The AI-Powered CEO Workforce Lab™
A six-week implementation experience that teaches entrepreneurs, CEOs, executives, and professionals how to design, build, train, supervise, test, and responsibly deploy an AI Employee for a real business role. This is not a generic AI or prompt-writing course — participants leave with a completed AI Employee Personnel File and a practical 30-day deployment plan.
Who this program is for
- Entrepreneurs and business owners who want to save time and strengthen operations
- CEOs and executives preparing to introduce AI into their organizations
- Consultants and coaches who want to expand their AI implementation skills
- Professionals responsible for operations, marketing, administration, customer service, or business development
- Organizational leaders who need a structured and responsible approach to AI adoption
- Beginners who want business-focused guidance without needing a technical background
What this program addresses
- Uncertainty about which business tasks should be supported by AI
- AI tools that produce inconsistent or unreliable results
- Lack of clear instructions and business-specific knowledge
- Workflows that depend too heavily on manual effort
- Privacy, security, accuracy, and governance concerns
- Unclear boundaries between AI responsibilities and human decisions
- Lack of testing and performance-measurement systems
- Difficulty moving from an AI idea to responsible implementation
What you'll walk away with
- A completed Work Audit
- A defined AI Employee name, title, department, purpose, and supervisor
- A professional AI Employee job description
- Approved and prohibited task guidelines
- Master instructions
- Brand-voice guidelines
- A knowledge-base plan
- Workflow and SOP documentation
- Responsible AI guardrails
- Privacy and security requirements
- A Human Handoff Matrix
- Testing scenarios
- An AI Workforce Scorecard
- A performance-improvement plan
- A 30-day deployment plan
- A completed AI Employee Personnel File
Built on the W.R.I.G.H.T. AI Workforce Method™
Each week focuses on one stage of Black Diamond AI's proprietary workforce-development process.
Work Audit
Identify repetitive, time-consuming, high-value, and delegatable work. Participants evaluate their businesses and select the strongest opportunity for an AI Employee. Deliverable: Completed Work Audit and selected AI Employee role.
Role Design
Define the AI Employee's name, job title, department, supervisor, purpose, responsibilities, approved tasks, prohibited tasks, required inputs, and expected outputs. Deliverable: AI Employee job description.
Instructions & Intelligence
Create the AI Employee's master instructions, brand voice, business context, decision logic, knowledge requirements, and response standards. Deliverable: Master instructions and knowledge-base plan.
Guardrails & Governance
Establish privacy requirements, security expectations, access controls, prohibited activities, quality standards, and responsible-use boundaries. Deliverable: AI Employee guardrails and governance checklist.
Human Handoff
Determine when the AI Employee must stop, escalate, request approval, or transfer responsibility to an authorized person. Deliverable: Human Handoff Matrix and workflow map.
Test, Train & Track
Test the AI Employee using realistic business scenarios, evaluate performance, correct weaknesses, establish measurements, and prepare for controlled deployment. Deliverable: AI Workforce Scorecard, improvement plan, completed Personnel File, and 30-day deployment plan.
Format, schedule, and investment
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Format | Live virtual cohort with instruction, demonstrations, exercises, templates, and implementation support |
| Duration | Six weeks |
| Cohort Start | November 3, 2026 |
| Schedule | Six weekly live sessions; final session times and access instructions will be provided to enrolled participants |
| Level | Beginner-friendly through intermediate |
| Technology | Platform-flexible; examples may include ChatGPT, Claude, GoHighLevel, Base44, and other appropriate AI or automation platforms |
| Availability | Pioneer cohort enrollment is open with limited availability |
| Founding Investment | $497, $997, or $1,997, based on the selected enrollment level |
| Future Pricing | Founding-cohort prices are introductory and will increase for future cohorts |
Dr. Iris Wright
Dr. Iris Wright is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, educator, and AI Workforce Architect. As founder of Black Diamond AI and creator of The AI-Powered CEO Workforce Lab™, she helps entrepreneurs and organizations turn AI from an isolated tool into a structured, supervised, and measurable business capability.
Three-time Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award recipient · Forbes Top 20 Entrepreneur to Watch · 2026 100 Women of Excellence Honoree
Choose your level of implementation support
AI Workforce Lab Essentials
Designed for participants who want the complete live training experience and will independently implement their AI Employee between sessions.
- Six live virtual training sessions
- The W.R.I.G.H.T. AI Workforce Method™
- Participant workbook
- AI Employee Personnel File template
- Human Handoff Matrix template
- AI Workforce Scorecard
- Implementation worksheets and checklists
- AI prompt and instruction templates
- 30-day deployment planner
- Certificate of completion upon meeting program requirements
AI Workforce Lab Accelerator
Designed for participants who want additional feedback, accountability, and implementation support.
- Everything in Essentials, plus:
- Priority question-and-answer support
- Two group implementation clinics
- Review of the participant's AI Employee role and job description
- Feedback on master instructions
- AI Employee testing guidance
- 30 days of post-cohort group support
AI Workforce Lab VIP
Designed for leaders who want personalized guidance while developing and preparing their AI Employee for deployment.
- Everything in Accelerator, plus:
- One private AI Workforce Strategy Session
- Personalized AI Employee role-design review
- Detailed review of the AI Employee Personnel File
- Master-instruction review and recommendations
- Workflow and Human Handoff Matrix review
- Private deployment-readiness session
- 60 days of post-cohort advisory support
Frequently asked questions
Do I need technical or coding experience?
Will I build an AI Employee during the program?
Is an AI Employee a real employee?
Which platforms will be used?
Do I need to purchase additional software?
Can I build an AI Employee for any business role?
Will the program teach me how to replace employees?
Will I receive a certificate?
Is the program accredited?
What is the refund policy?
Can Black Diamond AI build the AI Employee for me?
Is private or corporate training available?
Build Your First AI Employee With Structure, Strategy, and Responsible Oversight
Move beyond scattered prompts and disconnected tools. Learn how to build an AI Employee with a defined role, strong instructions, business-specific knowledge, responsible guardrails, human-handoff rules, testing standards, and measurable performance expectations.
Pioneer cohort begins November 3, 2026. Space is limited, and future cohort pricing will increase.
Participation does not guarantee revenue, cost savings, employment outcomes, platform performance, or specific business results. Participants remain responsible for supervising their AI systems, verifying outputs, protecting information, and determining whether a technology is appropriate for their intended use.