CORNELL

CHIEF AI OFFICER
PROGRAM
Program Overview

AI in 2025 is way more than the ChatGPT of 2024. AI capabilities have rapidly
advanced from text and visual generation in 2024, to doing advanced reasoning and
autonomous agentic work in 2025. In effect, we already have widely accessible,
limitless amounts of advanced intelligence.

These advances have the potential to usher in a business transformation akin to that
from the invention of other general-purpose technologies such as the steam engine,
electricity, the internet, etc. Organizations and individuals that prudently harness the
potential of these technologies will gain a significant advantage, while those that get
swept by the hype or fail to upskill and prepare risk obsolescence.

The Cornell Chief AI Officer Program prepares you to lead this AI transformation with
clarity, confidence, and credibility. This experiential program with live interactive
sessions, including working labs, builds fluency across the full stack of AI
Transformation skills. You will select an organization or industry and apply insights
from each session to create your AI Strategy Blueprint. In the final session, you’ll share
your AI Strategy Blueprint with faculty for feedback and refinement.

Starts On Duration Program Fee

30 Aug 2025 6 months USD 4,800
Program Highlights

16 interactive sessions AI strategy blueprint: AI Strategy Blueprint

(100% LIVE) 3 working lab sessions final report out and
personalized feedback

Access to Certificate from Impactful learning

2000+ Courses & exclusive Cornell University with peer coaching
curated AI track & assessments

Curriculum (Live Online Modules)

Module 1: AI and Underlying Technologies

Leverage your deep understanding of AI and its underlying technologies and assess
future advances.

AI in 2025: Limitless Super Intelligence on Tap

The Technology: Perceptive, Generative and Agentic AI

AI in 2025: Limitless Super Intelligence on Tap

Understand the trajectory of AI advancements and their implications for

productivity, business models, and strategic advantage across industries.

Develop a deep conceptual unbiased understanding of the underlying

technologies—machine learning, reinforcement learning, pre-training, post-
training, foundation models, large language models, reasoning models, etc.
The Technology: Perceptive, Generative and Agentic AI

Gain an understanding of the cognitive capabilities, limits, operational and

economic characteristics of perceptive, generative and agentic AI.

Use a framework for understanding and assessing any future advances in AI.

Module 2: Human Ingenuity in an AI World

Unleash creative thinking and lead innovation with a human-centered approach.

Design Thinking for AI Innovation

Creativity and Innovation

Design Thinking for AI Innovation

Explore how AI and human-centered design thinking intersect to drive

innovation.

Understand the benefits, challenges, and real-world use cases of this integration
to apply AI meaningfully in solving complex, high-impact problems.

Creativity and Innovation

Challenge conventional assumptions to unlock breakthrough opportunities by

linking creative thinking with disruptive innovation across the “who,” “what,”
and “how” of value creation.

Activate individual and team creativity to drive bold experimentation and

scalable innovation.
Module 3: AI Opportunity Stack

Use your knowledge and hands-on experience with a series of deep, research-based
frameworks for identifying transformation opportunities enabled by AI.

Work Redesign: Automation and Augmentation

AI and Human Interactions
New Business Models and Strategic Positions
AI-Powered Decision Making
Narrative Intelligence with AI Insights

Work Redesign: Automation and Augmentation

Learn where and how to use AI effectively to boost your productivity.

Understand three key AI personas.

Redesign jobs, work, systems and processes in your organization via

automation, augmentation and increased value capture.

AI and Human Interactions

Understand how individuals and teams interact with AI. Examine

cognitive and behavioral patterns shaping trust, adoption, and
collaboration.

New Business Models and Strategic Positions

Identify new business models, redesigning business scope, clock

speed and sequencing, employee and value chain engagement, pricing
and incentive structures.

Build a new strategic position, anticipate and react to changes in

economic power in an ecosystem.
AI-Powered Decision Making

Apply data-driven decision frameworks to identify, evaluate, and

communicate AI use cases.

Strengthen your ability to assess trade-offs, anticipate risks, and make

high-quality decisions in AI-enabled environments.

Narrative Intelligence with AI Insights

Translate insights into actionable narratives that drive alignment and

strategic buy-in across stakeholders.

Use narrative framing and strategic communication to simplify

complexity, highlight value, and influence executive decisions.

