Manage to Lead - The Team Path to Breakthrough Performance
4.8 (12)
14 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
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!
Manage to Lead - The Team Path to Breakthrough Performance
4.8 (12)
14 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
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!
Realized $Bs; helped thousands
Course overview
Your own organization is the case:
MtL is a hands-on, case-based learning experience where your own organization serves as the case.
You’ll apply each tool and method directly to real challenges your team faces, making every session immediately relevant and actionable.
Delivered in a flipped-classroom format, MtL combines asynchronous preparation with ten, two-hour weekly live sessions featuring instruction, practice cases, role plays, and guided application to your organization—reinforced by real-time feedback from teammates, peers, and instructors.
You’ll come away with real solutions to real problems—and with initiatives ready to implement that drive performance and growth.
MtL Tools and Methods make doable what is otherwise hard to do, through actions grounded in seven disarmingly simple truths that leaders often overlook.
Manage to Lead is for:
01
Professionally financed management teams driving to complete value creation initiatives.
02
Organization, unit, and function leaders driving change initiatives to grow faster/perform better.
03
Owner-Operators who are ready to transition but whose organizations are not transition ready.
04
Leaders and their team with a change in mind to accomplish a mission, leave a legacy, or get promoted.
05
Startup Entrepenuers looking to go from Powerpoint to Profits.
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
An integrated system of tools & methods that gets leadership teams clear & aligned to architect, build, govern & change their organization.
Master the Change Framework
Your mandate defines what you aim to achieve by when—it’s the game you’re playing. MtL teaches you how to always know:
- Where things stand now
- Why things must change
- What success looks like
- How to get there
Discover Disconnects and Align Your Team
Most leaders agree alignment is key, yet fewer than one-third say their top team is fully aligned. MtL helps surface disconnects and build alignment using tools honed by leaders who have built and scaled successful organizations.
Map, Manage, and Mature Your Core Processes
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.
Know What to Watch and How to Measure It
Learn how to track performance using key metrics—financial and otherwise—relative to past performance, future plans, and peer benchmarks.
Conceive, Launch, and Guide Strategic Initiatives
Discover how to prioritize initiatives, align your team around them, and lead them to completion—on time, on target, and on budget.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Peter DiGiammarino & Joyce Reynolds 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) 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
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
10 live sessions • 38 lessons • 24 projects
Week 1
Sep
4
Live Session 1
Thu 9/49:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
1.0 Ramp Up
Week 2
Sep
11
Live Session 2
Thu 9/119:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
2.0 Get Clear WHAT-WHO-WHY
Week 3
Sep
18
Live Session 3
Thu 9/189:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
3.0 Get Clear HOW
Week 4
Sep
25
Live Session 4
Thu 9/259:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
4.0 Get Clear HOW WELL
Week 5
Oct
2
Live Session 5
Thu 10/29:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
5.0 Get Aligned
Week 6
Week 7
Oct
16
Live Session 6
Thu 10/169:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
6.0 Plan Change
Week 8
Oct
23
Live Session 7
Thu 10/239:45 PM—12:15 AM (UTC)
7.0 Do & Review
Week 9
Work on Final Submission
Week 10
Nov
6
Live Session 8
Thu 11/610:45 PM—1:15 AM (UTC)
8.0 Get Help
Week 11
Nov
13
Live Session 9
Thu 11/1310:45 PM—1:15 AM (UTC)
9.0 Grow
Week 12
Nov
20
Live Session 10
Thu 11/2010:45 PM—1:15 AM (UTC)Optional
10.0 Executive Session
Week 13
Factor executive review feedback into Final Submission.
FINAL SUBMISSION
Week 14
Bonus
Follow-on Material by Module
Executive Reviews
Focus
Alliance by Design
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Meet your instructors:
Peter DiGiammarino
Professional CEO, Strategic Advisor, and Creator of Manage to Lead (MtL).
- Led successful private, public, VC-backed, and PE-owned businesses for over 30 years.
- Created billions in enterprise value across diverse business models, industries, maturity stages, and capital structures.
- World-class expert in applying human behavior theory to help leadership teams work better together and achieve peak performance.
- Serves as a director and advisor to boards, owners, and executive teams.
- Founder and CEO of IntelliVen, a consulting firm providing tools, methods, and tutorials for leaders building, growing, and transforming organizations—as detailed in his book.
- Guided firms such as Compusearch (now Unison) from $15M/yr to now valued in excess of $2B, and helped scale Contraqer (now Unanet), Aquilent (now Booz Allen) and Touchstone (now DXC).
These experiences—scaling companies, developing leaders, and working with boards—revealed patterns of success not taught in school or found in books. I codified those patterns into a practical system called Manage to Lead (MtL), which I now teach to help others lead more strategically, align their teams, and accelerate growth—on purpose.
Teaching and helping others grow has always been central to who I am—from camp counselor and team leader to CEO and advisor. MtL is my way of sharing what I’ve learned to help others perform and grow with clarity and confidence.
Vistage, ODN, ASP, NTL
Career highlights
Played a key leadership role in scaling a startup from to $1B.
Led dozens of successful buy/sell efforts in tech and services.
Taught Organization Analysis and Strategy at four top-tier universities.
Developed 2K+ professionals and leadership teams into confident, effective leaders.
Chaired highly effective boards of professionally financed companies—always without drama.
Joyce Reynolds
MtL Course Designer and Co-Instructor
Joyce has deep expertise in designing and delivering virtual and in-room strategic services and educational programs that help leaders and their teams address business challenges and execute strategies effectively using collaborative processes to tap collective intelligence. She appreciates and uses pragmatic applied behavioral science that focuses leadership teams for performance and growth!
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Schedule
Plan on a minimum of 3-hours per week.
Course Opens
Ten days ahead of first live session.
Ahead of our first live session, open and work through the Get Started and Ramp Up modules.
Weekly Assignments
1-hour per week minimm
Plan on at least:
- 40-minutes prep for live sessions
- 20-minutes post live sessions
Weekly 2-hour live sessions on Thursdays
3:00-5:00 Pacific US time
Management Presentation
Final submission due end-of-day 5/16/24
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.
The Power of Clarity
In MtL Module-2 live session you will learn how to discover disconnects and align your team. The three step process is derived from ground-breaking work on team-dynamics applied to crystalizing the purpose of a business as described in the Power of Clarity e-Book.
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Tap the Power of Cohort-Based Learning for a Game-Changing Experience
Your Case is the Course
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.
Flipped Classroom
Roleplays on practice cases and Your Case invite you to learn by doing as well as to get good at getting and giving feedback.
Team Development
Leaders learn best with their team. MtL is the only program geared to developing leadership teams, not just leaders.
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