Cambridge AI Leadership Programme
Transform your organisation with the Cambridge AI Leadership Programme, designed for senior leaders navigating digital disruption.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Blended
22 Sep-12 Dec 2025
4 months
£20,000 + VAT
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Blended
Dates:
22 Sep-12 Dec 2025
Duration:
4 months
Fees:
£20,000 + VAT
Overview
Artificial Intelligence is transforming how organisations create value and remain competitive. The Cambridge AI Leadership Programme equips senior executives with the insight and capabilities to align AI initiatives with core business strategy, manage risks responsibly, and lead sustainable enterprise-wide transformation.
Through a blended format combining in-person, online and applied learning, the programme enables leaders to assess AI opportunities, shape organisational readiness, and drive innovation that is both ethical and commercially grounded.
Benefits and career impact
- Develop a strategic understanding of AI technologies and their business applications.
- Lead AI-driven initiatives with clarity and confidence.
- Shape an AI roadmap aligned with your organisation’s long-term objectives.
- Navigate governance, ethics and regulation in a fast-evolving landscape.
- Learn alongside global peers and Cambridge faculty through a dynamic, blended experience.
- Accelerate AI adoption through leadership that bridges strategy, technology, and execution.
- Align AI initiatives with core business objectives to drive meaningful growth.
- Strengthen organisational readiness through culture, talent and capability development.
- Ensure responsible and ethical AI use aligned with regulatory expectations and stakeholder trust.
- Position your organisation to compete, and lead, in an AI-enabled economy.
AI is a transformative force reshaping business strategy, decision-making and leadership. Senior executives must not only understand AI but also use it to drive business goals, efficiency and new revenue opportunities. The Cambridge AI Leadership Programme offers a strategic road map, equipping leaders with the tools and skills to integrate AI into their organisations and lead in an AI-driven world.
This programme is being delivered in collaboration with Emeritus.
Programme content
Module 1: Leading an AI-ready organisation
This in-person module introduces core concepts in AI, including machine learning, generative AI, and cloud infrastructure. Participants examine the organisational implications of AI adoption, from culture and talent to digital transformation, and begin shaping a leadership approach that is both informed and adaptive.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- engage confidently with key AI technologies and terminology
- evaluate the organisational readiness for AI integration
- design approaches to foster AI-native cultures and talent strategies
- lead cross-functional teams through AI-enabled transformation
Module 2: Strategic thinking for the CXO
Delivered online over 6 weeks, this module provides a comprehensive foundation in strategy formulation, evaluation and execution. Participants will explore strategic models beyond traditional industry boundaries and learn to identify key inflection points, competitive dynamics and growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving landscape.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- apply strategic frameworks to assess opportunities and risks
- identify growth and competitive positioning opportunities
- evaluate the impact of emerging technologies on corporate strategy
- develop a roadmap for long-term strategic advantage
Module 3: Refining AI strategy: from vision to execution
The final in-person module addresses the operational and reputational dimensions of AI leadership. Participants refine their strategic plans while considering governance, ethics, regulation, and executive-level communication. The focus is on embedding AI responsibly and sustainably across the enterprise.
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- navigate global AI regulatory developments and compliance expectations
- build governance frameworks that support ethical and transparent AI use
- communicate AI strategy effectively at board level and with external stakeholders
- lead the implementation and scaling of AI initiatives with clarity and accountability
How you learn: Blended
This programme is delivered in a blended format, combining face-to-face learning, highly interactive online sessions and applied learning.
Who attends
This programme is aimed at C-suite leaders and senior executives, as well as non-technical leaders seeking to drive innovation.
The programme would also be suited to transformation and digital leads, and professionals leading AI adoption and culture change.
The Cambridge AI Leadership Programme empowers decision-makers to harness AI in ways that align with their organisation’s goals and prepare for the future. Through a comprehensive learning experience, participants gain strategic insights and practical knowledge to drive transformation, strengthen decision-making, and navigate emerging technologies with confidence.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Co-Academic Programme Directors (APD) for the Cambridge AI Leadership Programme are Professor David Stillwell and Vesselin Popov.
Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre
PhD (University of Nottingham)
BA (University of Cambridge)
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Step back. Take stock. Then return, ready to move forward and create immediate impact.
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If you have any questions or would like to discuss how this programme could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the programme advisor.
Contact us
If you have any questions or would like to have a chat about this programme and how it could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the Open Programmes team: