Executive Alignment for Leadership Teams

4.8 (26)

Peter DiGiammarino

CEO, Board Advisor, and Creator of MtL

Joyce Reynolds Ph.D.

MtL Course Designer and Co-Instructor

Learn Manage to Lead by doing. Plan, operate, and govern as one.

Your organization becomes the case

Manage to Lead is a learn-by-doing leadership discipline. Over ten weeks, your leadership team develops a shared understanding of what it seeks to accomplish, what it provides, what must change, and the few initiatives that matter most.

How you'll work

Between live sessions, your team develops its work in the IntelliVen Leadership Workspace. Beginning with the Mandate and WHAT-WHO-WHY, you'll build an Enterprise Change Framework, develop your highest-priority Initiatives, and turn them into Initiative Change Frameworks, Initiative to Action (I2A) plans, and governable implementation plans.

IVOA works alongside the team

Throughout the program, IVOA helps the team assess and suggest improvements, compare perspectives, consolidate ideas, infer from existing work, and continuously strengthen its thinking as the team's body of work grows.

The outcome

A leadership team that plans, operates, and governs as one.

What you’ll learn

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

Develop a clear Mandate and Enterprise Change Framework.
Clarify WHAT-WHO-WHY, your operating model, measures, priorities, ownership, and your case for change.
Use the IntelliVen Leadership Workspace and IVOA to assess, compare, consolidate, and strengthen the team's thinking as it evolves.

Reveal differences in assumptions, priorities, and perspectives before they become execution problems.
Use IVOA to assess work, compare viewpoints, consolidate contributions, and strengthen decisions.
Leave with a shared Mandate, WHAT-WHO-WHY, Enterprise Change Framework, and a small set of Initiatives your leadership team is ready to gove

Identify your operating model.
Map DO, SELL, and GROW to locate the constraint to growth or performance.
Identify opportunities to strengthen the system that matters most.

Select the vital few metrics, financial and nonfinancial, leading and lagging, tied to your operating model.
Build a one-page dashboard: results vs past, plan, and peers, with thresholds, trends, and the story it tells.
Set to compare actuals to projection; explain variances, note implications, capture lessons, and assign owners for next steps.

Select the few Initiatives that matter most.
Develop Initiative Change Frameworks, Initiative to Action (I2A) plans, and governable implementation plans.
Govern execution through Plan-Do-Review, supported by the Leadership Workspace and IVOA.

Learn directly from Peter & Joyce

Peter DiGiammarino

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

Vistage, ODN, ASP, American University, NTL, University of San Francisco

Joyce Reynolds Ph.D.

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MtL Course Designer and Co-Instructor

ASP, GeoGroup, Magical Bridge Foundation

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Who this course is for

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.

Prerequisites

To maximize your experience, bring:
An organization. Its leader. The leader’s team.
Come prepared to:
Clarify or define an important initiative. Accelerate growth and improve performance. Engage openly and actively for meaningful impact

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Peter DiGiammarino & Joyce Reynolds Ph.D. in a real-time, interactive format.

Join a Lifelong Community of Peer Leaders

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

On-Demand Content Repository

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

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

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

Earn a Certificate to Showcase Your Achievement

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

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

10 live sessions • 42 lessons • 26 projects

Week 1

Sep 10—Sep 13

Sep

Live Session 1

Thu 9/109:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)

1.0 Ramp Up

6 items

Week 2

Sep 14—Sep 20

Sep

Live Session 2

Thu 9/179:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)

2.0 Get Clear WHAT-WHO-WHY

4 items • Free preview

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Your "Why Us" Power Statement

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Schedule

Live sessions

2 hrs / week

Live sessions bring leaders and their teams (3 to 7) together with peer teams to go deeper on each topic, role play real cases, and pressure test their MtL application. Get feedback from peers, instructors, and outside reviewers, and leave with clear next steps for your case.

Thu, Sep 10
9:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
Thu, Sep 17
9:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
Thu, Sep 24
9:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)

Projects

1-3 hrs / week

After each module, work with your team and an assigned Principal Consultant to apply MtL to your case. Refine your Mandate, W-W-W, and ECF; set metrics; and select one initiative for outside review in the last session. Incorporate that input into your final submission for instructor feedback and completion award level.

Async content

1 hr / week

Plan for about 1 hour weekly: before each live session, read/watch short prep and do 40 minutes of sample and practice cases in Maven; after class, spend 20 minutes capturing lessons learned and drafting how you’ll apply them to your team’s case.

Testimonials

MtL is for anyone who aspires to be good at managing and leading any small or large organization.
Charles O. Rossotti
Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group; successful startup CEO; former US Internal Revenue Service commissioner.
MtL is a mini-university on how to manage to be a better leader.
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Former director MSOD; American University
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CEO of a PE-owned 200-person enterprise SaaS company
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