Kellogg School of Management

Mastering the Human-AI Partnership

Kellogg School of Management

Leadership

About Programme

AI is reshaping every dimension of business. From strategy execution, innovations in technology and decision-making, processes are constantly in disruption. Yet while AI evolves at rapid speed, people and organizations do not. The real leadership challenge isn’t mastering new tools – it’s developing the judgment and frameworks to ethically implement these resources and smoothly integrate human and machine intelligence.

Mastering the Human-AI Partnership equips executives to lead confidently amid technological disruption by building the necessary skills to determine where AI creates value — and where it can mislead. Participants will better understand modern AI (including generative AI), apply practical frameworks to identify and vet high-impact use cases and sharpen the ability to calibrate trust, accuracy, and oversight in business decisions.

The program also explores responsibility and execution, and how to close the gap between AI’s potential and real gains. Leaders will examine the ethical, societal and organizational implications of AI (privacy, bias, transparency and accountability), then put those insights to work through a hands-on, no-code agentic AI lab and an adoption-focused capstone. Participants will leave the program with clear answers to questions about using AI with customers, teams and vendors, and a concrete AI strategic roadmap for adoption that is value-creating, responsible, measurable and competitive.

Programme Content

Master the Strategic Foundations of AI Build the foundation: what AI is, how it works and where it adds value. Learn to separate signals from noise and prioritize high-return opportunities.

Strengthen Human Judgment in Human–AI Workflows Use experiments to clarify what humans still do better than machines, then apply the 3 A’s lens to decide when AI should automate, answer or advise — and where leaders must retain decision ownership.

Calibrate Trust and Prevent Overreliance Recognize where AI outputs are compelling but fragile, anticipate failures and specify human controls (roles, checks, decision rights) that protect accountability while improving speed and quality.

Lead AI Adoption with Confidence Apply practical frameworks to vet opportunities, mitigate risks and integrate AI into core business processes with measurable impact — from pilot to scale.

Govern and Communicate AI Responsibly Navigate the ethical, regulatory and organizational challenges of AI implementation to build frameworks that promote transparency, trust and sustainable change across the enterprise.

Programme Audience

C-suite leaders and general managers and seeking to embed AI into their organization’s strategy and operations
Mid- to senior-level executives responsible for driving application and outcomes
Transformation, innovation, analytics and product leaders tasked with leading cross-functional AI initiatives
Risk, legal, compliance and governance leaders shaping responsible AI policies and oversight
Consultants and investors shaping AI-driven business models and advising clients on enterprise transformation

Programme Benefits

Differentiate where AI creates advantage vs. noise, and recognize its capability limits to prioritize investments
Decide when AI should automate, answer or advise, and where leaders must retain judgment — by clarifying what humans still do better than bots
Stress-test AI outputs and agentic workflows, diagnose failure modes and design human-in-the-loop controls that calibrate trust
Construct a responsible adoption plan from pilot to scale and leave with a presentation-ready roadmap for immediate use

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