BUS 148 — AI-Powered Leadership: Transforming Impact in the Digital Age
Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Mo Lei Fong, Anita Yuen
Date(s): Jan 21—Mar 4
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
Class Meeting Time: 6:00—7:50 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class on February 18
Tuition: $560
Refund Deadline: Jan 23
Unit(s): 1
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
Quarter: Winter
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 6 weeks
Time: 6:00—7:50 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 21—Mar 4
Unit(s): 1
Tuition: $560
Refund Deadline: Jan 23
Instructor(s): Mo Lei Fong, Anita Yuen
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
Please Note: No class on February 18
Although AI adoption is widespread, few leaders and organizations have achieved true mastery—leaving a gap between basic tool use and transformational management. This course equips early- to mid-level managers to bridge that gap, enhancing their influence and effectiveness with AI while preserving the human elements of leadership and teamwork. Students will learn to apply AI workflows and techniques to strategic analysis, design bias-resistant decision frameworks, communicate with confidence, develop custom coaching approaches that accelerate team growth, and think critically about risk management and governance. Through hands-on exercises, you will also learn about the latest AI techniques and build personalized AI tools (e.g., skills and agents) tailored to your challenges and priorities while also gaining insights from forward-thinking corporate executives who have redefined how they lead with AI. You will leave with a concrete 90-day plan and custom AI solutions to advance both your organization’s goals and your leadership impact.
No technical or prior AI experience is required. This course relies on the use of an external, third-party tool that is not managed or supported by Stanford. Students must purchase their own tool subscriptions and can expect to spend $25–$100 per month. Please see the course syllabus for more details.
MO LEI FONG
Adjunct Lecturer, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford
Mo Lei Fong spent 15 years as a senior director at Google and chief compliance officer for Google payments, leading global teams across technical solutions, finance operations, and people operations. She also served as executive director of STVP, Stanford Engineering's Entrepreneurship Center. She founded LeiFongCoaching, specializing in AI-enhanced organizational effectiveness and change management and is a leadership coach at Harvard Business School. Fong received a BS in chemical engineering and an MA in education from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. ANITA YUEN
Owner, AY Advisory
Anita Yuen is a technology executive and AI advisor with over 20 years of product and marketing leadership at Google, Microsoft, and high-growth startups. She received a Google Executive Award three times and has launched AI-powered products that reached billions of users. She founded AY Advisory, providing AI strategy consulting. She received an AB in economics from Stanford, an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where she was a Mayfield Fellow, and an AI product management certification from Duke. Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.