Leadership Program in AI

Architect your strategic leadership approach with the Leadership Program in AI.

Access to AI is no longer the differentiator — leadership judgment is. As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise, senior leaders must determine where it creates value, how it aligns with business strategy, and what risks and trade-offs it introduces.

The Leadership Program in AI from Wharton Executive Education equips you to evaluate AI, machine learning, and analytics through a strategic business lens — not a technical one. You will learn to assess AI initiatives based on business relevance, organizational impact, and long-term value, enabling more informed decision making.

Designed for busy executives, this flexible six-month program combines insights from Wharton faculty with practical frameworks to help you align AI initiatives with enterprise strategy and translate AI investments into measurable business outcomes.

Program Highlights

Over six months, the Leadership Program in AI will enable you to:
Leverage AI to analyze past business performance, forecast future trends, and inform enterprise-level strategic decisions
Apply program frameworks through a structured capstone to create an organization-specific AI roadmap
Interpret AI-driven insights to support leadership communication, alignment, and decision making
Assess AI and machine learning approaches to guide innovation, investment priorities, and execution strategy
Evaluate AI-enabled business opportunities and risks to make informed, accountable leadership decisions
Navigate the legal, ethical, and regulatory considerations shaping responsible AI adoption
Create a practical, organization-specific strategy for integrating AI solutions to drive business value

PROGRAM DETAILS

Duration: 6 months

Location: Blended (Online + In Person)^*

*Includes an optional two-day immersion on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, USA

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Pricing does not include accommodations for the (optional) networking event, and travel expenses (domestic, international, visa fee, and more).

Integrated live webinars on latest genAI developments

In addition to live interactive faculty-led modules, the program features a series of live webinars on generative AI (genAI), offering you the latest developments and practical insights on cutting-edge AI technologies and tools. These transformative webinars enhance your understanding of genAI-driven innovation and efficiency to support business transformation with AI.

Join industry leaders and experienced Wharton faculty for in-depth interviews and thoughtful lectures on the rapidly evolving genAI landscape, including:

Effective communication methods with large language models (LLMs)
The evolution and progress of ChatGPT
Challenges in adopting genAI systems and their possible resolutions through effective AI adoption, and discussions about hands-on use cases of LLMs.

LLMs: Foundations
Build a clear understanding of how large language models work and what enables them to generate human-like insights, content, and decisions at scale.

Scaling, Competition, and the LLM Ecosystem
Examine how advances in scale, data, and competition are accelerating model capabilities and reshaping the enterprise AI landscape.

Balancing Cost and Quality in AI
Learn how to evaluate trade-offs between performance, cost, and speed when deploying AI solutions and refining your AI implementation strategy in real-world business contexts.

Enterprise Challenges with LLMs
Understand the key barriers to adoption, including trust, bias, reliability, AI governance, and organizational readiness — and how leaders can navigate them.

LLM Agents and the Future of Work
Discover how AI is moving beyond chat to autonomous systems that can plan, act, and integrate with tools — driving the next wave of AI transformation — and what this shift means for organizations.

What AI skills and insights will you gain from the Leadership Program in AI?

Applied GenAI Foundations
Gain a leadership-level understanding of genAI, AI agents, and LLM models, supported by hands-on experimentation with agent-driven workflows to shape your AI strategy.

Effective Prompt Engineering
Learn to design effective LLM prompts for daily productivity, analytical tasks, and business-specific applications that enhance decision making.

Enterprise AI in Action
Explore real-world applications of genAI across the enterprise, including A/B testing, no-code AI examples, and modern experimentation frameworks.

Expert-Led AI Sessions
Engage in live sessions focused on AI-mediated markets and responsible AI governance. Assess how AI systems research, recommend, and transact.

Program Format

The program’s core modules will enable you to leverage emerging technologies, forge customer-centric digital strategies that drive growth, and build innovative digital solutions to sustain transformation. Designed with your demanding schedule in mind, this immersive program comprises 15 weeks of core modules followed by one six-week online elective.

Module 1

(16 weeks)

Data-Driven Decisions	Machine Learning and Applications
AI Inputs and Outputs: Business, Legal, and Ethical Responsibilities	Data and Algorithms in the Organization

Short Course

(Six weeks)

Leading and Managing High-Impact Teams

Two-day on-campus recognition ceremony and networking event

Who Should Attend

The Leadership Program in AI from Wharton Executive Education is designed for nontechnical senior executives who want to build a deeper understanding of AI, machine learning, and analytics to drive business impact and guide their organization’s digital transformation strategy. It is ideal for:

Senior-level executives seeking to leverage AI and emerging technologies to transform business operations, improve performance, and strengthen strategic decision making through business transformation with AI
C-suite leaders looking to gain an understanding of AI and enterprise AI applications to make informed decisions and amplify their strategic influence
Emerging leaders actively refining their approaches to navigate disruption, hone their AI strategy, and prepare for the future of AI in business
Innovation champions exploring new ideas and AI machine learning initiatives to drive real-world organizational change

This program is not the right fit if you are:

An AI or machine learning practitioner seeking advanced model development or deep technical coursework
A data scientist leading mature data and AI organizations, looking for hands-on coding, algorithm design, or research-focused content
An AI leader already operating at scale and well versed in deploying and managing production models

Note: No technical or coding background is required. The program is designed for leadership-level engagement with AI.

Pathway to Wharton Alumni Status

Executives who successfully complete the Leadership Program in AI and Analytics program have the option of applying to the General Management Program (GMP), the Advanced Finance Program (AFP), or the Owner/President/CEO Program (OPC).

After completing the Leadership Program in AI and Analytics and subsequent open-enrollment programs, subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, you have a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status.

Upon qualifying for Wharton Alumni Status, you will be eligible to receive:

Full access to become a member of 77+ Wharton Alumni Clubs
Invitation to attend future Wharton Global Alumni Forums
A Wharton forwarding email address

Executives who successfully complete the Leadership Program in AI and Analytics have the option of applying to the General Management Program (GMP). The GMP provides further opportunities to enhance your leadership skills and business acumen with a flexible curriculum. The Leadership Program in AI and Analytics provides one credit toward the six required to complete the GMP and earn alumni status. More details on the GMP are available at Wharton Executive Education.

To learn more, please contact:

+1.561.486.7448
wharton_epai@emeritus.org

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Delivered in collaboration with program partner Emeritus:

Prasanna Tambe, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions; Co-Director, Wharton Human-AI Research, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Economics of IT labor, technological change, and labor markets

Raghuram Iyengar, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Miers-Busch, W’1885 Professor; Professor of Marketing; Faculty Director of Innovation, Experiential Learning and Research Initiatives, Analytics at Wharton, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Pricing, social influence, social networks

Ron Berman, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Associate Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Online marketing, entrepreneurship, marketing analytics, search engine marketing, game theory, industrial organization

Martine Haas, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Vice Dean of Global Initiatives; Dr. Felix Zandman Professor in International Management; Professor of Management, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Global collaboration, human and intellectual capital, information technology use, knowledge sharing, teamwork

Peter Cappelli, DPhilSee Faculty Bio

George W. Taylor Professor of Management; Director, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Human-resource practices, public policy related to employment, talent and performance management

Cade Massey, PhDSee Faculty Bio

Practice Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School

Research Interests: People analytics, judgment under uncertainty, organizational behavior

Michael Useem, PhDSee Faculty Bio

William and Jacalyn Egan Professor Emeritus of Management, The Wharton School

Research Interests: Catastrophic and enterprise risk management, corporate change and restructuring, leadership, decision making, governance

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