Leading AI-driven Business Transformation for C-suite and Business Leaders
Microcredential

10 credits which can be built towards a Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Management Practice

Level(s) of Study: Short course; Professional
Course Fee: 795 GB Pounds per person
Study Mode(s): Full-time
Duration: Three days
Venue: City Campus Nottingham, UK
Start Date: 2 June 2026 - Can be delivered to your group on your premises, if requested

This microcredential is designed for C-suite executives, directors, and senior leaders (particularly in SMEs) who are responsible for business growth, operations, transformation, innovation, or digital strategy.

Introduction

AI is moving fast, but many organisations still struggle to turn ambition into measurable results. This microcredential is built for C-suite leaders and SME directors who want to turn AI into measurable business transformation – and reclaim time in the process – without needing to code or build models.

Across three intensive days, you’ll cut through the noise around AI and Generative AI, learn what works in real organisations, and see practical examples of how leaders use AI to do more in less time. You’ll explore real SME case studies, identify high-impact opportunities, and take a hands-on approach to implementation through simple agent building, workflow automation, and rapid experimentation methods such as A/B testing.

You’ll learn how to automate low-value tasks so teams can focus on the work that truly drives growth, and how to measure impact, manage risk, and scale what works. You’ll leave with a clear AI adoption and scaling roadmap tailored to your organisation.

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What you'll study
You’ll study how to lead AI-driven business transformation end-to-end: understanding GenAI in a business context, assessing readiness, selecting the right opportunities, testing ideas quickly, automating low-value work, and measuring impact. The focus is on building a realistic adoption and scaling roadmap for your team and organisation.

Core themes include:

GenAI in real business contexts
AI transformation across people, processes, and value creation
Readiness assessment (data, culture, skills, leadership)
Use-case identification and prioritisation
A/B testing and experimentation for new ideas
Automation of repetitive tasks
Measuring productivity gains and ROI

Day 1: Strategy readiness and building the knowledge base

Business context and knowledge base development what AI and GenAI can realistically do today and where they add value
AI-driven transformation across people processes and value creation
Assessing readiness across data leadership skills and culture
CBIT (Centre for Business and Industry Transformation) SME case studies on what successful adoption looks like and what to avoid

Day 2: Hands-on implementation, agent building and automation

Translating use cases into implementable workflows and quick wins
Hands-on sessions using practical tools to build simple AI agents and automations for real business tasks
A/B testing products, services and ideas using AI to validate fast and reduce risk
Identifying and automating repetitive low-value work to release capacity across teams

Day 3: Governance scaling value and technology showcase

Measuring impact productivity gains and ROI and building the business case for scale
Building your AI adoption and scaling roadmap
Technology showcase of leading tools, approaches and practical demos relevant to SMEs and senior leaders

How you're taught

This course is delivered in person over 3 full days, followed by a 2-hour online drop-in session. Teaching combines short expert-led inputs, live demonstrations, real SME case studies, facilitated discussion and hands-on implementation activities, all focused on helping delegates lead AI-driven business transformation in their organisations.

Delegates will be taught how to use the latest AI and Generative AI technologies to drive practical business transformation. This includes identifying transformation opportunities across operations and workflows, automating low-value tasks, an introduction to AI agent building and workflow automation, testing new ideas and services through A/B testing, and building a clear AI adoption and scaling roadmap to support growth, efficiency, and better use of leadership and team time.

As this is a 10-credit postgraduate level 7 course you will complete an assignment. Once successfully completed, the 10 credits at level 7 can be used to build towards our Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Management Practice.

Your Facilitator
This course is delivered by: Georgi Iliev Venture and Product Development Manager

Georgi currently lectures within the Innovation and Business Transformation, and Establishing a New Venture modules as part of MSc Business Transformation. Georgi is co-module leader in Innovation & Business Transformation and Business Transformation Project.

Career overview

Technology Lead
WMG Accelerator, University of Warwick
- Head of Product/New Product Development
- Understand and harness the underlying capabilities of companies to then align them better to appropriate markets.
- Cohort technical evaluation
- Improve their business processes, co-develop/evaluate their business flow diagram and user flow diagram and help them achieve a solid user-centred design.
- Scoping and co-developing various research funded bids – secured over £160,000 for WMG Accelerator
- Helped cohort businesses secure over £7million in both government and private funding

Supervisor and educational assistant
WMG, University of Warwick - MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IAE)

- Designing and developing the course to become the number 1 ranked entrepreneurship master’s programme in the UK
- Involved with the delivery of ENB (“Establishing a new business”) module
- Teaching the principles of Agile methodology and the SCRUM framework

Software Developer
WMG, University of Warwick, Business Transformation Team
- Automated Post Processing for Metal AM (PLATFORM) – InnovateUK
- Integrated Manufacture of Polymer and Conductive Tracks (IMPACT) – InnovateUK
- KET4CleanProduction – EU Horizon2020
- Responsible for managing existing platforms and repositories – Privelt (IUK funded project-public license), UKCCM