AI-Powered Leadership: Transforming Impact in the Digital Age

Although AI adoption is widespread, few leaders and organizations have achieved true mastery—leaving a gap between basic tool use and transformational management.

This course equips early- to mid-level managers to bridge that gap, enhancing their influence and effectiveness with AI while preserving the human elements of leadership and teamwork.

Students will learn to apply AI workflows and techniques to strategic analysis, design bias-resistant decision frameworks, communicate with confidence, develop custom coaching approaches that accelerate team growth, and think critically about risk management and governance.

Through hands-on exercises, you will also learn the latest AI techniques and build personalized AI tools (e.g., specialized GPTs and agents) tailored to your challenges and priorities while also gaining insights from forward-thinking corporate executives who have redefined how they lead with AI.

You will leave with a concrete 90-day plan and custom AI solutions to advance both your organization’s goals and your leadership impact.

No technical or prior AI experience is required.

This course relies on the use of an external, third-party tool that is not managed or supported by Stanford.

Students must purchase their own tool subscriptions and can expect to spend $25-$100 per month.

Please see the course syllabus for more details.