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Amplify Innovation Breakthroughs With the Human Element of Leadership in Technology
As a top global provider, we can help you develop highly effective technical leaders at all levels of your organization.
Effective leadership in technology roles and fields requires more than just technical skills. From leading enterprise-wide digital transformations, to building a pipeline of technical leaders ready to take up the reins, your leaders face complex challenges.
Successful leaders in tech create support for their digital agendas by driving change and developing a culture and pipeline of talent that will compete, grow, and innovate. Your organization can generate growth by focusing on the core skills technology leaders must master to drive team effectiveness and the right leadership culture for your organization.
Our cutting-edge research has uncovered a core set of challenges faced by technical leaders at all levels, including achieving results; negotiation and conflict resolution; flexibility and adaptability; influencing across the organization; leading in a dynamic work environment; leading strategy; managing people and projects; and talent management.
Our team of data scientists and leadership experts can help you develop your technical leaders and build an agile organization prepared to navigate those challenges. Gain a competitive edge with technology leaders who can drive key organizational initiatives through effective communication and collaboration.
Choose Among Our Research-Based Leadership Development Solutions for Technology Leaders
Partner with us to build a leadership program to strengthen soft skills and build needed competencies among your technical leaders to solve for the most complex organizational challenges facing your organization.
Create an exclusive, research-based solution tailored to develop stronger technical leaders at all levels. Prioritize and solve immediate and long-term goals with a custom leadership plan. Learn to leverage your talent as your competitive advantage with tech leadership training.
- Focus on core challenges that technology leaders must overcome and competencies required to be successful in driving organizational change and innovation
Use the power of data analytics to target your investments in your people for maximum impact — and maximum ROI.
Our Leadership Analytics experts can help you uncover new insights, connect the dots, and develop evidence-based action plans that deliver impactful returns. We can assist you in identifying the specific leader behaviors and practices needed to not only drive your strategies, but to motivate and align your workforce in support of them.
- Track the impact of your leadership development investments, make informed course corrections, and hold leaders at all levels accountable for results
What Our Clients in Technology Roles Are Saying
At CCL, we measure success by lives touched and impact made. That’s why the organizations we work with and the leaders we transform consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with us is a game-changer. The technical leaders we’ve worked with with at these organizations have gone on to impact their teams and transformed their cultures.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“As the CEO of a diverse global technology firm, I found the FLI course to be timely, relevant, and useful. I believe it will provide a common language/methodology to connect all of our leaders across the world.”
Matt Dircks
CEO & Board Member
BeyondTrust
“One of the challenges we were faced with was, how do you change behavior with a learning experience that’s completely virtual? CCL was up for the challenge of delivering a leadership development solution completely virtually.”
Angela Spears
Learning Consultant
Pitney Bowes
Impact of Our Partnerships to Build More Effective Technical Leaders
What participants in our technology leadership development programs said about their experiences with us:
would recommend the course to others
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have been able to apply program lessons at work
1
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say they’re more effective as a leader
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Meet Our Team of Technology Leadership Development Experts
Chris Beckert, MBA
Senior Leadership Solutions Partner
With over 30 years of experience in the field, Chris designs and delivers specialized leadership development journeys and solutions for both public and private sector organizations. Before joining us, Chris was a US Army officer and Army War College faculty member. His expertise includes innovation, digital transformation, strategy development, executive team development, organizational development, and crisis leadership.
Stephen Jeong, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Stephen is a former U.S. Naval Nuclear Electrical Technician turned industrial-organizational (I/O) psychologist who specializes in people analytics, leadership measurement, and developing assessment tools to improve organizational performance.
Mike Smith, MA
Director & Strategic Business Partner
Mike has over 2 decades of experience in a variety of leadership roles in the tech industry. He cofounded an entrepreneurial startup and led marketing and business development in a Fortune 100 company. He now partners with our clients to help them align their people development strategy with their enterprise business strategy and shape the leadership culture required to drive organizational performance.
Dana Washington, MA
Leadership Solutions Partner
Dana facilitates open-enrollment programs, and she designs and delivers custom leadership development solutions that enable transformation through lasting and sustainable behavior change. She has over 10 years of leadership development experience in consulting, facilitation, coaching, sales, curriculum design, and leading large-scale global initiatives to develop leaders at all levels.
Connect With Our Technology Leadership Experts Today
We’re here to help. Prioritize the development of your people — by partnering with us to create a human-centered approach for building stronger technical leaders at your organization.
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More About Leadership in Technology Fields
Build a Leadership Culture That’s Agile & Resistant to Disruption
Many of the challenges to leadership in the technology industry are data-driven, regulatory, ethical, and innovation-based. Yet often, the greatest challenge of all is organizational culture.
As the world changes, your organization must shift to new ways of working. In order to successfully continue to innovate, your organization must take a balanced approach to business, technology, and the development of the people leading the change.
The ever-changing demand for specific technical skills can bring about rapid change and growth — as well as high staff turnover. Your organization can create longevity and stability through executive team development, strengthening people skills among technical leaders, and building a culture that can address today’s challenges head-on and adapt quickly to whatever comes next.
Equip Highly Skilled & Experienced Technical Employees to Be Successful Organization Leaders
The skills that make strong individual contributors in technical roles don’t always translate into management abilities.
Technology leaders — from executives to first-time managers — require new perspectives and skillsets to succeed. Crafting a leadership development plan that will support them through the transition from technical expert to manager can net huge gains for organizations. This plan will help install technical leaders who not only possess the functional expertise to innovate, but who also have the people skills necessary to rally the troops.
Partner with us to address challenges and accelerate the development of your technical leaders, helping to shift your organizational culture, create higher-performing teams, and improve business outcomes.
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