Module 4: AI Transformation and Leadership

Elevate your ability to make AI transformation happen.

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Technology Update Panel
De-Risking New Ventures and Your AI Strategy
Leading Change in a Disruptive World
Leading High-Performance Teams with Humans and AI
Communicate like a CEO: Differentiator for the AI Era

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Examine Legal and Ethical issues associated with AI ventures. Explore

issues related to fairness, transparency, accountability, and regulatory
response.
Technology Update Panel

Gain awareness of the latest research and findings on how customers,

employees and organizations are collaborating with and reacting to AI
- what is working in the wild and what is not.

De-Risking New Ventures and Your AI Strategy

Apply a structured framework to test and refine AI initiatives.

Learn how to manage uncertainty, conduct low-cost experiments, and

scale validated solutions.

Leading Change in a Disruptive World

Learn how to manage organizational change driven by AI.

Build skills to navigate resistance, align stakeholders, and lead

transformation efforts.

Leading High-Performance Teams with Humans and AI

Develop strategies to lead teams where humans and AI systems

collaborate to deliver outcomes.

Build the skills to manage trust, alignment, and performance in

environments shaped by intelligent technologies.

Communicate like a CEO: Differentiator for the AI Era

Use tools to project presence, confidence, and clarity as an AI leader

navigating complex systems and resistance.

Strengthen your ability to communicate with credibility and impact in

high-stakes settings.
AI Strategy Blueprint
Develop a rigorous AI Strategy Blueprint for your organization or selected
industry. The blueprint will include:

Assessment of short, medium and long-term productivity, business model

innovation, and strategic opportunities and threats

Recommended short and medium-term transformation initiatives

Plan to de-risk and refine the initiatives via series of escalating

experiments

Architecture of the organizational structures and resources needed to

execute this strategy.

Intensive Working Labs

Work with industry experts on your AI Strategy Blueprint through

structured labs: 3 group sessions of 30 minutes each.

By the end of the program, you will have created a rigorous, actionable
AI Strategy Blueprint.

AI Strategy Blueprint Report Out

In the final session, you’ll present your AI Strategy Blueprint to peers

and faculty for feedback and refinement.

Your AI Strategy Blueprint will be your deliverable designed to inform

executive decision-making or guide entrepreneurial execution.
Year long access to 2000+ Courses
Choose from over 2000+ courses that will enhance your knowledge and skills across business
functions. With unlimited access to Cornell’s resource library, you will have the opportunity
to learn something new, every day. Super-specialize in your area of interest from topics
across domains like innovation, leadership, marketing, supply chain, finance, service
excellence, operations, project management and more.

Regular assessments and leaderboard

Participants will be given an assessment to test their acquired knowledge towards the
end of the LIVE session. This will help you understand the knowledge gap and further
assist you in developing a learning path for yourself. Post-work assignments/tasks
will be given after each session to enhance your skills on each topic taught during the
LIVE session. The leaderboard scores you against your peers in the learning journey.

Peer coaching and feedback

Learn from high-achieving peers from around the globe and build your network. The
cohort will be divided into triads. You will get a chance to interact, share and exchange
ideas with your peers. You can discuss on-going scenarios, solve doubts, work on
assignments and receive valuable feedback from like-minded senior leaders globally.
Cohort Statistics

Work Experience Industries Designations

Financial Services Founder
Information Partner
Technology Chairman
Manufacturing Managing Director
Healthcare Executive Director
Real Estate President
Oil & Gas Group CEO
Consulting Group CFO & COO
Hospitality Director of Finance
Edtech Director -
Construction Communication
Telecommunication & Marketing
Retail Chief Planning Officer
Average Work Experience - Entertainment Chief Digital Officer
21 Years FMCG and Others Chief HR Officer
Senior Vice President
AVP, Retail Analytics

Companies
Faculty (Indicative)

Karan Girotra
Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management

Karan Girotra is the academic lead for the flagship studio-based education
programs at Cornell Tech and is applying his research on innovation to help
build a new model for graduate education. As one of the first business faculty
at Cornell Tech, he is helping build a unique new educational institution that
fuses technology with business and creative thinking. He has collaborated with
companies building new business models in the areas of urban living, smart
transportation and e-commerce, helping them build rigorous research-based
solutions.

