Institute of Technical Leadership

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An institute for technical leaders

Great engineers aren't born leaders. They're taught.

The Institute of Technical Leadership teaches the skills required to be an effective technical leader: communication, stakeholder management, scope, risk, commercials and people leadership, so you can lead IT Projects with confidence rather than guesswork.
Self-paced · 25 lessons · Practical templates included · For every engineering discipline

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Sound familiar?

The part nobody trained you for

You were promoted because you were the best engineer. Now you spend your days in meetings you were never trained for.
You can design the system, but defending the timeline to a director makes your stomach turn.
You were promoted because you were the best engineer. Now you spend your days in meetings you were never trained for.
You can design the system, but defending the timeline to a director makes your stomach turn.

None of this means you're not cut out for it. It means nobody taught you this part yet.

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Who we are

An institute with one purpose

The Institute of Technical Leadership is an independent institute dedicated to one thing: turning excellent engineers into exceptional technical leaders. We teach a practical, repeatable method for leading technical delivery, built from real project experience rather than management theory, and deliberately independent of any vendor, methodology or technology.

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How we help

Three ways to work with us

Foundations of Technical Leadership

The flagship self-paced course. 25 lessons taking you from delivery ownership through communication, commercials, risk and career progression.

The Leadership Toolkit

Templates, registers, canvases and checklists you can put to work on a live project the same week. Included with the course.

Programmes for Organisations

Cohort training and workshops that give your whole technical leadership population one shared language for delivery.

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Our approach

Everything a technical leader does should increase the probability of delivering the desired outcome in a sustainable, predictable and transparent manner.

We teach that as a method you can repeat, not a personality you have to have. No heroics, and no hiding behind process.

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From the blog

Stories from technical leadership.

Real situations, honestly told. What went wrong, what we'd do differently, and what it teaches.

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Start leading with a method, not instinct.

The programme gives you the practical half of leadership that your technical training never covered.
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