London Business School in collaboration with Visa University

Transformative Leadership in the AI Age
1–3 September 2026 | London

Transform your leadership for the AI era with a three‑day immersive experience in London, built to elevate strategic foresight, spark innovation and strengthen agile decision‑making in a rapidly evolving landscape. 

This experience will aim to accelerate strategic foresight, innovation and agile leadership. By integrating cutting-edge thought leadership with hands-on, experiential learning, the programme equips participants with the mindset and frameworks required to lead confidently amid rapid change. 

Note: Contact your company's Visa account executive to enroll.

Gain critical insights and relevant skills for your role

Learn from experts

Learn from a distinguished faculty and guest speakers at London Business School, bringing together deep expertise in strategy, innovation, data science and the future of business. The programme is led by Professor Costas Markides, a globally recognized authority on strategy and business model innovation; Professor Nicos Savva, an expert in data science and AI‑driven decision‑making within large organizations; and Rik Vera, a renowned futurist and keynote speaker who helps leaders understand how AI, data and emerging technologies are reshaping competitive advantage. Together, they offer a rare blend of rigorous academic insight and real‑world perspective to help leaders navigate disruption and drive sustainable growth.

Enhance your expertise

Build the capability to design and execute innovative growth strategies in an increasingly uncertain and fast‑changing environment. This programme strengthens your ability to translate strategy into action, mobilizing organizations, leading transformation and developing high‑performing execution teams. Through proven frameworks, real‑world cases, and experiential learning, you will learn how to create customer‑centric value, compete effectively with FinTech and Big Techs, and leverage data, analytics, Generative AI and Agentic AI to improve decision‑making, productivity and growth.


Engage with peers

Collaborate with a select cohort of distinguished leaders from leading financial institutions across the Asia Pacific region, bringing diverse perspectives and real‑world experience into every discussion. Through interactive group work, peer exchange and facilitated dialogue, you’ll deepen your learning while building meaningful relationships across Visa’s partner ecosystem — creating connections that extend well beyond the programme.

Venue

London Business School (LBS)

Sussex Place, Regent's Park
London NW1 4SA, UK

London Business School is located in the heart of London, overlooking the famous Regent’s Park from its main campus on Sussex Place. Its iconic frontage, designed in the 1800s by John Nash — the architect behind Buckingham Palace — gives the venue a distinctive setting, while its central location provides convenient access to the city’s business districts, hotels, restaurants, and major transport links.

Agenda

Day 1 – AM session
Navigating Uncertainty through Experimentation
This session explores how leaders can reinvent their business models in an era of constant disruption. It examines how organisations can deliver today’s performance while simultaneously experimenting to invent tomorrow’s business, building the capabilities required to succeed in an uncertain future.
Day 1 – PM session
The Ingredients and Rules of Ecosystems
This session examines how organizations create and capture value through ecosystems—moving beyond traditional partnerships to platform based business models and the double flywheel effect. Through interactive exercises, participants will identify the right partners and capabilities, uncover where value is created for all stakeholders and explore the core do’s and don’ts of effective ecosystem thinking
Day 2 – AM session
Unpacking Predictive, Generative and Agentic AI
This session introduces the core building blocks and capabilities of predictive and generative AI, highlighting key application trade offs for business leaders. It then explores agentic AI — autonomous systems that understand context, make decisions and adapt dynamically — showing how AI agents can operate independently or collaboratively to drive strategic outcomes in complex environments. 
Day 2 – PM session
Value‑Creating Leadership: The Maverick Approach
This session explores how leaders create value by embracing calculated risk‑taking, curiosity, and persistence—the hallmarks of the Maverick leadership mindset. It is complemented by a discovery session with fintech and startups, offering first‑hand exposure to innovative business models, products, and organizational practices that challenge conventional thinking and accelerate insight through experiential learning.

Day 3 – AM session
Strategy Innovation and Execution

This session examines how leaders respond to disruption by building a bias for action, testing innovative strategies through low cost experimentation and mobilizing the organization to execute effectively through high-performing teams.

Day 3 – PM session
Conclusion

The programme concludes with a graduation ceremony followed by a networking lunch, providing participants an opportunity to celebrate completion of the programme and connect with peers and faculty in an informal setting.

Meet the facilitators

Costas Markiedes

Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Professor Costas Markides is a leading global authority on strategy and innovation, widely recognized for his work on strategic and business model innovation, diversification and international acquisitions. His research focuses on how established companies can pursue disruptive innovation, compete with multiple business models and build cultures of continuous innovation, as well as the role managers play in driving these efforts.

Nicos Savva

Professor of Management Science and Operations

Professor Nicos Savva is an expert in data science, using it to solve operational problems and help large organizations develop data- science capabilities. His research focuses on healthcare management, including hospital operations, regional organization of care, assessing performance, measuring health inequity and innovation. His work has appeared in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management and Nature Biotechnology. He is a Department Editor of Management Science.

Rik Vera

Guest Speaker

Professor Rik is an author, futurist, business philosopher and renowned keynote speaker who helps organizations understand how to stay relevant in an increasingly digital future. He challenges companies to differentiate themselves within and beyond their industry, showing how the metaverse, AI and data can be leveraged to truly futureproof their business. With insights focused on adapting to a changing context rather than chasing trends, he has shared his approach to future‑proof management on more than 1,500 stages across 62 countries.

Registration

Contact your company's Visa account executive to enroll.

Learn more

Access the tear sheet for more information and contact our support team with any questions.