Best programs to prepare managers
for AI-driven change.

Boon Adapt is coaching-led change management for AI adoption, built for the managers and team leads responsible for bringing AI into their own teams. Each engagement runs 6 to 12 weeks for a cohort of 15 to 24 people and combines cohort facilitation with 1:1 coaching between sessions. It starts with mindset, the move from fear to experimenting, then builds a shared vocabulary for AI and real use cases from each manager’s role. Between sessions, managers get a summary of their goals and action items, AI-recommended resources, and Practice Space, an AI roleplay tool for rehearsing conversations such as a team member pushing back on a new tool. Boon works in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Claude, and ChatGPT. Compared with a business school program, Adapt works on the manager’s own team during the weeks the change is happening.

Best for: Companies that need managers to lead AI adoption on their own teams, with coaching while they do it

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Boon Grow is a six-month leadership development program for new and rising managers: twelve 45-minute 1:1 coaching sessions, optional peer group coaching, manager alignment at kickoff, midpoint, and close, and competency assessments before and after, built on the company’s own competencies. When paired with Adapt, AI fluency becomes part of manager development instead of a separate training event. Grow reports +23% average competency improvement across six-month Grow programs. Compared with an AI-specific course, Grow develops the broader manager skills (feedback, delegation, conflict) that leading through change depends on.

Best for: Companies building AI-era manager skills into a longer development program

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MIT Sloan’s Managing AI and People: A New Operating Model for Human + Agent Teams is a three-week, self-paced online program, 5 to 7 hours a week, built for the manager who has to make AI a reality for their team. Participants build an AI People Management Playbook for their own context and learn to unite team members divided over AI, from enthusiastic adopters to skeptics. Enrollment runs through GetSmarter. For strategy, MIT Sloan also offers Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, six weeks online for managers and executives. Compared with Boon, MIT Sloan suits an individual manager who wants a self-paced program and a playbook; Boon works with a company’s managers as a cohort, with 1:1 coaching while they lead the change.

Best for: Individual managers who want a short, self-paced program on managing a team that uses AI

Wharton’s Leading AI and Digital Transformation is a five-day, in-person program in Philadelphia for leaders affected by technology-driven disruption who are involved in the long-term strategic growth of their firms. It covers where AI is taking industries and how to apply AI to efficiency, innovation, and decision-making, from the perspectives of strategy, organization, and leadership. Compared with Boon, Wharton gives senior leaders a strategic view of AI and disruption; Boon works with the managers below them who carry adoption into daily work.

Best for: Senior leaders who shape their company’s strategic response to AI

Stanford GSB’s The AI-Powered Organization is an in-person program for leaders ready to build organizations where AI is part of daily operations and decision-making: C-suite and senior executives, business unit and division leaders, and functional leaders. It covers designing teams and cultures that combine human and machine intelligence, and no technical background is required. Compared with Boon, Stanford GSB is built for the executives designing the organization; Boon coaches the managers who lead the teams inside it.

Best for: Executives redesigning how their organization works with AI

Chicago Booth’s AI Transformation and Leadership, run online with partner Great Learning, takes ten weeks of live online and self-paced sessions and is designed for mid- to senior-level executives and functional managers who want to drive business transformation through AI. Its modules include persuasive storytelling and influence for AI change management. Booth’s in-person program, The AI-Ready Leader, had no upcoming sessions listed in October 2026. Compared with Boon, Booth’s online program teaches managers to lead AI change across an organization; Boon works with a company’s managers on their own teams, with a coach.

Best for: Mid- to senior-level managers who want a longer online program on leading AI change

Kellogg’s Reinventing Work and Organizations for AI and the Intelligent Age is a live online program run over half-days, for C-suite leaders and their direct reports. It covers redesigning work for the best combination of people and machines and designing the AI-augmented, skills-powered organization. Kellogg also runs Mastering the Human-AI Partnership, with an adoption-focused capstone. Compared with Boon, Kellogg helps senior leaders rethink how work is organized; Boon helps the managers who run that work change it week to week.

