Turn AI into ROI:
Build leaders
who deliver impact
AI is the next electricity. Are you ready?
AI isn’t just another tech trend – it’s a step change as profound as electricity or the internet. It’s already transforming how we work, decide, compete, and grow.
Digital and AI transformation is no longer optional;
it is a competitive necessity.
- GenAI investment will reach $644B in 2025 (+76% YoY).
- Yet 70% of digital transformations underperform – most leaders fail to capture value.
- ROI is proven: $1 invested in AI delivers $3.5 on average; top quartile achieve $8 ROI.
- Speed is accelerating: 2 in 5 firms deploy AI in less than six months.
For CxOs and HR leaders, the question is no longer if to adopt AI – it’s whether you can lead it fast, responsibly, and at scale.
This is a once-in-a-generation shift. Lead with AI now – or risk falling behind for good.
AI success starts with leadership
For HR and leaders, this means preparing talent to thrive in a future where digital fluency and AI capabilities are essential to competitiveness and long-term value creation.
IMD bridges the gap: Linking strategic vision with the tools, innovation, and leadership mindset to deliver measurable organizational impact.
The businesses leading with AI are unlocking faster growth, sharper decision-making, and new sources of competitive advantage. They’re not just improving efficiency — they’re driving innovation, attracting top talent, and reshaping their industries. Embracing AI isn’t optional — it’s the difference between setting the pace and struggling to keep up.
Michael Wade
TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital and
Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation
IMD combines world-class open, custom, and online programs with co-creation at scale.
Transforming Securitas with strategy and leadership
IMD partnered with Securitas to drive a company-wide transformation — from traditional guarding to tech-enabled protective services.
What IMD did:
- Co-created a 5-year strategic roadmap through deep diagnostics and global leadership workshops
- Developed a tailored executive program to align senior leaders and activate change
- Guided implementation of six core strategic priorities — from innovation to brand repositioning
- Supported transformation through major milestones, including the $3.2B Stanley Security acquisition
The impact:
- 60% increase in tech-enabled revenue
- 130,000+ client sites digitalized
- 37% growth in sales per employee
- 72% rise in brand value
IMD helped turn Securitas’s vision into a scalable, measurable reality.
IMD’s AI programs
AI learning that delivers strategy, not just theory
Whether you’re building individual AI capabilities or driving enterprise-wide transformation, our AI programs deliver results.
Our open programs help leaders quickly gain the skills to apply AI in real-world business contexts. For organizations, our custom programs are built around your strategy, tailored to different leadership levels, and designed to scale.
Every program blends practical experimentation with strategic insight — ensuring AI learning turns into measurable business impact.
Turn knowledge into impact
with our AI open programs
Rooted in our deep AI expertise, our portfolio of open programs is designed to accelerate executive learning and drive real results. You will walk away with actionable roadmaps, tailored strategies, and the confidence to lead AI transformation in your organization — safely, ethically, and at scale. Whether you’re just starting or scaling AI, our courses turn complexity into clarity.
Custom AI programs,
built for your organization
We create AI programs tailored to your strategic goals, business context, and leadership needs.
Personalized by role, region, and readiness, our approach blends immersive in-person sessions for senior leaders with flexible virtual delivery for broader teams — ensuring a practical, scalable path to enterprise-wide AI transformation.
IMD AI and digital transformation programs deliver high value. Attending these programs transformed me with new skills and a fresh mindset. You give back high value to your company because you become an incubator for new knowledge and direction.
Olaf Komitsch
Chief Procurement Officer, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Learn what works, leverage best practices and get evidence-based advice from one of the pioneers in AI Innovation. Here are some examples of our thought leadership:
Behind the hype around AI, which companies are making real progress with it? Our research attempts to answer that question. The AI Maturity Index ranks 200 of the world’s leading companies.
IMD’s faculty combine deep AI expertise with real-world impact. Published in top journals, advising global companies on AI strategy, ethics, and transformation. At IMD, you don’t just learn about AI — you learn from the award-winning experts shaping its future.
TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation
The TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation delivers actionable insights and proven best practices to help executives lead successful digital and AI transformations. Through world-class research and real-world analysis, the Center empowers leaders to move beyond theory — identifying what works, what doesn’t, and how to scale impact. These insights directly inform IMD’s digital and AI programs, ensuring individuals and organizations are equipped to turn opportunity into measurable results.
The Center’s focus:
and bring learning to life
AI is not just a topic we teach — it’s a tool we use to transform how leaders learn.
We start by gaining a deep understanding of your organization, using both human insight and AI-enabled diagnostics to map your unique challenges, goals, and context. This allows us to design a custom learning journey that’s tightly aligned to your strategy and adaptable to your leadership levels.
Our learning experiences are personalized and scalable — with AI helping us track progress, tailor content in real time, and support different learning paths across global teams.
Throughout the journey, we integrate AI tools that enhance, not replace, the human experience — enabling safe experimentation, feedback loops, and reflection. The result: learning that’s immersive, relevant, and designed for real-world impact.
Our breakthroughs deliver:
EPFL and IMD – a powerful partnership for the AI age
We collaborate closely with EPFL, one of the world’s leading science and technology institutions, to deliver impactful learning experiences at the intersection of AI, technology, and business leadership. This partnership brings together EPFL’s deep technical expertise with IMD’s strength in executive education and strategic application. Whether through open-enrolment programs or bespoke learning journeys, our joint initiatives help leaders not only understand emerging AI technologies — including GenAI and agentic AI — but also translate them into concrete business strategies and organizational transformation. Together, we ensure that participants gain both the technical fluency, and the business insight needed to lead confidently in the age of AI.
