pilots for principle alignment.
Map stakeholders on power-interest grids and measure engagement effectiveness through trust metrics.
Document risks, mitigations, and governance decisions for executive leadership.
Skills you'll gain
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Regulatory Compliance
- Governance Risk Management and Compliance
- Change Management
- Compliance Reporting
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Ethics
- Risk Management
- Leadership and Management
- Stakeholder Communications
- Business Leadership
- Compliance Management
- Accountability Frameworks
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Governance
- Data Ethics
- Ethical Standards And Conduct
- Leadership Studies
Tools you'll learn
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