FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Transform! Simulation

A 100% online certification program to support your development, learning and mastery of the Transform! simulation.
Bring to your leadership teams, strategy teams, students, and clients. 

Bring a powerful solution to your team and clients

In this certification program, you will master the Transform! Simulation Kit.

From running small simulation sessions to larger scale multi-step training programs, you will learn how to plan, design and run full programs.

You will learn the domain knowledge and advanced facilitation skills to run impactful Transform! sessions and programs, as well as how to sell these internally and externally.

As a simulation facilitator, you will quickly learn that Transform! is far more than ‘just a simulation’.

The entire bundle is a highly flexible solution, that you can structure and use in many, many ways, based on your customers’ and users’ needs.

You can expand your consulting services significantly with a Transform! certification.

Learn how to transform real-life companies

The fundamental principles of Transform! is built on real-world experiences and insights.

The stories and challenges, the emotions, confusion and strategic choices are all modeled after numerous real-life CEOs.

Christian Rangen has been coaching, guiding and advising CEOs, Executives and Board Members for nearly 20 years. The role(s) you take in the simulation are all built on real life CEOs, as they struggle to transform their companies.

While Transform! is anchored in academic research and the latest management thinking, the real deep experiences are all modeled after the struggles, doubts, choices and actions of real life CEOs.

Get certified to bring this powerful solution to your team and clients.

Master advanced-level workshops

You will learn how to plan, design and deliver advanced level workshops. From 3 hours to 3 days or even 3 months. Click here to see an example of a workshop we ran in Zurich in early 2020 (which you can replicate and run with your own clients / team).

Program Outcomes

Deep dive learning

Learn to structure and facilitate impactful Transform! sessions in multiple ways based on your team’s, customers’ and users’ needs.

Join a fast-growing strategy community

In this program, you will learn from case studies and over 100 completed simulation sessions.

Build your own solutions

You will learn to connect software, strategy canvases and simulation into a powerful solution – customized for your use cases and clients.

Deal with real-life updated challenges

Navigate real-life industry scenarios

Balance the complexity of strategy, finance, and transformation

What You Get in the Certification Program

  • Confidence and know-how to run high impact Transform! simulation sessions with your strategy & leadership teams, boards, business schools and clients
  • Detailed walk-through of all elements of the simulation
  • 6 hours of self-paced videos and content (in easily-consumed bite-sized pieces)
  • Several real world use cases: from product to project
  • Advanced facilitation techniques
  • Building the Transformational Company Report
  • Facilitator slide deck that you can use with your team / clients
  • Advanced reading material to enhance your domain knowledge of corporate transformation
  • Free download of strategy canvases, guidebooks, and more to facilitate your Transform! sessions
  • Free access to the Strategy Tools App

Program Curriculum

Welcome

Case Study: Switzerland
Expectations
Mastering the 10 Principles of Transformation
Your Use Cases
How to Complete this Program
How We Will Work
Project Work 1: Why Companies Need to Transform?
Exercises 

Module 1: Foundation

The Foundation of Transform! 
The Challenges of Transformation
From Sim to Solution
Market Outlook
House Rules
Domain & Facilitation Knowledge
Five Levels of Learning
3 Mini Cases
Building Your Domain Knowledge
Project Work 2: Your User Needs Memo
Exercises

Module 2: Preparing Your First Session

The Pieces & The Boards
Setting Up Your First Session
Your Teams
Your Facilitator Role
Case Study: Energy Transformation
Understanding the Transformation Gap
Real-Life Analysts
Case Study: Tesla
Project Work 3: Market Cap Modelling
Exercises 

Module 3: Running Your First Session

Your Goals as a Facilitator
Building Your Expertise: Cards
Interview with Rita McGrath
Business Models & Revenue
Risky Cards
Common Mistakes
Project Work 4: Reflection Memo
Exercises

Module 4: Advanced Facilitation

Program Design Process
Transformation Case Studies: Chegg, Ford
Domain Deep Dive: CVC, Corporate Finance, Hostile Takeovers
Your Facilitator Role
Handling Complexity
Advanced Facilitator Tips
Final Project
Exercises

CHRISTIAN RANGEN

Program Director

Christian Rangen is a strategy & transformation advisor to companies, innovation clusters, and governments around the world. His clients span oil & gas, energy, technology, aviation, mobility, finance, consulting, and national governments. He is faculty/visiting faculty at multiple business schools in Europe. He has taught more than 20 different programs, including a wide range of Executive Education Programs, Executive Short Programs and Custom Designed Corporate Learning Programs in strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, change and transformation

Why transform?

Research shows us that companies need to transform faster than ever. This trend is only expected to accelerate. As we get into the 2020’s, building transformational capacity will be a top management priority in markets and industries around the world.

This program equips you with an advanced toolset and skillset to enable you to help transform companies, either as a consultant, business school faculty or internal change agent.

The program combines our in-depth research, nearly 20 years of experience and powerful solution you can start applying instantly.

Master the Transform Triangle

A core part of the online training is helping you master fundamental elements like the Transform Triangle here. In the program you will be introduced to a number of new concepts, tools and theories you can apply to help companies transform.

Learning & development at your pace

The certification program is designed to follow your learning and development – at your pace.

As such, you can zip through the entire program in 3-6 hours – or you can spend several months to learn, try things in real-life, deep dive into the advanced content and run live sessions as you learn.

The time commitment at your end can be as little as a few hours, completed in one day. Or, it can be a step-by-step, module-by-module learning journey where you go back and forth as a natural part of your training. This way, you can work through the online certification program over a period of several months as you slowly build your own expertise and mastery.

“A playful and social approach to truly experience that a good business model is essential to every successful organization.”

Kristian E. Fjelde

Head of Corporate Strategy Development, Equinor (Formerly Statoil) 

What’s included in your certification

The Transform! Online certification Program is designed to follow your progress as you learn to master the Transform! simulation kit.

You can sign up and complete the online certification without having the physical simulation kit. However, we do encourage you to purchase your own physical simulation kit, so you have have the full set available.

Some users like getting started on the online certification first and only purchase the simulation kit during or even after the simulation certification is completed. The choice, of course, is completely up to you.

We have two pricing options – Certification only, or Certification and the Full Kit, delivered to wherever you are.

Once you are certified, you can get: 

  • Exclusive access to purchase the Transform! Simulation Kits
    To maintain quality of delivery and exclusivity – only Certified Simulation Facilitators can purchase and use the simulation kits in their work
  • Exclusive access to our Certified Simulation Facilitator group
    Meet others like yourself using Transform! to create impact and extra revenue streams
  • Option to join Strategy Tools as an Official Simulation Partner
    As a Strategy Tools Official Sim Partner, you will get:
    • Real-time coaching and support by founder of the simulations Christian Rangen to ensure your success in selling and facilitating your simulation projects
    • Access to digital updates – we are constantly adding new cards, materials, and other items to the kit due to the dynamic nature of . You will get digital access to these so you can use them with your clients and team.

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60-day no-risk guarantee*

We have had many happy participants complete this program and went on to facilitate successful Transform! workshops and programs. If you’ve put in the work but are not happy with what you’ve learned, simply send us an email and we will make it right.
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