Key details

  • Programme type
    On Campus Open Programme
  • Location
    On campus
  • Start date
    18 May 2026  -  Open
  • Duration
    1 week, full-time
  • Department
    Department of Management

Overview

Prepare to lead strategic AI-driven digital transformation in your organisation.

Organisations everywhere are scrambling resources to harness the productivity promise of AI technologies. But even as the race to leverage artificial intelligence intensifies, serious questions remain. Which are the best strategic opportunities for automation within the business? How should technology be implemented to secure safe, accurate and ethical outcomes? Is the organisation ready for change, and who should lead AI-powered transformation? AI in Management is a new programme, expertly designed, calibrated and delivered by LSE faculty, to help you make sense of the opportunities and risks, and to determine the most effective implementation approaches for your organisation. You emerge with the critical insights, frameworks and capabilities to lead, align and scale digital transformation – and to leverage the power of these emerging technologies for sustained and sustainable competitive advantage.

Impact

A profound learning experience for your leadership. Immediate and actionable insights for your organisation.

“This new programme equips senior leaders to navigate the transformational potential of AI while building awareness of optimal use cases, limitations and risks. Participants explore practical frameworks for integrating AI into management and decision-making processes and develop responsible AI governance structures that balance innovation with ethical and regulatory considerations. The programme enables decision-makers to drive human-centred AI transformation with critical understanding and confidence - defining the what, where, how and who of implementation opportunities for strategic value creation in their own organisation.”
Dr Dorottya Sallai, Associate Professor (Education) of Management

Programme content

Key topics

How you learn

AI in Management is a comprehensive and experiential learning journey that walks you through the foundations of AI, change leadership and responsible, strategic integration. You explore the most critical issues, opportunities and implantation challenges through an admixture of real-world case studies, hands-on exercises, expert lectures, practical workshops and interactive simulations using AI tools. Working with other senior decision makers from a diversity of industries and organisation, you are challenged to apply theoretical concepts and frameworks to real-word challenges in dynamic faculty-led sessions. Your learning culminating in a project that showcases your new understanding of AI leadership principles, and that can be leveraged to help meet your own specific organisational goals and challenges.

Who attends?

AI in Management convenes senior decision makers from diverse industries who want to master the concepts and frameworks to lead and scale responsible AI-powered transformation in their organisations.

Participants include:

  • Senior executives and C-suite leaders
  • Heads of strategy, digital transformation, and innovation
  • Business unit leaders responsible for AI implementation
  • Board members seeking strategic understanding of AI
  • Emerging senior leaders advancing into strategic roles

Why LSE?

LSE delivers the integrated strategic and tactical understanding that you need to see the connections, join the dots and take decisive action in our fast-evolving, digitally disrupted world. We challenge you to see the big picture even as you focus in on the detail; to balance the broader complexities of responsible, ethical and compliant integration, even as you pinpoint specific opportunities to implement and scale AI technologies within your organisation. At LSE, you explore the big ideas, the evidence-backed frameworks and you master practical strategies and tools to accelerate productivity, create value and drive sustained and sustainable competitive advantage in crowded, volatile and constantly evolving markets.

Faculty

Dorottya Sallai

Dr Dorottya Sallai

Associate Professor (Education) of Management

Edgar Whitley

Professor Edgar Whitley

Professor of Information Systems, Department of Management

Aaron Cheng

Dr Aaron Cheng

Assistant Professor of Information Systems

Department overview

The Department of Management at LSE is a world-class centre for research and education in business and management, that draws fully on the LSE tradition of inter-disciplinary academic excellence. Ranked #5 worldwide for social sciences and management by the QS World University Rankings (2023) and #2 in the UK by percentage of overall four and three star in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), the department informs and inspires the very best in management in practice by challenging and enhancing understanding of people, teams, organisations and markets, as well as the economic, psychological, social, political and technological contexts in which they operate worldwide. 

Fees and entry requirements

Tuition fee: £7,750

This covers all tuition, course materials, daily lunches and networking events. You will receive an LSE certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Entry requirements

All LSE executive education participants are required to have:

  • Fluency in English.
  • A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s).
  • Minimum five years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience, but we will consider those with less experience who have enjoyed an accelerated career path to a senior level.

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