Leading Teams with AI (online)
Lead teams and processes more effectively through the careful evaluation, selection and implementation of AI tools.
Leading Teams with AI Overview

Create impact as a manager and leader by using AI to propel your team's performance.
Leading Teams with AI is a short course which explores the potential of Generative AI in your organisation, team and group projects.
Explore the historical context of AI, essential leadership skills for the AI-driven landscape, and crucial legal, privacy and ethical considerations to ensure the responsible application of AI.
Learn to identify high-impact AI opportunities, select suitable tools, and seamlessly navigate implementation. From managing team transitions to optimising AI impact, gain practical skills to drive change in your workplace.
Who Should Attend the Leading Teams with AI program?
Mid-career to Senior Professionals
- Our short course is tailored for mid-career business professionals who oversee teams and manage multifaceted projects involving various stakeholders.
- We cater to ambitious individuals eager to streamline processes, enhance decision-making agility, and gain confidence in harnessing AI and emerging technologies in their work environments. Our learners seek to responsibly adopt and leverage new technologies to drive impactful changes within their teams and spheres of influence.
Leading Teams with AI Key Takeaways
Acquire Essential Knowledge of the Value, Uses and Impact of AI in Organisations
- Understand the purpose, evolution and potential of AI in business environments.
- Learn about the risks, responsibilities and benefits for leaders who use AI to manage teams.
- Understand key applications of Generative AI and identify your potential use cases.
Determine Opportunities to Maximise your Team's Performance and Impact Using AI
- Plot your team’s processes and determine areas for efficiencies.
- Become a data-driven leader who fosters a data-centric work culture.
- Use key metrics to demonstrate tangle benefits of using AI to improve your workflows.
Learn how to Evaluate, Select and Implement AI Tools in Your Team and Organisation
- Explore and experiment with tools to evaluate the best options for your use case.
- Learn the practical steps to assessing organisational suitability, readiness and buy-in for adopting AI tools.
- Create an implementation plan to enable your team's successful adoption of AI tools.
Leading Teams with AI Topics Covered

Introduction to AI for Leaders

Data-driven Decision-making

Ethics, Risks and Governance

Evaluating AI Tools

Implementing AI Solutions

Monitoring and Measuring Impact
Expand or Deepen the Capabilities of Your People

Melbourne Business School’s short courses cater to organisations looking to expand or deepen the capabilities of their executive leadership team in a complex, ever-evolving business environment.
This leader-led change will empower your team to tackle any future business challenges as a united force. For organisations enrolling multiple participants across our short courses within a 12-month period, tailored group pricing may be available.
Program EnquiryKey Facilitators

Wendy Glasgow
HEAD OF DATA, CANVA
Wendy has over 20 years’ experience in product and data technology leading large, diverse, and international teams. She has held senior positions in the UK, France and Australia at Microsoft, Google, OFX and most recently Canva leading key areas including Data and AI strategy, governance and development. Wendy is an advocate for diversity, equality, building strong teams and developing strong organisational culture.

Geoff Pidcock
DATA AND ANALYTICS MANAGER, ANSTO
Trained as a Materials Scientist, Geoff moved into business and then data, leading the marketing data team at Salesforce, the Customer Analytics team within Atlassian, and now the Commercial Analytics team within ANSTO. Some of Geoff's work has been featured by Google as the first Australian use case for geospatial analytics and machine learning on a global transport dataset. Geoff has experience in GenAI, geospatial, marketing, product, and customer data science, and introduced an internal GenAI system at Atlassian.

Simon Jackson
FOUNDER OF HYPERGROWTH DATA
Simon Jackson is the CEO of Hypergrowth Data, helping businesses significantly improve performance with data. He is a data science expert with over 13 years' experience, having held senior technical and leadership positions at titans like Meta, Booking.com, and Canva. Simon holds a PhD in decision making, has worked in 5 countries, and built and led globally distributed teams of over 30 data specialists. His leadership has helped businesses build data capabilities to deliver outcomes such as doubling profit margins.

Kanika Goel
MANAGER DATA AND AI CONSULTING, DELOITTE
Dr Kanika Goel is a manager in the Data & AI practice of Deloitte consulting services. She has led several large-scale digital transformation projects, which have had strategic impact for organisations. Kanika has also researched extensively in the areas of data and process analytics as well as business process intelligence and has presented her work at renowned national and international conferences. Kanika is passionate about data and its potential to transform businesses. She believes in leveraging data, processes, and information technology to reform business operations.

Matthew Newman
Matthew Newman is the founder of TechInnocens, a consultancy helping organisations find their path with Artificial Intelligence and other frontier technologies. With over 25 years' experience helping some of the world’s biggest organisations understand and navigate exponential technology to increase competitiveness and efficiency. He has worked in the US, across Europe, South Asia, Asia Pacific and Australia for global organisations providing balance between opportunity, risk, reputation and trust in the achievement of technology outcomes. He advises government, NGOs and standards organisations on the Responsible-Use of AI and AI Safety.
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