IDC's Pathways: Individual Coaching: Senior IT Leader is offered to senior IT leaders in CIO, CTO, CDO, and SVP/VP roles. This engagement creates self-awareness, helps drive transformational personal change, and provides critical leadership development support. A hand-selected coach/mentor will serve as a trusted advisor, committed to providing unbiased guidance in a safe and confidential environment to attain goals and integrate practical leadership style changes.

• Year-long program with a tailored development plan to broaden competencies and improve readiness for strategic leadership opportunities
• Leadership assessment tools to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement
• Coaches/mentors from the world-class bench of technology executives who provide industry-relevant insights and perspective
• Seven hours of private executive advisory coaching with a dedicated coach/mentor to address specific areas of focus
• Refining and growing personal leadership ability
• Developing new and refined approaches to address top leadership challenges
• "The First 90 Days" advisory to successfully transition and shorten ramp time into a new role
• Guidance on building high-performing teams to optimize talent pipeline and succession planning
• Optional board preparation focus to build competencies to launch an independent boardroom career or bolster a senior IT leader's ability to effectively work with their firm's board of directors (available for senior executive leaders only)

• Expertise in strategy and shareholder value
• Holds stakeholder relationships as a corporate peer
• Focuses on business innovation and corporate transformation
• Strives to be an industry and global business leader

• Strengthen leadership ability, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence
• Combat executive isolation and expand strategic partnerships with line-of-business peers
• Leverage strengths in times of transformation
• Navigate significant change in responsibilities and shorten ramp time into a new role — the First 90 Days
• Refine communication and influencing ability
• Improve decision-making skills for optimized business processes and planning
• Lead through uncertainty: Navigate leadership challenges with enhanced strategic effectiveness
• Improve talent pipeline development and succession planning
• Enhance ability to collaborate with C-suite, business partners, and corporate board
• Prepare for external board positions (available for senior executive leaders only)

The Pathways: Individual Coaching: Senior IT Leader program provides the insight and guidance needed to meet current leadership challenges and take your organization to the next level.

Offerings include:

• Year-long program with tailored development plan
• Seven hours of private executive advisory coaching
• Hand-selected coach/mentor, aligned with targeted objectives
• Introductory call with coach/mentor to set objectives
• Personal assessment, tools, and resources to support development
• Optional board preparation focus (available for senior leaders only)
• Access to two Power Hour webinars on leadership development topics
• Practicing new behaviors and receiving coach feedback to reinforce successful strategies
• Dedicated engagement specialist