AI Certifications to Advance Your IT Career
IT Executives Council has partnered with Ziplines and Arizona State University to offer two AI certifications designed for real business application.
These programs are built for IT professionals who want to move beyond experimentation and begin using AI in a structured, repeatable way across their work.
Whether your focus is improving productivity, streamlining processes, or building scalable workflows, these certifications provide practical skills you can apply immediately.
AI Prompting Certification
Turn AI into a daily productivity tool
Arizona State University’s AI Prompting Certificate is a fast, practical course designed to help you use generative AI with confidence—so you can get better outputs, move faster, and apply AI to real work (not just experiments).
Key Benefits
- Write clear prompts that produce consistently better results
- Turn AI into a daily productivity tool, not a novelty
- Create stronger drafts for emails, docs, and content
- Summarize, analyze, and organize information in minutes
- Build repeatable prompt workflows you can reuse anytime
What’s Included
- 5-week, fully online course with flexible weekly pacing
- Hands-on exercises using real business and communication scenarios
- Prompt templates and frameworks you can keep and customize
- Optional live sessions with expert guidance and Q&A
- Certificate of completion to add to LinkedIn and your resume
Walk away with practical skills you can use immediately.
AI Automation Certification
Build AI-powered workflows without coding
Arizona State University’s AI Automation Certificate helps you turn everyday processes into streamlined, AI-assisted workflows—without needing to code. You’ll learn how to spot high-impact automation opportunities, map workflows clearly, and build practical automations using modern AI tools and no-code platforms. The course is designed for real work: reducing manual tasks, improving speed and consistency, and creating repeatable systems you can use across teams. Whether you’re managing operations, marketing, or client work, you’ll leave with a playbook for building automations that actually stick.
Key Benefits
- Identify automation wins with real business impact
- Build AI workflows without needing a developer
- Reduce manual tasks and speed up execution
- Create repeatable systems your team can reuse
- Understand agent-style automation basics
What’s Included
- 5-week online course with flexible weekly pacing
- Hands-on builds using no-code automation tools
- Templates for process mapping and workflow design
- Real-world scenarios across business functions
- Certificate of completion for LinkedIn and resume
Advance Your Career
AI skills are in demand. We help you position yourself to take advantage of that—wherever you are in your IT career.
Sixty-six percent of executives say they won’t hire someone without AI skills. This course gives you the advanced, practical skills that put you ahead of the curve. (Source: Microsoft & LinkedIn, Work Trend Annual Index 2024)
Enhance your professional profile
Develop in-demand AI skills that demonstrate your ability to apply modern tools in real business scenarios. Show employers and leadership that you can move beyond theory and deliver results.
Develop job-relevant, practical skills
Learn how to solve real business problems using AI, from improving content and analysis to building workflows that increase efficiency. These are skills you can use on the job right away.
Increase productivity and output
Use AI to write, analyze, organize, and execute faster. Reduce time spent on routine work while improving the quality and consistency of your output.
Build automation and problem-solving capabilities
Break down complex processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and create structured solutions using AI and no-code tools. Apply this thinking across roles and industries.
Position yourself as an AI leader
Understand not just how to use AI, but how to introduce it within your team. Learn how to identify opportunities, build solutions, and support adoption across your organization.
Expand your network and stay current
Engage with peers and experts through live sessions and community discussions while staying informed on evolving AI capabilities and best practices.