Leading AI Transformation — Change Management, Leadership and AI Adoption at Scale
David Betzold
Course Overview
Learn how to lead AI change in your organisation, unit or team: building an honest case for change, engaging stakeholders, listening to resistance, modelling the right behaviours, building skills and champions, and scaling on evidence. You finish with a decision-ready transformation plan for your sponsor or leadership team, made up of six parts: vision and business case; stakeholder map and communication plan; leadership behaviour commitments; skills and champions plan; governance outline; and scaling roadmap and measures.
Level: Intermediate
Who it’s for: Transformation leaders, senior managers, change agents, programme leads and executives responsible for leading change
Pacing: Self-paced, with a practical exercise in most lessons.
What you’ll learn:
- Explain what AI transformation involves beyond the technology
- Build a vision and a business case that are honest about uncertainty
- Engage stakeholders and treat resistance as information
- Choose and model the leadership behaviours that make change real
- Build skills, a champions network and a culture where people can learn safely
- Sponsor plain-language governance and scale on evidence
What You'll Learn?
- Build an honest case and vision for AI transformation
- Use change frameworks as lenses to find gaps in your plan
- Engage stakeholders and handle resistance and concerns
- Model the leadership behaviours that make change real
- Build skills, champions and a culture of safe experimentation
- Scale change in waves and watch for real behaviour change
- Transformation leaders, senior managers, change agents and programme leads
- Some experience leading teams or change initiatives
- Basic familiarity with generative AI
- An organisation or unit to apply the exercises to
