The Transformation Economy Expert Certification Course
The inaugural flagship offering for becoming a transformation guider
If you’ve read The Transformation Economy (or posts such as The Book as Transformation) you know that as much as possible I wrote it so the reading experience would be transformational in and of itself. That’s why it starts with a Preparation and ends with a Reflection, exemplifying encapsulation as THE model for creating transformative experiences.
Encapsulation is THE model for turning memorable experiences into transformative ones – reading experiences included
But what I can’t do in the book is the fourth step of encapsulation: integration. So I’ve already announced a page on our website for exactly this:
www.StrategicHorizons.com/integration
Our integration webpage shows offers for how to integrate the transformative experience of reading the book
It delineates how I can help you integrate what you learned into your business and into your life. Beyond my usual offerings of speeches, workshops, and management advice, it discusses two offerings I added specifically for the new book. First, The Transformation Toolkit with, as I’ve mentioned before, eight different tools that you can use to embrace the ideas, principles, and frameworks in the book. And second, a cost-effective, hourlong one-on-one consulting offering that you can use for me to guide you through your own transformation (including each one of the Toolkit tools).
Today’s Announcement
Now I’ve added a third offering that I’m inviting Substack subscribers (along with select others) to take advantage of: the Transformation Economy Expert Certification course!
Announcing the Transformation Economy Expert Certification course!
This August 17–21 in Minneapolis, I’ll be holding the inaugural course, which follows on to the and I would very much like you to consider joining us. As with our Experience Economy Expert Certification course that Jim Gilmore and I have been facilitating for twenty years (with over 340 Certified Experts around the world), this will not simply be a seminar or executive education program. It is an immersive, applied, developmental experience designed to help participants learn how to intentionally guide transformations – while actively engaging in transformational work themselves throughout the week. A course flyer with details is available below:
Across 4.5 intensive days, participants will engage in individual exercises, collaborative design work, reflection sessions, transformation challenges, facilitated discussions, and applied frameworks intended to help internalize the capabilities required to create transformational offerings – whether inside their own organizations or as advisors, consultants, coaches, strategists, and leaders serving others.
It includes individual exercises, collaborative design work, reflection sessions, transformation challenges, facilitated discussions, and applied frameworks
Participants who complete the course will become Certified Transformation Economy Experts and will receive:
Comprehensive course materials, including The Transformation Toolkit
A post-course integration session (integration can sometimes require its own integration!)
An individual follow-up session with me after the course concludes
Official certification credentials and emblem
The tuition for the inaugural course is $16,000. (Our Experience Economy Expert Certification has remained $14K since our first class in 2006!) I know that’s a big investment, but it’s because of the high value this course will bring you. We structured the tuition differently than most executive education offerings – even our own! – because we want to practice the principles that I preach:
$4,000 is due upfront to reserve your place
50% is due by August 1
The final 25% is subject to a Transformation Guarantee
In short, if after fully participating you do not believe the course meaningfully expanded your ability to think about, design, and guide transformational offerings, you may choose to pay whatever portion of the final balance you feel is appropriate – all, some, or none.
And of course it includes a Transformation Guarantee!
If you decide you’d like to join us in Minneapolis the week of August 17, just send me an email and I’ll ask our Managing Partner Doug Parker to forward our Conditions of Certification document and initial invoice to reserve your place and begin the onboarding process. From there, we’ll start the preparation phase of the course, including a set of questions to reflect on before we ever gather together in person.
I hope you’ll consider being part of this inaugural cohort. I’m incredibly excited about what this course can become – and about the kind of practitioners you can become because of it!
Joe
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