BUNDLE: Change Leadership & Leading in the Age of AI
BUNDLE: Change Leadership & Leading in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, organizations, and society in real time. As a powerful General Purpose Technology, AI is transforming how businesses compete, how leaders make decisions, and how work itself is structured. With this rapid advancement come urgent questions around strategy, risk, workforce impact, governance, and ethics.
This bundled offering brings together two distinct NYU Stern Executive Education programs designed to give senior leaders both a broad, future-focused lens and a deeper strategic foundation.
The experience begins with AI and the Future of Work: Navigating What Comes Next, an immersive program featuring seven of Stern’s leading faculty, including Vasant Dhar, Foster Provost, Anindya Ghose, and Michael Posner, and culminating in a capstone panel with Scott Galloway, Jonathan Haidt, and Suzy Welch. Together, they examine how AI is redefining markets, leadership, governance, and society.
It continues with Leading in the Age of AI, led by Professor Anat Lechner, which explores the strategic and organizational implications of AI adoption. The focus is not on technical mechanics, but on competitive advantage, leadership decision-making, and how to evolve and sustain AI-enabled enterprises responsibly.
Together, these programs equip executives to steer AI initiatives with clarity, manage risk thoughtfully, and lead with confidence in an era of profound technological transformation.
Program Takeaways
During this course, participants will:
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Theories of Change
Acquire deep understanding of the phenomenon of change learning and the theories, challenges and strategies of effecting change management in organizations -
Practical AI Strategy
Identify the transformative implications/opportunities of AI to career development / management, workforce management, and social considerations./interventions. -
Change Toolkit
Understand how to identify and diagnose change needs within your company, and learn the practices of developing an effective change plan
Who Should Attend
Although there are no formal education or background requirements, this course is designed for executives who meet the criteria below. While we strongly encourage global participation, please note that all courses are taught in English. Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.
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Years of Experience
This course is designed for professionals with 5+ years of work experience -
Job Functions
Ideal for executives with existing leadership responsibilities, or who will be managing organizational change and growth -
Prerequisites
Intended for individuals who want to understand and develop their ability to lead organizational growth
Agenda
The following agenda is a sample and subject to change.
LEADING IN THE AGE OF AI - Day 1
9:00 - 10:30 am ET: Session 1: Introduction: The emergence of a new business model
- Digitization efforts enable structuring data that in turn make the deployment of AI possible. Such tech capabilities underpin a new business model whereby a company is looking to personalize its offerings while also enter a set of ecosystem relationships (…in order to develop and/or gain access to multiple capabilities with which to personalize value to end users). We’ll discus the competitiveness of this new business model and the steps companies take to shift and adopt such new and cutting-edge strategic focus.
10:30 - 10:45 am ET: Break
10:45 - 12:15 pm ET: Session 2: Mapping The growing presence and impact of AI across industries:
- We’ll review global disruptive trends that affect all industry environments, the emergence of game-changing technologies like Artificial Intelligence, and the implications these trends have on competitive value and viability of organizations and people alike.
12:15 - 1:15 pm ET: Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:45 pm ET: Session 3: Work and AI - what has happened thus far
- What is AI’s current state of art and impact. AI is viewed as a force that will retire a massive number of people from the workforce. How do organizations approach these talent dilemmas is the focus of discussion for this session. (+ a side note on the aging of the world and how this issue further exacerbates the use of AI and robotics across tasks/ jobs and geographies).
2:45 - 3:00 pm ET: Break
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET: Session 4: New forms/models of work are emerging
- Hybrid and Gig employment models emerge to complement the re-structuring of companies into platforms and hubs. We’ll review these models and the way they work (or break).
LEADING IN THE AGE OF AI - Day 2
9:00 - 10:30 am ET: Session 5: Introduction: Structural considerations for the AI-enabled organization
- The AI-driven organization is structurally different from existing organizational configurations. It is data driven and technology enabled of course. In this session we will discuss key concepts of structuring for unbounded use of AI for both precision in innovation and customer value delivery, and enhanced efficiency.
10:30 - 10:45 am ET: Break
10:45 - 12:15 pm ET: Session 6: Talent considerations for the AI- enabled organization
- Up-skilling had become the word of the day. Any and every organization is asking itself how to ensure the workforce is skilled to work with new technologies, AI included.
12:15 - 1:15 pm ET: Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:45 pm ET: Session 7: Ethical considerations for the AI- enabled organization
- The ethical considerations of employing AI have been the subject of many recent discussions. Tech-clashes are already showing on campuses where young graduates refuse to get recruited into tech companies who already displayed shady AI practices. This session will focus on key ethical issues that are surfacing and practices that emerge to address them.
2:45 - 3:00 pm ET: Break
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET: Session 8: A note on Leadership
- The state of leadership development remains problematic and companies worldwide report on difficulties attracting and retaining high caliber leaders. We’ll review the current state of leadership capacity in companies, discuss the concept of ‘digital acumen’, and map requirements for leading in a fast-paced multi-party and remote work environments.
CHANGE LEADERSHIP - Day 1
9:00 - 10:30 am ET: Session 1: Mapping Change Forces across Industries
- Global trends, changes in industry environments and the emergence of the knowledge economy
- Implications these trends have for management in general and change management specifically
10:30 - 10:45 am ET: Break
10:45 - 12:15 pm ET: Session 2: What Do We Mean by "Change": The Theoretical Foundation of Change Management
- How do we think of change?
- Is change really possible?
- How often do change initiatives fail and why?
- Key literature and cases
12:15 - 1:15 pm ET: Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:45 pm ET: Session 3: Learning to Effectively Diagnose Change Needs in Your Organization
- The first of three steps to manage change: “Diagnosis”
- Practices and methodologies used to effectively diagnose organizational change needs
2:45 - 3:00 pm ET: Break
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET: Session 4: Installing a Strategic Change Vision for Organizational Transformation
- The second step to manage change: “Invent”
- Future-oriented foresights, forecast developing, future scenarios planning and the role of vision in mobilizing change
CHANGE LEADERSHIP - Day 2
9:00 - 10:30 am ET: Session 5: Assessing and Dissolving Change Resistance
- The third step to manage change: “Implement”
- Building flexibility and the capacity of the company to adapt and adjust
- Aspects of change deployment and the barriers to successful implementation
10:30 - 10:45 am ET: Break
10:45 - 12:15 pm ET: Session 6: The Step-by-Step of Change Development Plan: A Hands-On Approach
- Step-based approach to change plan development
- In-depth review of critical actions for each stage of the plan development process
12:15 - 1:15 pm ET: Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:45 pm ET: Session 7: Best Practices of Leading Successful Transformations in Organizations
- The ‘right’ approach to change plan development and deployment – who’s done it right, why, and what can we learn and benchmark in our own change plans?
2:45 - 3:00 pm ET: Break
3:00 - 4:30 pm ET: Session 8: Establishing Your Change Leadership Capacity
- Change leadership practices that work best in proactively and effectively leading organizations and people through uncertainty and transitions
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