Explain AI and machine-learning capabilities in clear business language and challenge unrealistic claims.
Executive Associate Diploma · LAU ACE
Lead AI withclarity, evidence, and accountability.
AI and Data Management for Executives is a simulation-first diploma for executives who must turn AI possibility into responsible organizational value.
Created and taught by Georges Bachaalany. Delivered through the Lebanese American University Academy of Continuing Education and shaped through four completed cohorts.
- Taught
- 60h
- Capstone
- 40h
- Total
- 100h
- Cohorts completed
- 4
The diploma equation
Five 12-hour executive modules + one 40-hour applied capstone = one integrated 100-hour learning journey.
Executive outcomes
Not AI awareness. AI leadership.
Participants build the judgment to ask better questions, challenge weak assumptions, mobilize the organization, and govern what happens after a model reaches the real world.
Identify, prioritize, and govern AI opportunities that align with organizational strategy and operating realities.
Lead responsible AI adoption across data, people, process, technology, risk, and change management.
Design and defend an evidence-based AI initiative through a 40-hour executive capstone practicum.
60 taught hours
Five cores. Twenty executive sessions. One connected story.
12 hours per core
0112h
Fundamentals of AI and Machine Learning
Build the executive vocabulary and judgment required to evaluate AI, machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and agentic systems.
AI systems in 2026: signal, solution, or hype?
How AI learns, retrieves, reasons, and acts
Modern AI solution anatomy: Architecture Auction
Executive AI War Room: lead, gate, or stop?
0212h
Organizational Management with AI
Lead the organizational shift created by AI across people, processes, decision rights, culture, operating models, and human accountability.
AI and the organizational shift
The human element in AI transformation
AI-driven process transformation
Operating models and accountable leadership
0312h
Formulate, Implement and Assess AI Solutions
Translate business problems into testable AI solutions through data readiness, feature thinking, prototyping, validation, automation, and executive evaluation.
AI-ready data and decision fitness
Feature thinking and training data
Prototype, test, and evaluate
Agents, tools, and workflow automation
0412h
Ethics, Privacy and Legal AI
Convert ethical principles, privacy duties, security requirements, and the EU AI Act into practical governance decisions.
Ethics and responsible AI for leaders
Privacy, data protection, and security
The EU AI Act and risk classification
Ethics under pressure
0512h
Blending AI, Data and Business Strategy
Connect AI ambition to enterprise strategy, data advantage, use-case portfolios, operating capabilities, investment logic, and measurable outcomes.
AI strategy and competitive advantage
Use-case portfolio and prioritization
Value, investment, and success metrics
Enterprise roadmap and capstone launch
40-hour applied practicum
The capstone is the integration engine.
Apply the diploma to a real or realistic organizational challenge and defend an evidence-based AI strategy roadmap.
Final evidence
A final portfolio and executive defense demonstrating readiness to lead an AI initiative.
Milestone 016 hours
Opportunity framing and concept outline
Problem, stakeholders, baseline, strategic relevance, value hypothesis, and scope.
Approved concept outline
Milestone 028 hours
Data, feasibility, and responsible AI assessment
Data readiness, solution options, risks, legal classification, controls, and accountability.
Feasibility and governance assessment
Milestone 0312 hours
Solution design, prototype, and validation
Workflow, prototype, evaluation evidence, failure analysis, user feedback, and iteration.
Validated prototype or solution blueprint
Milestone 048 hours
Operating model, adoption, and value roadmap
Ownership, capabilities, change, investment, sequencing, metrics, and scale criteria.
Implementation and value-realization roadmap
Milestone 056 hours
Executive defense and final portfolio
Evidence synthesis, executive narrative, decision request, limitations, and next steps.
Final report, executive deck, and oral defense
Experience design
Built for the room executives actually work in.
Executive-first
Technical depth is translated into decisions, operating implications, and strategic trade-offs.
Simulation-first
Participants practice under pressure using cases, labs, games, and realistic organizational dilemmas.
Evidence-led
Every module ends with a practical artifact that can survive scrutiny outside the classroom.
Responsibility built in
Ethics, privacy, security, law, and human accountability shape the solution from the start.
Created and taught by
Georges Bachaalany
Four cohorts completed. A new cohort begins with a stronger, centralized learning experience.
The participant promise
Leave able to lead the next AI decision.
The diploma centralizes the learning path, simulations, executive toolkits, assignments, feedback, and capstone evidence in one LMS journey—without losing the energy of the live classroom.