Every vendor now sells AI agents, pilots are multiplying and the board wants to know who is accountable. This self-paced executive certificate is for CEOs, CXOs, function heads and senior managers who fund, govern and lead. You make the decisions in four simulations: an investment committee, an agent policy you set and watch run, a quarterly review of five pilots and a leadership offsite. About 4 hours, vendor-neutral, no code.
Bodhih Agentic AI for Leaders is a self-paced executive certificate for CEOs, CXOs, function heads and senior managers who decide where AI agents go. In about 4 hours across four modules, leaders learn to tell real agents from agent washing, fund a balanced portfolio, set autonomy and oversight by risk, measure value net of checking, and lead people through the change. Four decision simulations put them in the chair. It needs no coding, works with any AI tool and ends in a verifiable leadership certificate.
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A sales deck promises an autonomous agent and a double-digit margin uplift, with no references and no permission controls. Telling a real agent from agent washing, and an agent from a simpler automation, is the first call a leader has to get right.
Each pilot reports hours saved. None counts the hours people spend checking, fixing and supervising the agent, or its running cost, and nobody set a baseline or a stop rule before it started. So nothing is scaled and nothing is stopped.
Meanwhile staff worry about their jobs and some already use AI tools nobody approved. Leaders need a clear risk appetite, an oversight standard, a governance group and an honest message, and executive programmes that teach them cost thousands and take weeks.
You set the ambition and answer to the board. You will leave able to defend a funded agent portfolio, a risk appetite and an all-staff message.
You decide where agents run, what they cost, who checks them and what they may touch. The Role Lens sets each module’s sorting exercise to your function.
You choose and own the pilots. You will set baselines, thresholds and stop dates, and report value honestly at the quarterly review.
A leadership team that takes the course together shares one language for agent decisions, and each leader’s dated record shows the before and after.
This course is not for people who will design, configure or test agents themselves: they should take Bodhih Agentic AI for Business Professionals. It is also not a legal or governance qualification; governance specialists should look at Responsible AI and Data Privacy or a professional certification.
Four dated figures, each linked to its source.
Gartner predicts that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027, citing rising costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls.
Gartner press release (prediction; figures read via a secondary report), 25 June 2025Of large organisations (over US$1 billion revenue) said they are scaling AI agents, up from 27%.
McKinsey, The State of AI, 25 August 2026Of AI users surveyed said their leadership is clearly aligned on AI.
Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026 (vendor research), 5 May 2026Microsoft’s survey found that organisational factors outweigh individual ones in the impact of AI.
Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026 (vendor research), 5 May 2026Executive programmes teach with cases and frameworks. This course puts you in the chair four times, with meters that move, consequences you can see and a debrief that shows the stronger move. Imagine walking into your next board meeting with a one-page agent portfolio, an autonomy cap for every use and a dated 90-day plan you have already rehearsed.
Ask five questions of any vendor or internal proposal, and tell an agent from a fixed automation or a chat assistant at portfolio level.
Score candidate uses and sort them into scale now, fix foundations first, simpler automation or not now, with stage gates and a foundations budget.
Cap the autonomy each agent use may have from its risk tier, and demand a named owner, checkpoints, logs, an incident route and an off switch.
Explain which EU AI Act duties apply and when, after the 2026 amendment, and where NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and India’s MeitY guidelines fit. Not legal advice.
Count checking, fixing, supervision and running cost, set baselines and thresholds before a pilot, and decide to scale, fix or stop on evidence.
Redesign roles and decision rights, put capacity before headcount, involve workers’ representatives, set up the AI governance group and run a dated 90-day plan.
The pathway runs in order: a 10-minute baseline, then Module 1 · Agent strategy: where the value is; Module 2 · Risk, autonomy and oversight; Module 3 · Measuring value: pilots, metrics and stop or scale; and Module 4 · Leading the change: people, governance and your 90-day plan. Each module has a simulation, an at-work step, an 8-item check and short boosters two and seven days later. A 12-question final leads to the certificate.
Measured before you start and again on the same instrument at the end, so the change is recorded rather than claimed.
The leadership baseline, Form A: 12 scenario questions on all four competencies, about 10 minutes. It is not pass/fail; it sets your baseline, and you take a parallel final at the end.
What agents change in the operating model, how to spot agent washing and how to build a balanced agent portfolio with stage gates. Scenario Sim: The investment committee.
Setting autonomy from risk, the oversight to demand for every agent and the EU AI Act and other duties at board level. Agent Flight Deck mission: Service Recovery Desk: set the policy.
Business cases net of checking, fixing, supervision and running cost, baselines and thresholds set before a pilot, and scale, fix or stop decisions. Scenario Sim: The quarterly review.
Roles, skills and trust, honest communication, the AI governance group and a dated 90-day plan. Scenario Sim: The leadership offsite.
The final assessment, loaded from Form B: 12 parallel leadership scenarios, about 12 minutes. Score 70% or more (3 attempts) for your leadership certificate, which shows your before and after.
Finishing this pathway issues a credential backed by the evidence you produced along the way. It is verifiable by link and is also issued as an Open Badge 2.0, so an employer can check it without taking your word for it.
Set the agent ambition and the portfolio, answer the board’s questions and write the message to staff about what changes and what does not.
Decide where agents run first, set autonomy levels and checkpoints for each use, and chair the quarterly review of the pilot portfolio.
Test business cases net of checking, fixing, supervision and running cost, set stop rules before pilots start and report value to the board.
Redesign roles and decision rights, plan skills, put capacity before headcount and involve workers’ representatives early.
