Master’s Certificate in Human-Led AI Transformation
Built for organisations ready to move from AI experimentation to transformation.
Your organization's real AI challenge becomes your curriculum
Technology is changing what organisations can do. Human judgement determines what they should do and whether transformation succeeds.
Month 1 - 3
01
REWRITE YOUR ROLE
Identify a high-value problem in your function and build a working AI solution around it
Month 6
Working prototype + BYOP Pivot Plan
Month 9
Capstone Pack, defended before a CXO panel
Delhi · Mumbai · Bengaluru
Four residencies · ten immersion days
Bring Your Own Problem
Your organisation's real challenge
For HR, L&D and business leaders
Request a sponsorship brief or a conversation about corporate enrolment.
Talk to our corporate team
Most organisations hear back within one business day.
Group pricing available for 3+ sponsorships.
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Plus 3 jury defences before independent industry panels · approximately 266 structured learning hours.
TRANSFORMATION ARCS
APPLIED STUDIOS
MODULES
MASTERCLASSES
IMMERSION DAYS
AI can generate an answer.
Someone still has to decide what the organisation should do with it.
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WHY THIS PROGRAMME EXISTS
The gap between AI ambition and AI adoption is a leadership problem.
Most organisations do not need more isolated AI experiments. They need leaders who can frame the right problem, align stakeholders, build a defensible business case, govern human–AI decisions and carry adoption through the organisation.
This programme develops that leader — on a live problem their organisation already owns.
AI Change Is Actually a People Change
AI-driven change succeeds when leaders put people at the heart of every decision, informed by a rich understanding of their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. They create the conditions for new ways of working to take hold. In successful AI-driven transformations, 70% of the value is derived from people-related action rather than technology-related action.
Source : BCG Publications 2026
ONE PROGRAMME. TWO RETURNS.
What the organisation gets.
For the organisation
A transformation initiative, not a certificate
An AI transformation initiative, developed from a real organisational problem and strengthened through evidence, governance, financial logic and an adoption plan.
What the leader gets.
For the leader
The judgement to lead human–AI transformation
The judgement, technological know-how and operating discipline to lead human–AI transformation across their role, function and organisation.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
The pieces you won't find
bundled anywhere else.
THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE
Every participant works on their employer's real problem — and ships a working solution the employer owns.
Bring Your Own Problem runs through all nine months.
Ten structural decisions that separate this programme from generic AI learning.
01
Human-led by design
Anchored in judgement, adaptability and resilience — the human layer AI cannot replace.
02
Industry practitioner faculty
Every session is led by practitioners, live — not recorded lectures.
03
Coaches and mentors from industry
Each participant is supported by industry-drawn coaches and mentors, with every weekly submission reviewed.
04
Designed by transformation leaders
Built by top industry leaders who have led business transformations themselves.
05
Bring Your Own Problem
The participant works on their employer's real problem and ships a working solution the employer owns.
06
Managing the Mixed Team
The only programme teaching supervision of teams made of humans and AI agents.
07
Three business ecosystems
Ten immersion days across Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru — not one campus.
08
Three jury defences
Arc-gated defences before independent industry panels, not internal grading.
09
India-specific governance spine
DPDP Act, MeitY frameworks and India Stack cases built into the curriculum.
10
AACSB-accredited institution
A credential from an internationally accredited business school, delivered live.
PROGRAMME ARCHITECTURE
9 Months. 3 Arcs. 9 Studios.
A build journey, not a lecture series.
The scope widens deliberately: Arc 1 orchestrates the participant's own role, Arc 2 widens across their function, and Arc 3 scales across the organisation.
ARC 1 · REWIRE
Orchestrate Your Role
Theory : Practice · 40:60
Closes with the BYOP Scoping Case, defended in Mumbai.
1.1
Read the Signal in Your Role
1.2
Choose Your Tools, Build Your First Agent
1.3
Refine It, Prove It, Make the Case
ARC 2 · REIMAGINE
Orchestrate Across Functions
Theory : Practice · 25:75
Closes with the BYOP Pivot Plan, defended in Bengaluru.
2.1
See It Bigger: From Role to Function
2.2
Design the Solution That Holds
2.3
Build and Prove the Wider Solution
ARC 3 · REBUILD
Orchestrate Your Organization
Theory : Practice · 15:85
Closes with the BYOP Capstone Pack, defended before a CXO panel in Delhi.
3.1
Harden It for the Whole Org
3.2
Carry the Organization With You
3.3
Stage the Transformation
Leader managing a core project
Sense Maker
Decision Owner
Change Carrier
Human-Led Transformation Leader
THE 9-MONTH BUILD JOURNEY
Participants do not move through classes.
They move through a build system.
The journey progresses from understanding the opportunity, to building and testing a functional solution, to creating organisation-level transformation proof. Each studio is one month of four modules and produces a synthesis artifact.
ARC 01 · REWIRE
Orchestrate your role
Months 1–3
MONTH 1
Read the Signal in Your Role
Names the problem worth building for. Role Problem Brief.
MONTH 2
Build Your First Agent
Builds a first governed agent. No-Code Agent v0.
PROOF GATE
MONTH 3
Prove It, Make the Case
Defended before an industry jury. BYOP Scoping Case.
ARC 02 · REIMAGINE
Orchestrate across functions
Months 4–6
MONTH 4
Widen Role to Function
Sponsor signs off the wider design. Mixed-Team Model.
