CPD Leading with a Design Mindset for a World Changed by AI

Today’s leaders operate in a world changed by AI, profound socio-political-economic shifts, and rapid workplace transformation. The pace of technological acceleration and market evolution now demands a new kind of leader: one who can navigate complexity with adaptability, creativity, and resilience.

This new two-day RCA executive course prepares leaders to do exactly that. While this is not a course about AI, it is a course about how to adapt and thrive in an AI-shaped world. It bridges people and business leadership through human-focused practices that foster clarity and adaptability, enabling you to shape organisational culture and build resilience.

The course draws on proven design-led tools and ways of thinking reframed for today’s context. You will work with innovative methods, learning how to apply them through a strategic, contemporary lens to unlock creativity, create market differentiation, and support long-term economic prosperity.

By the end of the course you’ll have the confidence and practical ability to apply evidence-based frameworks and in-class experience directly to your strategic priorities.

In collaboration with the Royal College of Art, this executive level course is led by Marty Zalewski – educator, design and business leader. He brings experience advancing innovation, organisational transformation, and culture change in global enterprises and across client organisations including GE, Lloyds Banking Group, Google, Vodafone, Qatar Foundation, Morgan Stanley, and others.

Joined by guest speakers: Neil Pearse (Partner in the People & Organisational Practice at McKinsey & Company in London and a leader within Aberkyn) and Annette Giardina (Chief Sustainability Officer, Avanade, which is a joint-venture between Microsoft and Accenture focused on experience-design for technology).