Require least privilege, logs, an incident route and an off switch for every agent, and treat instructions inside emails and files as information.
In sales, service, marketing or operations, choose two pilots, set baselines and thresholds, and report honestly, including the ones to stop.
What comes with the course, and what makes the practice different.
The investment committee (spend a US$1.2 million agent fund, with a vendor in the room), Service Recovery Desk: set the policy (set an agent’s goal, rules, autonomy and step budget, then watch a Monday morning’s run), The quarterly review (scale, fix or stop five pilots) and The leadership offsite (one all-staff message and a 90-day plan).
The simulations use Calderra Supplies, a fictional distributor, and the same agents your agent owners meet in Agentic AI for Business Professionals, so leaders and teams discuss the same cases.
The AI Use Policy and Governance Kit, The Team Goals and OKR Cycle Kit and The Delegation and Workload Planner: templates for risk tiers, oversight plans, review cycles and decision rights.
See the governance kitCompany seats, usually bought as packs of five, with each leader’s modules and baseline and final scores on a dated record. A live In-House Workshop is delivered by Bodhih Training and quoted separately.
Ask about leadership packs| What is compared | A typical agentic AI course for leaders | Agentic AI for Leaders at Bodhih |
|---|---|---|
| Time and format | A 3 to 7 hour video primer, or a live programme of 4 days to 5 months on fixed dates. | About 4 hours, self-paced, so each leader fits it around the diary. |
| Price | Primers are free to audit; executive programmes run from £1,700 to US$7,900, or ₹1 to 1.6 lakh plus GST (examples checked November 2026). | $119, or $99 per company seat. |
| Vendor | Primers are often built around one vendor’s agent builder. | Vendor-neutral: the decisions apply to whichever assistants and agent platforms you use. |
| Practice | Cases and discussion, or a lab that builds an agent. | Three decision simulations and one Agent Flight Deck mission, each with meters, consequences and a debrief. |
| Measuring value | Hours saved, reported gross. | Value net of checking, fixing, supervision and running cost, with stop rules set before the pilot. |
| Measurement and faculty | Live faculty, peers and a university brand at the top end; a completion certificate at the low end. | A before-and-after measure on parallel forms. No live faculty or cohort; an In-House Workshop is available. |
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An AI agent is given a goal and tools, and works in a loop: it plans, acts, checks the result and continues until the goal is met or it needs a person. Unlike a chat assistant, it takes actions in your systems, so the leader’s questions are where it may act alone, what it must ask first, and who is accountable for the result.
It is for CEOs and managing directors, CXOs, function heads, directors, senior managers and board members who decide on agent investments, risk and change. CEOs, COOs, CHROs, L&D heads and AI programme leads buy it for their leadership teams. People who will build or run agents should take Agentic AI for Business Professionals instead.
No. The course is about decisions: strategy, risk, measurement and leading people. Nothing is built, no technical background is assumed and no paid AI tool is needed, because the simulations and the Agent Flight Deck mission run inside the course.
About 4 hours in all: four modules of about 45 minutes, a 10-minute baseline and a 12-question final. It is self-paced, and most leaders finish in about 2 weeks alongside their work.
The course costs $119 for an individual, and $99 per seat for companies. The price includes the four modules and their simulations, both assessments, the leadership certificate and three complimentary Pro Kits.
You receive the Bodhih Agentic AI for Leaders leadership certificate, issued as an Open Badge 2.0 with a verify page and a PDF, when you score 70% or more on the final (3 attempts). It shows your before and after. It is a Bodhih certificate, not a university or professional qualification; if you need a university brand, live faculty and a cohort, see our buyer’s guide.
Agentic AI for Business Professionals is a longer, hands-on course for people who brief, configure, test and supervise agents. Agentic AI for Leaders is a shorter course for the leaders who fund, govern and lead. Both use the same fictional company and agents, so a leadership team and its agent owners talk about the same cases.
Yes. Company seats cost $99 each; leadership teams usually buy packs of five seats, and you can add more. For a live session, ask about the In-House Workshop, delivered by Bodhih Training and quoted separately. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
Yes, at board level: the risk-based approach, the dates after the 2026 AI Omnibus amendment (high-risk rules for Annex III systems from 2 December 2027), AI literacy under Article 4, human oversight with real authority, the ban on emotion inference at work and the penalty bands. It also places NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and India’s voluntary MeitY guidelines. It is not legal advice.
No course can do that. Each leader’s dated record (modules completed, baseline and final scores) can support your evidence of the measures you have taken under EU AI Act Article 4, and of competence and awareness under ISO/IEC 42001 clauses 7.2 and 7.3. It supports these; it does not certify compliance.
Yes. Module 3 teaches value net of checking, fixing, supervision and running cost, baselines and thresholds set before a pilot, and scale, fix or stop decisions, with a worked five-pilot portfolio. Notice how different the numbers look once the checking is counted. It does not prepare you for any outside certification.
The course is $119 for an individual, or $99 per seat for companies. You can start today with the 10-minute baseline, then sit on the investment committee in Module 1. For a leadership team or an In-House Workshop, write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
Starting records where you stand today. That baseline is what the re-measurement is compared against, and it is never rewritten afterwards.
Set up, supervise and test AI agents without code, in the hands-on Agent Flight Deck lab.
Lead your team’s AI use safely and lawfully: the 2026 rules, three Scenario Sims and a real AI register entry.
Four hours of hands-on AI literacy for every employee, with a measured before-and-after score.
Measure your team first, plan each person’s growth after, or bring a trainer or coach in. Bodhih’s sister companies cover the rest of the journey.