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Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Undergraduate BSc (Hons)
Digital Business Leadership
Drive AI and digital transformation in business and build the skills to manage people, innovation, and change on our digital business leadership course.
Course overview
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N1P4 -
L27 -
City Campus -
Full-Time -
3 Years -
20 Sep 2027
What is digital business leadership?
Businesses are being transformed by digital technologies, data, artificial intelligence (AI), and changing customer and global demands – and they need leaders who can understand and navigate this change effectively. Digital business leadership combines strategic thinking with digital awareness and the ability to lead people through transformation.
Why is digital business leadership important?
As AI is expanding and digital transformation is reshaping how organisations operate, leaders need to make informed decisions, manage change, and bring people with them. On this BSc Digital Business Leadership degree, you'll explore digital transformation, data analytics, AI, and machine learning, alongside leadership, strategy, innovation, organisational change, and sustainability.
You'll learn to analyse complex business challenges, use evidence and digital tools to inform decisions, and develop commercially aware, ethical, and sustainable solutions. You'll also build the communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills needed to lead with purpose.
As part of this digital leadership programme, you'll:
- Develop strong analytical and problem-solving skills to tackle complex and evolving business challenges
- Explore how AI and emerging technologies can create opportunities for innovation and shape the future of business
- Strengthen your ability to communicate ideas and recommendations to different audiences
- Work collaboratively through projects, simulations, case studies, presentations, and business challenges
- Build your professional confidence through research, reflection, and increasingly independent strategic thinking
Learn to lead change in business
AI and digital transformation can bring both uncertainty and opportunity to the world of business. You'll examine organisational change, global competition, cyber risk, sustainability, and ethical challenges, considering how leaders can respond responsibly.
Utilise technology to solve business problems
By working with a range of collaborative digital platforms, data analysis software, and industry-relevant applications, you'll strengthen your digital fluency. You'll explore how data and emerging technologies can support business performance and innovation.
Put your knowledge into practice
You'll apply what you learn through business simulations, case studies, scenario-based activities, group projects, and live or simulated challenges. These experiences help you to tackle problems from different perspectives and develop practical solutions.
Build your professional confidence
You'll become increasingly independent as you progress through this digital leadership programme. Through research, reflection, peer feedback, and professional development activities, you'll develop greater self-awareness, initiative, and confidence in your decisions.
Explore current thinking shaping businesses
We bring the latest research, professional practice, and business insights into your learning. Where appropriate, you'll benefit from external industry input, guest lectures, employability activities, and applied business projects.
Why study the BSc Digital Business Leadership course at Leeds Beckett University?
- Lead the next wave of digital change – develop the strategic and leadership skills to guide organisations through technological transformation and AI
- Explore where business meets technology by studying AI, data analytics, digitalisation, and more alongside core business and management principles
- Turn data into meaningful decisions – apply your analytical, research, and problem-solving skills to complex business challenges
- Put people at the heart of transformation – strengthen your communication, collaboration, and self-awareness to lead diverse teams through change
- Prepare for a changing business world as you become an adaptable, ethical, and commercially aware professional, equipped for a huge range of careers
Everything you need to know
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Career Prospects
AI and digital transformation are changing how organisations operate across numerous sectors, creating opportunities for graduates who can connect technology, data, strategy, and people. Employers need adaptable digital professionals who can understand emerging technologies while making commercially aware decisions and leading change.
This digital business leadership course will prepare you to analyse business challenges, develop strategic solutions, communicate recommendations, and work confidently with digital tools and data. Your broader business and leadership skills also give you flexibility to pursue careers across digital business, management, strategy, operations, and consultancy. Potential roles could include:
- Digital business analyst
- Digital transformation assistant
- Project coordinator
- Operations manager
- Business consultant
- Strategy analyst
- Innovation manager
- Management trainee
- Entrepreneur
You could also progress to postgraduate study with a master's degree, MBA, or related business and leadership qualification. Alternatively, you might follow your entrepreneurial ambitions and set up your own digital venture or consultancy.
BSc Digital Business Leadership addresses a genuine skills gap and has strong potential to produce competent graduates for leadership roles within digitally transforming organisations. The course has a good balance between leadership and digital transformation. Many business programmes still treat AI as peripheral; this programme has embedded it throughout the curriculum."
Dr Ali Sajjadi
Course Director
Dr Ali Sajjadi
Course Director / Leeds Business School
Director of BSc (Hons) Human Resource Management and Business Course
Our Graduate Promise
We have a dedicated team of people who will support you with all aspects of your career planning, from day one until 18 months after you graduate.
Getting you career ready is an integral part of your university life and this is embedded throughout your lectures and seminars. Outside of your course there is a wide range of support available to help you achieve your career goals, including:
- Getting ready to apply for jobs
- Working on your CV
- Interview skills and assessment centres
- Connecting with employers and organisations
We’re ranked in the Top 10 universities in the UK for job prospects
(Student Crowd, 2025 - the only awards based entirely on student reviews).
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