AI for Business Leaders: Turn Hype into Responsible Advantage (Video course)

Description

1 Hour of Video Instruction

Turn AI capability into business advantage without sacrificing trust, accountability, or people.

Overview

AI-powered offerings promise to replace human labor and solve every business challenge. This course helps leaders separate marketing hype from applications that genuinely enhance decision-making and organizational performance.

This course gives business leaders a practical, nontechnical framework for leading AI adoption responsibly. Learners explore how to evaluate where AI creates real business value, recognize its limitations and tradeoffs, and apply leadership judgment across strategy, risk, governance, accountability, and organizational change.

People remain at the core of resilient organizations. This course helps leaders build the judgment needed to preserve trust, keep humans meaningfully in the loop, communicate transparently as roles evolve, and use AI to scale insight without replacing accountability.

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Learn How To

• Evaluate where AI creates real business value
• Apply leadership judgment to decisions involving AI
• Recognize the limitations, tradeoffs, and second-order effects of AI
• Lead AI adoption responsibly
• Challenge overhyped AI proposals and identify when AI may introduce more risk than value
• Balance innovation with fairness, transparency, privacy, security, and organizational trust
• Keep humans in the loop where expertise, judgment, and lived experience matter most
• Build a culture of responsible innovation without sacrificing accountability or people

Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and decision-makers who want to understand the strategic role of AI and lead its use responsibly within their organizations. It is well suited for leaders seeking a high-level, nontechnical perspective on generative AI, organizational impact, and responsible adoption. No prior technical or coding experience is required, making the course accessible to professionals across operations, strategy, marketing, HR, finance, and other nontechnical functions.

About Pearson Video Training

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Generative AI, Judgment, and Business Value

1.1 AI for Business Leaders

1.2 Where AI Creates Real Business Value

1.3 Cost, Tradeoffs, and SecondOrder Effects

1.4 Limits, Failure Modes, and Overconfidence

1.5 Spotting AI Hype and Knowing When Not to Use AI

Lesson 2: Responsible AI as Leadership Responsibility

2.1 Responsible AI: Beyond Principles and Policies

2.2 Fairness: Defining and Defending Tradeoffs

2.3 Transparency: Leadership Decisions About Explanation and Trust

2.4 Privacy: Consent, Control, and Reputational Risk

2.5 Security: AI Risk as Organizational Risk

2.6 Sensitive and HighStakes Use Cases

Lesson 3: Leading AI in Organizations

3.1 Leadership Accountability and AI Decision Ownership

3.2 Trust, Change, and Organizational Readiness

3.3 Keeping Humans in the Loop Where It Matters Most

3.4 Subject Matter Expertise as Strategic Advantage

3.5 ProWorker AI and the Future of Work

3.6 Leading a Culture of Responsible Innovation

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