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Certificate in
Reinventing the Organization with AI

Move your organization from AI experiments to AI at scale.
  • What you study: How to redesign people strategy and operating models around AI, win stakeholder buy-in, overcome resistance, and build the culture that makes adoption stick.
  • Who it is for: Leaders accountable for AI adoption across a team, function or enterprise — not the engineers building the models.
  • Also included: Three months of Voca — AI-powered practice for interviews, presentations and CV review.
Course fee
USD595
Single course enrollment
Duration
4 weeks
2–3 hrs/week
Certificate of Completion fromHarvard Online
Duration
4 weeks
Four topics
Effort
2–3 hrs/week
Self-paced within deadlines
Format
Cohort-based online
New cohorts start regularly
Prerequisites
None
No technical background
Credential
Harvard Online
Certificate of Completion
How you learn

Study with a global cohort.

Work through the Harvard Online course on your own schedule within weekly deadlines, alongside professionals from around the world, with three months of Voca practice to apply what you learn.

A team reshaping how they work
What you receive

Earn a Certificate of Completion from Harvard Online.

Complete the course and Harvard Online issues your Certificate of Completion.

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Designed and taught by Harvard faculty

Curriculum developed and delivered by Dustin Tingley of the Harvard Kennedy School, with senior AI leaders from AMD, Colgate-Palmolive and AXA bringing enterprise cases into the course.

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A credential you can verify and share

Issued in your legal name as a Certified Electronic Credential you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.

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Built around your own organization

Each week applies the material to your workplace, so you finish with a plan rather than a set of notes.

Certificate of Completion from Harvard OnlineA sample of this course’s certificate will be shown here soon.
Issued by Harvard Online on completing the course.
Course syllabus

What you study.

Four topics that move from diagnosing the shift, to winning the argument internally, to rebuilding your people strategy around it.

Week one — The Existential Shift
  1. Understand how to define productivity and company-wide AI integration with the Colgate-Palmolive case.
  2. Explore how AI gains exist on a spectrum from efficiency to augmentation.
  3. Discover how successful organizations can manage the human friction of changing roles with AI.
  4. Draft two proposals: one focused on AI and efficiency, one focused on AI and augmentation.
Week two — Advocacy and Persuasion for AI Initiatives
  1. Study negotiations and persuasions with the AXA case.
  2. Learn how organizations need to spread AI through both bottom-up and top-down mechanisms.
  3. Draft a pitch designed to persuade hesitant leaders to adopt an AI initiative.
  4. Create a measurement strategy for an AI initiative.
Week three — People Strategy
  1. Understand AI literacy and employee upskilling with the Colgate-Palmolive and the AXA cases.
  2. Understand why organizations should strive for a balance of efficiency mindsets and augmentation mindsets in their employees.
  3. Learn how incentives must be recalibrated in an AI transformation to avoid the AI productivity tax.
  4. Map current and future personnel needs based on efficiency and augmentation mindsets.
  5. Evaluate incoming projects based on urgency and skills needed.
Week four — Conclusion
  1. Understand why hands-on learning is crucial for everyone.
  2. Explore the human skills that organizations should anchor on as AI transforms the workplace.
  3. Evaluate how to personally model AI learning within the workplace.
Learning outcomes

Redesign your organization around AI

  • Reimagine people strategy and operating models to support AI adoption at enterprise scale
  • Judge where AI delivers efficiency and where it delivers augmentation, and set expectations accordingly

Build advocacy and overcome resistance

  • Apply practical methods for gaining stakeholder buy-in across levels and functions
  • Anticipate where resistance forms and address the cause rather than the symptom

Develop a people-centered strategy

  • Identify the human behaviors and practices that make AI transformation sustainable
  • Plan the literacy, upskilling and incentives your workforce needs to keep pace
Format: self-paced within cohort deadlinesAssessment: weekly application exercises

Syllabus topics are set by Harvard Online and may be revised between cohorts.

Who it is for

Built for the people accountable for adoption.

Harvard designed this course for leaders driving organizational AI adoption while dealing with the human and cultural side of it — drawing participants from health care, government, education, consumer products, financial services and technology.

