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Leading AI Strategy and Executing Complex Projects

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Build AI Strategy and Project Execution Capabilities

Develop the capabilities to evaluate AI opportunities, align them with business priorities, and lead complex initiatives through structured execution frameworks. This 4-month online learning journey from UC Berkeley Executive Education combines two complementary programs designed to help professionals understand the strategic value of artificial intelligence and apply proven approaches to project leadership, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and project execution.

Why Choose This Multiprogram Learning Journey?

Organizations are moving quickly to integrate AI, but AI strategy is only valuable when it can be translated into structured execution. The Leading AI Strategy and Executing Complex Projects learning journey brings together two complementary UC Berkeley Executive Education programs to help professionals like you evaluate AI opportunities, understand AI’s business applications, and lead complex initiatives through planning, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and delivery.
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Live Sessions with Faculty

Join interactive live sessions focused on AI applications, generative AI, organizational adoption, project complexity, and strategic execution. Session recordings are made available to support flexible learning.

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Strategy-to-Execution Learning Journey

Move from understanding AI’s capabilities, limitations, and business value to applying structured project leadership frameworks that support execution in complex, real-world environments.

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AI Applications and Frameworks

Explore practical approaches to AI, machine learning, generative AI, prediction, AI strategy, and organizational adoption while learning how to evaluate AI opportunities and risks.

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Project Leadership and Execution

Apply tools, frameworks, and strategies to manage traditional and complex projects, navigate uncertainty, monitor performance, and lead teams through structural, emergent, and sociopolitical complexity.

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Applied Capstone Projects

Build practical, organization-relevant strategies through project-based learning, including an AI initiative business case and a complex project capstone designed to support applied learning.

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Case Studies and Organizational Examples

Examine real-world business examples and case studies involving AI adoption, autonomous systems, organizational transformation, and complex project delivery.

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Peer Learning

Connect and collaborate with global professionals through live sessions, discussion boards, peer reviews, and interactive learning activities.

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AI Tutor Support

Get instant replies to questions about program content from the AI Tutor and move through topics and key learnings more confidently.

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Certificates of Completion

Earn certificates from UC Berkeley Executive Education upon successful completion of the required activities for each program.

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Path to Alumni Benefits

Explore a pathway toward the UC Berkeley Executive Education Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE), with each component program counting toward COBE curriculum days.

Key Takeaways

Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategies and Applications

This program will position you to:

  • Understand AI applications and their future potential

  • Explore generative AI models and AI-driven simulations for prediction

  • Organize and manage successful AI application initiatives

  • Communicate effectively with technical teams and colleagues

  • Evaluate opportunities and risks associated with AI adoption

  • Learn how to avoid pitfalls associated with AI technologies

  • Build leadership credibility through a certificate of completion from UC Berkeley Executive Education

Leading Complex Projects: Strategy, Execution, and AI-Enabled Impact

This program will position you to:

  • Apply tools, frameworks, and strategies to manage traditional and complex projects

  • Evaluate and monitor performance in complex projects to achieve business objectives

  • Implement strategic project planning and risk management methodologies

  • Leverage adaptive leadership in complex projects to drive innovation

  • Build cohesive teams to improve performance and decision making

  • Harness AI to streamline project scoping, risk management, and stakeholder communication while ensuring ethical governance

What You Will Learn

Explore how AI, project leadership, and structured execution frameworks can help organizations move from strategic intent to measurable outcomes. Across two online programs, you will examine AI applications, machine learning fundamentals, business strategy, complexity mapping, project planning, risk management, stakeholder dynamics, and leadership approaches for complex environments.

  • Introduction - Artificial Intelligence and Business

  • Machine Learning Basics

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

  • Key Applications: Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

  • Robotics

  • Artificial Intelligence Strategy

  • AI and Organizations: Building Your AI Team

  • The Future of AI in Business

  • From Traditional to Complex Projects: Understanding Complexities

  • Strategic Project Management and Complexity Mapping

  • Structural Complexities: Responding to the Challenges of Scale and Pace

  • Structural Complexities: Time and Resource Allocation

  • Emergent Complexities: Planning, Monitoring, and Controlling Projects

  • Emergent Complexities: Risk Management

  • Sociopolitical Complexities: Navigating Power, Politics, and People

  • Leading Complex Projects

Live Sessions on AI and Project Management

The learning journey includes live sessions designed to help professionals explore artificial intelligence, business strategy, project execution, complexity, and organizational leadership through real-world business applications. Session recordings are made available with video chapters and transcripts to support flexible learning.

The Business of AI Today

Understand the latest business applications of artificial intelligence, such as natural language processing, the generative AI landscape, and language models.

Generative AI Models and Simulation for Prediction

Discuss simulation and prediction as a lens for understanding generative models based on transformers and physics-based models.

AI and Organizations — Building Your AI Team

Understand how AI and machine learning tools can enable the assessment of organizational culture and support performance-focused change.

