The AI Leader: From Strategy to Transformation

Lead digital transformation in your organisation with advanced insight into AI opportunities and risks from world-leading academics. Create an expert-led AI strategy that aligns with your goals and drives innovation in your workforce.

Price

£8,500

Commitment

4–5 hours per week

Study mode

Tutor guided

Certificate of Achievement

Evidence your learning with a Professional Certificate of Achievement from the University of Cambridge.

Duration of 26 weeks

Regular weekly participation is key to gaining the most from your learning experience.

Course dates and prices

19 Apr - 10 Oct 2027 (Apply by 12 Apr 2027)

£8,500

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About the course

This is an Expert course delivered by University of Cambridge Advance Online. Expert courses are comprehensive, in-depth programmes designed for professionals seeking advanced mastery, career progression and sustained capability development. Courses are aimed from mid-level roles up to executive roles, depending on the subject area. Courses combine interdisciplinary learning, robust assessment and strong cohort engagement to deliver significant professional and organisational impact.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work. It’s become essential for any organisation to remain competitive – whether by creating efficiencies or unlocking insights from large data sets. However, with opportunity comes risk. Unregulated AI use has already led to significant reputational damage and loss of trust from customers and stakeholders from several leading organisations.

Throughout your six-month journey on The AI Leader: From Strategy to Transformation, you’ll develop an in-depth understanding of AI’s current capabilities and the opportunities it holds for organisations like yours.

With valuable insights and tools from globally recognised academics and industry experts, you’ll develop an in-depth grounding in AI’s current capabilities and the opportunities it holds for organisations like yours. You’ll also gain clarity on AI’s limitations, and how to manage and mitigate against commercial and ethical risks.

You can expect weekly live sessions with expert tutors and University of Cambridge academics, knowledge-sharing with leaders across a range of industries and practical case studies showcasing effective AI adoption.

At the end of the programme, you’ll develop an AI implementation strategy aligned with your specific industry challenges, business objectives and workforce culture.

This programme is relevant for both technical and non-technical leaders. It offers strategic and technical insights and prepares you to communicate the need for AI adoption to senior stakeholders and board members, so you can lead digital transformation.

University of Cambridge course leads

Professor Per Ola Kristensson

Professor Per Ola Kristensson

Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Per Ola leads the Intelligent Interactive Systems Group at the Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. He is also a co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Alexandru Marcoci

Dr Alexandru Marcoci

Dr Marcoci is an Assistant Professor of Global Risk and Resilience in the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and Course Director of the MPhil Global Risk and Resilience.

Professor Magda Osman

Professor Magda Osman

Prof (Research Professor) at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Prof of Policy impact at Leeds Business School, University of Leeds.

Magda is an expert in basic and applied decision-making, the author of over 150 academic publications, and three books.

Professor Jonathan M Cullen

Professor Jonathan M Cullen

Professor of Sustainable Engineering, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College

Jonathan is Professor of Sustainable Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Resource Efficiency Collective (www.refficiency.org) and has a reputation for creating top-down studies of resource systems, bringing skills in developing new metrics to reflect both energy and emissions consequences of materials production.

Henry Ajder

Henry Ajder

Jesus College Intellectual Forum Senior Research Associate

Henry is a globally recognised advisor, broadcaster and speaker working at the frontier of the deepfake and generative AI revolution. Since 2018, his research has transformed global understanding of generative AI. Additionally, he is an AI advisor to organisations such as Adobe, EY, Meta and the UK Government.
Headshot of Miri Zilka

Dr Miri Zilka

Assistant Research Professor and Leverhulme Research Fellow, Machine Learning Group College Research Associate at King’s College Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme CFI

Miri works on trustworthy and responsible machine learning, with a focus on high-stakes settings such as criminal justice and social care. Her Leverhulme Fellowship develops a human-centric framework for evaluating and mitigating risk in causal models, bringing an ethical, human-centred lens to how algorithmic tools are deployed.

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