Leading the Digital Organization

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Program Experience

This course builds the organizational and leadership capabilities required to sustain digital transformation over time. By the end, you will be able to:

Explain the core logic of leading digital transformation and innovation under uncertainty
Recommend concrete actions that translate early warning signals into specific initiatives and learning bets
Integrate organizational design levers to align explore and exploit work
Apply leadership judgment to protect novelty, enable scaling, and lead through resistance
Practice a vigilance mindset that supports long-term preparedness
Build a repeatable process for scanning, framing uncertainty, and updating strategy and organizational choices

Experience and Impact

Delivered fully online and self-paced, this course features four in-depth modules (approximately two to three hours each). You will move through a blend of short-form video lectures, guided workbook reflections, applied activities, and optional stretch exercises that connect frameworks to your own organization.

You will go beyond concepts and put ideas into practice. Specifically, this course will equip you to:

Complete organizational diagnostics, network maps, ambidexterity assessments, and vigilance exercises grounded in your real context
Analyze how leadership vision, organizational structure, culture, and business models shape transformation outcomes
Develop practical approaches for balancing short-term performance with long-term adaptability
Build a strategic journal through the workbook that accumulates insights and diagnostic tools across modules

By the end, you will have frameworks and diagnostic tools you can bring directly into leadership conversations, planning cycles, and transformation initiatives.

Certificate Pathway

This is the second of four courses that comprise Wharton Online’s Digital Strategy in the Era of AI Certificate. The certificate is earned by completing all four:

Course 1: Navigating Digital Disruption
Course 2: Leading the Digital Organization
Course 3: AI Strategy and Decision Making
Course 4: Advancing Digital Innovation

Each course may be taken individually, but together they form a comprehensive progression: from diagnosing disruption and leading organizational transformation, to building AI capabilities and judgment, to advancing digital initiatives with strategic discipline.

Completing all four courses not only deepens your transformation capabilities; it also earns you the Digital Strategy in the Era of AI Certificate, recognizing your ability to lead digital and AI-driven change with strategic confidence.

Tuition

The tuition for this course is $1,350. You can also enroll in the full four-course Digital Strategy in the Era of AI Certificate at a bundled rate, gaining access to the entire pathway and the recognized Wharton credential.

Attend as a Team. Amplify the Impact.

Wharton Executive Education offers group-enrollment benefits for organizations sending four or more participants. Learn More »

What Do I Earn?

CEU Credits

To receive CEUs for your Wharton Online course(s), you must complete all coursework and pass all assessments in a CEU-eligible program of study with a score of 70 percent or above.

CEUs are included with every Wharton Online course. Upon successful course completion, learners automatically earn at least one CEU, which is noted in the digital credentials.

Credentialing

Upon successfully completing your course, you will receive a digital badge recognizing your achievement. The badge is a verified, shareable credential that showcases your dedication and newly acquired skills.

You can easily share your digital badge on LinkedIn, your personal website, digital resume, or email signature — making it simple for employers, peers, and your professional network to see what you’ve accomplished.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who are responsible for making transformation work inside real organizations, including:

Strategy and corporate transformation leaders who need to design and recommend clear transformation strategies
Innovation and capability leaders focused on preparing their organizations for continuous change
Operations and general management leaders responsible for getting things done when priorities compete and the path forward is unclear
Change and program leaders responsible for rallying people, aligning incentives, and focusing attention across the organization
HR, organizational design, and technology leaders shaping how teams adopt new ways of working during transformation

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

George Day, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor Emeritus; Faculty Emeritus in Residence of Mack Institute of Innovation Management, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Competitive strategies in global markets, strategic planning processes

Lori Rosenkopf, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Simon and Midge Palley Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School