An invitation to go PRO in 2026
Welcome to 2026. Let’s Go Pro
Happy 2026. Wishing you a year with more clarity, greater momentum, and work that feels worth the effort.
If 2026 is shaping up with bigger stakes, less tolerance for rework, and more pressure to “just make it land,” then going pro in change and transformation leadership isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a necessity.
Pro-level is being the Go-To Leader who can step into ambiguity, create a clear path forward, align the right people, and help outcomes land and stick, without the delays, frustrations and disappointments.
If any of these are in your 2026 priorities, you’re in the right territory
During 2025, this is what change and transformation leaders have been asking and inquiring about in 500+ conversations and meetings
Career + compensation
Being called for premium roles (not only applying), stepping up into bigger leadership, and earning packages or rates that reflect strategic-level value.
Influence + leadership presence
Stronger decision-level influence, higher levels stakeholder alignment, and a calm, trusted presence under pressure.
Practice + staying sharp
A complete, integrated way to lead transformation and practice change leadership without stitching your capability together from scattered courses and competing philosophies.
What “Go-To Leader” looks like in reality
The promise inside TLI and all I do for individual leaders is to develop you into the Go-To Leader and evolve.
Working with emerging Go-To Leaders and well established ones, It has become clear what a Go-To Leader does day in and day out and what are their true super powers.
In day-to-day terms, this means:
You’re pulled into shaping conversations before decisions are final
You create clarity fast and make trade-offs visible so leaders can choose wisely
You align stakeholders through real adoption
You run clean execution rhythms that protect work from chaos
You stay calm, direct, and trusted with the truth
You don’t find jobs, jobs find you
People know you, I call it micro-celebrity and they know you for knowing something!
And that becomes your reputation: the leader who makes complex work actually work.
What we build inside ELEVATE™
ELEVATE is our signature program inside the Transformation Leadership Institute (TLI) designed to develop Go-To Leaders, the ones global enterprises and high stakes change programs actively seek.
I have built an integrated approach in a tried, tested, and impact making system that I call the GTL Method
It’s built as a complete change and transformation leadership operating system across three pillars:
Positioning: how you’re seen, valued, and included early
Practice: how you diagnose, decide, come up with options, adapt to the org maturity and evolve its capabilities, and deliver in real complexity
Potential: your leadership presence, mindset, influence, and trajectory toward premium roles and business engagement
Plus two other support pillars:
Profile: reputation and visibility
Performance: measurable impact and results while maintaining a flow performance).
How is Elevate built differently
Most learning in this space is fragmented: one course on agile change, another on behaviour design, another on operating model, another on storytelling and you’re left to stitch it together under pressure.
ELEVATE is built as one integrated system, a roadmap with clear levels of maturity, because real-world transformation & change leadership is integrated.
In saying that, Elevate caters for the specific needs of those who want to dive into specific pillars or certain focus areas which then becomes their pathway inside Elevate.
ELEVATE isn’t theory from the sidelines, it’s built on 26 years of hands-on transformation experience across global organisations.
I am still keeping busy, hands-on and working across industries and in different capacities, including recently with WWF, World Gold Council, Marks & Spencers, Airbus, Open AI, Dubai Government, Standard Chartered Bank, and MH Henessy.
So everything is built knowing how things work now not 5 years ago.
The calibre of our members
ELEVATE members come from, and are recruited into organisations like Apple, BCG, Westpac, PwC, Emirates, GSK, Thales, DHL, SAP, Google, Tesco, Telia Finland, Amazon, Mercedes Benz, and other established enterprises across financial services, energy, utilities, manufacturing, and technology.
Members span 10+ countries and 8+ industries, including senior practitioners, directors, consulting partners, and independent consultants.
That matters because this isn’t a generic program and community. It’s a peer environment where the standard is high and the conversations are real.
How ELEVATE works. What is in it?
ELEVATE is structured around three questions:
How do I become the leader who’s brought in early, not called in to fix things late?
How do I lead transformation work that actually lands and sticks?
How do I build the presence and trajectory for premium-level opportunities?
Here’s what that translates to:
If you want what you learn to be applied to your specific situation
You get 1:1 strategy + a calibration session with Jess to map your exact roadmap across the three pillars and set a clear 90-day plan that fits your context. So you are not lost inside Elevate
If you don’t want “a course and then goodbye”
Situations change. Moving parts multiply. That’s why ELEVATE includes ongoing coaching, community support, and access - so you can recalibrate as your world shifts, not only when it’s convenient.
If you want world-class curriculum on how to actually do transformation and practice change leadership
You get the complete Go-To Leader curriculum (core + advanced), designed for experienced practitioners working in real organisational complexity.
If you want your perspective expanded every month (without chasing random training)
You get monthly masterclass themes with expert guest thought leaders to broaden your edge across areas that strengthen influence and execution impact (these are some of the topics we covered in the expert sessions: business architecture, operating model, LEGO Serious Play, storytelling, business agility, LinkedIn brand building, adaptive leadership, AI integration, and more).
If you want part of Jess’s brain available 24x7
You get AI coaches built on Jess’s intellectual property for real-time guidance on complex situations and decisions, especially when pressure hits between sessions.
What outcomes members have reported
Examples members have reported include:
A promotion into a Global Head of Transformation role within 6 months
A consulting rate increase (example shared: $1,500/day to $3,500/day within 4 months)
A significant compensation uplift attached to a senior role move (example shared: $85K increase)
Members also describe TLI as a place for real support and care, staying up to date, and sharing the future, not just “getting through” a program.
For more results and testimonials: https://transformationleadership.institute/result
2026 as a launchpad
If you want 2026 to be a platform for what’s truly possible.. in your leadership, your practice, your compensation, and your sense of fulfilment, “going pro” is a decision you make early.
That’s what we do inside the Transformation Leadership Institute.
And ELEVATE is where senior actioned, leaders, sponsors in change and transformation build that Go-To Leader operating system.
Ready to Elevate into what’s really possible for you?
📌Elevate is currently closed, but we’re accepting expressions of interest and applications. Doors reopen in February. If you’d like to learn more, here are the details:
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bdfqzgTeAdkkrqx1l4jl_yPm174RQzy0Vs-VO-w4UzY/edit?usp=drivesdk
If you want to reach your potential faster and secure a spot on the waitlist, so you’re the first to know when doors open, email me the word ELEVATE and I’ll add you to the waitlist.
Feel free to email me if you have a question or book a time for a private chat
PS: The tier above Elevate is Inner Circle and that’s for C-Levels, Senior Executives, SVPs, VPs, Managing Partners, Consultants making more than 1million,.. Who wants me to be their own private consultant / advisor, mostly 1:1.
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