We think of Ignite as the starter kit for formal leadership in tech. It is a high-performance training that prepares you to handle tech-lead and engineering manager positions. It levels up your skillset, but mainly your mindset and attitude.

It is a 10-week program that breaks into 20 hours of group sessions, 1-hour personal mentoring session, a group project, and more than 10 hours of recorded content.

It requires attendees around 6 hours of work per week, 2 of them live.

📝 Format and methodology

Intro

We approach leadership in tech holistically, preparing leaders to prioritize people-business-tech, in that order.

A great leader impacts through her team, acting as a sherpa, and enabling effective collaboration with other departments. That's why the syllabus put the focus on leadership and soft skills, developing a customer-centric, business vision, and acquiring a 360º technical overview.

The Staging Environment

We believe in interactive, real-world scenarios to deliver a real change in mindset and attitude. Participants feel they are facing a real challenge, not a school assignment. They will face chaos, uncertainty, unknown challenges, and will be required to set processes, work with diverse profiles, and make decisions.

We call it the staging environment for tech leaders:

Live sessions are mostly workshops, discussions, and exercises correction where students learn by doing. Some sessions are hosted by top mentors that are experts in their field.
Exercises are real-world situations, and they need to solve them like in today's real world: researching, making assumptions, gathering more information, discussing with peers, preparing presentations, using collaboration tools, and mostly asynchronously.
Extra content. Live sessions are introduced with recorded content and extended with curated resources, so participants can expand the knowledge on the matter.
1:1 mentoring will help participants work on their own career goals, tackle their very own challenges and remain accountable