Lead for Connection: Build Your Social Capital Strategy in the Age of AI

Chicago Booth School of Business

Artificial Intelligence Programs

About Programme

Harness the human advantage to lead, influence, and inspire in an AI-powered world.

Lead for Connection: Build Your Social Capital Strategy in the Age of AI is designed for leaders who recognize that the future of work will be shaped not only by advances in technology, but by the strength of the relationships that drive collaboration, trust, and organizational performance.

Drawing on pioneering Chicago Booth research, this three-day program explores how human, social, and AI capital work together to create lasting organizational value. Through research-based insights, organizational network analysis, practical tools, and peer discussion, you will learn how to cultivate stronger collaboration, build more resilient networks, and lead effectively in a workplace where humans and intelligent systems increasingly work side by side.

Based on Social Capital at Work: Building the Hidden Asset that Drives Trust, Engagement, and Performance (Simon Acumen, 2026) and co-delivered by authors John Burrows and Seth Rachlin, this program translates the book's research and evidence-based framework into practical strategies leaders can immediately apply within their organizations.

This program serves as an elective to:

Advanced Management Program

Programme Content

Human Connection and Social Capital in the Age of AI

Explore how AI is reshaping work, leadership, and organizational performance

Understand the relationship between human, social, and AI capital

Examine where AI can strengthen—or erode—trust, collaboration, and shared context

Learn why organizational performance depends on technology and relationships working together

Social Capital Through Networks

Learn the fundamentals of organizational network analysis (ONA)

Map formal and informal networks within your organization

Identify silos, hidden influencers, structural gaps, and single points of failure

Assess where social capital is strongest—and where it is most vulnerable

The Eight Plays of Social Capital

Apply the first four Plays to strengthen relationships, influence, and connection

Learn how organizations intentionally create trust, collaboration, and serendipity

Leverage the second four Plays to make social capital a strategic asset and address real organizational challenges.

Boards, Deals, and Organizational Influence

Understand boards as networks of relationships and influence

Explore how social capital shapes governance and decision-making

Examine the role of networks in M&A success and integration

Apply social-capital insights to organizational and leadership challenges

Belonging and Measuring Impact

Learn approaches for managing and measuring social capital

Connect social capital to engagement, belonging, collaboration, and performance

Build a business case for investing in organizational relationships

Leading Human + AI Systems

Design workflows that leverage AI while preserving accountability and trust

Create decision-making processes that maintain judgment and shared context

Establish norms that strengthen collaboration in AI-enabled workplaces

Learn where AI should—and should not—sit within critical workflows

From Insight to Action

Develop a personalized 90-day action plan

Receive peer and faculty feedback on your priorities

Translate program insights into measurable business outcomes

Activate a network of peers committed to strengthening social capital

Programme Objective

By attending this program, you will explore key themes in:

Understand the Future Workforce Examine how AI is reshaping work, decision-making, and organizational dynamics—and where human connection becomes a competitive advantage.

Diagnose Your Organization's Social Capital Apply the authors' Eight Plays framework and organizational network analysis to identify trust gaps, silos, key influencers, and hidden organizational risks.

Design Stronger Networks Learn how to build the relationships, bridges, and collaborative structures that improve coordination, innovation, and performance.

Lead Human + AI Systems Effectively Develop approaches for integrating AI into workflows while preserving accountability, judgment, shared context, and trust.

Turn Insight into Action Create a personalized 90-day action plan to strengthen social capital and improve outcomes within your team or organization.

Expand Your Executive Network Build lasting relationships with peers facing similar leadership, workforce, and transformation challenges.

Programme Audience

Mid to senior leaders seeking to strengthen trust, collaboration, and organizational performance in an AI-enabled workplace. Participants typically include business unit leaders, functional executives, HR and talent leaders, transformation leaders, strategy executives, and managers responsible for leading teams through change.

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