Oxford's Saïd Business School is launching a new executive education program focused on leadership during AI-driven disruption, with the first cohort starting June 21, 2027. The £9,500 program combines five days in Oxford with four live online sessions and is aimed at senior executives navigating technological, geopolitical, and organizational change.
Led academically by Dr Chris Moos, a University of Oxford lecturer whose research covers leadership, organizational complexity, and strategic decision-making, the program deliberately avoids the typical focus on AI tools and technical implementation. Instead, it centers on how executives make judgments under uncertainty, organize teams, and communicate decisions when information is incomplete.
Leadership context, not technology training
Moos said the program's premise inverts traditional leadership education. "Most leadership training assumes a stable world with an occasional disruption. From my research and years in the executive classroom, I think the assumption now has to run the other way," he wrote on LinkedIn.
The curriculum spans ten modules, beginning with AI, global disruption, and climate change, then moving through scenario planning, organizational redesign, talent, resilience, and boardroom leadership. Participants prepare before arriving in Oxford by identifying the disruptions affecting their own organizations, then apply the material through follow-up online sessions.
The program is pitched at executives who already carry substantial organizational responsibility - those who set strategy, lead business units, report to boards, or deal directly with AI and regulatory disruption. It is not an introduction to leadership or a technical AI course. For executives weighing how to respond to these forces, broader AI for Executives & Strategy resources can help frame the options.
Technology as one force among many
AI sits within a wider mix that includes robotics, quantum computing, human-machine integration, and geopolitical and social change. Moos said these forces do not arrive in isolation. "This is deliberately not another AI program about the technology. It's about the context in which executives now lead - and AI is rewriting that context: what counts as sound judgement, who counts as an expert, how organisations are governed and designed."
Oxford states the program's intended outcomes as stronger judgment when weighing risks and trade-offs, better ability to make sense of interacting disruptions, and improved organizational alignment. These are stated aims rather than measured results, since the first cohort has not yet run.
Executives seeking a structured path through these leadership demands can also consider the AI Learning Path for Senior Managers, which covers similar territory in a self-paced format.
Format and cost
The program includes five days at Oxford's Global Leadership Centre, the business school's purpose-built executive education facility, plus four live online sessions. Accommodation at the centre costs an additional £1,000 on top of the £9,500 program fee.
Moos's background reflects the course's leadership focus. He has spent a decade teaching executives and postgraduate students at Oxford, and previously worked in the German energy sector and as a management consultant with Deloitte in Mexico, specializing in leadership and organization design.
Why this matters for executives and strategy leaders
For executives, the program's value lies in its refusal to treat AI as a standalone technical problem. The course assumes disruption is the baseline condition, not an occasional event. That framing forces a different set of questions - about organizational design, talent, and boardroom decision-making - than most AI training addresses. Executives weighing the £9,500 investment should assess whether their organizations face the interacting pressures the program targets, and whether their current leadership approach assumes more stability than actually exists.
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