The Future of AI in Business

Examine recent trends and research in artificial intelligence, including algorithmic bias and how to correct it.

Note: Live sessions mentioned here are subject to change.

Capstone-Driven Learning

Across the learning journey, you will apply concepts through project-based learning and business applications. In the Artificial Intelligence program, you will develop and refine an AI project or initiative for your organization, culminating in a business case and plan that uses genAI to transform at least one aspect of the business. If you do not have an organizational project or initiative to develop, faculty will provide project ideas.

In Leading Complex Projects, you will engage with frameworks and strategies designed to help you lead through structural, emergent, and sociopolitical complexity while applying learning through a capstone project.

Who Is This Program For?

The Leading AI Strategy and Executing Complex Projects learning journey is designed for leaders and professionals who need to drive both AI strategy and real execution through structured, practical approaches. It is ideal for professionals and executives from any industry who want to evaluate AI opportunities, align initiatives with organizational priorities, and lead complex projects with confidence.

This multiprogram learning journey is ideal for, but not limited to:

  • Senior leaders and functional heads responsible for translating AI strategy into execution at scale, navigating risk, governance, and organizational adoption

  • Experienced managers driving AI and business projects across product, operations, strategy, technology, and functional areas who need to execute AI-driven initiatives reliably

  • Project and program leaders in technology and digital initiatives seeking structured frameworks to manage complexity, stakeholder alignment, risk, and AI-enabled project planning

  • Consultants and strategy professionals who want to translate AI potential into executable client strategies and guide initiatives from concept to delivery

Meet the Faculty

Learn from distinguished UC Berkeley Haas faculty with expertise across artificial intelligence, business strategy, organizational culture, project leadership, operations, management, and innovation.
AI and Business Analytics for Strategic Decision Making program's faculty Sameer B. Srivastava

Sameer B. Srivastava

Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy | Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab | Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation, UC Berkeley Haas

Sameer B. Srivastava is Associate Professor and Ewald T. Grether Chair in Business Administration and Public Policy at UC Berkeley Haas and is also affiliated with UC Berkeley...

AI and Business Analytics for Strategic Decision Making program's faculty Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee

Associate Adjunct Professor of Operations and Information Technology Management, UC Berkeley Haas

Thomas Lee is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Operations and Information Technology Management at UC Berkeley Haas and Director of Data Science for the Fisher Center for Bus...

AI and Business Analytics for Strategic Decision Making program's faculty MATTHEW STEPKA

Matthew Stepka

Visiting Scholar/Executive in Residence UC Berkeley Haas

Matthew Stepka is a Visiting Scholar and Executive in Residence at UC Berkeley Haas. In addition, he is managing partner at Machina Ventures, an investment firm focused on ear...

AI and Business Analytics for Strategic Decision Making program's faculty Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel

Professor, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)

Pieter Abbeel is a Professor at UC Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences school and Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-director of the Berkel...

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Zsolt Katona

Cheryl and Christian Valentine Professor, Marketing

Zsolt Katona holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Eotvos University in his native Hungary and a Ph.D. in marketing from INSEAD France. He is a Professor of Marketing and...

Omar Romero-Hernandez

Continuing Lecturer; Business and Social Impact | Operations and IT Management | Sustainability

Omar Romero-Hernandez is a continuing lecturer in the Haas Operations and IT Management Group and the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the Haas School of Business. ...

Homa Bahrami

Senior Lecturer; Management of Organizations

Homa Bahrami is an international educator, advisor, board member, and author, specializing in organizational flexibility, team alignment, and dynamic leadership in global, kno...

Case Studies and Organizational Examples

Examine real-world case studies and business examples across both programs to deepen your understanding of AI strategy, digital transformation, autonomous systems, project execution, and organizational change.
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Vodafone

Explore AI-led change management strategy and how organizations manage transformation during AI and machine learning adoption.

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Skydio and Zipline

Examine self-driving and autonomous systems to understand how AI is being applied in real-world operational contexts.

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Covariant

Learn how AI is being used in warehouse and factory automation.

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Autodesk

Learn how Autodesk adopted Integrated Project Delivery for risk management and multi-objective optimization in building projects.

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CarMax

Learn how the largest used vehicle retailer in the US has undertaken a major digital transformation to become a customer-centric, product-driven organization.

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PFM Devices

Learn how a traditional organization is transformed into an agile one.

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Sattva eTech

Learn how Sattva eTech manages uncertainty in the project network through the design, prototyping, and manufacturing of embedded system products.

Note: All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

Path to Alumni Benefits

Enrolling in the Leading AI Strategy and Executing Complex Projects can become your first step toward pursuing the UC Berkeley Executive Education Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE). The Certificate of Business Excellence gives you the opportunity to acquire and hone new skills while enjoying the flexibility of completing programs on a timeline that works with your professional commitments. You can earn a mark of distinction with certification from a world-class university while gaining access to select Berkeley Executive Education community benefits.

