Agentic AI and AI Agents for Leaders

Understand agentic AI well enough to lead it

Offered by Vanderbilt University, this beginner Specialization has already reached 53,329 students — notable traction for a leadership-focused, non-coding take on AI agents.

What you'll gain

• A working understanding of agentic workflows and generative AI agents
• Prompt engineering, prompt patterns, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts
• How to apply strategic planning to AI adoption inside an organization

This is built for managers, executives, and non-technical decision-makers who need to evaluate and steer AI initiatives without writing the code themselves. Rather than a deep engineering course, it's a strategic literacy course — the kind of program that lets a leader ask sharper questions of their technical teams and spot real capability versus hype.