AI for Leaders (NEW)

Leadership experience

AI for Leaders

Shift your perspective from viewing AI as process enhancement to understanding it as workforce transformation. Move beyond the comfortable incrementalism of AI features to embrace the transformational potential of autonomous AI agents that own complete work. This is not an entry-level AI productivity course. AI for Leaders operates at the strategic leadership level, grounded in real business foundations, forcing high-level thinking, and delivering hands-on experience designing and working with AI agents tailored to your specific business context.

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2026 dates

AI for Leaders will run face-to-face over two days, on the following dates:

  • Intake 1: 28 – 29 May (750 Collins St, Docklands)
  • Intake 2: 15 –16 June (30 Collins St, Melbourne)
  • Intake 3: 16 – 17 July (30 Collins St, Melbourne)

Location

Melbourne CBD

Course fee

$3,750

Monash alumni and staff receive a 20% discount.

  • Monash staff: Contact us to receive your discount code.
  • Monash alumni: Visit the Alumni Portal to access your exclusive code.

Save on staff training with our Professional Development packs

Ready to plan your team's future? We've got short courses that suit all your needs.

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Who should attend

Senior leaders and executives who recognise that AI is not simply about doing existing work faster — it's about fundamentally rethinking what work looks like, who (or what) does it, and how organisations create value in a world where cognition is becoming a scalable resource.

Digital badging

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.

The Fundamental Choice

  • Distinguishing between the Three Realities of AI implementation — individual tools, embedded features, and autonomous agents
  • Establishing the strategic imperative for transformation over incremental optimisation
  • Shifting from "How can AI help us do this faster?" to "Why are we doing this the way we are at all?"

How Leaders Think

  • Analysing and redesigning high-cognitive work processes for AI agent ownership, targeting 5–10× performance improvements
  • Defining your autonomous agent team and drafting compelling value statements for AI agent implementation
  • Working with a personalised AI advisor grounded in your actual organisational challenges.

Achieving Expert-Level Performance

  • Capturing and transferring your organisation's expert knowledge to AI agents at scale
  • Identifying key experts and understanding their role in building expert-level AI capability
  • Experiencing first-hand the process of teaching an AI system your own professional judgment.

The Shift Underway

  • Understanding the possible futures and societal implications of the AI transformation
  • Building perspective on the speed of change, cognition at software scales, and the emergence of non-metabolic labour
  • Observing and articulating the risks of inaction across economic and organisational dimensions.

Your Strategic Opportunity

  • Evaluating your organisation's market reality and the postures available to it
  • Reframing your organisation's role from traditional operator to agent orchestrator
  • Identifying competitive advantages, critical timing windows, and the specific strategic conversations needed at the board level.

How you'll learn

This immersive program combines strategic frameworks with practical application to transform your understanding of AI in leadership.

  • Day 1 focuses on The Learner Modules, while day 2 shifts to The Leader Modules.
  • Engage with personalised AI agents and a pre-program conversational AI diagnostic.
  • Receive an overnight stress-test reflection and a post-program personalised AI Strategy document.
  • Participate through live experience sessions, hands-on AI collaboration, group discussion, and structured pre- and post-program activities.

Learning journey

Stage

Format

Timing

Details
Pre-program Online Prior to Day 1 Virtual kick-off session.
Complete AI diagnostic: Conversational diagnostic to establish role, organisational context, and strategic priorities.
In-person Session (Day 1) Expert-led with AI agent collaboration Day 1 The Learner Modules:
• The Fundamental Choice
• How Leaders Think
• Achieving Expert-Level Performance
Reflection Online Overnight Overnight stress-test reflection: Automated email grounded in Day 1 design decisions to prepare for the following day.
In-person Session (Day 2) Expert-led with AI agent collaboration Day 2 The Leader Modules:
• The Shift Underway
• Your Strategic Opportunity
Post-program Strategy document Post-intensive Receive Individual AI strategy document synthesising diagnostic data, module interactions, and strategic design decisions.
Continued support Online advisory Optional / Monthly Monthly cohort continuation sessions and direct advisory service for hands-on implementation.

Leigh Hunter, Program Co-facilitator

Associate, Monash Corporate Education

Leigh Hunter

Leigh is a strategy, data and AI leader with more than 25 years’ experience helping organisations navigate technological change and deliver large-scale transformation programs across Australia, New Zealand, France, the United Kingdom and the Middle East.

Having held senior leadership roles with PwC, IBM and PA Consulting Group, Leigh specialises in AI strategy, digital transformation and operating model design. He previously led PwC Australia’s Data and AI Strategy practice, working with organisations to translate emerging technologies into practical business outcomes.

His experience spans financial services, justice, defence, higher education and critical infrastructure, with clients including ANZ Bank, Australia Post, Department of Defence, NAB, University of Melbourne and Victoria Police.

Leigh is a co-facilitator of the AI for Leaders short course.

Richard Hall, Program Co-facilitator

Deputy Dean, Leadership and Executive Education

Richard Hall

Professor Richard Hall is Deputy Dean, Leadership and Executive Education, at the Monash Business School.

Richard has extensive experience in the design and delivery of leadership development programs for managers, professionals and senior leaders. He has published widely in the areas of management and organisation studies, including leadership, technology, organisational change, transformation and development and the future of work. He has designed, managed and delivered MBA programs at a number of universities and currently teaches Executive Leadership Mindsets in the Global Executive MBA at Monash University. He has deep experience working with major corporations, and organisations in the business, government, community and not-for-profit sectors.

Richard has held previous appointments at the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and Sydney. He has been visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, Imperial College London, and Harvard University.