Day 1 – Create Capacity for Change

You’ll begin by strengthening the inner foundations of people and business leadership with innovative practices designed for today’s reality. This gives you an edge that sets you apart from peers still operating with pre-AI, pre-pandemic models of leadership and change.

You’ll then learn to use design methods and tools to make sense of complex systems. These practices help you navigate ambiguity, identify emerging opportunities, and influence organisational mindset and culture with the intention. You will be able to carry this directly into your own organisation, to support work on:

• AI enablement and technology adoption
• Organisational and business strategy design
• Board-level decision-making and alignment
• Transformation and change management initiatives
• Communication strategy and storytelling for influence
• Public and commercial policy design

Day one will conclude with optional networking drinks to encourage meaningful connections with your peers.

Day 2 – Enable Strategic Growth

You’ll build on the foundations of Day 1, shifting the focus to systemic influence to explore meaningful growth across teams, organisations, and wider ecosystems.

You’ll apply evidence-based design tools and change-management methods. Through facilitated activities, you’ll learn how to design for influence and trust across complex stakeholder networks.

A highlight of the day is a Human–AI Collaboration workshop which expands leadership fluency across human, machine, and systemic intelligence.

During a Storytelling for Influence workshop, you’ll work on live challenges and learn to define narrative and apply experience-based metrics to drive team buy-in and measurable business outcomes.

The day concludes with a strategic retrospective and roadmapping exercise to translate learnings into actionable plans for immediate and long-term value across your organisation.

At the end of the course, participants will receive an RCA Certificate of Attendance, gain access to a peer network, and join a lifelong learning community to continue applying these frameworks long after the course ends.

During the course you will:

• Refresh your leadership mindset for growth and transformation, becoming more effective, grounded, and intentional in a world of accelerating being shaped by AI, socio-political-economic shifts, and workplace transformation.
• Understand yourself more deeply — as a human and a leader — strengthening presence and influence by seeing how values, ego, motivations, and unconscious conditioning shape decision-making, relationships, and impact.
• Define and track new experience-based metrics that connect human potential with business performance, value creation, and investor confidence.
• Partner effectively with AI, understanding how to collaborate with emerging technologies to accelerate insight, innovation, and ethical decision-making.
• Experience mindfulness-based techniques to maintain clarity, creativity, and emotional steadiness under pressure, while better connecting across teams.

Learning takes place in person at the RCA Battersea Campus in London.

Across this immersive two-day executive education experience, participants learn together as a group and work in smaller teams to apply concepts directly to real challenges



The sessions include a mix of:



• Short talks and lectures

• Practical exercises
and design-led activities
• Creative workshops

• Peer-to-peer learning and reflection

Please refer to the course structure for more detail.

Professionals interested in shaping meaningful impact, strengthening organisational resilience, and creating long-term value across people, businesses, and society.

• Mid to Senior Managers and Business Leaders
• Transformation and Change Leaders
• C-Suite: Chief Design Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Heads of Innovation
• People Leaders in talent, learning, and organisational development
• Consultants
• Policy Makers and Public-Sector Leaders
• Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs

Participants must:

• Have 5+ years of professional experience
• Have a good level of English language
• Be 21 years old or over