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What Does Certification Give You?

Strategic leaders have 10 traits that prepare them for executive and c-level roles. This certification defines strategic leadership in actionable terms and provides real-world examples from case studies in leadership. Self-assessments give leaders a framework to understand where they are in the cycle of developing those traits and how to improve.

Objectives and Outcomes. The 10 strategic leadership traits teach executive data leaders to:

1. Lead without authority, build coalitions across the business, and get buy-in
2. Develop a culture that supports an innovative, collaborative data team
3. Align individual, group, and business goals
4. Connect the data team to the rest of the business
5. Grow the team and improve their mentorship capabilities
6. Get a seat at the strategy planning table
7. Learn to lead and mentor other leaders
8. Avoid common mistakes that undermine a leader’s credibility and effectiveness

Strategic data leaders own technical strategies for data, analytics, and AI. This certification defines a framework to build each strategy and explains how to align them with the business’s core strategy. Using frameworks and use cases, leaders are taught pragmatic strategy focusing on theory, implementation, and execution.

Objectives and Outcomes. The technical strategy framework teaches leaders to:

1. Support the need for all 3 strategies and prove their value
2. Integrate technical strategy into the business strategy planning process
3. Define and implement each strategy
4. Align the enterprise with a single transformation strategy
5. Build out the data and analytics organization to support business needs
6. Define a big picture of data science maturity and build a roadmap
7. Measuring value with data and AI KPIs

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Why Certify?

Individual Benefits:

• Higher Earning Potential
• More Career Options and Stability
• Faster Advancement
• Greater Career Satisfaction From Impact and Recognition

Business Benefits:

• Domain expertise at the executive leadership level
• Organizational leadership for the growing data business unit
• Alignment with business strategy and other organizations
• Fosters an innovative culture and high performance teams
• Faster implementations and execution
• Results are more predictable and have a higher impact
• Clarity on strategy, execution, and benefits across the enterprise

Why HROI Certifications?

Well Recognized and Respected: Taught by an award-winning industry expert on AI and strategy. HROI certifications prove capabilities.

Customized For Data Professionals: Lessons are connected to the field and relevant to data professionals' unique needs.

Curriculum Built From A Rich Set Of Sources: Use cases, research, industry surveys, and dozens of authors.

Expert Insights: 27 years in technology, 17 in leadership, 10 in data science, and 7 in technical strategy. The instructor brings real-world insights into each lesson.

Course Design Best Practices: Courses are distraction-free and built on adult education principles. A combination of engaging methods delivers key learning objects for multiple learning styles.