Overview
As digital technologies and AI redefine industries, leaders face increasing pressure to guide transformation with clarity and purpose. The challenge is not just adopting new tools — it’s aligning people, processes, and strategy to capture lasting value from them.
This intensive three-day program equips you with the insight and frameworks to lead digital and AI transformation effectively. You’ll examine how emerging technologies reshape competition and the workplace, assess your organization’s readiness, and build strategies to accelerate growth.
Through case discussions, simulations, and interactive exercises, you’ll expand your decision-making and leadership capabilities across four key dimensions:
- Technology and Competition: Understand how digital technologies and AI are reshaping markets and strategy.
- Strategy and Growth: Identify opportunities and implement approaches that drive innovation and performance.
- Talent and Transformation: Lead your workforce through change and cultivate the capabilities needed for the AI era.
- Leadership and Impact: Strengthen your ability to champion innovation and mobilize others to achieve it.
You’ll return to work with practical strategies, a clearer strategic vision, and the confidence to lead digital and AI initiatives that create measurable impact for your organization.
Benefits of Leading Your Organization’s AI and Digital Transformation
This hands-on, interactive program emphasizes application over theory. You and your peers will identify the top challenges your organizations face in moving toward a stronger digital or AI strategy. These real-world challenges will form the foundation for exercises, simulations, and discussions throughout the program, ensuring that every concept is relevant for your most pressing business priorities.
By the end of the program, you will have developed practical strategies and actionable frameworks to:
- Leverage digital platforms and technologies to unlock new levels of scalability and performance.
- Evaluate digital investments and opportunities that position your organization at the forefront of digital transformation.
- Examine how challengers and incumbents use emerging digital technologies, including cloud services, to gain an edge and apply these insights to your own organization’s strategy.
- Anticipate and navigate the disruptions emerging technologies will bring, transforming change into opportunity.
- Discover actionable methods to integrate digital strategies and tools that accelerate growth — featuring insights from an industry leader sharing real-world lessons and perspectives from leading global organizations.
- Reimagine the future of work through AI — and empower a workforce built to adapt, innovate, and lead.
Upon successful completion of the program, you will earn a Certificate of Completion from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education.
Who Should Register for Leading Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Training?
This program is designed for senior leaders responsible for leading teams, business units, or product groups seeking to leverage digital technologies and strategies. It is also valuable for those who design, deliver, or sell technology-enabled products and services, as well as leaders who are implementing AI initiatives within their organizations.
Professionals who will also find this valuable:
- Product or business unit leaders seeking to anticipate technological disruption and build the capabilities to respond effectively.
- Sales, marketing, and business development professionals navigating rapidly changing customer needs and digital channels.
- Functional leaders leveraging AI and data-driven tools to improve performance, efficiency, and innovation.
- High-potential executives preparing to take on larger leadership responsibilities in digitally evolving organizations.
Curriculum
Over the course of three days, you’ll engage in a highly interactive learning experience that blends short lectures, case discussions, and hands-on simulations. The curriculum emphasizes practical application—equipping you with the frameworks and tools to address your organization’s most pressing digital and AI challenges.
You will explore topics such as:
- The top strategic and operational challenges your peers are facing across industries in driving digital and AI transformation.
- The strategic choices that shaped the digital trajectories of leading organizations like Microsoft and Amazon, and identify how similar approaches can strengthen your organization’s competitiveness.
- Frameworks for assessing AI investment opportunities and building strategies for scalable growth.
- How digital transformation is reshaping the workforce and strategies for developing and retaining digital-ready talent.
- Leading organizational change to embed digital and AI capabilities across functions.
- Preparing your organization for the next wave of technological disruption.
Through small-group exercises and real-world case analyses, you’ll apply what you learn to your own organization—developing actionable solutions that you can implement immediately after the program.
Considering this program?
June Schedule
Day 1
- Understanding disruption
- Scalable technologies and innovative business models
- Exercise: Invest or not
- Case: Cloud wars — early investments and decision points
Day 2
- Challenger vs. incumbent
- Identifying future disruption
- The future of work
- Leading digital transformation of your #1 asset — your people
- Case: Scale, growth, and building for the future
Day 3
- Digital transformation strategies
- Using behavioral design to assess and build your optimal path to digital differentiation
- Building your digital business strategy
- Bringing it all together
Instructors
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Nick Psyhogeos
Nick Psyhogeos is the co-founder and CEO of Fork, a tech start-up incubated at the Harvard Innovation Lab, utilizing AI to help employees advance to higher-paying, in-demand occupations. He is also an Instructor at Harvard Extension School and a Lecturer of Intellectual Property at Boston University School of Law. -
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Aseem Datar
Aseem Datar is a Vice President at Microsoft, focusing on next-generation computing, including AI and Quantum technologies. Previously, he was a Partner at Madrona Venture Group, investing in enterprise companies. Aseem is a Seattle 40 Under 40 honoree and received the Microsoft CMO Award for driving growth in emerging markets. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering, an MBA from the University of Washington, and completed executive education at Harvard Business School.
Certificates of Leadership Excellence
The Certificates of Leadership Excellence (CLE) are designed for leaders with the desire to enhance their business acumen, challenge current thinking, and expand their leadership skills.
This program is one of several CLE qualifying programs. Register today and get started earning your certificate.
FAQs
Why is it important for organizations to accelerate their digital transformation efforts?
The ongoing AI revolution is causing rapid shifts in the way we work. Organizations that fail to adapt will find themselves increasingly unable to stay competitive.
Yet, according to recent McKinsey survey data, most organizations that attempt digital transformation achieve less than one-third of the anticipated results.
Strong financial performance is only one benefit of successfully implementing an effective digital strategy. Organizations that do implement an effective strategy are more likely to improve their customer engagement and satisfaction, successfully drive and promote innovation and growth, and attract and retain top-quality talent.
How will this 3-day training course help me advance in my career?
Organizations today need leaders who can identify market disruption, develop a comprehensive agenda for transformation, and lead the charge for change, integrating people, products, and platforms into the firm of the future.
As you explore how to develop a clear roadmap for your organization’s key strategies in this comprehensive and intensive AI transformation program, you’ll gain the skills, knowledge, and tools you need to become the leader your organization needs: a successful driver of change, innovation, and transformation.
You’ll return to your organization ready to evaluate the marketplace, recognize your organization’s competitive strengths, and design a unique business approach that addresses your strategic priorities as part of a deliberate, coordinated, and implementable plan.
What skills or experience is needed before enrolling in this training?
You do not need any specific skills to enroll in this training program; however, it is recommended that you be a mid- to senior-level manager with at least five to seven years of experience.
To succeed in this program, you should bring your natural curiosity, a desire to learn, and a willingness to engage with like-minded professionals.
Why Choose Leading Your Organization's Digital Transformation?
The digital landscape is changing the business world and organizations that can’t transform risk being left behind. Develop the strategies and tools you need to drive revolutionary and evolutionary change in the Leading Your Organization’s Digital Transformation program.
