a new professional certification for practitioners

Before I tell you about this world class transformation certification, let's talk about who it is designed for...

You are in the world of change and/or transformation. You have a real sense that even with all the great support tools and methodologies out there (design thinking, Agile, service design, PROCSI etc.), something is still missing. It's that something which is the glue bringing everything together in your transformation project/program. It’s that thing you know could so easily generate healthy success.

You intuitively know this glue directly relates to people - the people involved in the moments of transformation and change:

• Maybe it’s the leaders around you who aren't glued enough to the transformation to show participation in the program - lacking in that role model trust.

• Perhaps it's hard to glue together with other teams responsible for transformation and change (technology, digital, data, project management, change management, customer service, product/service design, learning & development, organisational design & development, data, etc.). Maybe you are one of the services, but are you deeply and courageously working as one?

• Perhaps you find it hard to gain the voice and visibility you need to engage others in new ideas and the real potential transformation could bring to the system.

• Perhaps you are stuck - too much resistance to change around you, fear to make a move. So much that you feel you have exhausted everything in your power to bring people on the journey.

• Perhaps, whilst you fully believe in the vision, ambition and mission for the change or transformation - people around you just don't want to move from where they are - that familiar, comfortable, and controlled place they've grown accustomed to - regardless of how detrimental it might be for them - they don’t want to change their habits!

• Finally - perhaps, you are dealing with burnout either individually or indirectly through your team and peers and need to find a way to turn potential Toxic into powerful Triumph.

In our work, we hear these common frustrations all the time. Sometimes they are explained as lack of sponsorship, engagement, progress, momentum or acceptance of the digital transformation imperative that comes from above. Whatever it is, when it comes to people and the human side of transformation - you are in safe hands - because that’s usually when we are called in…

But it doesn’t have to be like that. You don’t have to rely on high investments working with experts that apply their expertise, only to take that expertise with them at the end of the program.

Our practitioner programs support change managers, organisational designers, project and program managers as well as transformation leads:

1. Build competency in a framework specifically designed to shift identity and mindsets to accelerate transformation. This means you will be able to apply the framework to any program you are working on, big or small. It could be a technology program, a leadership development program, an organisational change program etc. This framework will become the missing piece in your arsenal to accelerate transformation and support systems become agile at scale.

2. Become a trusted role model and participant in whatever transformation you are leading or involved in. It’s not enough anymore to be a domain expert in change, we need to lead with who we are, not just what we do. That’s what gains the trust of others around us. To do this you will experience the framework first hand by going through a personal 121 mentor-coach program to access your own peak performance.

3. Emerge as a modern leader. Everyone in the world of change and transformation should accept their place as a modern leader - evidencing the mindset, the behaviours and actions that show people what the future can look like. Showing people the benefits of adopting modern thinking, ways of working and behaviours.

At the end or our programs you will be equipped with a unique framework that can humanise transformation and accelerate success. You will have at least enough knowledge and understanding of Modern Mindset Theory to apply to your work and your practice.

Are you one of these practitioners?

Wherever you come from...you are in safe hands!

I'm going to tell you about the framework - The Dilyn Way™. It’s been around for 10 years and is purely focussed on modern mindset theory and the importance of how we bring humanity into transformation: a human and social systems framework for transformation. This is a framework that can be applied to 121 coaching as well as for an entire organisational transformation. The key will always be in how someone thinks, and how they present themselves: who they are, not what they do.

In the following content, I’m going to tell you about how our practitioner programs can give you the competence, tools and techniques, practice, and guidance to become the most successful human centred transformation leader you can be - and understand the importance as well as the techniques for generating followership around you.

"A leading practitioner certification program for humanising transformation and accelerating success."

All our programs are interactive, experiential designed to develop and power up your current capability and success, as well as guide you along your own personalised modern leadership journey.

Benefits to you and your practice:

• Ability to apply a framework to accelerate transformation success and achieve agile at scale

• Connect with peers and like-minded individuals who believe transformation should be human first

• Reposition strategies and visions to drive and connect more easily with humans

• Learn the rudiments of modern mindset theory and how to apply them to transformation

• Access cutting edge theory and research and their role in successful transformation: positive psychology, flow practice, neuroscience

• Unlock your own modern leadership potential Develop the understanding and capability to generate greater levels of engagement across change teams, leaders and users

• Understand emerging modern business and leadership models and how to integrate them into your work

• Explore some of the techniques and methods used by transformation leaders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Elon Musk and how to apply these to your own transformation practice

• Become a role model for modern leadership and modern transformation practice.

