Transformation Leadership Development

What is Transformation Leadership Development?

As global business and technology leaders endeavor to make their companies more agile in the face of uncertainty, change, challenge, and opportunity, one of the most significant challenges is the lack of an effective framework for Digital Transformation. This prevents them from being able to create and communicate a larger strategic vision, and align teams throughout their organizations to a new, IT-enabled business model.

The Feld Group Institute has created a unique program to assist senior-level business and IT leaders in transforming their organizations. The Transformation Leadership Development (TLD) program is an intensive program that empowers leaders with a proven framework and the essential skills to position their company for long-term competitiveness and sustainable growth. The curriculum draws heavily upon The Feld Group Institute leadership insights, operational experience, and time-tested strategic framework for enterprise success.

Whether you’re starting a new transformation journey, have inherited an existing effort, or are trying to get a transformation back on track, this class will provide you with the knowledge, skills and resources to meet your goals and allow you to join a community working on the same challenges.

Time to Think

Our Institute carries a deep belief that the only way to move forward is to pause and give yourself and your teammates the opportunity to zoom out, collaborate, and to think. Together, we will engage in working sessions, panel discussions, and some fun exercises that embody our shared vision, where each participant brings unique perspectives and expertise to the table. Your presence and contribution is integral to the success of this program.

Course Details

Transformation Leadership Development (TLD)

Format

  • 3 Days, in person, Dallas, TX

Who Should Attend

The program is designed for Business and IT leaders who have significant responsibilities and have been identified as high potential within their organization. Executives in large organizations, experiencing significant business model shifts, or those dealing with extensive, legacy technical debt, will find this program exceptionally helpful. Specifically, this program is best suited for CIOs, CTOs, their direct reports, and their business partners.

Teaching Team

Charlie Feld heads up the group of Feld Group Institute Affiliates, deeply experienced and expert IT operating professionals who have held CTO, CIO, and line leadership roles in major global corporations. Guest speakers, including industry experts and alumni from our Community, will also be added to enhance the learning experience.

Key Benefits

This advanced course provides tools and techniques you need to impact enterprise-wide change and close the gap between strategy and execution.

  • Develop a common language to eliminate the blind spot between business and IT so that cross-functional leadership teams can effectively discuss complex issues
  • Create long term business strategies and plan for unexpected opportunities
  • Innovate at speed and scale
  • Communicate a vision across the enterprise
  • Orchestrate all the inter-related pieces of digital transformation
  • Plan the pacing and execution of your change agenda to ensure real impact.

Also, participants who complete the program become part of an elite alumni community network and peer learning group which is supported by The Feld Group Institute after course work is concluded.

  • Gain an understanding of the Feld Group Institute Transformation Framework used to establish a crucial bridge between business and IT leadership.

Agenda

Changing the Leadership Mindset

  • Introductions
  • Changing the Leadership Mindset
  • Zooming Out
  • The CIO as the Chief Integration Officer

Applying Systems Thinking

  • Establishing a Common Language: Feld Group Institute Transformation Framework
  • Architecture Matters for Speed and Agility
    • Business and Product Architecture
    • Technology Model and Enterprise Architecture
    • Data and Integration – The Digital Nervous System
    • AI Revolution and the Pervasive Impact
  • Enablers Make-or-Break Execution
    • Organization Structure and Governance
    • Connecting Investment to Value
    • Productivity and Efficiency
    • The Operating Model – Strategic Runway & Agile Delivery

The Continuous Transformation Journey

  • Continuous Transformation
  • Putting It In Motion
  • Next Steps: Call to Action

What Graduates Say About This Program

“Excellent cross section of participants to provide unique perspectives and valuable insight. Eye opening to see how patterns are traceable across a diverse set of participants.”
- TLD Course Graduate

“‘The program reveals an IT framework that places firm posts for what an IT leader should be mindful of as they execute and operate within the profession. It provides a language and a set of principles which can be used to equip an IT organization to have a seat at the table of their business counterparts with a clear vision of a win-win engagement that will deliver results.”
- TLD Course Graduate

“You will not do more for your company and your career than attending the Feld Institute’s Transformation Leadership Program. No matter the number of conferences you have attended or articles you have read, nothing compares to the mind shift that is not only certain to occur within you but within the business once you put these learnings into practice with your top leadership team. My IT leadership team spent years attempting to reach the business and it all fell flat until we adopted the Feld framework. In under a 100 days the business not only heard us, but began to champion the cause for real transformation.”
David Johnson Director of IT Solution Optimization, Interstate Batteries

“The knowledge and skills and experience that Charlie and the Feld Group affiliates bring to the class is just amazing. It’s a great class! Be present and learn.”
Karen Carter Senior Director – Enterprise Data Delivery, Southwest Airlines

“Frameworks for corporate strategy, general management, and software development abound. What I’ve found consistently lacking is a comprehensive model for tying them all together in a relevant, practical fashion for business leaders in IT. I chose TLD in pursuit of such a model given the unique industry experiences and vantage points The Feld Group Institute cultivated.”
Brian McGrath Senior Vice President - Product Development, Tyler Technologies