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3.5-MONTH INTENSIVE
AI LEADERSHIP
4 MODULES
From the team behind the Agentic AI Intensive, featured in Forbes as one of
“3 Of The Best Courses/Certifications To Master
AI Agents In 2026”
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DURATION
3.5 Months
FORMAT
Online (Live + AI-Guided)
TUITION
$4,950 USD $5,950
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From the team behind the Agentic AI Intensive, featured in Forbes as one of
“3 Of The Best Courses/Certifications To Master
AI Agents In 2026”
©2026 Forbes Media LLC. All rights reserved. Used under license.
LEADERS FROM THESE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE COMPLETED HDSR INTENSIVES
NIKE
KPMG
Accenture
T-Mobile
Lyft
NASA
Grainger
Prudential
Dell Technologies
AWS
Apple
Airbnb
Boeing
Visa
Mayo Clinic
“As CIO, it's my responsibility to craft our AI strategy and budget. This course gave me a solid foundation for building and scaling our strategy in a comprehensive manner.”
C-Suite Executives
VPs & Directors
Transformation Leads
Strategy & Innovation Heads
Leaders from AWS, Apple, Wells Fargo, Nike, Airbnb, Microsoft, Google, and Visa have completed our programs.
THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
We're living through a leadership moment that resembles the early days of electricity, and the gap between exploring and leading is widening fast.
You're guiding AI investments without a proven model
Balancing opportunity, risk, and responsible judgment, while building credibility in a domain that changes monthly. The gap between "AI is important" and "here's our plan" is where your leadership lives.
Teams are deploying faster than governance can follow
Adoption is outpacing the ethics frameworks, accountability structures, and organizational readiness to support it. This is a leadership problem, not a tooling problem.
AI anxiety is real — for your teams and for you
Fear of replacement, fear of falling behind, and a quiet "credibility anxiety" among leaders themselves. Your people need direction, reassurance, and evidence of a thoughtful plan.
Across four modules, with live faculty sessions, weekly group Ask Me Anything sessions, and three 1-on-1 consultations with AI consultants, you'll...
Assess AI readiness and map the opportunity: where agentic AI creates the most value in your organization, and what to pursue first
Redesign a high-value workflow into a production-ready, agent-first blueprint using the A.G.E.N.T. Framework
Build a working AI Chief of Staff: a configured agent running across three of your own workflows. No coding required.
Set the rules for people and agents working together, with collaboration boundaries and governance drawn from your own build
Scale from one workflow to many, managing permissions, cost, security, and risk across a portfolio of agents
Design the operating model for an agentic workforce, with the visibility, governance, and accountability that hold up at scale
Make the board-ready case for transformation: the economics, ROI, and stakeholder buy-in to secure your mandate
Lead the change by building the capability, culture, and roadmap your organization needs to sustain agentic AI
What You'll Build
Three and a half months. Four modules. Each one ends with something you can put to work, built for your organization, with enterprise AI consultants alongside you.
When your leadership asks "where does AI actually create value for us?" you'll have the answer.
Leave with an Agentic AI Strategy Document (your current state, highest-value use cases, and target state) and an A.G.E.N.T. Playbook: a production-ready blueprint for one high-value workflow.
When stakeholders ask what an agent can actually do, you'll show them one you built.
Leave with a working AI Chief of Staff, configured across three of your own workflows and usable from day one, plus your Agentic AI Manifesto. No coding required.
When one workflow becomes many, you'll already have the model to run them.
Leave with an operating model for your agentic workforce: how permissions, cost, security, and governance are managed across a portfolio of workflows, and which to scale first.
When you're asked to present the plan, you won't be assembling slides the night before.
Leave with a leadership deliverable for your board: the business case, the economics and ROI, and the roadmap and change plan to carry your transformation forward.
Your Final Deliverable
Your consolidated AI Transformation Playbook
Strategy, workflow blueprint, working agent, operating model, and board case, brought together into one document you can deploy in your organization or take to your leadership.
