AI Leadership in Real Estate

Lead people and AI agents, side by side.

AI is changing how leaders lead. Managers need context on what works, what doesn't, and how to guide change on their teams. When a manager builds something and shows it off, analysts follow their lead and senior leaders gain confidence.

Join us for an eight-week Executive Education cohort designed to help early- to mid-career managers lead their teams through AI adoption and leave with something they built and a plan to use it. The course will launch January 28, 2027. Fill out the interest form below to receive additional registration details as the date draws closer!

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Participants will walk away with:

  1. Access to leading AI experts who build and govern these systems
  2. A cohort model where peers learn from and challence one another
  3. A real build you will accually use in your business
  4. A company-wide AI adoption plan ready to share with your leadership

Course Description

Management in an AI-ready workplace is changing the way leaders lead. This program brings managers together to understand how change management works, what adopting and leveraging AI tools looks like, and how to build something realistic that can be deployed. Participants gain the context to know what's out there, what works, and what doesn't.

Taught by AI experts

The program is led by experts at the intersection of artificial intelligence, management theory and real estate. Participants will also benefit from real-world research and thought-leadership coming out of Marquette’s renown AI in Real Estate Lab, which exists to study cutting-edge use-cases in the commercial real estate, construction and real estate legal spaces.

Grounded in Proven Theory

AI is new, but leading it well draws on long-standing organizational behavior, change management, and the adult learning model. The program layers AI onto participants' existing operating model (customers, finance, people, and process) so they get better at what they already do. The same scaffolding can carry future cohorts as the technology keeps changing.

Who Should Participate

This course is designed for early-to-mid-career managers at the intersection of needing to leverage AI tools for their business and who also have responsibility for leading others through leveraging AI. Participants will leverage organizational behavior structures and theory, leadership development, and actually tangible building of AI tools in this training, all within a cohort model where students will also learn from one another.

Program pillars

The course will break down leadership in an AI context across several pillars, culminating in an in-person capstone event aimed at deepening your network and relationships for future peer-to-peer support.

Pillar

Sessions

What it covers

Takeaways
1. Leading with AI 1 and 2 Adoption, integration, and governance; change management; case studies of how companies are leading How to lead AI adoption and bring a team through the change
2. Tool literacy 3 and 4 Platforms, capabilities, and security; agents vs. bots; data, MCP, GitHub basics What tools exist and how to set the security limits their team needs
3. Industry application 5 Real use cases from the AI in Real Estate Lab; lessons learned; assignment to interview peers about how they use AI Where AI is working in their field and what they could build
4. Build something 6, plus two weeks of build time Bring a data set and a problem; build together and troubleshoot A tool they can deploy or use at their company
Capstone 7 (in person) Show off the build; draft an AI adoption plan for their organization A plan they can start on the next day

Schedule and Format

This course will include seven sessions over eight weeks, including six virtual Thursday mornings sessions and one in-person capstone on campus, resulting in 16 hours of instruction total.

Session

Date (2027)

Format

Time (CT)

Focus
1 Thu, Jan 28 Virtual 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Leading with AI
2 Thu, Feb 4 Virtual 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Leading with AI
3 Thu, Feb 11 Virtual 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Tool literacy
4 Thu, Feb 18 Virtual 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Tool literacy
5 Thu, Feb 25 Virtual 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Industry application
6 Thu, March 4 Virtual 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Build something
Week 7 Week of March 11 Small groups Set by each group No class; small group check-in
7 Thu, March 18 or Fri, March 19 In person on campus 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Capstone showcase and adoption plan

Marquette Business Executive Education provides customizable, expert-led professional development opportunities for professionals and business leaders. To inquire about invoicing, program details or customized training, please email executiveeducation@marquette.edu.