No technical or programming background required. Taught in English; participants should be 18 or over.

At work

Move your organization from AI pilots to AI at scale.

Many organizations have scattered AI experiments and no plan to grow them. This course is built around the documents a leader needs to change that.

Who teaches you

Learn from Harvard faculty.

Your coursework is designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, with senior AI leaders from AMD, Colgate-Palmolive and AXA bringing the Colgate-Palmolive and AXA cases into the topics.

Dustin Tingley

Dustin Tingley

Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Government Department

A data scientist at Harvard and Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Professor Tingley helps direct Harvard's education-focused data science and technology team and has helped organizations across sectors put AI to work in practice.

Sharon Zhou, PhD

Sharon Zhou, PhD

Vice President of Engineering and AI, AMD

An AI researcher and engineering leader, Dr. Zhou brings the view from inside a company building AI at scale — what actually changes in how teams work, and what leaders underestimate when they try to roll it out.

Executive Program in Data & AI for Business

Three Harvard Online modules on data, business decisions and privacy — with live sessions, app access and Voca practice.

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A related Executive Program
This course sits alongside our Executive Program in Data & AI for Business — three Harvard Online modules that add 36 hours of live sessions with industry experts, twelve months of app access and Voca practice, earning a Certificate of Specialization from Harvard Online.
Three Harvard Online modules
On data, business decisions and privacy
36 hours of live sessions
Fortnightly, with industry experts
App access and Voca practice
Included throughout
View the Executive Program
Course fee

What is included.

One fee covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion, and three months of Voca practice access.

USD595
per participant · complete course
  • The complete Harvard Online course, all four topics
  • Certificate of Completion from Harvard Online
  • A Certified Electronic Credential for LinkedIn
  • Three months of Voca — AI-powered practice for interviews, presentations and CV review
  • Cohort-based study with a global peer group
  • Advisor support from enrollment to completion
Reserve your seat

Enrolling a team?

Organizations are invoiced directly, and multi-seat rates apply from ten participants.
Fees are quoted in US dollars and paid by international card or bank transfer; your bank applies its own conversion rate. We can also provide a scope document for employer-funded participants.
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Enrollment

From inquiry to first day.

Four steps, usually completed within a week.

Step one

Book a call

A twenty-minute conversation with an advisor to check the course fits your role and goals. No obligation.

Step two

Choose your cohort

We confirm the upcoming start dates that suit your schedule.

Step three

Reserve your seat

Confirm your place, then complete payment by international card or bank transfer.

Step four

Begin

We enroll you directly with Harvard Online. Your access details arrive by email before your start date.

Common questions

Everything you might be wondering.

Do I need a technical background?

No. This is an organization-first course. It deals with strategy, persuasion, culture and people — not model building or code.

What will I actually produce in the course?

Practical work you can take back to your organization: two proposals, one focused on AI and efficiency and one on AI and augmentation; a pitch to persuade hesitant leaders; a measurement strategy for an AI initiative; and a map of your current and future personnel needs. The work draws on the Colgate-Palmolive and AXA cases.

How much time will it take?

The course runs four weeks at roughly two to three hours a week, completed on your own schedule within weekly deadlines.

What does it cost?

USD 595 for the complete course, covering the full Harvard Online course, your Certificate of Completion and three months of Voca practice access.

How is this different from a general AI course?

Most AI courses teach you what the technology does. This one assumes the technology works and asks the harder question: how do you get an organization of real people to adopt it, at scale, without the effort stalling.

What is Voca, and how do I use it?

Voca is SkillsPro360's AI-powered practice tool. You can rehearse a presentation, run a mock interview, or have your CV reviewed — privately, on demand, as many times as you like. Three months of access are included with this course, and your advisor will help you time it for when it is most useful.

Who awards the certificate?

Harvard Online. On successful completion you receive a Certificate of Completion issued directly by Harvard Online. SkillsPro360 is an authorized delivery partner — we are not Harvard University.

Does this course count toward an Executive Program?

Yes. It is one of the five courses in our Executive Program in AI Leadership, which is coming soon. Speak to an advisor so we can plan the route with you.

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