View the outline to see the complete curriculum and application process.
THE JOURNEY
Four modules over three and a half months, each building on the last, with time between them to put your work into practice.
MODULE 1 · VISION
2.5 weeks
Find where agentic AI creates value in your organization, then redesign one high-value workflow using the A.G.E.N.T. Framework.
You leave with →
Strategy & A.G.E.N.T. Playbook
MODULE 2 · BUILD
1 week
Put the strategy in your hands. Configure an AI Chief of Staff across three of your own workflows. No coding required.
You leave with →
Working AI Chief of Staff
MODULE 3 · SCALE
2.5 weeks
One workflow becomes many. Take control of permissions, cost, security, and the governance a scaled agent portfolio demands.
You leave with →
Agentic operating model
MODULE 4 · LEAD
1 week
Turn your portfolio into an organization-wide mandate: the business case, ROI, and the culture and capability to sustain it.
You leave with →
Board-ready business case
Between modules: time to put your work into practice
Test what you've built inside your organization, and get a head start on what's next. Each module's prep work opens the week before it begins.
Why Leaders Choose This Program
Enterprise AI consultants from DAIN Studios work directly with you on your actual challenges: two strategic checkpoints on your transformation work, one technical session while you build, and weekly group Ask Me Anything sessions throughout.
After Module 1
Strategic Checkpoint
1-on-1 to sharpen your strategy and workflow blueprint
During Module 2
Technical Consultation
1-on-1 hands-on support as you build your agent
End of Module 3
Strategic Checkpoint
1-on-1 end-of-course review ahead of the final module
Every Week
Group Ask Me Anything
Live guidance on your challenges
Every artifact in your Playbook is built for your actual organization, your industry, your stakeholders. Ready for use in your role from the day you finish each module.
"Rather than simply learning about AI leadership, I was continually applying, testing, and refining the concepts in a real-world context."
Mark Angus, CEO & Chief Strategist, GBS World
From the AI Leadership Intensive
You'll configure an AI Chief of Staff across three of your own workflows, with a dedicated technical consultation to get you there. No coding required.
"This isn't a coding course; it's an Operating Model course. It will teach you how to turn your siloed data into productized assets."
Abhishek Patel, Engineering Leader
From the Agentic AI Intensive
Four modules that build on each other: strategy, building, scaling, and leading transformation. The depth of a long-form executive program, compressed for senior leaders.
"The intensive significantly changed how I think about AI transformation, from adopting AI tools to building the organizational capability to use AI responsibly, measurably, and at scale."
Nicholas Kanellakis, Director, IT, Bender CCP
From the AI Leadership Intensive
Live faculty sessions during each module, with time between modules to apply your work inside your organization. AI-guided learning fits around the rest of your week.
"The AGENT method gave me a structured, repeatable way to evaluate use cases and build solutions that deliver real business value."
Kelly Ragona, Director PMO, AliMed
From the Agentic AI Intensive
Harvard Data Science Review Board Members, Authors, and Faculty who've led AI transformation at global scale.
Curriculum based on Harvard Data Science Review research including the special issue “Future Shock: Grappling With the Generative AI Revolution.”
Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics. Former Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Founding Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Data Science Review.
Harvard Business School
Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration. Chair, MBA Elective Curriculum. Chair, Digital Value Lab at Harvard D^3. Expert in AI, corporate governance, and risk management.
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Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University
Giovanni Parmigiani is Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University and a leading authority in statistical genomics. His work bridges data science and decision theory to advance precision medicine and evidence-based health care.
Associate Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Assistant Professor and HDSR Board Member. Historian of AI and computing, expert on AI's societal impacts and the human side of technological transformation.
Kearney | AI Fund
Partner at Kearney and AI Fund Fellow. Co-Editor, HDSR Industry Column. Board Member, American Society for AI. PhD Applied AI & Data Science, MIT. Harvard Business School GMP.
