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Become the person who brings strategy into your organization.

Every organization needs one — the person who can connect what teams are doing to what the company is trying to achieve. Almost nobody is trained for it. These courses close that gap, with a certification that grows with you.

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Formats
In person& live online
Length
2–5 daysfully facilitated
Materials
Digitalworkbook & templates
Prerequisites
Nonefor foundations tiers
Private cohorts
Availableon your own strategy

The ladder

A certification that grows with you, not a one-off class.

Start where you are. Foundations courses need no prerequisites; the certification tiers build on each other, and trainers are certified by observation — by demonstrating they can represent the material properly, not by passing a test.

IVI Strategy Essentials Certified Strategist Certified Trainer

The catalog

Six courses. Four available now.

Every course is live and facilitated — in the room or fully online. None of them are recorded videos you watch alone.

CORE · CERTIFICATION

VAST Certified Strategist

The full eleven-step method. Days 1–3 build a Tier 1 organizational strategy (SIRF); days 4–5 cascade it into departmental maps, a prioritized roadmap, governance and a signed 90-day plan (SIRE).

5 days · executive leadership team & functional leaders
$5,000per seat · private from $50,000
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FOUNDATIONS

IVI: Intent, Value & Impact

Balanced Scorecard methodology applied at the level you actually control — your role and your function. Leave with a strategic intent statement, a functional strategy map, metrics that show contribution, and a 90-day plan.

2 days · any function — HR, IT, Operations, Project Management and more
$1,800per seat
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FOUNDATIONS · ROLE

Strategy for Product Managers

The product edition of IVI, rebuilt end to end around the role. Make the roadmap read as strategy rather than a backlog — with outcome metrics past velocity and prioritization logic you can defend.

2 days · PMs, product owners, group PMs, heads of product
$1,800per seat
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IMPACT SESSION

Before You Buy: AI & Technology Purchase Readiness

A decision gate for one specific proposed purchase. Test it against real organizational need, define what success would actually look like, and reach a documented go/no-go — before the contract is signed.

2 days · executives, budget owners, CIOs, CFOs, procurement
$1,800per seat · private from $10,000
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IN DEVELOPMENT

Strategy Essentials

For the internal strategy champion bringing strategy formally into their organization for the first time — the credential step between foundations and the full strategist certification.

2 days · coming soon
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IN DEVELOPMENT

LAMP: Leadership & Management Performance

Leaders and managers run a planning session together — with roles swapped. Unfreezes the leadership-to-management bottleneck where strategy most often stalls.

Working session · coming soon
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The schedule

Upcoming public cohorts

Public cohorts run in person and live online. Private cohorts are scheduled around your organization — talk to us about dates.

CourseDatesLocationFormatSeats
First public cohorts: dates announced soon. All four courses are finished and ready to teach. We’re confirming venues now in the cities below — join the interest list and you’ll get the dates before registration opens.
CourseDatesLocationFormatSeats
VAST Certified StrategistQ4 2026 · TBAAtlantaIn person · 5 daysPlannedGet dates →
VAST Certified StrategistQ1 2027 · TBANew YorkIn person · 5 daysPlannedGet dates →
VAST Certified StrategistQ1 2027 · TBALive online10 days · ~3 hrs/dayPlannedGet dates →
Intent, Value & ImpactQ1 2027 · TBAOrlandoIn person · 2 daysPlannedGet dates →
Strategy for Product ManagersQ1 2027 · TBALive online2 daysPlannedGet dates →
Also planned: Chicago, Dallas, West Coast. Want a city added? Tell us where you are — we bring the class to where the people are.

First cohorts

Tell us which course, and we’ll hold you a seat.

How it runs

Live, facilitated, and yours to keep.

In person

Facilitated working sessions with breakout space and cross-functional groups — the format the material was designed for.

Live online

Same facilitator, same exercises, run in a virtual workspace. Fully live, never a recording.

Private cohorts

Run for your organization, on your own strategy, with your examples. Scheduled around you.

Digital materials

Workbook, templates and worksheets go out digitally, in person or online. Nobody wants to carry a binder home.

Not sure which one?

Tell us what you’re trying to move — a career, a function, a purchase decision, or a whole organization — and we’ll point you at the right course. A free thirty-minute conversation, no commitment.

Ground Game coursesLive & facilitated · in person or online
2–5 daysfrom $1,800 per seat
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