Foundations · 2 Days
Building Your Productivity Edge with AI
Gain the knowledge and skills to take you from casual AI use to meaningful productivity gains.
Put AI to Work
Our programs build real AI implementation capability for yourself, your team, or your organization starting from foundational or advanced levels. Learn from the AI experts at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. Put AI to work immediately on your specific needs in applied learning sessions.
Our Programs
The AI Academy is organized around three dimensions: your own productivity, your team or organization's productivity, and leading organization-wide change.
Personal Productivity
Foundations · 2 Days
Advanced · 2 Days (Coming Soon)
Mastering AI Agents, Automations & Workflows for Personal Productivity
You’re getting good results from AI, one prompt at a time. Now use it to handle routine work, and spend time on the decisions that matter.
Organizational Productivity
Foundations · 2 Days
Leading an AI-Ready Organization
Gain a clear, executive-level understanding of AI and Generative AI, with hands-on exposure to tools that enhance productivity, innovation, and data-driven decision-making.
Advanced · 2 Days
Building an AI-Powered Organization
Discover how to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and improve customer experiences by embracing digital technologies and processes.
OR
Combined Bundle · 4.5 Days
AI for Leaders
Learn how to transform your organization by integrating analytics and AI into business operations and gain actionable insights to improve the success rate of AI projects.
Organizational Change
Transformation · 2 Days
Leading Organizational Transformation in the Age of AI
Leading technology-driven organizational transformation demands a different approach. Learn to reshape mindsets, redesign processes, shift behaviour, and establish new ways of working.
AI Academy Certificate
Demonstrate your expertise across multiple dimensions of AI application
Two ways to earn the Certificate:
- Complete four of our two-day programs, or
- Complete AI for Leaders, Leading Organizational Transformation in the Age of AI, and Building Your Productivity Edge with AI
Queen’s Advantage
Why Queen’s Executive Education AI Academy
Trusted Experts Grounded in Research
Programs are taught by expert Smith School of Business faculty who work, research, and teach AI for business impact. They dispel hype and give you real, evidence-based learnings and strategies that you can implement with confidence.
Faculty SpotlightApplied Learning for Immediate Impact
Bring the needs of your own work and organization to the classroom to use in applied learning sessions. Get direct, individual guidance on effectively deploying AI in your day-to-day contexts. Leave with immediately applicable learnings designed for you.
Immersive Approach for True Learning
Substantive, focused programs with personal attention means you get real learning you will retain and can apply meaningfully on an ongoing basis.
No Technical Background Required
We give you the context and frameworks to develop excellent judgment for AI use by yourself or your organization.
A Pathway to Demonstrate Capability
Earn a digital badge for each program. Complete a program in each category – personal productivity, organizational productivity, and organizational change – and earn the AI Academy Certificate demonstrating your robust command of AI.
Program Spotlight
Immersive Bundle
AI for Leaders
Complete the organizational productivity track in one immersive week. AI for Leaders covers the ground of both 2-day organization programs, then goes further: 4.5 days in residence on the grounds of Queen’s University, a cohort you live and work alongside, and a personalized AI playbook you build as the week unfolds.
- Location: 4.5 days at the Donald Gordon Centre, Kingston
- Upcoming Dates: Dates injected by js
- Tuition: $11,000 (Includes accommodation, dining, and post-program support)
Session Leaders: Ceren Kolsarici, Murray Lei, and Stephen Thomas
View AI for Leaders Program“This was my first experience with Queen’s but it won't be my last. The course itself was wonderful, including content and delivery. I look forward to using what I learned to better my organization. Queen’s has a superstar team of people who pay so much attention to detail and really made the experience all that it could be.”
Sam Salituro
IT Business Partner, WSIB
IT Business Partner, WSIB
“I was very impressed with this program. I've collected a great deal of knowledge which will be immediately relevant for my current role.”
Andrew Hanna
Senior Director, Technology Operations, 360Insights
Senior Director, Technology Operations, 360Insights
World-Class Educators
Learn from Smith’s AI and Digital Faculty
Academy programs are taught by Smith School of Business professors who research, build, and consult on these technologies every day.
Stephen Thomas
Assistant Professor & Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Management Analytics
Teaches On
AI for LeadersBuilding Your Productivity Edge with AI Leading an AI-Ready Organization Building an AI-Powered Organization
Ceren Kolsarici
Assistant Professor, Management Analytics
Teaches On
AI for Leaders Leading an AI-Ready Organization Building an AI-Powered Organization
Murray Lei
Assistant Professor, Management Analytics
Teaches On
AI for Leaders Leading an AI-Ready Organization Building an AI-Powered Organization
Kathryn Brohman
Associate Professor, Digital Business & Strategy Execution
Teaches On
Leading Organizational Transformation
Abayomi Baiyere
Associate Professor & Distinguished Research Fellow, Digital Technology
Teaches On
Leading Organizational Transformation