Bentley University - Executive and Professional Education
Executive Leadership Program for the Association of Arab Universities
Three Days. One Leadership Agenda.

Leading in the AI Era

Future-ready universities learn as quickly as the world changes. This program helps senior leaders set a distinctive direction, align institutional capabilities, and convert strategy into measurable educational, workforce, and societal impact.

January 4–6, 2027
3-Day Executive Program
Bentley University, Boston – USA
Program Schedule January 4–6, 2027
Fee Including Accommodation $3,900 USD
Participants Maximum 2 Participants per University
Target Cohort Up to 30 Senior Leaders
What Leaders Will Develop

From Institutional Ambition to Measurable Execution

The program focuses on setting a clear institutional ambition, identifying the capabilities needed to compete and collaborate, and translating that ambition into a focused execution roadmap.

Future-Ready University Leadership

Strategy, Capabilities & Execution

An executive learning experience that brings together strategic direction, AI fluency, institutional capability alignment, and disciplined execution.

3 Intensive Days
90 Day Initial Action Agenda

A Clear Institutional Ambition

Develop clear institutional ambition grounded in regional priorities, global shifts, and each university’s distinctive strengths.

Capabilities to Compete and Collaborate

Identify capabilities in interdisciplinary design, AI and digital fluency, experiential learning, workforce intelligence, partnerships, and organizational agility.

A Focused Execution Roadmap

Translate ambition into a focused execution roadmap with accountable leaders, milestones, measures, and an initial 90-day action agenda.

A Focused Learning Experience

Explore. Examine. Practice. Apply.

Four practical lenses help leaders understand AI’s impact and make stronger enterprise-level decisions.

01

Explore

How AI is changing strategy, competition, and business models.

02

Examine

Opportunity alongside governance, ethics, and implementation risk.

03

Practice

Designing transformation with evidence and a framework to deliver it.

04

Apply

Frameworks to decisions that matter across the enterprise.

Three Days. One Leadership Agenda.

Executive Program Agenda

The program focuses on leading a university in the AI era, combining faculty insight, case discussion, simulations, peer dialogue, action planning, and an innovation tour.

Day 1

Setting the Direction

  • The University in 2035: What Will Change, What Will Remain?
  • Strategic Leadership in the AI Era
  • AI for University Leaders: What Executives Need to Know
  • Executive Decision Lab: The AI University
Day 2

Mobilizing + Aligning Institutional Capabilities

★ Innovation Tour
  • Leading Transformation in Academic Institutions
  • The Human Leader in the Age of AI
  • From Data to Decisions: The Evidence-Driven University
  • Leading Talent and the Workforce of the Future
Day 3

Execution for Impact

  • Governing AI Responsibly
  • The Innovative and Entrepreneurial University
  • Leading a Globally Competitive University
  • Financial Sustainability and New Business Models
  • Executive Capstone: My University 2030 Agenda
From Learning to Leadership Action

Executive Capstone

A Leadership Agenda for Your Institution

Turn a Strategic Challenge into Priorities and Action

The program features an executive capstone, My University 2030 Agenda, linking institutional priorities to an execution roadmap with clear ownership, milestones, measures, and an initial 90-day action agenda.

President’s Challenge
Leadership Assessment
Executive Roundtable
AI Executive Lab
Why Bentley University?

Where Business, Technology & Leadership Meet

The following rankings and indicators are quoted from the official program brochure.

#12Best College in the U.S.Wall Street Journal
#1Career Services in the U.S.The Princeton Review
#2Most Innovative University in the NorthU.S. News & World Report
#8Return on Investment in the U.S.U.S. News & World Report
Top 5U.S. Master's in FinanceFinancial Times 2026
98%Career Placement RatePer official brochure
Who Should Attend

Senior Leaders Shaping the University’s Future

The program is designed for senior leaders and executives shaping strategy, growth, innovation, AI adoption, enterprise policy, or organizational transformation.

Strategy Growth & Innovation AI Adoption Organizational Transformation
AI GROW IMPACT DECIDE
University Leadership in the AI Era
Bentley University × Association of Arab Universities

View the Full Brochure & Get in Touch

For information about the program, registration, and fees, contact Mr. Ziad Amara, Director of Public & International Relations, Association of Arab Universities, as listed in the official brochure.

Registration & Payment: Program fee: $3,900 USD including accommodation. Registration and payment links are taken from the new official brochure.
Contact: Mr. Ziad Amara – Director of Public & International Relations
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