AI Fluency Jumpstart: Leading with AI
Most AI programs teach leaders how to use AI. This one teaches them how to lead through it. Personal AI fluency is important, but leading with AI means setting direction, reshaping how the organization operates and guiding people through change. It is a leadership challenge first and a technology challenge second.
The program centers on four leadership imperatives for an AI-shaped world: reimagining value creation, building organizational capacity, leading cultural transformation and navigating the evolving AI ecosystem. Together, they help leaders move beyond isolated AI experiments to create lasting organizational impact. Learning alongside a cohort of senior leaders from diverse industries, participants will challenge assumptions, exchange insights and sharpen their thinking through peer discussion. The result is not just an understanding of AI's potential, but practical frameworks and the foundation of a transformation plan that can be applied immediately within their organization.
Program Details
Program Dates
October 12, 2026
Registration Deadline
September 28, 2026
Cost
$700 if you register by August 31
$950 if you register between September 1 - 28, 2026
Delivery Method
One full day, on-campus
Prospective Participant Profile
This program is designed for senior leaders responsible for setting AI direction and leading their organizations through the change, not for hands-on builders.
Typical participants include:
- C-suite executives and their leadership teams
- EVPs, SVPs, and business unit leaders
- Functional heads accountable for AI strategy and adoption in their domain
- Senior leaders sponsoring or steering enterprise AI transformation
- Board members and senior advisors who need the strategic frame
The common thread: participants own outcomes at the organizational level, and they are being asked to lead an AI transformation rather than execute a project.
Program Components
High-Level Program Topics
- Reimagining value creation: seeing where AI genuinely changes what your organization could offer and become, rather than only making current operations faster
- Architecting organizational capacity: the structures, talent, governance and infrastructure that turn AI from isolated pilots into a durable capability
- Leading the cultural transformation: modeling, guiding and sustaining adoption through the human side of change
- Navigating the AI ecosystem: positioning the organization and making sound decisions under constant uncertainty
Participants will learn to:
- Identify where AI meaningfully changes what their organization could become and build the case for it
- Build the organizational structures, talent, governance and infrastructure that let AI scale beyond pilots
- Lead people through the human side of AI change, from resistance to genuine adoption
- Position the organization in a fast-moving landscape and make sound decisions about where to build, buy or partner
At the conclusion of the program, you will be able to identify where AI can reshape value in your organization, architect the capacity to deliver it, lead your people through the transformation, navigate decisions under uncertainty, and carry a clear set of frameworks and a starting plan back to your leadership team.
Organizations benefit when their senior leaders can lead AI transformation deliberately rather than react to it. Outcomes may include: AI investment aimed at durable advantage rather than commodity efficiency, capacity that lets AI scale, cultural adoption that compounds over time, and positioning that holds up as the landscape shifts.
Program Faculty
Ravi Tenneti, Adjunct Lecturer, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
Business and technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading AI, digital, and business transformation initiatives across Fortune 100 and growth-stage companies. He serves on multiple industry councils and is an Adjunct Faculty member at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.