Navigating Strategic Leadership in the AI era

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Navigating Strategic Leadership in the AI Era

Location

Helsinki

Next intake

November 2025

Duration

5 Days

Bootcamp on Strategy, AI, Foresight, Finance & Transformation

Leading with Strategy, Powered by Foresight, Driven by AI—Shaping the Future Together!

This programme is designed to equip business leaders with the strategic insight and operational tools necessary to excel in the high-stakes, rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Drawing from an innovative AI Research and Development Planning Framework, participants will learn to integrate cutting-edge AI strategies into their organisational goals to drive innovation, enhance decision-making, and ensure sustainable growth.

By focusing on a balanced mix of technical understanding, strategic insight, and ethical considerations, this programme prepares leaders to navigate the complexities of AI in the modern business environment. ​

At Henley you don’t just learn a list of facts and theories, but apply your learning to real-life situations. We are ranked Nro 1 in Finland in both EMBA and Executive Education (Financial Times Ranking 2024).

Programme at glance

This programme is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to strategically integrate AI into your organisation, navigate its challenges, and harness its transformative potential. Here's what you'll gain:

  • Strategic Alignment: Learn to align AI initiatives with organisational objectives using a structured planning matrix.
  • Risk Management: Understand the ethical, financial, and operational risks of deploying AI and discover effective strategies for mitigation.
  • Innovation Frameworks: Explore cutting-edge methodologies to foster innovation within AI research and development.
  • Competitive Analysis: Gain the skills to evaluate competitors' AI strategies and identify unique opportunities for differentiation.

  • Lead Transformation: Understand adaptive leadership principles to enhance agility and responsiveness in navigating and leading through constant change.

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Key facts

Course length

5 days

Suitable for

Senior leaders, board members, and innovation teams across industries.​

Bootcamp example schedule

Day 1

Foresight and strategic planning

  • Developing strategic pastures and portfolios
  • New strategic geo tech capabilities for your organisations
  • Design activist leadership skills to see new building blocks for success

Company visit: Futurice

Day 2 

Growth Management

  • Current global financial market landscape
  • Establish visibility of the financial market landscape in the near-term
  • Emerging financial technologies and innovations
  • Potential developments of financial technologies and innovation in the Nordics and Nordic companies

Company visit: Vertical

Day 3 

AI Today & Tomorrow

  • AI hype vs. reality and value-realisation pathways
  • Define initial use cases that take you into the slope of enlightenment
  • Comparative national strategies and regulations
  • Plenary discussion: Nordic's AI maturity and its implications for your organisation's readiness
  • Company AI readiness
  • Group breakout: Tinker with the CAIR assessment, hack and improve it

 

Day 4 

Leading transformation

  • Driving change: Inspiring, leading and sustaining information
  • Sustaining change in a disruptive world
  • Key competencies for international leaders
  • Adaptive leadership - how leaders can stay agile and responsive in the face of constant change
  • Explore how to overcome hindrances to implementation
  • Understand resilience and practical suggestions on how to sustain business performance

Company visit TBC

Day 5

My playbook for future

  • "Flipping chaos into opportunity"
  • The 6Cs unplugged: Uncovering strategic gold
  • Leadership in action
  • Reflection from multiple lenses
  • Personal leadership manifesto - Actions to embed learnings
  • Summarising and wrapping up the bootcamp
A harmonious relationship between AI and leadership is the need of the hour. While AI offers data-centric insights, human leaders bring intuition, empathy, and nuanced understanding.

- Professor Benjamin Laker, writing for Forbes

#1 Executive Education provider in Finland

Take Action, Reimagine, Reinvent: Harness the AMA (Ask Me Anything) Method with World-Class Faculty to Transform Your Business!
Dr Benjamin Laker

Dr Benjamin Laker

Professor of Leadership and Postgraduate Research Director in the department of Leadership, Organisations, Behaviour and Reputation at Henley Business School.​
Dr Terence Tse ​

Dr Terence Tse ​

Professor of Finance at Hult International Business School. Co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech, an AI company.
Dr Olaf Groth

Dr Olaf Groth

A global strategist, professor, author, adviser and entrepreneurial executive for the emerging global cognitive economy with 25 years of experience in corporations, consulting firms and academia, Professor at UC Berkeley.

Tuition fee & registration 

Register for the programme by filling in the form. Invoice will be sent to you separately at a later date.

The tuition fee for the programme is 6,500 € +VAT* ** (~48 500 DKK + VAT), excluding accommodation and travel costs.

*20% discount for groups of 2-3 from the same organisation

Henley alumni are eligible for a 10% discount.*

*This offer cannot be combined with any other promotional offers or discounts.

** Henley Business School operates according to Nordic VAT regulations. Contact your sales person for further information.

 

Do you have any questions? Reach out!

Minna Wickholm

Minna Wickholm

Business Director, EMBA & Executive Programmes
Mobile: +358 50 5839514
minna.wickholm@henleynordic.com
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