• Experience your own transformation journey and be assigned a certified mentor-coach to guide you

• Learn the techniques to unlock understanding of the human beyond what they do, tapping into who they are and their 'why'

Benefits for Transformation projects and programs

• People and purpose first focus increases

• Transformation starts to become friction'less'

• Data and digital literacy increase Sense of community and belonging (connection to the transformation and future vision)

• Leadership participation increases

• Organisational appetite for innovation increases

• Sense of health and wellbeing increases across change team and wider organisation

Key Outcomes and benefits of the program and certification

• Professional Certification in your specialist domain (leadership transformation-mentor)

• Access to the Dilyn Way™ framework toolkit and materials

• Champion humanising transformation: turning projects and programs into people movements

• Increased sharing of data and ideas - leading to increased creativity and innovation

• Increased openness towards technology and data - leading to increased literacy

• Courageous conversations and decisions around change and the future

• Become a member of a growing global Practitioner Community of practice shaping the concept of humanising transformation across business and work Increased diversity across your network

• Ability to apply an adaptive framework to the human side of any project and program

• Daily live interactive Mission Briefings & community of practice sessions

• Become a part of a lively community of practice

• Ongoing confidential check ins with your mentor-coach to further develop your practice

• Potential to continue your development and become a certified Dilyn WayTM mentor-coach

• Access to the wider community platform including:

  • Masterclasses with experts on modern leadership, business and transformation theory from all over the world

  • Customer case studies of courageous leaders in the field (Virgin Media, Standard Chartered, Ocado)

  • Greater networking opportunities

  • Additional events and development opportunities around the subject of humanising transformation.

SPRING season launch 

2023

Jump onto a discovery call now to pre-qualify your application:

Your own personal leadership journey is key to becoming an effective, authentic, and successful Dilyn Way™ practitioner.

Being a practitioner and leader in the world of transformation is as much about being a role model as it is having the competency to strategise, design and deliver successful transformation that is holistic, human centred and brave.

That's one thing that sets this professional development certification apart: it's three programs in one!

1. A personal mentoring program to help you achieve peak performance and role model modern mindset theory in practice

2. A practitioner program to give you the capability and tools to turn any project or program transformation towards becoming more humane

3. Build your own voice and visibility as a modern leader

The program embodies core practical elements you will need and use in the real world of transformation. Helping you engage more, develop leaders, design transformation in a way that inspires people to follow and change behaviour. As a Dilyn Way™ practitioner and leader you will be able to bring the essence of transformation and the future into the moments of everyday business life, into the very foundations and DNA of the culture. That’s really important. To be able to bring transformation into business as usual is a key element to humanising transformation for accelerated success.

How the program IS designed

One thing is certain - there is more than one right answer for any challenge or opportunity in today's world. We take this principle to heart, so we've designed this program in a way that speaks to your uniqueness and your needs as a modern leader and practitioner. It’s flexible in a way that can work around you and your time, as well as be specific and personal to your own goals and professional ambitions.

The program is designed around a concept we call Missions to Moonshot. The full program consists of 7 Missions. To begin with a first step is to understand what your personal and unique moonshot is. From here we help you design your missions to moonshot and your personal pathway to success.

Everyone's Moonshot will be different. This first session will be with your assigned Mentor-Coach, who will stay with you throughout the 7 months to help you build your pathway and put the framework and your modern leadership identity into practice. And that’s important, this program is heavily weighted towards practice - we want you to be competent as a certified practitioner and leader not just knowledgeable. During orientation you will explore your goals, ambitions and objectives and work these all into your Moonshot. This will then inform which Missions you will need to complete for your certification.  Everyone is required to complete 4 out of 6 Missions to reach Mission 7 - Professional Certification.

Missions are self directed learning programs containing bite sized modules and exercises. All mission must be completed within three months to allow for four months mentoring in practice.

Once you start on the path of The Dilyn Way™, there is no going back. The framework is grounded in the humanity principle and has roots in philosophy. We believe the gift of the age we live in is our ability to reconnect with humanity, leveraging digital, data and design. The framework mission is to evolve the way we think about business and work one person at a time; becoming digitally evolving, human centred, regenerative ecosystems.

