Master the new leadership reality
Leading Teams in the AI Era
Master the new leadership reality
The role of the leader is evolving: Some responsibilities are losing relevance, while new expectations are emerging. Leading people, teams, and organizations that now include both humans and AI is not a technology problem. It’s a leadership one.
Leading Teams in the AI Era gives senior leaders and managers a rigorous, practice-based answer to a critical question: what does effective leadership look like when AI is part of the team? Over five intensive sessions, participants map their own leadership role against this new reality, engage in simulations with AI team members, build practical frameworks for managing AI-enabled teams, and leave with tools they can apply immediately.
The result is a cohort of leaders who are fluent in AI and also equipped to lead the people and systems AI creates around them.
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1AI for me: Rewiring the leader
- Identify which leadership tasks stay valuable, which disappear, and which newly emerge.
- Build a personal map of what to stop, start, and adapt.
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2AI for each of us: Leading teams where AI use is uneven
- Diagnose how team dynamics shift when AI use varies across members.
- Role model the disclosure practices that make AI use visible, shared, and productive within the team.
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3AI for all of us: AI as an observer of team dynamics
- Deploy AI as an observer of team dynamics.
- Translate its feedback into concrete leadership interventions that improve how the team works together.
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4AI With us: Leading when AI has the answers
- Engage in a simulation involving high-stakes decisions, with AI playing the role of a full team member.
- Identify the specific conditions under which the leader must trust the AI’s recommendation or override it.
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5AI beyond us: Leading toward the AI future
- Identify which skills to build, cultivate, and retire, within the possible set of futures that AI now makes available.
- Build a personal that commits you to an agentic path for your chosen future along with your team and organization.
Mid-to-senior managers responsible for team performance who need a rigorous framework to lead in environments where AI is already reshaping how their teams work.
Building leadership capacity around AI and looking for a program that addresses what most AI trainings leave out.
Executives who have led the technology transformation and now need leaders to build the human layer that makes it stick.
Experienced leaders in knowledge-intensive roles who feel the pressure of AI and actively seek clarity on how their role must evolve.
Schedule overview
All live sessions are recorded and will be available for replay on the learning platform.
Program Director
“What matters is not whether humans and AI collaborate, but how they do it. The quality of that partnership determines everything. It depends on leaders who understand what AI can solve today, how to manage the complexity it creates, and how to lead people through what none of us have faced before.“
José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy. He focuses on the management and economics of data and privacy and how firms can create sustainable value in the digital economy. An award-winning teacher, he also founded his own successful startup, was appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community of young people driving change, was named on Poets&Quants’ 2026 Best 40 Under 40 Graduate Business Professors list and on the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list of outstanding young…
José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy. He focuses on the management and economics of data and privacy and how firms can create sustainable value in the digital economy. An award-winning teacher, he also founded his own successful startup, was appointed to the World Economic Forum’s…
José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy. He focuses on the management and economics of data and privacy and how firms can create sustainable value in the digital economy. An award-winning teacher, he also founded his own successful…
Contributing faculty
Ina Toegel is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, her work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an economist at the World Bank – an atypical background which means she adopts an interdisciplinary approach in her work. Meanwhile, her strong interest in the creative industries inspires her to…
Ina Toegel is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, her work focuses on how to build and sustain high-performance teams. She started her career as an…
Ina Toegel is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change. Named one of the top business school professors globally by Poets&Quants, which included her on its ‘Best 40 under 40’ list in 2021, her work focuses on how to build and sustain…
Contributing faculty
Murat Tarakci is Professor of Innovation Strategy at IMD. His research focuses on the social and psychological foundations of innovation and strategy, examining how organizations adapt to and shape their environments.
Tarakci’s work highlights that winning strategies stem from individuals and teams who think, feel, and care. Hence, understanding why strategies thrive or fail must consider individuals’ cognition, emotion, and motivation. His work also aims to create a positive impact by helping…
Murat Tarakci is Professor of Innovation Strategy at IMD. His research focuses on the social and psychological foundations of innovation and strategy, examining how organizations adapt to and shape their environments.
Tarakci’s work highlights that winning strategies stem from individuals and teams…
Murat Tarakci is Professor of Innovation Strategy at IMD. His research focuses on the social and psychological foundations of innovation and strategy, examining how organizations adapt to and shape their environments.
Tarakci’s work highlights that…
What is IMD Sprint?
IMD Sprint is a fast-paced online learning program delivered in short, highly engaging sessions. Each Sprint includes faculty-led, live virtual sessions (approx. 4 x 1h per week) as well as high quality pre-recorded multimedia content you can watch at your own pace. The total time commitment is approx. 1-2 hours per day over 1 or 2 weeks, depending on the Sprint. You receive IMD certification on successful completion.
How a Sprint works
After registration, you’ll gain access to IMD online learning portal to set up your profile and complete any necessary pre-work. On the program start date, you’ll be able to access the links to the live virtual sessions, review pre-recorded materials, engage with fellow participants, and work on your project (if applicable).
Interact with faculty and guest speakers
Engage with high-quality content, available to watch at your own pace
Gain insights from your cohort
Turn learning into your own action plan