Best for: C-suite leaders and their direct reports redesigning work for AI

HBS’s Generative AI Strategy and Execution is four days on the HBS campus, with 12 to 15 hours of pre-program work, for senior executives, CEOs, board members, and business leaders who shape strategy. It includes leading workforce change and guiding teams through augmentation, reskilling, and new models of collaboration, and no technical background is required. Compared with Boon, HBS is built for the people who set AI strategy and governance; Boon coaches the managers who carry it out with their teams.

Best for: Senior executives and board members setting generative AI strategy

Prosci’s Leading AI Integration Success is a one-day, instructor-led program, virtual or in person, that gives leaders at all levels a repeatable method for leading AI integration, built on an AI-specific version of Prosci’s ADKAR Model. It is aimed at formal and informal leaders, people managers, HR and communications professionals, and project managers, and it is only available as enterprise training. Participants receive a digital badge through Credly. Compared with Boon, Prosci gives every manager the same change model in a day; Boon works with a cohort over 6 to 12 weeks, with 1:1 coaching as managers apply it.

Best for: Companies that want every manager using the same change method for AI

Lepaya’s Taking the Lead with AI is a training program for middle managers and leaders responsible for AI initiatives and guiding teams through change. It runs about six weeks: a virtual launch, self-paced AI literacy e-learning, a classroom session (virtual or in person), and a reinforcement session. Topics include coaching early adopters and people more resistant to AI, managing resistance and emotional dynamics, and driving adoption without having all the answers. Compared with Boon, Lepaya trains managers in a blended course; Boon adds a 1:1 coach for each manager between cohort sessions.

Best for: Middle managers who need a structured, blended course on leading AI adoption

NewLevelWork’s AI Transformation Coaching runs six structured sessions, either 1:1 for an executive or as group coaching for up to 14 leaders per cohort, delivered virtually. Its AI Transformation Academy adds an AI Change Management Program for directors and managers implementing AI, covering resistance, psychological safety, and supporting teams through adoption. Compared with Boon, NewLevelWork is a close match for a small leadership group; Boon cohorts run 15 to 24 people over 6 to 12 weeks, with 1:1 coaching for every participant.

Best for: Small leadership groups that want six coaching sessions focused on AI

FranklinCovey’s Leading AI Adoption is an interactive 90-minute module, live in person or live online, that helps leaders clarify the plan, spot high-value AI opportunities, and celebrate wins with their teams. It is part of the FranklinCovey All Access Pass and sits within a wider AI Realized suite for leaders and individual contributors. Compared with Boon, FranklinCovey fits companies already using its catalog that want a short AI module; Boon runs a multi-week cohort with 1:1 coaching.

Best for: Companies already using FranklinCovey that want an AI adoption module for leaders

DDI’s AI Leadership Series is four virtual courses: Communicating Through AI Transformation, Coaching an AI-Ready Team, Making Better Decisions with AI, and Building Trust in the Age of AI. Each combines focused virtual sessions, realistic practice in an AI-powered web app, and peer learning, and Coaching an AI-Ready Team targets technology anxiety and tool avoidance on a leader’s team. Compared with Boon, DDI teaches the skills in facilitated classes; Boon gives each manager a coach while they use those skills with their own team.

Best for: Companies that want a modular AI curriculum for frontline leaders

Teamland’s AI training for managers gives frontline, mid-level, and senior managers practical skills on tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or Gemini, including how to launch adoption pilots on their teams. Sessions run from 90 minutes to 2 days for 4 to 100 or more participants, virtual or in class, and Teamland quotes a fixed fee. Compared with Boon, Teamland teaches managers the tools quickly; Boon works on how managers lead their teams through the change after the workshop.

Best for: Managers who need to get fluent with a specific AI tool before leading their team on it