Once your eyes are opened to the possibilities of transformation success brought to you in The Dilyn Way™ - you'll quickly become an advocate for others to join our quest to bring humanity back into the workplace through transformation.

Once you emerge as leading The Dilyn Way™, your career path and choices will open wide.

What about Agile or Lean or PROSCI or other project management and change methodologies?

Well, that’s the beauty of The Dilyn Way™, it’s complimentary. It’s a power charger that supports all these other methodologies by addressing the mindset and identity level of transformation - the human side of transformation. Which then accelerates our ability to work with behaviour change, process changes, new ways of working, capability development etc.

Enrol onto a professional program that gives you credibility and competency as a practitioner and modern leader and brings real fulfilment and success to your professional career and growth.

What will you be able to do and accomplish as a certified practitioner and modern leadership role model?

WHY CARE?

Transformation should focus on unleashing human potential at a leadership level, practitioner level as well as user level

As a certified practitioner you will be guided through your own personal journey to unleash your human potential as a modern professional. Then ripple that way of thinking and behaving to ripple out, up and around to peers, leaders, teams, and others impacted by the transformation you are leading or a part of.

Just imagine

• TRANSFORMATION BEING EASIER - EVEN EXCITING FOR THE MAJORITY

• HAVING YOUR PROFILE KNOWN BY OTHERS AS A CONFIDENT, MODERN LEADER FIRST

• UNDERSTANDING HOW TO DESIGN TRANSFORMATION IN A WAY THAT ENGAGES THE LEADERS AND INTEGRATES INTO DAY TO DAY LIFE FROM THE START

• FEELING CONFIDENCE AND SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAUSE OR PURPOSE DRIVING THE TRANSFORMATION

• BEING IN FLOW AND RECONNECTING WITH THE CAREER AND SPACE YOU LOVE!

See you at the start gate!

This is the program that could change your life!

Following a career spanning business change, marketing, and transformation, I co-founded Adapt2Digital in 2013. At Adapt2digital, I am chief architect for The Dilyn Way™, a dynamic framework focused on the human and social systems element of transformation. With a heritage in leadership mindset shift, The Dilyn Way™ has matured into a framework that has a growing footprint of qualified practitioners and leaders around the world who are now applying human and social systems shift to their own digital transformation projects, programs and organisations.

Since 2013, together with an amazing team we have worked with public sector, private sector and third sector organisations internationally, connecting Digital Transformation agendas with leadership and more. Our modern, digital age leadership profiling tool has also been used by thousands of practitioners and leaders globally, helping them become role model modern leaders by embedding the 7 Mindsets of modern leadership into their daily practice. In the last few years the framework has been introduced to leading executive training organisations including Melbourne Business School, Roffey Park and used alongside Harvard syllabuses and been introduced to the PMI global senior leadership alumni community.

As well as directly mentoring and advising CEO's and board members achieve the mindset shift needed to embrace transformation, I work extensively with practitioners across HR, L&D, OD and change. Helping them in the design and development of modern leadership interventions. I also support traditional consultancies on the human transformation agenda and development of modern leadership that has included Accenture, EY, and PwC.

I work with women in business and tech as a mentor and coach. I also have the privilege of being an AWE mentor, supporting women who are disadvantaged to enter the world of business by leveraging digital and uncovering their entrepreneurial strength. In 2020, I was invited to work as a mentor with the United Nations as part of an initiative to grow the entrepreneurial women in business footprint across Europe and the Middle East. In addition, I also work with Melbourne Business School as a coach and mentor for modern leadership across Australia and the wider Asia Pacific area.

I am currently researching for my book to help leaders and organizations take control of their data in a purposeful and habitual way. I am passionate about keeping up to date with the latest developments around leadership and mindset, which has resulted in my integrating ongoing personal development into my work with leaders that include Positive Psychology, Flow Practice and Attention Management helping leaders to role model wellbeing and psychological safety at work.

I am a regular speaker and presenter at conferences having presented at conferences including digital leaders, EU General Assembly, UK government and various international industry/sector specific events.

Currently, I am a leading contributor about hybrid management and working that relates to energy and attention management for healthy systems. Oh, and I'm currently working on the second release of a hybrid management app in partnership with the public sector UK.