Leading an AI-Powered Future

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Program Experience

Highlights and Key Outcomes

In Leading an AI-Powered Future, you will learn to:

Develop AI literacy by creating prompts and evaluating AI-generated outputs
Apply AI frameworks to improve productivity, leadership, and customer engagement
Analyze the impact of AI on business decision making
Assess the ethical, societal, and economic implications of AI adoption
Formulate strategies for AI-driven workforce adaptation and leadership

Experience and Impact

This program isn’t just about understanding AI, it’s about leveraging AI to drive real business impact. Through case studies, guest lectures, and hands-on applications, you’ll gain actionable strategies to apply AI effectively in your organization, leadership, and daily work.

Make Smarter, AI-Driven Decisions: Assess AI-generated outputs, enhance decision making, and apply AI frameworks to optimize workflows and innovation
Drive Productivity and Efficiency: Explore AI-powered tools that streamline operations, reduce repetitive tasks, and empower teams to focus on higher-value work
Develop Ethical and Strategic AI Policies: Create governance frameworks to ensure responsible AI adoption, mitigate risks, and maintain human oversight
Optimize AI-Human Collaboration: Apply models that help you reimagine job roles, improve cross-functional dynamics, and align human and AI capabilities
Be a Catalyst for Change: Build confidence in preparing your team or function for AI integration, helping drive adoption and momentum across your organization
Enhance Customer and Employee Experiences: Use connected strategy frameworks to personalize engagement and deliver smarter, AI-enhanced interactions

By the end of this program, you’ll walk away with practical frameworks, tools, and insights to confidently implement AI strategies, lead digital transformation, and future-proof your organization and career.

Program Structure

Leading an AI-Powered Future is delivered fully online in a flexible, self-paced format — allowing you to engage with the content on your own schedule, from anywhere. Complete the program at your convenience while balancing work, life, and learning goals.

100 percent online, on-demand and self-paced
Four modules (four to six hours per module) with video lectures
Required hands-on activities with expert feedback
Practice quizzes to reinforce learning
Earn a Wharton digital badge of completion by finishing all required components

Session Topics in this Program Include:

Module 1 – The Future of AI and Human Agency
- Superagency with Guest Lecturer Reid Hoffman
- The AI Stack: How to Benefit from AI for Innovation and Productivity with Lynn Wu
- Prompt Engineering with Stefano Puntoni
- Activity: Exploring GenAI
- Activity: Improving Business Processes
Module 2 – Human Flourishing vs. Human Replacement with Stefano Puntoni
- Activity: Design an AI-Human Collaboration Workflow
- Activity: AI’s Impact on the Future of Work
- Activity: AI Augmentation vs. AI Replacement – Self-Reflection and Case Study Analysis
Module 3 – Connected Customer Experiences through GenAI with Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch
- Interactive Exercise: AI-Powered Customer Experience Design
- Activity: AI in Connected Strategies
- Activity: Personalization vs. Privacy
Module 4 – GenAI and the Future of Work with Stefano Puntoni
- Activity: AI Adoption Framework
- Case Study Analysis: AI in the Workplace
- Activity: AI, Leadership, and Well-Being

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Who Should Attend

Leading an AI-Powered Future is designed for professionals across industries who are preparing to shape how AI is adopted and applied within their teams, functions, and organizations. Whether you're driving innovation at the ground level or on a path to senior leadership, this program will equip you with the practical tools, strategic frameworks, and ethical insights needed to lead with confidence in an AI-powered world.

Ideal participants include:

Senior leaders responsible for driving innovation, digital transformation, and business growth
Mid-level and rising leaders responsible for team performance, operational innovation, or digital transformation
Functional and business unit leaders across areas such as strategy, operations, marketing, HR, and product who are integrating AI into workflows and decision making
Learning, development, and talent leaders preparing their organizations for workforce transformation and responsible AI adoption
Entrepreneurs and consultants seeking to apply AI frameworks to scale operations, improve customer engagement, and guide clients through change

No technical background is required — just curiosity, ambition, and a desire to shape what comes next.

Group Enrollment

To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.

Faculty

Stefano Puntoni, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Academic Director

Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing; Professor of Marketing; Co-Director, Wharton Human-Centered Technology Initiative, The Wharton School

Research Interests: New technologies in marketing, technology adoption, brand management, consumer decision making

Reid HoffmanSee Faculty Bio

Co-founder, LinkedIn

Nicolaj Siggelkow, PhDSee Faculty Bio

David M. Knott Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Competitive strategy, firms as systems of interconnected choices

Christian Terwiesch, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Andrew M. Heller Professor; Department Chairperson and Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions; Co-Director, Mack Institute of Innovation Management, The Wharton School; Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Analyzing operational performance, innovation management, R&D management

Lynn Wu, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Big data analytics, artificial intelligence, enterprise social media, innovation, entrepreneurship, productivity