The Strategic Executive: Leading in the Age of AI
Program Details
About the Program
Lead responsibly, ethically, and wisely in an AI-driven world. As artificial intelligence evolves from assistive to agentic, capable of reasoning, acting, and shaping outcomes, your role as a leader is changing. The Strategic Executive: Leading in the Age of AI program prepares you to navigate this transformation with principle, purpose, and perspective.
Experience
Across two immersive days, you’ll evolve from a technically fluent leader to one who approaches AI with ethical insight and wisdom. During the first day of the course, you’ll explore what principled leadership looks like in a world of vast intelligence. By examining a variety of case studies and engaging in discussions with your peers, you’ll learn how to apply frameworks for responsible innovation and design strategies for human–AI collaboration that preserve creativity and judgment.
On day two of the program, you’ll focus on the unique human capacities that AI cannot replicate, including empathy, insight, reflection, and moral clarity. You’ll explore the concept of wisdom, learn practices to develop it, and apply the SMDR Compass and Six Dimensions of Wisdom to real-world leadership challenges. In addition, you’ll craft a personal vision for your leadership legacy that details how you’ll lead responsibly, ethically, and wisely in an AI-driven world. By the end of the program, you’ll be prepared to harness AI’s potential responsibly, elevate human creativity, and lead with wisdom in a world defined by rapid technological change.
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Who Should Take This Course & Why
- Enhance your ability to balance technology with humanity through frameworks for responsible AI governance, inclusive innovation, and human–AI collaboration
- Learn how to translate insight into action using tools for scenario planning, stakeholder mapping, and a personalized leadership action plan grounded in empathy, ethics, and compassion
- Strengthen your ability to shape thought leadership by developing a strategic Thought Point of View (TPOV) and content framework to influence responsibly in the digital age
- Craft a personal vision that prepares you to harness AI’s potential responsibly, elevate human creativity, and lead with wisdom in a world defined by rapid technological change
Schedule
Session Overview
- Principled Leadership in the Age of Abundant Intelligence: Explore how timeless leadership principles provide stability in a rapidly changing world. Drawing from historical examples and modern economic theory, examine how ethics, trust, and integrity drive sustainable competitive advantage.
- Purposeful Leadership & Existential Risk: Learn what it means to lead with purpose amid a shifting global landscape. Align your personal, organizational, and societal missions, assess the risks of advanced technologies, and design strategies for responsible innovation.
Session Overview
- Thought Leadership in the Digital Age: Discover how to shape the narrative around technology rather than react to it. Build a Thought Point of View (TPOV) platform as you learn how to leverage social channels strategically and influence positive, inclusive innovation.
- The Future of Work & Human-AI Collaboration: Explore how to redesign roles, workflows, and culture for human–AI teams. Apply frameworks that preserve human judgment and creativity while deploying AI to enhance performance and meaning at work.
Session Overview
- Drowning in Knowledge, Starved for Wisdom in an AI World: Explore the paradox of being overwhelmed with information yet lacking wisdom in an AI-driven world. Examine practical definitions, perspectives, and mindsets on wisdom to guide purposeful, wisdom-driven leadership in complex environments.
- Developing & Practicing Wise Presence: Learning to Lead from Within: Discover the essential practices for wise leadership. Through slowing down, embodied sensing, and expanding relational awareness, you’ll strengthen your ability to be present, centered, and access the insight needed for wise leadership.
Session Overview
- Six Dimensions of Wisdom Model & Application to a Current Challenge: Examine the six research-based dimensions of wise leadership and complete a self-assessment to identify your strengths and areas for growth. Apply the six dimensions to a real-world challenge and leverage insights and advice from your peers.
- Wisdom as the Pathway to Your Leadership Legacy: Identify and consciously access your “wisdom voice,” explore approaches to creating a lasting leadership legacy, and develop a personal vision for how you will influence the future thoughtfully and ethically.
Instructors
Lecturer, Marketing; Former President & CMO, 3M Worldwide
Carlson Executive Educators Network