AI-Enabled Business Development
Make AI Your Business Development Advantage
Business development is increasingly shaped by the ability to synthesize information quickly, identify high-value opportunities and engage prospects with insight and relevance. Artificial intelligence, particularly generative and agentic AI, has emerged as a powerful force multiplier across these activities, enabling business development professionals to move faster, work smarter and make more informed decisions.
AI-Enabled Business Development is a immersive executive program designed to help participants understand, apply and govern AI tools across the full business development lifecycle. Participants will explore how generative AI and agentic tools support research, prospect identification, consultative selling, pipeline analytics, competitive intelligence and executive communication. The program emphasizes practical application, with hands-on exercises using ChatGPT Agents to perform real business development tasks, from company research and lead scoring to opportunity forecasting and executive presentation development.
Throughout the program, participants also examine the ethical, governance and data consideration required to adopt AI responsibly and sustainably within business development contexts.
Program Details
Program Dates
July 29-30, 2026
Registration Deadline
July 15, 2026
Interest form stuff
Cost
$1,700 if you register by June 17, 2026
$1,950 if you register between June 18-July 15, 2026
Delivery Method
2 full days, on-campus
Prospective Participant Profile
This program is designed for professionals responsible for revenue growth, partnerships, and strategic opportunity development who want to leverage AI to enhance effectiveness and scale impact.
Typical participants include:
- Business development and growth leaders
- Sales and revenue operations leaders
- Strategy, partnerships, and corporate development professionals
- Consultants and client facing professionals
- Entrepreneurs and innovation leaders responsible for pipeline development
Participants benefit most if they are actively involved in identifying, shaping and advancing business opportunities and want practical, immediately applicable AI skills.
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand how generative AI and agentic AI tools work and where they create the most leverage in business development
- Use AI to identify and prioritize high fit prospects using signal based research and scoring frameworks
- Apply AI to consultative selling, personalized outreach, and stakeholder mapping
- Analyze pipelines and forecast opportunities using AI assisted analytics and scenario modeling
- Develop differentiated value propositions and competitive insights with AI support
- Translate complex analyses into clear, executive ready presentations
- Build an ethical and practical roadmap for AI adoption in business development workflows
Organizations benefit when business development teams:
- Accelerate research, prospecting and opportunity elevation
- Improve pipeline visibility and decision quality
- Deliver more relevant, insight-driven client engagement