Allan Filipowicz
Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations

Allan Filipowicz is a Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at

the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell
University. Professor Filipowicz received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Affairs
from the University of Pennsylvania, and degrees in electrical engineering
(MEng, BS) and economics (BA) from Cornell University. His professional
experience includes banking (Bankers Trust, New York) and consulting,
including running his own boutique consulting firm and four years with The
Boston Consulting Group in Paris.

Mor Namaan
Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute

Mor Naaman is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor at the Jacobs
Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech where he holds the Don and Mibs
Follett Chair and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University,
and currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (ADFA). Mor leads a
research group looking at topics at the intersection of technology, media and
democracy. The group applies multidisciplinary techniques - from machine
learning to qualitative social science, to study our information ecosystem and
its challenges, with a special focus on AI-mediated communication and its
impact on society.
Frank Pasquale
Professor of Law

Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He
is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine
learning. His books include The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press,
2015) and New Laws of Robotics (Harvard University Press, 2020). He has
published more than 70 journal articles and book chapters on topics ranging
from technology policy to health law. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook on
the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2020) and
Transparent Data Mining for Big and Small Data (Springer-Verlag, 2017).

David Rand
Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences

David Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management

Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, the director of the Applied
Cooperation Initiative, and an affiliate of the MIT Institute of Data, Systems,
and Society, and the Initiative on the Digital Economy. David received his BA
in computational biology from Cornell University in 2004 and his PhD in
systems biology from Harvard University in 2009, was a post-doctoral
researcher in Harvard University’s Department of Psychology from 2009 to
2013, and was an Assistant and then Associate Professor (with tenure) of
Psychology, Economics, and Management at Yale University prior to joining
the faculty at MIT.
Industry Experts (Indicative)

Anton Musgrave
Futurist and Business Strategist

Anton Musgrave lectures regularly for London Business School, Duke CE, IMD
and Oxford’s Said Business School. He is passionate about teaching business
strategy, innovation and the future. He has also served as Managing Partner of
a large legal practice and Managing Director of a major property business. He
shares an insightful understanding of the drivers of long-term business success,
shifting business models and what it takes to stay ahead of the market.

Jamie Anderson
Creative Management Thinker

Jamie has held teaching positions at some of the world’s top business schools,
such as London Business School, IMD, ESMT Berlin and the University of
Melbourne. Named as a “management guru” by the Financial Times, Jamie has
also been listed as one of the world’s top 25 management thinkers by the
journal Business Strategy Review. He is passionate about teaching strategy,
innovation and creativity.

Federico Quijada
Professor of Technology

Fred Quijada’s has lectured in professional education programs on technology

management and information science for the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for the past 3 years. His current research centers on creating a
unified theory for technology leadership, while also exploring the applications
of AI/ML, cloud computing, and DevOps technologies within enterprise
settings. He holds an A.B., Cum Laude, from St. Anselm College, a J.D.
specializing in corporate law from Villanova University, an Sc.M. in
Technology Leadership from Brown University, and is currently pursuing an
M.L.A. in Ethics & Leadership from the University of Chicago and Doctor of
Technology from Purdue University.
Navid Asgari
Professor of Management Systems

Dr. Navid Asgari is an Associate Professor and Grose Family Endowed Chair in
Business Strategy and Statistics at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of
Business. He specializes in competitive strategy, innovation, and the integration
of design thinking into corporate strategy. His research focuses on helping
organizations navigate complexity, adapt to technological changes, and foster
innovation. He emphasizes strategic decision-making in dynamic environments
and works at the intersection of strategy and design thinking to help firms stay
competitive.

Antoinette Dale Henderson

Leadership and Change Expert and Executive Coach

Antoinette Dale Henderson is an internationally recognized expert in

leadership communications with over 25 years of experience. She has held
senior roles at leading PR consultancies and is the founder of the Gravitas®
Program, which equips women leaders with the skills to communicate
effectively and command respect. Antoinette’s methodology emphasizes the
importance of gravitas in leadership, a quality that empowers leaders to inspire,
influence, and navigate change successfully.
 Certificate

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Cornell University.

Who Should Apply?

Cornell Chief AI Officer Program is designed for emerging and
current CXOs, senior leaders and executives, across geographies
and industries, who desire to be agile in thinking and strategic in
their approach towards building innovative AI solutions to steer
business growth.

10+ years of work experience and proven success in leading

high performing teams / impactful projects

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree

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