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AI Workplace Transformation Program

Program Guide

Your guide to building practical AI, digital and workplace transformation capability. How the Learning Journey and Next Horizon work, what you build, and the qualification it includes.

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What’s inside the Program

Build the capability, then prove it.

The AI Workplace Transformation Program builds practical AI, digital and workplace transformation capability, then lets you prove what you can do through project evidence an employer can read.

  1. Career and AI Foundations
  2. Your Next Horizon immersive workplace role
  3. Practical department assignments
  4. 16 Future Ready Skills
  5. AI, automation and workplace improvement projects
  6. Career Success & Impact Portfolio
  7. My Career Hub
  8. Digital Achievement Badges
  9. BSB50120 Diploma of Business (Digital Transformation)

Everything is designed to help you build capability, apply it in realistic workplace situations and create evidence of what you can do.

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What the Program covers, how the Next Horizon Learning Journey works, how it fits around work, and what you build and achieve along the way.

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Program and Diploma

One Program. Practical capability and a nationally recognised qualification.

The AI Workplace Transformation Program includes the nationally recognised BSB50120 Diploma of Business (Digital Transformation).

The Program
The practical Learning Journey through which you develop and apply capability.
The Diploma
The nationally recognised qualification included in that Learning Journey.

Practical work completed through the Program may contribute evidence toward formal assessment where it meets the relevant unit and assessment requirements.

The Diploma is awarded only after all applicable training and assessment requirements have been successfully completed.

See the Diploma and Its Twelve Units
Your Next Horizon role

You enter the Learning Journey in role.

You apply to join the Next Horizon Transformation Office as part of the AI Workplace Transformation Program. Once your application is reviewed and you complete formal EduSmart enrolment, you take on your role and begin from inside the Next Horizon business.

Next Horizon is EduSmart’s immersive workplace environment: a realistic organisation where you solve practical workplace problems, contribute to realistic client work and build evidence as you go. It is a safe place to practise without needing your own employer to provide confidential business information or projects.

  • Digital Solutions & AI
  • Operations & Service Excellence
  • Client Success & Growth
  • People & Capability
  • Risk, Cyber & Governance
  • Finance & Sustainable Growth
  • Head Office

The Next Horizon role is part of EduSmart’s immersive workplace learning environment. It is not paid employment.

Six departments, each with its own directorInside the course
Next Horizon's six department directors, with each team's city and size
Each director runs a team in a different city.
Your Learning Journey

Six steps, from your application to your Diploma.

  1. 1

    Apply for your Next Horizon role

    Your role application helps EduSmart understand your experience, goals, readiness and support needs.

  2. 2

    Join the Next Horizon Transformation Office

    Once you are accepted and have completed formal enrolment, you enter the immersive workplace and begin your role.

  3. 3

    Complete Foundations

    Foundations prepare you for both the Program and your role, before the department assignments begin.

    • Career & Future Ready Foundations
    • AI Foundations
    • AI Productivity
    • Responsible AI
    • Digital readiness
    • Workplace expectations
    • Next Horizon induction
    • Evidence and portfolio building
  4. 4

    Move through department assignments

    Practical assignments across the Next Horizon departments, applying AI, digital tools, automation, workplace improvement, communication, business thinking, people capability, risk and value to realistic work.

  5. 5

    Build skills, evidence and your portfolio

    Your projects build:

    • Future Ready Skills
    • Workplace evidence
    • Digital Achievement Badges
    • Career Success & Impact Portfolio
    • My Career Hub
    • Outputs you can discuss with employers
  6. 6

    Complete the Diploma’s assessment requirements

    Your Program work may contribute evidence toward formal assessment. You complete any further assessment evidence, discussions or activities the BSB50120 Diploma requires, with up to 18 months to complete and submit it.

One stage at a time, in orderDemonstration learner
My Progress: Foundations and Digital Solutions and AI completed, Operations in progress, the rest not yet openYou are here
Each department opens when the one before it is done, so every project builds on the last.
What you build

Skills, badges and evidence that outlast the course.

Each of these is an EduSmart record that sits alongside the nationally recognised Diploma.

16 Future Ready Skills, across 12 capability areasBuild them across the Learning Journey, at four levels.

The Program develops and verifies practical capability across EduSmart’s 16 Future Ready Skills. You build them over time through Foundations, department assignments, project work and formal assessment activity. The skills are what you build and prove; the 12 capability areas are where you apply them.

  1. DevelopingNew to it, with support.
  2. ApplyingCan contribute, with some support.
  3. ProficientApplies it independently.
  4. LeadingImproves, guides or scales it.

Your skills record shows how your capability develops across the Learning Journey. Skills are not ticked off for attendance.

