AI Courses for Leaders and Executives

AI courses for executives, managers and decision-makers cover leading an organization's use of AI: strategy, adoption, governance and change. The subject also includes a leader's own use of AI, and knowing what it can and cannot be trusted with. The courses are about leading and using AI, not engineering it; where one includes hands-on building, such as setting up a simple agent, its own page says so.

Every course here is written at least partly for people who lead. Across the page, readers range from executives and senior finance leaders to managers, team leads and the owners of small businesses; where a course also serves other readers, such as analysts or compliance staff, its own page says who. Between them, the courses cover deciding where AI is worth applying and whether a project justifies its cost, getting people and processes ready, answering the resistance and anxiety that change brings, setting AI policy and oversight, and using AI in a leader's own work. Where a course is written for one sector or function, its own page says so. AI Strategy & Adoption is defined by subject instead: courses mainly about deciding, planning and running an organization's adoption of AI, for whoever owns that work. A course appears on both pages when it fits both.

Courses for Leaders & Executives

27 courses.

AI Business Strategy for Leaders & Managers: ChatGPT, ML, DL

Udemy

PaidBeginner

AI Fluency for Small Businesses

Anthropic

FreeBeginner

AI Strategy and Leadership in Finance

CPA Australia

PaidIntermediate

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy

DataCamp

PaidBeginner

Artificial Intelligence Governance

DataCamp

PaidBeginner

Building a Generative AI-Ready Organization

AWS Skill Builder

FreeBeginner

Building effective human-agent teams (beta)

Anthropic

FreeBeginner

Empower your workforce with Microsoft Copilot: Executives

Microsoft Learn

FreeBeginner

Explore the business value of generative AI solutions

Microsoft Learn

FreeBeginner

GenAI governance blueprint microcourse

CA ANZ

PaidIntermediate

GenAI Implementation and Change Management

ICAEW

PaidIntermediate

GenAI in Business Strategy & Risk Management

ICAEW

PaidIntermediate

GenAI in Corporate Governance and Board Strategy

ICAEW

PaidIntermediate

Generative AI for Business

DataCamp

PaidBeginner

Generative AI for Executives

AWS Skill Builder

FreeBeginner

Generative AI for Leaders

Coursera (Vanderbilt University)

Free to auditBeginner

Generative AI Leader Certification

Google Skills

Beginner

Implementing AI Solutions in Business

DataCamp

PaidBeginner

Key considerations for successful Generative AI adoption

The Open University

FreeBeginner

Monetizing Artificial Intelligence

DataCamp

PaidBeginner

Navigating risk management

The Open University

FreeBeginner

Planning a Generative AI Project

AWS Skill Builder

FreeBeginner

Planning a Machine Learning Project

AWS Skill Builder

FreeBeginner

Planning for GenAI implementation in finance microcourse

CA ANZ

PaidIntermediate

The AI-Ready CPA: Leading Finance Through Change

AICPA & CIMA

PaidBeginner

Understanding legal regulation and compliance

The Open University

FreeBeginner

Use cases for Generative AI

The Open University

FreeBeginner

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a technical background to take an AI leadership course?
No. The courses on this page are about leading and using AI, not engineering it. Where a course expects technical knowledge or code, its own page says so.
Are these courses for managers, or only for senior executives?
Managers as well. This page covers anyone who leads a team's or an organization's use of AI, from a board member to a team lead or the owner of a small business. Each course's page says who it was written for, which is the quickest way to tell a boardroom course from one built for a manager running a team.
How is this page different from AI Strategy & Adoption?
This page is defined by audience: courses written for people who lead, on leading an organization's use of AI or using AI in their own role. AI Strategy & Adoption is defined by subject: courses mainly about deciding, planning and running an organization's adoption of AI, for whoever owns that work. A course that is both appears on both.

Key concepts

The foundational terms these courses build on — each chip links to a plain-English definition in the AI Pinnacle glossary.