You get twelve months, because a growth plan runs longer than a course does
The diagnostics are worth more the second time you run them. This is built to be reopened. Twelve months of access, self paced, no cohort dates and no live sessions, so it sits beside the plan for as long as the plan runs.
Score the baseline
Run the nine diagnostics against the situation as it is today, before the plan makes it look better or worse than it is.
Reopen when it gets hard
The quarter where the coalition wavers is the quarter the framework is actually for. Return to the relevant lesson on the day.
Rerun and compare
Score yourself again against the same instrument. The delta between the two runs is the most useful output the programme produces.
The Growth Executive Officer Masterclass
Most plans do not fail on the arithmetic. They fail on the person carrying them.
A leadership programme for people accountable for growth. Not motivation, and not theory. Diagnostics you run on yourself and your organisation, decision cases with no comfortable answer, and interactive tools that make the trade offs visible.
The constraint this course addresses
Three things have to hold. Only one of them is usually missing.
A growth plan needs a sound thesis, an organisation able to execute it, and a leader able to hold the line when it gets uncomfortable. Firms invest heavily in the first, occasionally in the second, and almost never in the third. That is where plans actually die.
How it is built
Nine interactive tools
Diagnostics you run rather than read. They score your actual situation and give you an output you can act on the same week.
Decision cases, not profiles
Leadership situations presented as choices you have to make before the outcome is revealed, rather than as stories about people who succeeded.
One company held throughout
A single case runs every tool end to end, so the instruments connect rather than sitting as nine separate exercises.
A real assessment
Thirty questions with instant scoring and an explanation for every answer, including the ones you got right.
The UPCHANGE framework
The organising structure of the programme, giving you a repeatable way to approach change rather than a set of disconnected tactics.
Twenty two bonus articles
Extended reading on the parts of the subject that do not fit into a lesson but change how you think about it.
What changes for you
You will be able to
- See your own default under pressure. Most leaders have one, most cannot name it, and it determines what they do in the moments that matter.
- Hold a decision that is unpopular and correct. The hardest part of growth leadership is rarely knowing what to do.
- Diagnose an organisation honestly. Including the parts where the problem is something you put there.
- Sequence change so people can absorb it. The right changes in the wrong order produce the same result as the wrong changes.
Who takes it
- Portfolio company chief executives. Carrying a plan with a clock on it and a board that reads the numbers weekly.
- Operating partners. Who have to influence leaders they do not manage and cannot replace easily.
- Founders and section heads. At the point where the business has outgrown the way it has been run.
- Anyone about to step up. The gap between managing and leading is mostly invisible until you are standing in it.
Every other VCII programme works on the business. This one works on the person running it. If you are comfortable with the numbers and something still is not moving, this is usually the reason, and it is the reason nobody puts on a slide.
You can improve a model in an afternoon. Improving the judgement that decides which model to believe takes longer, and it is worth more.
Access and terms
| Price | $99 in US dollars. One payment, no subscription. |
| What is included | 15 lessons built on the UPCHANGE framework, 9 interactive diagnostics, decision cases, one company case held throughout, a 30 question final assessment and 22 bonus articles. |
| Access | 12 months from the date of purchase. Self paced, with no cohort dates and no live sessions. Every lesson is open on enrolment. |
| Refund | 7 days from purchase, on request, provided the artefact templates have not been downloaded. Write to support@vciinstitute.org. This is the standard refund window across all VCI Institute courses. |
| Assessment | 30 questions with instant scoring and an explanation for every answer, including the ones you got right. |
| On completion | A Certificate of Completion, recording that the holder worked through the programme. |
| What the certificate is not | A Certificate of Completion is a course credential and not a certification. It carries no post-nominal letters. COPPE, CVCA and CEVP are the certifications VCI Institute examines against a published standard. |
| Support | support@vciinstitute.org for anything about access, the assessment or the refund window. |
7 day refund, on request, provided the artefact templates have not been downloaded.
This programme makes no outcome promise. No course makes anyone a better leader by being purchased, and the nine diagnostics only work if you score your own situation honestly. Nobody outside your organisation can tell whether you did. Only you will know, and that is the variable that decides what you get from it.
