Most people think you either lead or manage. The truth is you need to do both. The first thing a good leader needs to manage, is themself!

Peter DiGiammarino

Professional CEO; Course Designer and Lead Instructor

Joyce Reynolds

MtL Course Designer and Co-Instructor

Manage to Lead - The Team Path to Breakthrough Performance

American University

Vistage Worldwide

The Carlyle Group

Unison

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MtL offers a unique learning experience for leaders in that your team is one of a cohort of teams and where YOUR CASE&nbsp;IS&nbsp;the Course in a flipped classroom. ﻿You come away with real solutions to real problems and with initiatives you can implement immediately to improve your business. Topic content, practice cases, role plays, and YOUR CASE applications are blended with real-time feedback from fellow students and instructors in ten two-hour weekly live sessions. MtL Tools and Methods make doable actions driven by seven simple truths that are otherwise anything but easy.

Your own organization is the case on which you apply MtL tools and methods. 

Professionally financed management teams driving to complete value creation initiatives.

Organization, unit, and function leaders driving change initiatives to grow faster/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 make to accomplish a mission, leave a legacy, or get promoted.

Startup Entrepenuers looking to go from Powerpoint to Profits.

Manage to Lead is for:

MtL is a leadership team management and development system of integrated Tools & Methods to architect, build, govern, & change your business

Your mandate is what you target to achieve by when. Think of it as the game you are playing. In MtL you learn how to always know:<ul><li>Where things are now.</li><li>Why things must change.</li><li>How you want things to be.</li><li>How to get them there.</li></ul>

Master the Change Framework:

While business leaders agree that alignment is key to success, research shows that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/marketing/marketing-strategy/news/94-percent-leaders-believe-aligning-marketing-and-sales-gained-importance/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&lt;33% say their top team is fully aligned</a>. MtL Tools and Methods, developed and honed by a team of successful CXO's, lead to clearity and alignment through collaboration.

Discover disconnects and align your team:

Determine which of five common operating models most closely matches that of your organization and draft a DO-SELL-GROW process map for the one that most constrains performance and growth.

Learn how to set up, assess, and mature key processes:

For financial and other KPIs you learn to measure performance relative to past, plan, and peers.

Decide what to watch, and how, to know how well you are doing:

Learn how to decide which initiatives to pursue first and <a href="https://intelliven.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Manage-to-Lead_FactSheet.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">what to do</a> to guarantee they will be completed on target, on time, and on budget!

Launch Strategic Inititiaves

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

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.

Course completed by

About this course

Get notified about the next cohort

Learn from live sessions