MONTH 5
Design a Solution That Holds
Metrics and rollout designed. Pivot Blueprint.
PROOF GATE
MONTH 6
Build and Prove It Wider
Working prototype demonstrated. BYOP Pivot Plan.
ARC 03 · REBUILD
Orchestrate your organisation
Months 7–9
MONTH 7
Harden It for the Org
Stress-tested and CFO-valued. Solution v-final.
MONTH 8
Carry the Organisation With You
Adoption and accountability answered. Change Playbook.
PROOF GATE
MONTH 9
Stage the Transformation
Defended before a CXO panel. Capstone Pack.
IMMERSION 01 · MONTH 1
Delhi
Launch and problem framing
3 days
IMMERSION 02 · MONTH 3
Mumbai
2 days
BYOP Scoping Case jury
IMMERSION 03 · MONTH 6
Bengaluru
BYOP Pivot Plan jury
2 days
IMMERSION 04 · MONTH 9
Delhi
Capstone Pack — final jury and exhibition
3 days
Ten immersion days in total. The residencies are the only moments that require travel; dates are communicated well in advance.
Built for organisations ready to move
from AI experimentation to transformation.
REMINDER
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The right organisation.
The right person.
This programme works when both are true — the organisation is ready to move, and the candidate is the right person to send.
The organisation
Ready to move from experimentation to transformation
You are ready to move from scattered AI experiments to a led, governed transformation — and you need a layer of leaders who can execute it. You sponsor a leader with a real problem, and the programme returns a working solution your organisation owns.
The candidate
Close enough to the work to make it real
Mid-level managers and functional leaders with roughly 7 to 15 years of experience, responsible for turning AI ambition into execution. Too far into their career to pause it for a two-year MBA — this is built for working executives.
Typically mid-level managers, functional leaders and transformation owners with a real organisational mandate and an internal sponsor.
PROGRAMME ANCHORS
Meet the people who built this.
Dr. Radhika Shrivastava
Henley Business School · IIM Bangalore · IFC (World Bank Group) · Deloitte
Saurabh Mittal
Saïd Business School, Oxford · Wipro · IIT Delhi
Rajat Monga
Microsoft · TensorFlow · IIT Delhi
Manish Kheterpal
WaterBridge Ventures · Stanford University · Actis · Providence Equity Partners
Rantej Singh
Eligere · IIFT · Bank Of America Merrill Lynch
Amitabh Jhingan
EY-Parthenon
Designed and delivered by leaders with experience across Deloitte, EY-Parthenon, Microsoft, Wipro, Stanford, Oxford, Henley, IIM Bangalore, IFC, TensorFlow, WaterBridge, Actis and Providence.
Organisations where programme anchors and faculty have held roles. Not academic partners, programme partners or endorsers.
OUTCOMES
What your leader walks out with,
and how we prove it.
Assessment is artifact-based. Every defended deliverable is scored, every capability claim is measured against Day-1 targets.
MONTH 3
BYOP Scoping Case
DELIVERABLE LADDER
The problem, scoped and defended before an industry jury in Mumbai.
MONTH 6
BYOP Pivot Plan
A working prototype and pilot direction, defended in Bengaluru.
MONTH 9
BYOP Capstone Pack
The full transformation package, defended before a CXO panel in Delhi.
Every defended deliverable is scored on Clarity, Structure and Content across Distinction, Merit and Pass bands.
Jury scoring
PROOF SPINE
Work below Pass is met with faculty support and re-iteration — this is executive education, not an MBA.
No fail tier
Capability is measured against the participant's own Day-1 targets and re-assessed at Day 270 by self, faculty and sponsor.
Day 1 → Day 270
The sponsor's own account of what changed — confirmation that the outcome was met.
The Boss Letter
What participants take back
01
Thirty-six built artifacts — one per week.
02
Nine studio synthesis artifacts.
03
Three defended arc deliverables.
04
A working AI solution their organisation owns and can deploy.
05
A full transformation plan with a CFO-grade business case.
06
A change playbook covering adoption, communication and resistance.
07
An agent job description, mixed-team operating model and accountability charter.
08
The AI Power Pack — a personal framework taxonomy that stays useful as tools turn over.
09
A Boss Letter — the sponsor's account of what changed.
THE CREDENTIAL
A certificate bearing the FIIB and AACSB marks: Master's Certificate in Human-Led AI Transformation.
THE FOUNDING COHORT
Every cohort brings a new set of problems. What's yours?
If your organisation has an AI challenge you have not been able to crack, tell us what it is. No commitment implied — just the start of a conversation.
THE INVESTMENT
An investment in capability your organisation keeps.
₹8,00,000 + applicable taxes
Bring the problem your organisation cannot afford to leave unresolved.
9-month build journey
EVERY SPONSORSHIP INCLUDES
Four residencies · three cities
Travel, accommodation and AI tool subscriptions are not included.
Enquire about fees and funding
Tell us where you are. An admissions counsellor responds within one business day.
1
Confirmation arrives in your inbox.
2
An admissions counsellor reaches out.
3
A short qualification conversation, then application.
FAQ
Before you pick
up the phone.
Straight answers to the questions every organisation and participant asks first.
THE DECISION
Ready to sponsor
a leader?
Bring the problem your organisation cannot afford to leave unresolved.