Leadership Program in AI and Analytics

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Sharpen your data-driven skills to make informed decisions, leverage AI/ML to analyze business growth, conduct experiments, and drive growth strategies to meet your organizational goals.

The AI Landscape: A Brief History of AI to the Present - Live Online (This module includes a required faculty-led interactive live online session and a required activity.)

Market Insights with AI: Transforming Observational Data into Strategic Decisions

Data-Driven Experimentation: Optimizing Strategies with A/B Testing

Leverage AI to understand growth parameters and potential pitfalls of your organization’s strategies, identify structured data from unstructured data, and make decisions based on data-driven business forecasts.

AI and ML for Business: Core Concepts for Leaders

Driving Strategy through AI and Machine Learning

GenAI and Large Language Models: How They Work

Effective Decision Making: Deep Learning and Prediction

GenAI and Reinforcement Learning

Understand how to use AI responsibly to build trust, foster innovation, and navigate biases. Explore the legal and ethical implications of AI usage and gain knowledge of regulation laws, including General Data Protection Regulation and data privacy laws, to prevent privacy violations and discrimination.

Transformer Models and Natural Language Processing

AI and ML: Understanding and Mitigating Bias

Defending the Decision: Interpreting AI and ML Output

Navigating Legal and Regulatory Barriers to AI - Live Online (This module includes a required faculty-led interactive live online session and real-world case studies.)

The Impact of AI/ML on the Workforce

Integrate data and AI into your organization for effective decision making and a culture of adaptability. Explore strategies to harness data-driven insights and technologies to enhance the decision-making process, optimize operations, and drive innovation while building a robust data-driven ecosystem.

Building Data Analytics Capabilities

Driving the Analytic Mindset Forward

As an executive leading AI in your organization, it is essential that you inspire a team that can understand your vision and be ready to make an impact. The required short course Leading and Managing High-Impact Teams will elevate your learning experience and equip you with the leadership skills to inspire and motivate your team and drive enterprise-level transformation. Over six weeks, you will build the core competencies needed to engage global team members, win stakeholder support, and craft a winning leadership strategy.

In addition to live interactive faculty-led modules, the program features a series of live webinars on generative AI (genAI), offering you the latest developments and practical insights on cutting-edge AI technologies and tools. These transformative webinars enhance your understanding of genAI-driven innovation and efficiency. Join industry leaders and experienced Wharton faculty for in-depth interviews and thoughtful lectures on the rapidly evolving genAI landscape, including effective communication methods with large language models (LLMs), the evolution and progress of ChatGPT, and challenges in adopting genAI systems and their possible resolutions, and discussions about hands-on use cases of LLMs. Stay ahead of the curve and elevate your genAI expertise by attending live webinars on the latest LLM advancements.

LLMs: Foundations: Build a clear understanding of how large language models work and what enables them to generate human-like insights, content, and decisions at scale.

Scaling, Competition, and the LLM Ecosystem: Examine how advances in scale, data, and competition are accelerating model capabilities and reshaping the AI landscape

Balancing Cost and Quality in AI: Learn how to evaluate trade-offs between performance, cost, and speed when deploying AI solutions in real-world business contexts.

Enterprise Challenges with LLMs: Understand the key barriers to adoption, including trust, bias, reliability, and organizational readiness — and how leaders can navigate them.

LLM Agents and the Future of Work: Discover how AI is moving beyond chat to autonomous systems that can plan, act, and integrate with tools — and what this shift means for organizations.

Note: The sessions topics and schedule are subject to change.

Meet your cohort peers and faculty in person on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia at an optional two-day recognition ceremony and networking event*. This event enables you to network with not just your peers but also professionals from other cohorts and to create a lifelong community of global executives. The networking event is generally held within six to nine months from the date of completion of the program.

Note: *A registration fee of US$250 is applicable.

The Leadership Program in AI and Analytics from Wharton Executive Education is designed for nontechnical senior executives who want to build a deeper understanding of AI, machine learning, and analytics to drive business impact. It is ideal for:

Senior-level executives seeking to leverage AI and emerging technologies to transform business operations, improve performance, and strengthen strategic decision making

C-suite leaders looking to gain an understanding of AI and AI-driven applications to make informed decisions and amplify their strategic influence

Emerging leaders actively refining their approaches to navigate disruption and prepare for the future of AI in business

Innovation champions exploring new ideas and AI machine learning initiatives to drive real-world organizational change

This program is not the right fit if you are:

An AI or machine learning practitioner seeking advanced model development or deep technical coursework

A data scientist leading mature data and AI organizations, looking for hands-on coding, algorithm design, or research-focused content

An AI leader already operating at scale and well versed in deploying and managing production models

Note: No technical or coding background is required. The program is designed for leadership-level engagement with AI.

Over six months, the Leadership Program in AI and Analytics will enable you to:

Leverage AI to analyze past business performance, forecast future trends, and inform enterprise-level strategic decisions

Apply program frameworks through a structured capstone to create an organization-specific AI roadmap

Interpret AI-driven insights to support leadership communication, alignment, and decision-making

Assess AI and machine learning approaches to guide innovation, investment priorities, and execution strategy

Evaluate AI-enabled business opportunities and risks to make informed, accountable leadership decisions

Navigate the legal, ethical, and regulatory considerations shaping responsible AI adoption

Create a practical, organization-specific strategy for integrating AI solutions to drive business value