Applications close in:
Current tuition: $4,895 (standard: $5,950 - save $1,055)
Join leaders from: Visa, Kimberly Clark, Nike, Amazon, The World Bank & more. 100% refundable until course starts.
Priority Enrollments Close Apr 2 — Save $1,055
3-MONTH INTENSIVE
AI LEADERSHIP
NEW
DURATION
3 Months
FORMAT
Online (Live + AI-Guided)
PRIORITY ENROLLMENTS
$4,895 USD $5,950
Save $1,055NEXT COHORT
April 13 – July 2, 2026
Built on the Agentic AI Intensive—named by Forbes as a top course to master AI agents.
Get the full curriculum, faculty details and pricing instantly.
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.
With live faculty sessions, weekly consultant-led AMAs, and dedicated 1-on-1 support between each module, you'll...
Diagnose AI readiness and craft an AI vision statement that goes beyond efficiency to create new value
Identify and prioritize AI opportunities using frameworks for feasibility, business value, and organizational fit
Translate strategy into technical briefs and prototype AI solutions with low-code tools — no coding required
Build governance and ethics frameworks including risk management, regulatory navigation, and accountability
Measure and report AI value to boards with ROI frameworks, success metrics, and strategic narratives
Lead organizational change through reskilling, stakeholder alignment, and phased implementation
What You'll Build
Three months. Three deliverables. Each one developed with dedicated support from enterprise AI consultants. Built for your organization, ready for your leadership team.
When your leadership asks "what's our AI strategy?" you'll have the answer.
Leave with a complete AI & Agentic Strategy: a readiness assessment, prioritized opportunities, and a clear vision for where AI creates value across your organization.
When you need credibility and buy-in, you'll show it, not just describe it.
Leave with a Working Prototype of your highest-priority AI use case, built with low-code tools. No coding required. A tangible demo that turns your strategy into something stakeholders can see.
When you're asked to present the plan, you won't be assembling slides the night before.
Leave with an Executive AI Presentation including governance and risk frameworks, implementation roadmap, success metrics, and ROI tracking. Ready to present, ready to defend, ready to implement.
Your Final Deliverable
Your consolidated AI Transformation Playbook
Strategy, prototype, governance, and implementation. Refined across three months, reviewed by faculty, developed with consultant support. Ready for your organization.
View the outline to see the complete curriculum and application process.
THE JOURNEY
Each 2.5-week intensive module builds on the last, with consultant-supported reflection weeks in between.
MONTH 1
Weeks 1 - 3
Diagnose where your organization stands, map opportunities, and build the strategic case for AI investment.
You leave with →
AI Strategy
MONTH 2
Weeks 5 - 7
Translate strategy into action. Build fluency in GenAI and agentic systems, then prototype your priority use case. No coding required.
You leave with →
Working Prototype
MONTH 3
Weeks 9 - 11
Build governance frameworks, measure ROI, and lead organizational change through reskilling and stakeholder alignment.
You leave with →
Roadmap & Executive AI Presentation
Between each module: a one-week reflection and action sprint
Apply insights at work and receive dedicated support from AI strategy consultants.
Why Leaders Choose This Program
Enterprise AI consultants work directly with you throughout the program. 1-on-1 strategic support on your actual challenges, completemented by group AMAs.
After Module 1
Strategy Review
1-on-1 deep dive on your AI roadmap
After Module 2
Prototyping Session
1-on-1 support building your demo
After Module 3
Narrative Coaching
1-on-1 executive presentation refinement
Every Week
Group AMA
Live guidance on your challenges
Every artifact in your Playbook is built for your actual organization, your industry, your stakeholders. Reviewed by faculty and ready for use in your role.
"I left with a clear roadmap for where and how agentic AI can drive meaningful impact in our organization."
Jill Tarallo, Business Strategy
From the Agentic AI Intensive
Using low-code tools, you'll translate your strategic vision into a tangible AI prototype. No coding required. Bridge the gap between what you envision and what's achievable.
"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
Integrated capability-building across strategy, technology, governance, and implementation. The depth of a long-form executive program, compressed for senior leaders.
"Hands down, this is the best learning journey that I have ever been on. The personalized curriculum is astonishing."
Paul Michael Miles
From the Agentic AI Intensive
Two live sessions per week during modules. Structured reflection weeks between each module to apply insights at work. AI-guided learning fits your schedule.
"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
“Hands down, this is the best learning journey that I have ever been on. The personalized curriculum is astonishing!"
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.
.png)
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 twice a week with HDSR faculty, authors, and Board Members from Harvard, UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School, and Simon Fraser.
DAIN Studios
Enterprise AI strategists who've led transformation at Siemens, Nokia, and Deutsche Telekom.
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-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.
Have more questions? The course outline includes detailed program information →
Download the course outline to see the week-by-week structure, deliverables you'll build, and how AI personalization works for your specific context.
3 Months
Duration
$4,895 USD
Early Bird
.png)
April 13
Course Starts
Get the full curriculum, faculty details, and pricing instantly.
.png)
.png)
