Results Foundry at WorkBoard

Results Management Leader Certification

Results Management executives lead their organizations alignment, accountability, and OKR operating cycle to ensure the organization achieves its strategy faster. This Results Management Leader certification helps executives quickly develop domain expertise and leadership skills to:

  • Establish the Results Management function and set its charter
  • Launch and lead the OKR program, including the cycle, communications and change management
  • Deliver true results acceleration in the first quarter and improve every quarter
  • Improve the speed and integrity of accountability and modernize the operating rhythm
  • Cultivate a common results language across the organization
  • Empower the shift to Outcome Mindset™ to elevate purpose and results
Results Management Leader Certification

Executive Curriculum

The Results Management Leader professional certification program was designed for leaders of their organization’s alignment and accountability cycles who are working directly with a corporate executive to elevate business results and foster a culture of ambition. This executive education program is designed to support these leaders over the first year of their journey. Each course is open to 30 leaders and provides a unique opportunity to share experience and learn from and with a small group of leaders at the same journey stage.

Start Where You Are – Management Practices and Their Legacy

Formalizing Results Management

The RM Journey: From Idea to Irreplaceable

Culture, Communications & Change

Cultivating an Outcome Mindset

Accelerating with a Common Results Language

Organization Competency & Network of Coaches

Leveraging Leaders in the Middle

Results & Value Creation Intelligence

Your Professional Network

Guest Faculty

All Foundry Faculty have extensive field experience launching and leading OKR programs and strategy execution initiatives. Every faculty member has also facilitated OKR setting for at least 300 teams of which at least 75 were executive level teams.

Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen
Former Chief of Best Possible, Transformation Office
Juniper Networks

Ryan Padilla

Ryan Padilla
Executive Director, Strategic Transformation and Enterprise Planning
GHX

Minchene Tang

Minchene Tang
Senior Technical Program Manager
Intel

Jamie Temple

Jamie Temple
Results Management Office Executive, Office of the CEO
VMware

Course Structure

Results management and leveraging OKRs for better outcomes is more than a launch – it’s a journey and this program is designed to enable your success at every stage. The program and leaders in each cohort meet over the course of 7 months, providing of-the-moment learnings you can apply immediately.

Month 1:

2 days of 3.5 hours

Months 2 and 4:

2 days of 3 hours

Months 3 and 7:

Networking reception

Month 5:

1 day of 4 hours

Month 6:

Results Management Capstone

Who should attend?

This course is exclusively for leaders responsible for results management and adopting OKRs across their organization working for the CEO or a business unit executive.

Not the organization-wide leader of this business process, but part of the OKR program success? Become a certified OKR Coach!

Attributes of Great Results Management Leaders:

  • Agents of change who embrace opportunities to drive transformative impact
  • Executive presence and ability to drive ELT behaviors
  • Experience as CEO/BU leader chief of staff, in strategy and operations ownership roles, or as an at-scale function executive
  • Appreciates the power of measurement and the importance of ambition in driving growth
  • Can lead a small team to outsize organization impact

Now accepting registrations for the Winter 2025 Cohort

Class size is limited to 30 people and the fee is $7,500. Participants must be certified OKR coaches and commit to the whole program; missing more than 2 sessions may result in seat forfeiture.

Winter 2025 Cohort
Starts January 2025 (see full schedule)
Register now!

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Lead the way forward

Results should be a habit, not new year’s resolutions – this course will enable you to institutionalize results, raise their pace, and foster an Outcome Mindset to create a thriving culture of ambition and innovation.