Ram Shivakumar
Adjunct Professor of Economics and Strategy
Ram Shivakumar
The AI-Ready Leader
Turn AI ambition into enterprise value.
Next Session
May 26-May 28, 2026
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Location/Format
In Person
Gleacher Center, Chicago
Investment Fee (in USD)
$9,000 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Next Session
May 26-May 28, 2026
View All Dates
Location/Format
In Person
Gleacher Center, Chicago
Investment Fee (in USD)
$9,000 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
The AI-Ready Leader equips executives with the strategic insight, practical frameworks, and leadership capabilities required to thrive in the era of artificial intelligence.
In this immersive program, you’ll explore the art, craft, and science of leading organizations through rapid technological transformation. You’ll gain the clarity and confidence to integrate AI into business strategy, drive innovation responsibly, and cultivate teams that can adapt and excel in an AI-enabled world.
Designed for forward-thinking leaders, this program empowers you to turn AI from concept to competitive advantage—positioning your organization for sustained growth in a time of unprecedented change.
This program serves as an elective to:
- Diagnose how AI presents a challenge and creates opportunity for your company
- Audit your organization to assess bottlenecks and capability gaps
- Identify the most promising AI-related projects
- Develop an Operational AI Governance framework
Who Should Attend
Senior executives and experienced leaders across functions—including C-suite executives, business unit and functional heads, finance and non-finance specialists, consultants, private equity operators, and venture investors—who are driving strategic decisions and enterprise growth.
Download the program brochure for in-depth insights into who should attend, participant profiles, and the ideal candidate.
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Program Outline
- Examine how AI is transforming industries and competition, and assess the opportunities and risks for your organization.
- Determine which AI-native business models can strengthen your strategic position.
- Separate signal from noise to focus on what truly matters.
- Evaluate your organization’s readiness to adopt and scale AI.
- Analyze your value chain to identify constraints that limit AI's impact.
- Address the gap between your organization's current capabilities and its AI ambitions.
- Examine how AI initiatives connect to your company’s vision and enterprise strategy.
- Define where AI can meaningfully impact performance and outcomes.
- Ensure investments are tied to measurable value creation.
- Identify the most promising AI-related initiatives for your context.
- Focus resources on scalable, enterprise-relevant opportunities.
- Evaluate tradeoffs and sequence investments strategically.
- Identify factors that determine whether AI pilots scale successfully.
- Understand the cultural and leadership shifts required to support AI-driven strategy.
- Extend your influence and credibility to drive enterprise transformation in emerging technologies.
- Address change management, accountability, and cross-functional alignment.
- Apply insights from a personalized Hogan assessment to lead high-stakes initiatives more effectively.
- Develop governance structures that enable innovation while protecting enterprise integrity.
- Define human oversight and accountability in AI decisions.
Upcoming Sessions
Program dates are subject to change.
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