Master Certificate in AI-Enabled Leadership & Business Transformation
- Overview
- Academics
- What You'll Learn
Develop the leadership vision, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills to drive AI-enabled transformation across your organization. Learn how to lead teams and functions through AI-driven change, build and evolve business models in response to emerging technologies, and inspire the organizational commitment needed to sustain transformation at scale. Combine AI management fluency with the frameworks of transformational leadership, strategic business model thinking, and creative innovation to position yourself as the leader your organization needs in an era defined by artificial intelligence.
About MSU's Broad College of Business
Founded in 1855 on the ideals of democratization of knowledge, Michigan State University (MSU) is an inclusive, internationally recognized university with a mission of advancing knowledge and transforming lives. Michigan State University Online is the home to online programs from MSU's Eli Broad College of Business. These flexible programs are offered in a variety of structures and formats and designed for working professionals. Through the convenience of online, video-based e-learning with the added value of face-to-face networking in select programs, you can gain applicable industry knowledge and learn from the faculty thought leaders at one of the top research universities in the world.
Curriculum
Curriculum
- Understand how AI and machine learning are reshaping team workflows, roles, and daily operations — and learn practical leadership approaches to support team adaptation and maintain performance through change
- Explore strategies for building AI literacy, addressing resistance, and motivating teams through the adoption of new tools and ways of working using proven frameworks including Kolb's Learning Styles and Tuckman's team development model
- Learn how to evaluate AI opportunities at an organizational level, identify business problems suited to AI solutions, and build the cases needed to gain alignment across leadership and frontline teams
- Develop structured approaches for planning and implementing AI initiatives, overcoming bias and resistance, and scaling AI across teams with sustainable governance and continuous improvement frameworks
- Understand how organizations create, evaluate, and evolve their business models in response to AI-driven market disruption, changing competitive dynamics, and emerging technology opportunities
- Explore strategic frameworks for assessing business model viability, identifying where AI creates or threatens competitive advantage, and designing strategies that drive sustainable value in a technology-shaped landscape
- Learn how transformational leaders inspire organizational change, build commitment across stakeholder groups, and sustain momentum through complex, technology-driven transformations
- Develop the communication strategies, leadership behaviors, and cultural tools needed to articulate a compelling vision, foster innovation, and guide your organization through the human side of AI-enabled change
- Explore the cognitive frameworks, habits of mind, and creative problem-solving tools that enable leaders to generate novel ideas, challenge assumptions, and approach AI transformation challenges from unexpected angles
- Build the creative thinking capacity to move beyond reactive responses to change — developing the mindset that separates leaders who adapt to AI disruption from those who shape it
What You'll Learn
- Can identify AI opportunities across business functions and evaluate their strategic implications — assessing where AI creates competitive advantage, where it introduces risk, and how it reshapes organizational priorities and business models.
- Apply practical leadership frameworks for leading teams and organizations through AI-driven change, supporting workforce adaptation, and building the commitment and cultural readiness needed to sustain transformation at scale.
- Understand how to develop, evaluate, and evolve business models in response to AI-driven market disruption — applying structured strategic frameworks to assess viability, identify opportunities, and design strategies that create sustainable value.
- Can apply transformational and visionary leadership behaviors to inspire organizational change, build stakeholder alignment, and maintain momentum through the complexity and resistance that AI-enabled transformation inevitably produces.
- Understand how agile thinking, design thinking, innovation strategy, and continuous improvement practices contribute to successful AI implementation — and how to create the organizational conditions in which these approaches can take root and grow.
- Can apply creative problem-solving frameworks and habits of mind to generate novel approaches to AI transformation challenges — moving beyond reactive responses to disruption and developing the capacity to shape change rather than simply adapt to it.
- Understand how responsible AI principles, governance frameworks, and ethical leadership practices apply at the organizational level — and how visionary leaders set the tone for accountable, transparent, and human-centered AI adoption across their organizations.
Program Details
- DegreeCertificate
- FormatOnline
- InstructionInstructor Led
- Courses5
- Credit Hours13.5 CEUs
- Duration20 weeks
- Weekly5 hours