Agentic AI for Leaders

Agentic AI for Leaders is a two-day advanced AIM short course focused on strategic judgement, governance and executive oversight for Agentic AI. Participants learn structured frameworks to assess organisational readiness, define operational boundaries, strengthen escalation capability and make defensible decisions about deploying, scaling, constraining or withdrawing autonomous systems within organisational workflows.

Agentic AI refers to AI systems that can plan, act and adapt independently across multiple steps to complete goals — rather than simply responding to a single prompt or executing a fixed process. Unlike traditional automation or generative AI tools, agentic AI can break tasks down, make decisions along the way, interact with other systems and adjust its approach based on what it encounters. For leaders, this shift creates a fundamentally new governance challenge: when an AI system is acting autonomously, questions of accountability, decision authority, oversight and risk management become more complex and more consequential. Agentic AI for Leaders addresses exactly these questions — giving senior professionals the strategic clarity and governance capability to lead effectively in an environment where AI is no longer just a tool being used, but a system taking action.

Agentic AI for Leaders develops the strategic judgement, governance thinking and executive oversight capability that leaders need to direct agentic AI responsibly and effectively. Upon completion you will be better equipped to: evaluate where agentic AI creates genuine organisational value and where it introduces risk that requires active leadership attention; exercise sound strategic judgement about which decisions and processes can involve agentic AI and which must remain under direct human authority; establish governance structures, oversight mechanisms and accountability frameworks that keep leaders genuinely in control as AI systems act more autonomously; manage the organisational, cultural and reputational dimensions of agentic AI adoption — including stakeholder trust, workforce impact and the expectations of customers, regulators and boards; and respond with confidence when agentic AI systems encounter exceptions, produce unexpected outcomes or create situations that require executive-level intervention. Please verify the complete list of learning outcomes on the course page before enrolling.

AIM's Digital Skills faculty includes three courses that address different dimensions of AI and agentic AI for non-technical professionals. Responsible AI Leadership is a two-day course that addresses AI governance, ethics and leadership strategy at an organisational level — it covers how to lead AI adoption responsibly across an organisation, including policy, culture and risk management. Designing Workflows for Agentic AI is a two-day advanced course for operations, product and process improvement professionals who need to design, map and govern the workflows through which agentic AI is embedded into day-to-day work. Agentic AI for Leaders is the executive-level course in the agentic AI suite — focused on strategic judgement, governance oversight and the accountability decisions that leaders must own as agentic AI systems take on greater autonomy within their organisations. The three courses are complementary and can be attended in any order, though a foundational understanding of AI concepts — such as that developed in AI Essentials for Business — is beneficial before attending any of them.

Two days (9:00 am–5:00 pm each day) on campus in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra, or as a live virtual classroom (9:00 am–5:00 pm AEDT/AEST). In some instances, virtual sessions are scheduled between 11:00 am and 7:00 pm to accommodate participants in Western Australia or those who prefer a later start time — specific session times are shown throughout the booking process. Group Training in-house delivery is also available, with content contextualised to your organisation's specific governance challenges, AI use cases and industry environment. A shared learning experience is particularly effective for executive and senior leadership teams developing a common approach to agentic AI oversight and accountability.

An industry-recognised AIM digital certificate of attainment to print or share electronically on LinkedIn and other professional platforms. For leaders who want to extend this capability into a formally assessed postgraduate credential covering technology strategy and cybersecurity governance, AIM Business School's Graduate Certificate in Technology and Cybersecurity is the relevant higher education pathway — an AQF Level 8 qualification with a direct route to the MBA. Contact an AIM Training Advisor on 1300 658 337 to confirm current pricing and upcoming dates for Agentic AI for Leaders.