Responsible Leadership in the Age of Disruptive Technologies

Language:	English
Location:	Munich
Duration:	3 days
Start:	March 2026
Cost:	3,290 EUR
ECTS:	5

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In times of disruptive technologies, this multi-day leadership program offers you a deeper insight into responsible leadership combined with a basic understanding of current technological developments. Learn how to manage technologies responsibly within industries and organizations.

| Develop your leadership and tech skills
You will gain a basic technical understanding and learn how to classify technological innovation and its impact on business models, as well as reflect on governance and ethics – the component of social leadership. The program will give you insights into a variety of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Space Economy and Quantum Computing.

| Network and get new ideas with an action plan
You will be presented with practical ideas that can be easily implemented into your daily working routine with the aim of becoming a more responsible leader. You will reflect together with the other participants of the program and lecturers on what responsible leadership means to you as well as develop an action plan.

5 ECTS credits possible:
The certificate program is eligible as an elective for our Executive MBA students.

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Benefits

This leadership program helps you connect fundamental technological understanding with responsible leadership.

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Responsible Technology

Emerging technologies are increasingly confronting you with the question of how you can manage employees and companies responsibly. Start thinking about the topics of the future today.

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Leadership and Technology

Managers need a good understanding of disruptive technologies. They gain an insight into disruptive technologies and learn how to evaluate them for their company.

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Academic & practical input

Well experienced lecturers from academia and the business world will present state-of-the-art theory and empirical data that discuss this topic. Based on this, you will develop an action plan.

Program Overview

You can find all the important information about the certificate program here. Below you can find out the objectives of the program, the exact details of the process, what you will learn and which lecturers will teach you the content.

Learning Objective
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After this program you will be able to:

Define what responsible leadership means for themselves as leaders, for their teams and their organizations.
Reflect on responsible leadership practices.
Discuss (ethical) responsibility for leadership on the employee and corporate level.
Reflect on the implications of disruptive technologies for the leadership process.
Classify the challenges of these disruptive technologies for leaders.
Anticipate and plan for the potential disruptions that these technologies may cause.
Evaluate new technological trends and technologies as well as the future of business with these technologies.
Understand political measures when it comes to disruptive technologies and link them to ethical implications.

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Program:

Responsible Leadership in the Age of Disruptive Technologies

Target audience:

Experienced managers and professionals who are responsible for teams, large projects or in transition to leadership positions and who wish to improve their skills in responsible leadership.

Academic responsibility:

Prof. Dr. Claudia Peus, Professor of Research and Science Management, TUM

Format & Timing:

On campus, 3.5 days in one week

Study location:

Munich

Language:

English

Date:

March 2026

Graduation:

After successful completion of the final exam, participants will receive a certificate from the Technical University of Munich.

ECTS:

Creditability:

This certificate program can be credited with 5 ECTS towards our Executive MBA.

Participation fee:

3,290 EUR*

Note for EMBA students: If this certificate program is taken as an elective module, the participation fee is included in the EMBA tuition. You can select this option during the registration process.

Discounts:

10% discount for TUM Alumni

* In our experience, tax benefits in Germany help many of our program participants to finance their education, as they can declare up to 50% of tuition fees and program-related travel expenses in their tax return. Please speak to your tax advisor for an assessment of your situation. For participants of our programs who reside outside of Germany, this may also apply, please clarify the situation with the local tax authorities.

Lecturers
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Structure
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Responsible Leadership in the Age of Disruptive Technologies

Effective and Responsible Employee Leadership and Corporate Management
The UN Sustainable Development Goals & Sustainability Culture
Sustainable Leadership and Technological Innovation

Innovation Management, Technological Foresight, Ethics and Governance

The Future of Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence
Understanding Innovation – incremental vs. disruptive
Megatrends
Robotics & AI Governance

Insights into new Technologies

Robots as Leaders
Quantum Technologies
Space Economy

Project work

Application of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Group Presentation of the Results

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