Master the new leadership reality
Leading Teams in the AI Era
Master the new leadership reality
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 learn to strengthen human judgement, realign team roles and ways of working, rewire their leadership to create more value with AI, and build and lead teams of AI agents.
Participants leave equipped to lead people, organize work, and create value differently in the age of AI, with concrete actions to put into practice across their team and organization.
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1AI for me: Leading against cognitive surrender
- Examine the tensions that emerge between value creation at the level of the individual and at the level of the team once AI becomes part of daily work.
- Recognize the early signs of cognitive surrender and the abdication of leadership, and build the habits that help you prevent both.
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2AI for each of us: Realigning teams for high performance
- Diagnose how team dynamics shift when members have access to AI and use it to very different degrees.
- Realign roles, norms, and working agreements so that your team operates at a high-performing level now that AI is available to everyone.
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3AI for all of us: Rewiring your leadership
- Map your key leadership activities and identify where AI can help you create greater value.
- Rewire your leadership so your team can create more value with AI built into how the work gets done.
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4AI With us: Building and leading your own team of agents
- Learn how to build a swarm of agents that works as your own team of AIs, with each agent taking a defined role.
- Use the swarm to approach more complex problems than you or your team could handle alone, and practice leading it as you would lead any other team.
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5AI beyond us: Putting the pieces together
- Bring together what you learned across the four previous sessions into one coherent view of how you lead in the age of AI.
- Create an action plan for you, your team, and your organization that commits you to concrete steps in the coming months.
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.
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 at IMD, where he teaches, researches, and advises executives on how organizations can use artificial intelligence to solve real problems and unlock lasting growth.
His academic foundations lie in data science, algorithms, and analytics, yet his research increasingly centers on what he considers the most consequential yet least understood dimension of the AI transformation: people. Parra Moyano studies how executives can lead AI adoption to…
José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy at IMD, where he teaches, researches, and advises executives on how organizations can use artificial intelligence to solve real problems and unlock lasting growth.
His academic foundations lie in data science, algorithms, and analytics, yet his…
José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy at IMD, where he teaches, researches, and advises executives on how organizations can use artificial intelligence to solve real problems and unlock lasting growth.
His academic foundations lie in…
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
