Leadership Development Institute

Technical excellence is what got you noticed.

It is not what makes people follow you.

LDI develops the leadership that makes people choose to follow you,

in the moments when you cannot require it.

The program

The Leadership Development Institute is

AIM Utah's applied leadership program

for technology professionals moving into influence.

A cohort meets across three full-day sessions to work on the part of leadership a title does not solve.

It is applied, not theoretical. Participants leave with practices they can use right away,

not a binder of frameworks.

Sessions are led by experienced leaders who have built careers developing people, not by outside trainers.

Who it's for

LDI is built for technology professionals who are handed leadership responsibility ahead of formal authority. New managers and technical leads whose results depend on people outside their reporting line.

It is for people who are ambitious about how they lead and honest about where they still have ground to cover.

What the cohort works on

Across three sessions, participants examine how their own behavior and reputation shape their influence. They work on building the trust and accountability that hold up under real pressure, and on recognizing the ordinary moments where leadership is won or lost.

The work continues between sessions, applied to the teams and problems each participant already owns.

Format

Three in-person, full-day sessions with a single cohort, held at WCF in Sandy. Lunch is included.

The cohort format is deliberate. It keeps the room candid and the work applied to problems people actually own.

Enrollment

LDI runs each spring and fall.

Registration for the next cohort opens ahead of its start date.

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