A Clear Institutional Ambition
Develop clear institutional ambition grounded in regional priorities, global shifts, and each university’s distinctive strengths.
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
Registration Close: October 12, 2026
Program Schedule
January 4–6, 2027
Registration Close
October 12, 2026
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
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
Across three days, each participant builds a leadership agenda for their institution. The capstone connects a participant’s strategic challenge with priorities, first-year moves, risks, governance, funding, and success.
President’s Challenge
Leadership Assessment
Executive Roundtable
AI Executive Lab
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.
AI
GROW
IMPACT
DECIDE
University Leadership in the AI Era
Bentley University × Association of Arab Universities
View the Full Brochure & Get in Touch
For more information about the executive program, use the official Bentley contact details listed in the program brochure.
Registration & Payment:
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Email:
execed@bentley.edu
Phone:
781-891-2306
Executive Education:
bentley.edu/centers/executive-education