Co-Founder & CEO, DAIN Studios Finland
Harvard Data Science Review Board Member and co-creator of the AGENT Framework. Previously headed data and AI departments at Sanoma Media and Nokia. Leads hands-on sessions on agentic workflow design and enterprise AI strategy.
Co-Founder & CEO, DAIN Studios Germany
Harvard Data Science Review Board Member and co-creator of the AGENT Framework. Previously headed global data and AI initiatives at Siemens, Nokia, and Deutsche Telekom. Leads hands-on sessions on agentic workflow design and enterprise AI transformation.
Scholé AI
CEO and Co-founder of Scholé AI. PhD in Computer Science from EPFL. Recognized as a Rising Star in Data Science for contributions to ML and education research.
Get full faculty bios and session details in the course outline →
Upon completion, you'll receive a Certificate from Harvard Data Science Initiative, recognition of demonstrated capability in AI leadership, governance, and strategic implementation.
How You'll Learn
HDSR faculty and Board Members for academic rigor. Enterprise AI consultants for strategic depth. An AI-personalized platform that adapts to your context. Together, they ensure every deliverable you build is grounded in research, pressure-tested by practitioners, and tailored to your organization.
Harvard Data Science Review
Live sessions in every module with HDSR faculty, authors, and Board Members from Harvard, Harvard Business School, and Simon Fraser, alongside industry leaders from DAIN Studios, Kearney, and Scholé AI.
DAIN Studios
Enterprise AI consultants with years of hands-on experience implementing AI strategy across organizations of every size and industry.
AI Campus
An AI tutor trained on the curriculum and your goals. Adaptive daily content tailored to your role and progress.
Live with HDSR Faculty
Weekly sessions, not recorded lectures
AI-Personalized Learning
Adapts frameworks to your context
Agentic AI Focus
Not in most programs
Applied Outputs
Real strategy docs
Named by Forbes as a top course to master AI agents
"I left with a clear roadmap for where and how agentic AI can drive meaningful impact in our organization."
"The AGENT method gave me a structured, repeatable way to evaluate use cases and build solutions that deliver real business value."
“Architecting agentic workflows, evaluating safety and governance—these are execution tools already driving impact in my work.”
View the outline to see the complete curriculum and application process.
Senior leaders responsible for AI strategy, governance, or implementation — including C-suite executives, VPs, directors, and transformation leads. No technical or coding background is required. The program is designed for leaders who need to direct AI initiatives, not build them personally.
Yes — the program is designed for working executives. Two live sessions per week (Mondays and Wednesdays), AI-guided applied work you can do on your schedule, and one-week reflection breaks between modules. The deliverables you build are for your actual organization, so the work has direct professional value.
Our AI tutor adapts HDSR frameworks to your specific industry, organization size, and challenges. You're not learning generic concepts, you're applying them to your actual context with personalized feedback.
A Certificate from Harvard Data Science Review recognizing demonstrated capability in AI leadership, governance, and strategic implementation. Shareable on LinkedIn.
Your AI Transformation Playbook — a comprehensive document including an AI readiness assessment, vision statement, use case maps, a working prototype, governance framework, and implementation roadmap. All customized to your organization and ready for use.
Absolutely. The program builds leadership-level fluency, not technical expertise. Prototyping uses low-code/no-code tools specifically designed for non-technical leaders. You'll gain enough understanding to direct AI initiatives and evaluate technical proposals — not to write code.
The Intensive focuses on designing a single agentic workflow. This 3.5-month program covers the full leadership journey — AI readiness, strategy, prototyping, governance, ethics, and implementation — with deeper faculty engagement, student showcases, and a comprehensive set of applied deliverables.
Most participants have their organization cover the investment. The deliverables you build have direct organizational value — many participants use this as justification. We can provide documentation to support your L&D or executive development request.
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