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Transforming IT Professionals Into Business Leaders

Elevating the strategic role of Technology within organizations

Be a Strategic Partner in Your Business

Technology leaders today must participate in shaping those business strategies that define success for themselves and their organizations. Through our mentor-led programs, participants are transformed into business leaders armed with critical business skills and expertise. They gain the ability to understand, interpret and respond to today’s rapidly changing business challenges.

News & Updates

Exclusive professional development series designed to empower CISOs as true business enablers and strategic leaders within their organizations.

Aimed at elevating the strategic role of IT within organizations. Leaders Beyond and Schulich ExecEd offer innovative programs launching in Fall 2024.

The Transformative
IT Leader Program

Technology Leadership for Business Outcomes

January 29 – February 28, 2025

Ready to elevate your leadership skills? Join our Transformative IT Leader Training Program and learn from experienced CIOs. This online course helps you grow from an IT professional to a business leader by improving your communication, influence, and business skills through real-world simulations.

The Executive
IT Leader Program

Make the Move from Functional to Enterprise Leadership

As a technology leader, driving business strategy and leading digital transformation is critical. The Executive IT Leader Training Program sharpens your skills in enterprise strategy, risk management, and organizational change to improve business outcomes in the digital age.

Experienced Faculty

The Leaders Beyond faculty includes business executives, educators, CIOs, consultants, and strategists from multiple industries. With decades of leadership training experience, they use a proven curriculum that emphasizes teacher/student coaching, mentorship, and case study analysis.

From our Alumni

The training I had through the IT Leader Program helped me to get where I am today. It was probably the most engaging and fruitful training that I have taken. I would highly recommend it to all IT professionals who want to be a leader.

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

Their unique blend of practical mentor-led education and their focus on the skills and knowledge needed to make immediate impact on business results, have produced significant positive changes in the way my team operates.

eHealth Ontario

This program can transform you. I will think outside of the IT norms and, I will be more confident in my non-technical skills. It was a demanding yet great learning experience.

CIBC

The Executive IT Leader Program is an excellent opportunity to learn from well-established, senior IT leaders whose insight, knowledge, and experience really help put today’s IT challenges in perspective. Each session delivered valuable material that I was able to bring back and put into practice right away.

TransCanada Pipeline

I can’t recommend it highly enough. The program goes a long way in helping to transform high-potential techies into trusted advisors and business leaders. Having business-savvy IT staff is a critical success factor.

CIO, Ministry of Finance, Province of British Columbia

The Leaders Beyond programs have provided tremendous learning and insights for this group to enable that jump. Their unique blend of practical mentor-led education and their focus on the skills and knowledge needed to make an immediate impact on business results have produced significant positive changes in the way my team operates.

EVP Technology and Operations, eHealth Ontario