You can also gain access to:

  • UC Berkeley Haas alumni communications

  • Networking opportunities and professional events

  • Eligible program discounts

  • Thought leadership and research resources

  • Select Berkeley Executive Education community benefits

Note: All benefits are subject to change. The discounts mentioned may not be combined with other promotions or special offers.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the programs, UC Berkeley Executive Education grants verified digital certificates of completion to participants. You will receive certificates for Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategies and Applications, Leading Complex Projects: Strategy, Execution, and AI-Enabled Impact, and Leading AI Strategy and Executing Complex Projects.

Participants must complete 80% of the required activities, including a capstone project if any, to obtain each certificate of completion. Both programs also count toward the UC Berkeley Executive Education Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE), with each program fulfilling two curriculum days toward the minimum requirement.
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Note: These programs result in digital certificates of completion and are not eligible for degree credit/CEUs. After successful completion of each program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of UC Berkeley Executive Education.

FAQs

How do I know if this program is right for me?

After reviewing the information on the program landing page, we recommend you submit the short form above to gain access to the program brochure, which includes more in-depth information. If you still have questions on whether this program is a good fit for you, please email learner.success@emeritus.org, and a dedicated program advisor will follow-up with you very shortly.

Are there any prerequisites for this program?

Some programs do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the program landing page, as well as in the program brochure. If you are uncertain about program prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at the ID mentioned above. Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English and proficiency in English is required.

What is the typical class profile?

More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography — leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.

What other dates will this program be offered in the future?

Check back to this program web page or email us to inquire if future program dates or the timeline for future offerings have been confirmed yet.

How much time is required each week?

Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.

How will my time be spent?

We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities including:

  • Engaging with recorded video lectures from faculty

  • Attending webinars and office hours, as per the specific program schedule

  • Reading or engaging with examples of core topics

  • Completing knowledge checks/quizzes and required activities

  • Engaging in moderated discussion groups with your peers

  • Completing your final project, if required

The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and to demonstrate an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please email us if you need further clarification on program activities.

What is it like to learn online with the learning collaborator, Emeritus?

More than 300,000 learners across 200 countries have chosen to advance their skills with Emeritus and its educational learning partners. In fact, 90 percent of the respondents of a recent survey across all our programs said that their learning outcomes were met or exceeded.

All the contents of the course would be made available to students at the commencement of the course. However, to ensure the program delivers the desired learning outcomes the students may appoint Emeritus to manage the delivery of the program in a cohort-based manner the cost of which is already included in the overall course fee of the course.

A dedicated program support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.

How do I interact with other program participants?

Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the program. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.

What are the requirements to earn the certificate?

Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enroll. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section, as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programs are designed to fit into your working life.

This program is scored as a pass or no-pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please email us if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.

What type of certificate will I receive?

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter, resume, and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile. The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program, once grading is complete.

Can I get the hard copy of the certificate?

No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

What is the organizational structure of Berkeley Executive Education?

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education, dba Berkeley Executive Education, is a California nonprofit organization formed for the purpose of operating executive education programs in support of UC Berkeley and the UC Berkeley Haas.

Do I receive alumni status after completing this program?

No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.

How long will I have access to the learning materials?

You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date. Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants per the terms of agreement.

What equipment or technical requirements are there for this program?

Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, and transcripts.

Do I need to be online to access the program content?

Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access program content from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.

Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any livestream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.

What if I don’t have a credit card? Is there another method of payment accepted?

Yes, you can do the bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your program advisor, or email us for details.

I was not able to use the discount code provided. Can you help?

Yes! Please email us with the details of the program you are interested in, and we will assist you.

How can I obtain an invoice for payment?

Please email us your invoicing requirements and the specific program you’re interested in enrolling in.

Is there an option to make flexible payments for this program?

Yes, the flexible payment option allows a participant to pay the program fee in installments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.

How can I obtain a W9 form?

Please connect with us via email for assistance.

Who will be collecting the payment for the program?

Emeritus collects all program payments, provides learner enrollment and program support, and manages learning platform services.

Are there any restrictions on the types of funding that can be used to pay for the program?

Program fees for Emeritus programs with UC Berkeley Executive Education may not be paid for with (a) funds from the GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Educational Assistance Act of 2008, or similar types of military education funding benefits or (b) Title IV financial aid funds.

Can I still register if the registration deadline has passed?

Yes, you can register up until seven days past the published start date of the program without missing any of the core program material or learnings.

What is the program fee, and what forms of payment do you accept?

The program fee is noted at the top of this program web page and usually referenced in the program brochure as well.

  • Flexible payment options are available (see details below as well as at the top of this program web page next to FEE).

  • Tuition assistance is available for participants who qualify. Please email learner.success@emeritus.org.

What is the program refund and deferral policy?

For the program refund and deferral policy, please click the link here.

Didn't find what you were looking for? Write to us at learner.success@emeritus.org or Schedule a call with one of our Program Advisors or call us at +1 864 668 8832 (US) / +44 121 387 3504 (UK) / +65 3129 7057 (SG)

Flexible payment options are available.

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