MasterClass Executive
A new kind of business education built by the world’s best.
What is MasterClass Executive?
MasterClass Executive is the first AI-native business school experience: a selective, cohort-based program built for working professionals who want to grow their careers without pressing pause on them.
Developed with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and built with collaboration from OpenAI, the experience brings together AI-guided learning, personalized feedback, interactive challenges, hands-on AI Labs, expert-led events, and a dedicated peer community. You can reach tangible outcomes in as little as 12 weeks, learning on your own time and without leaving your job.
Here's what to expect at a glance:
- Format: Adaptive, multi-modal instruction with on-demand instructor videos, hands-on AI Labs, expert-led live events, and a dedicated peer cohort.
- Length: Tangible outcomes in 12-16 weeks, at an average of 5-10 hours per week.
- Who it's for: Professionals 18 or older with 3+ years of professional experience. No formal education or prior AI or business background required.
- Where to apply: masterclass.com/executive
Curriculum Overview
The program covers ten subjects across business, leadership, and AI. The subjects below make up the program curriculum.
What You'll Study:
- AI for Leaders Lead with AI as a force multiplier. Topics include identifying high-impact AI opportunities, building AI-first organizations, and deploying intelligent systems for lasting strategic advantage.
- AI Foundations Develop AI fluency from the ground up. Topics include large language models, prompting and evaluation, extending AI models, and responsible use.
- Finance & Data Intelligence Assess performance, profitability, and valuation to make sharper operating and investment decisions. Topics include financial dashboards, managerial accounting, financial planning, data and decision science, and investment tradeoffs.
- Product Innovation Make winning product bets and scale products customers love. Topics include product thinking and strategy, user research, design for engagement, metrics, and scaling products.
- Career Power Position yourself for opportunity and build professional credibility. Topics include personal branding, networking and relationship capital, AI-assisted job search, and building a career moat in the AI era.
- Leadership Principles Hire exceptional talent and lead teams through complexity. Topics include building a winning culture, high-stakes decision-making, leading through change and uncertainty, and talent strategy.
- High-Output Thinking Make better decisions under pressure and build habits that compound effectiveness. Topics include mental models, decision frameworks, creative problem solving, and ethics and accountability.
- Strategy & Operations Define where to compete and align people and resources to build lasting advantages. Topics include strategy foundations, competitive positioning, strategic decision-making, operations mastery, and business models.
- Power & Influence Shape decisions and move outcomes forward through influence rather than direct authority. Topics include psychology of influence, negotiation, executive presence, managing up and across, and stakeholder dynamics.
- Modern Marketing Create demand and drive growth through sharp positioning and customer insight. Topics include market entry, consumer psychology, brand building, channel strategy, and growth playbooks.
🗒️: MasterClass Executive is a new program and some curriculum details (including the full list of individual lessons and any subject sequencing) are still being finalized. The subject areas and topic overviews above reflect what's currently confirmed. For the most up-to-date information, visit masterclass.com/executive.