Digital Achievement BadgesMake achievement visible, in four steps.
  1. 1AI Workplace Practitioner
  2. 2AI & Automation Practitioner
  3. 3Digital Improvement Practitioner
  4. 4Digital Transformation Professional

These badges recognise demonstrated practical work and verified skills. They are EduSmart credentials that sit alongside the nationally recognised Diploma, and they are not awarded simply for attendance or for completing a quiz.

Career Success & Impact PortfolioBuild evidence, not just course completion.

Across the Program you build a Career Success & Impact Portfolio of selected evidence from your practical work: evidence of projects, decisions, improvements and outcomes. It can include:

  • Career Profile
  • Career Plan
  • Prompt Library
  • AI Productivity Toolkit
  • Workplace improvement projects
  • AI workflows
  • Business reports
  • Communication plans
  • Improvement recommendations
  • Project evidence
  • Future Ready Skills evidence
  • Digital Achievement Badges
  • Transformation Strategy
  • Selected feedback and outcomes

Every item shows who stands behind it: Verified by EduSmart, Checked by EduSmart or Self-declared.

See what employers will see

My Career HubKeep your career evidence organised.

My Career Hub is your ongoing career platform. It gives you one place to keep and build:

  • Your career profile
  • Future Ready Skills
  • Verified achievements
  • Digital Achievement Badges
  • Selected project evidence
  • Career planning information

It supports your longer-term professional story beyond individual Program activities.

What you finish with

Finish with capability, evidence and a nationally recognised qualification.

Depending on the evidence you complete and verify across the Learning Journey, you may finish with:

  • Career Profile
  • Career Plan
  • Prompt Library
  • AI Productivity Toolkit
  • Practical workplace project evidence
  • AI workflows
  • Business and improvement reports
  • Future Ready Skills record
  • Digital Achievement Badges earned through the required evidence process
  • Career Success & Impact Portfolio
  • My Career Hub
  • Transformation Strategy

BSB50120 Diploma of Business (Digital Transformation)when all formal training and assessment requirements are successfully completed

Who it is for

Learn by working through the problems modern organisations actually face.

EduSmart combines vocational education with an immersive workplace experience.

Who the Program is forWorking adults. No technical background is required.

The Program is designed for working adults who want to build practical AI, digital and workplace transformation capability. It is particularly relevant to:

  • Project and coordination professionals
  • Operations and business managers
  • HR and people professionals
  • Client service and customer-facing roles
  • Administration and business support roles
  • Risk, governance and compliance professionals
  • Emerging and existing managers
  • Professionals moving into improvement or transformation work
  • Working adults keeping their careers relevant as AI changes work
What you do instead of only watching lessonsYou finish more capable, more current, and better able to show what you can do.
  • Enter the Program in role
  • Work inside the Next Horizon immersive workplace
  • Complete connected department assignments
  • Build practical AI and automation capability
  • Practise workplace improvement and transformation thinking
  • Build evidence of what you can do
  • Develop 16 Future Ready Skills
  • Work toward Digital Achievement Badges
  • Build your Career Success & Impact Portfolio
  • Complete the formal requirements for the Diploma
Time, delivery and support

Designed for working adults.

The Program is delivered online and designed to fit around work and your other commitments.

  • About 10 monthsfor the Learning Journey
  • About 4 hours a weekof learning and practical work
  • Up to 18 monthsto complete and submit your qualification assessment evidence
  • Practical online workplace assignments
  • Learner support
  • Practical templates and tools
  • AI-supported guidance
  • Feedback
  • Live drop-in opportunities
  • Professional development sessions

The Program includes BSB50120 Diploma of Business (Digital Transformation), subject to successful completion of all applicable formal training and assessment requirements.

Next steps

Ready to take the next step?

  • AI Workplace Career Advantage Check

    See where you stand now, and what capability you may need to build next.

    Take the Career Check

  • The AI Workplace Transformation Program

    The departments, the projects and the qualification, in full.

    Explore the Program

  • Start Your Future

    Begin your Next Horizon role application.

    Start My Application
Next Horizon's six department directors, with each team's city and size
Immersive workplaceNext Horizon

Where the Learning Journey happens

A whole organisation to practise on, without risking your own.

Next Horizon is EduSmart’s immersive workplace: a realistic Australian organisation with six departments and a head office. You join it in a role and do its work.

Sound familiar?

  • Assignments that never connect to each other, or to a real job.
  • An employer who cannot hand you confidential data to practise on.
  • Course examples too tidy to look like the work you actually do.

How the program helps

Each department hands you a realistic problem, with the records and people that come with it. You work through them in order, and your work is gathered as evidence toward the Diploma’s units.

What you could build

  • Current-state process map
  • Enquiry automation investment case
  • Cyber awareness resource
  • Onboarding plan
  • Value analysis

Why it mattersAn employer sees work done inside a whole organisation: the problem, the decision and the result, laid out to check.

Your role is part of the learning experience. It is not paid employment.

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