Your client stays yours
While you are a registered facilitator, AIR APAC and Exeter Labs will not sell training to any client you bring.
For trainers and consultants · StepSim is built by Exeter Labs
Add StepSim decision practice to your own programmes, under your own name, with your client kept as yours
Six to eight weeks online for trainer partners: one live session a week, practice on test groups, and a capstone session with a real group. Completion certifies the trainer: AIR APAC issues the certification, and Exeter Labs issues the licence to run StepSim sessions.
For trainer partners
What you can offer your clients
StepSim sessions in your own programmes
A certified facilitator may run StepSim sessions inside their own programmes, in their own name.
Fifteen programmes to bring to your clients
Training companies and consultants can bring the AIR Academy programmes to their own clients, in formats from half a day to five days. See all fifteen programmes
At a glance
What the programme is
Format
Online, six to eight weeks
Live session
One a week
Practice
On test groups, with feedback after each session
Capstone
One real session, run with a real group and observed
Certifies
The trainer, on completion, under Section 20.6 of AIRS-J/1, the Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work
Issued by
AIR APAC. Exeter Labs, which builds StepSim, issues the licence to run StepSim sessions
For
Trainer partners and consultants who run sessions in organisations
Boundary
Facilitation and assessment stay apart
Price
Set out in the partner conversation
Fit
Who it is for, and who it is not for
Trainers and consultants who already deliver to organisations
People who run workshops, capability programmes or team sessions and want a practice instrument to put inside them, under licence, in their own name and with their own client relationship intact.
People who do not yet run sessions with groups
The programme assumes you already train or facilitate. It certifies you to run StepSim sessions. It does not make you an assessor.
How it runs
Practice first, then a real session
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Six to eight weeks, online
Material to work through between sessions, and one live session a week on a fixed weekday. The length depends on how many sessions a facilitator needs before the capstone.
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Practice on test groups
You practise on test groups first, with feedback after each session, before you run StepSim with a real client.
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A capstone session with a real group
The final session is the real thing: a real group, run by the candidate, observed. That is what the certification rests on.
What completion gives you
A certification and a licence
AIR APAC certifies the facilitator
AIR APAC certifies the facilitator who completes it, under Section 20.6 of AIRS-J/1. It is not the participant certification, which AIR APAC issues under Section 12 of the Standard after a separate assessment on StepSim.
The licence to run StepSim sessions comes with it
Exeter Labs, which builds and runs StepSim, issues the licence at the same time as the certification.
Facilitation and assessment stay apart
A facilitator who has trained someone does not assess that person for certification. Practice never awards a certifying result, and no session outcome enters the certifying item bank.
For trainer partners
What your clients receive, and what you may say
Trainer partners deliver programmes to their own clients. This is the position on what those clients receive, what a trainer may claim, and who pays whom.
A result issued by AIR APAC, after a separate sitting
Each person who sits the assessment receives a result issued by AIR APAC: a band, valid for two years, listed in the public register and verified free by code. The programme itself ends with a completion record. That record states what the person attended and practised, and carries the sentence “This is not an AIRS-J/1 credential”. A separate, optional assessment leads to AIRS-J/1 certification. What the completion record contains.
“Informed by”, not “aligned to”
Your programme may say it is informed by AIRS-J/1, the public Standard. Section 20.1 of the Standard sets the rules for saying more than that. A trainer may tell participants that certification is open to them and where to book it. A trainer may not say or imply that attendance raises the chance of certifying. A trainer may not say or imply that a participant is ready or that a result is assured (Section 20.2).
Licence, then programme, then sitting
First the trainer completes the facilitator programme and receives the licence. Then the trainer delivers a programme to a client. Then the client’s people sit the assessment on StepSim, as a separate step. The sitting is booked separately and no programme shortens it.
The trainer invoices the client
The trainer invoices the client for the programme. The sitting is quoted per sitting, never by result.
Exeter Labs and AIR APAC share an owner
The same person owns Exeter Labs and AIR APAC. Section 4.9 of the Standard declares this, and the owner takes no part in any individual result.
Enquiries
Become a StepSim facilitator
Questions
Plain answers
Is this the same as participant certification under the Standard?
No, and the two are kept apart on purpose. This certifies a person to facilitate StepSim sessions, and AIR APAC issues it. A participant's certification under AIRS-J/1 is a separate assessment on StepSim, decided by AIR APAC under Section 12 of the Standard, and holding this programme certification neither grants it nor shortens it.
How much does it cost?
We give the fee in the first partner conversation, with the dates and the language of the first cohort.
Does any facilitator hold this certification yet?
No facilitator holds this certification yet, because the first facilitator cohort has not run.
Do I need to have used StepSim before?
No. The programme starts from the instrument and the missions, and the practice weeks are where a facilitator learns it. What the programme does assume is that you already run sessions with groups.