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Leading an AI Transformation

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Lead AI transformation from opportunity to scale. Build a prioritised use-case portfolio, mobilise stakeholders and leave with an implementation-ready roadmap, governance approach and measures for adoption and value.
Next Dates
10 May
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Duration
2 days
Delivery mode
In-person
Location
Sydney CBD
Price (AUD inc. GST)
$3,950
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2 CEMD points
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Course summary

Lead AI transformation from ambition to value

Move beyond isolated experiments. This intensive executive course equips you to select the right AI opportunities, align stakeholders, redesign work responsibly and lead implementation through adoption and scale. Leave with a practical transformation blueprint tailored to your organisation.

Who will benefit

  • Executives and general managers accountable for enterprise performance
  • Transformation, digital, technology and innovation leaders
  • People, HR and functional leaders shaping workforce adoption

Course is suitable for

  • Leaders with a live AI opportunity, pilot or transformation mandate
  • Decision-makers seeking business, people and governance perspectives – not coding instruction
  • Cross-sector participants seeking an implementation-ready approach

Delivered by experts

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Nicola Dorling
Adjunct faculty - AGSM
  • AI strategy and organisational transformation
  • Operating-model design and responsible AI
  • Executive education and applied transformation

Course designed to stack

2 CEMD points
TOWARDS
CEMD
Use multiple credentials to stack your learning. This course is worth 2 AGSM CEMD points, which provides formal recognition of professional development and reflects 25 hours of learning inclusive of pre-work, course participation, learning materials and support.

About the course

Make AI transformation work in practice

AI transformation is not a conventional technology project. It changes work, expertise, decision rights, accountability and professional identity while the technology continues to evolve. This course integrates strategy, leadership, change, governance and value realisation so you can move confidently from opportunity to sustained adoption.

Target audience

Designed for executives, general managers, transformation leaders, functional leaders, HR and people leaders, digital and technology leaders, innovation leaders and senior project or program sponsors across sectors.

Why enrol in this course

Choose where AI will create value

Apply a disciplined portfolio method to compare strategic value, feasibility, readiness, risk and adoption potential.

Mobilise the organisation

Map stakeholder interests, anticipate workforce impacts and design change, capability and communication activities that build trust and ownership.

Move from pilot to scale

Define decision gates, governance, measures and learning loops that connect technical performance to adoption and enterprise value.

Key features

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Live AI transformation

Build a practical transformation plan using your own organisational challenge.

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Executive peer challenge

Pressure-test assumptions with experienced peers and executive faculty.

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Pilot-to-scale roadmap

Leave with reusable tools, decision criteria and a 90-day action plan.

Learning outcomes

Build the capabilities to lead AI at scale

By the end of the course, you will be able to frame AI transformation as an enterprise leadership challenge, make evidence-based portfolio choices, mobilise stakeholders and translate a promising use case into a governed, measurable and scalable implementation plan.

What you'll learn

Prioritise AI use cases; assess organisational readiness and workforce impact; design pilots for technical performance and adoption; build stakeholder commitment; and create a practical implementation, capability, governance and value-realisation roadmap.

Topics covered

  • AI transformation and enterprise value
  • Use-case discovery, portfolio design and prioritisation
  • Readiness data, capability and operating-model diagnostics
  • Work redesign, decision rights and workforce transition 
  • Stakeholder alignment, trust and adoption
  • Pilot design, decision gates andd scaling
  • Responsible AI governance, risk and accountability 
  • Benefits, adoption metrics and value realisation 
  • Executive narrative and 90-day action planning 

How you will learn

Prepare a live challenge before the course, then work through concise faculty inputs, cases, diagnostics, simulations and facilitated peer studios. Apply each tool to your context, test your choices with peers and finish with an executive-ready transformation blueprint and clear next actions.

Course delivery

Format

Commitment

Method

  • In-person executive workshop
  • 25 learner hours: pre-course diagnostic and challenge brief; two intensive workshop days; post-course 90-day action planning and workplace application
  • Applied, cohort-based and highly interactive. Executive briefings are combined with cases, diagnostic tools, role-based simulations, peer consulting, faculty feedback and individual roadmap development.

Schedule

This course is delivered across two full days including pre-work and a structured workplace application plan.

Pre-work

Day 1 - Choose and mobilise

Day 2 - Implement and scale

Outputs
AI transformation readiness diagnostic and live challenge brief
  • transformation context
  • value pools
  • use-case portfolio
  • readiness and risk
  • work and operating-model impacts
  • stakeholder coalition
  • executive case for change
  • human-centred pilot design
  • adoption and capability
  • responsible governance
  • measures and value realisation
  • pilot-to-scale roadmap
  • peer review
  • 90-day commitments
  • prioritised portfolio
  • change and adoption strategy
  • governance map
  • pilot scorecard
  • scale roadmap
  • executive narrative

Credentials

2 CEMD points
TOWARDS
CEMD

Progress your career with stackable credentials

By completing this course, you will receive a verifiable digital badge issued by AGSM, certifying your achievement.

The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) will formally recognise your commitment to professional development and lifelong learning with the Certificate in Executive Management and Development (CEMD). The CEMD is a flexible program that allows you to build your leadership capabilities through stackable learning.

A CEMD is a unique pathway to future study that can directly contribute to accelerating the attainment of an AGSM MBA or Graduate Certificate if you choose to embark on this journey in the future. Each time you complete a short course with the AGSM, we’ll award you with CEMD points. CEMD points can be collected and stacked together to create a unique professional development pathway that works for you and your specific career goals.

Can I use my credit towards further study?

Once you collect 12 points over a period of up to 4 years you will be awarded the CEMD. The CEMD is a specialised credential and can contribute to 2 course credits towards our AGSM MBA and Graduate Certificate qualifications.

This flexible model supports continuous learning and creates a recognised pathway from short courses to postgraduate qualifications at UNSW's AGSM.

Next steps

Upcoming dates

Choose from the below scheduled course dates designed to provide flexibility and fit within your calendar.

  • 10 May 2027 - 11 May 2027: Enrol