Cohort 14

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Startup founders building new businesses, from MVP to scale.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

Setting strategic direction, making high-stakes decisions, and translating vision into execution.

Day-to-day people management — 1:1s, feedback, performance management, hiring, and team operations.

Leadership teams perform best when they develop shared understanding before taking action.

CEO, Board Advisor, and Creator of MtL

Unison

Oracle

Compusult Limited

SAIC

Peter DiGiammarino

Professional CEO, Executive Director, and Creator of Manage to Lead (MtL).

MtL Course Designer and Co-Instructor

Stanford University

Genentech

UC San Francisco

Kaiser Permanente

Joyce Reynolds Ph.D.

Executive Alignment for Leadership Teams

Most leaders think their team is aligned. What if they aren't? MtL reveals hidden gaps and builds habits to get clear so you act as one.

Vistage Worldwide

American University

The Carlyle Group

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MtL is a learn-by-doing Executive Alignment System. Your organization is the case. In ten weeks your leadership team builfd a simple cadence of collaborative habits. Get clear on what you aim to achieve by when. Assess where you are now and why change is required. Choose the few initiatives that matter most, then launch, guide, and govern them to your next state. The result: one team that plans, operates, and governs as one. How it WorksDo short prep on your own. Then you and your team join weekly two-hour live working sessions with other teams, including instruction, practice cases, role plays, and guided application to your case. You get real-time feedback from teammates, cohort peers, and instructors, supported by the AI-powered IntelliVen Operations Advisor (IVOA) workspace. What You GetShared clarity your whole team owns. A small set of initiatives ready to run with owners and checkpoints. A Plan-Do-Review rhythm that sustains performance and growth, grounded in seven simple truths leaders often overlook. Get Clear. Align. Grow.

Learn the MtL Executive Alignment System. Plan, Operate, and Govern as One.

Professionally financed management teams driving to complete value creation initiatives.

Organization, unit, and function leaders driving change initiatives to grow faster and perform better.

Owner-Operators who are ready to transition but whose organizations are not transition ready.

Leaders and their team with a change in mind to accomplish a mission, leave a legacy, or get promoted.

Startup Entrepenuers looking to go from Powerpoint to Profits.

Manage to Lead is for:

An organization.
Its leader.
The leader’s team.

To maximize your experience, bring:

Clarify or define an important initiative. 
Accelerate growth and improve performance. 
Engage openly and actively for meaningful impact

Come prepared to:

A system of tools, habits, and practices that align executive teams to lead, operate, and govern growing organizations.

Your mandate defines what you aim to achieve by when. It’s the game you’re playing. MtL teaches you how to always know:<ul><li>Where things stand now</li><li>Why things must change</li><li>What success looks like</li><li>How to get there</li></ul>

Master the Change Framework

Most leaders agree alignment is key, yet <a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/innovation/articles/the-importance-of-organizational-alignment-and-how-to-achieve-it/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fewer than one-third say their top team is fully aligned</a>. MtL helps surface disconnects and build alignment using AI-powered collaboration tools honed by leaders who have built and scaled successful organizations.

Discover Disconnects and Align Your Team

Identify which of five common operating models best fits your organization, then draft a DO–SELL–GROW process map for the area most limiting growth and performance.

Map, Manage, and Mature Your Core Processes

Learn how to track performance using key metrics, financial and otherwise, relative to past performance, future plans, and peer benchmarks.

Know What to Watch and How to Measure It

Discover how to prioritize initiatives, align your team around them, and lead them to completion on, and oftern ahead of, time, on target, and on, and oftern under, budget.

Conceive, Launch, and Guide Strategic Initiatives

Network and grow alongside diverse leaders, enriching your perspective and expanding your professional connections.

Join a Lifelong Community of Peer Leaders

Revisit session recordings and essential content whenever needed—today, tomorrow, or years from now.

On-Demand Content Repository

Use core tools (W-W-W/Mandate/CF) forever. Flexible upgrades unlock advanced features and future AI-powered tools as they become available.

Lifetime Access to Your Team's  AI-powered IVOA Sandbox

Receive a digital certificate demonstrating your leadership development, suitable for posting on LinkedIn and social media.

Earn a Certificate to Showcase Your Achievement

Provide a brief description for each module as a way to sell the value of what students will be learning throughout the course.

First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group; successful startup CEO; former US Internal Revenue Service commissioner.

Former director MSOD; American University

CEO of a PE-owned 200-person enterprise SaaS company

CEO and owner of 200-person remodeling company.

Principal and EVP Operations of a 100-person services business.

Co-Founder and CEO of a $200M IT services firm

What people are saying

Aquilent

Professional CEO, Strategic Advisor, and Creator of Manage to Lead (MtL).

Meet your instructors:

Ahead of our first live session, open and work through the Get Started and Ramp Up modules.

Course Opens

Plan on at least:<ul><li>40-minutes prep for live sessions</li><li>20-minutes post live sessions</li></ul>

Weekly Assignments

Weekly 2-hour live sessions on Thursdays

Your work in MtL culminates with a management presentation that you prepare and run through with at least one outside executive, factor input into your final submission, and that you turn in one week after the last live session for evalution and grading.

Management Presentation

Schedule

Studies show that cohort-based learning leads to profound individual enrichment. Collaborate with peers on real solutions to your problems while forming relationships that last.

Your Case is the Course

Roleplays on practice cases and Your Case invite you to learn by doing as well as to get good at getting and giving feedback.

Flipped Classroom

Leaders learn best with their team. MtL is the only program geared to developing leadership teams, not just leaders.

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