Leading AI Transformation
Navigate high-stakes decisions in an AI-driven world — where AI is a leadership mandate, not an IT project.
Sep 28 - Nov 16
Mondays, 12 pm PT
Live sessions + group coaching hours
Led by leadership experts and executive coaches
Certificate of completion
Leading AI Transformation
What this program is
Rather than turning leaders into technical experts, this curriculum focuses on setting direction, governing responsibly, and leading enterprise-wide transformation — unlearning legacy assumptions, rewiring decision-making habits, and redesigning how you think about power, structure, talent, and value creation.
The program moves through a single, deepening arc: from enterprise perspective and high-stakes judgment, through operating model, change leadership, narrative, and courageous conversations, to authentic human presence in an AI-native organization.
Each session builds on the one before it and creates the conditions the next one requires. Leaders do not graduate from one topic to the next — they deepen their mastery of a single capability: the ability to lead an AI transformation at the enterprise level, not just manage one at the functional level.
Leading AI Transformation
- Develop the enterprise-level thinking required to operate beyond a single function.
- Make high-quality decisions when information is incomplete, stakes are high, and the right answer doesn't yet exist.
- Define where judgment, meaning-making, relational accountability, and moral authority create value that no AI can replicate.
- Deconstruct workflows using first principles. Separate human judgment from automatable execution.
- Move a function through genuine disruption rather than managed pilots.
- Read organizational signals, detect competing narratives, and build a strategic narrative that travels through the enterprise.
- Diagnose your specific leadership courage gaps and build the structure to have the conversation honestly.
- Close the gap between who you intend to be and how you are actually experienced — not as an act of self-improvement, but as a leadership design decision with organizational consequences.
Leading AI Transformation
The Tangible Output: Your AI Leadership Playbook
The AI Leadership Playbook is built entry by entry across all sessions, culminating in a personalized working document each participant takes into their transformation journey.
This is not a binder of frameworks. It is a living artifact: your value thesis, your decision architecture, your change plan, your narrative, your commitments.Â
Leaders leave with a completed Playbook, a 90-day forward plan, a named accountability partner — and the answer to the question that opened the program: what is the irreplaceable human contribution you bring to an organization AI is transforming at pace?
- Enterprise AI value thesis
- Decision framework + commit criteria
- Human value thesis
- Work architecture + governance map
- Change plan + adoption lever
- Transformation narrative (3 audiences)
- Courage gap diagnosis + prepared conversation
- Leadership story + 90-day forward plan
Leading AI Transformation
Meet our leadership experts
Learn from top leadership experts and CEOs—our esteemed course hosts bring deep, real-world experience at the highest levels. The course will also be enhanced by guest sessions from top executive coaches, offering additional insight into the nuances of modern leadership. Our course hosts include:
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