Certified Thought Leader® Certification Program
Become a Certified Thought Leader®—not just a description, but a skilled and proven professional who has shown the ability to examine the past and recognize and analyze the present while imagining and illuminating the future.
What a CTL® Is, and Why It Is Important
Being perceived as a thought leader will be beneficial to your career. Your opinions and thoughts matter, and they help convince others to change points of view or act due to your thought leadership.
It is not easy to commit to ever-progressing improvement, but that is what exceptional leaders do.
A thought leader is a firm or individual recognized as one of the foremost authorities in selected areas of specialization, resulting in being the top choice individual or organization recognized for that expertise.
The Certified Thought Leader® status is achieved by expertise, insight, and a valuable perspective formed over time. Thought leadership requires dedication and hard work because thought leaders assist the organization as it navigates necessary change.
Who a Thought Leader Is
A leader is someone who has the curiosity to learn with a commitment to add to and hone their knowledge in a particular field—and then be willing to freely share that knowledge. Thought leaders focus on the why before they focus on the how. They ask questions such as "Why does it matter?" and "Why are we doing this in the first place?" We perceive thought leaders as knowledgeable sources of insight in a chosen field or subject matter area—they are experts.
To put it simply, a thought leader is someone other people listen to about a particular subject. They are relentless thinkers and humble learners who think deeply about items of importance that can change the world.
What It Takes to Be a Thought Leader
It is a truism that thought leaders tend to be the most successful individuals. Expertise in a particular niche makes you different from the ordinary. Your ongoing involvement in (or awareness of) that niche with a clearly identified point of view helps you build credibility over time as one who captures the power of their mind and employs thinking skills and tools to both lead and manage—which gives you a supportive following.
Be a trailblazer. You do not invest in your current self; you invest in your future self. Make your decisions now for the self you want to grow into—grow to, not go to. Achievement is what you grow into, plant the seeds, reap the law of the harvest. For things to change (improve or get better), you must change. You are worth it and will have a better future. Thought leadership needs dedication and hard work.
How to Become a Certified Thought Leader® (CTL®)
Your mission—should you choose to accept it—is to develop, over the next several months, the thinking skills proven to raise your performance and professional standing to levels beyond what you currently can imagine so you can become a Certified Thought Leader® (CTL®).
Being a Certified Thought Leader® is not just an accomplishment, but a transformation to elite thinking with the ability to change anything you desire if you conceive, believe, and achieve it.
Thought leaders are essential to creating a better future because, although power is essential, not every individual is dedicated to the hard work of deep thought.
What Professional CTL® Certification Is
Professional CTL® certification is an authentic verification of one's ability and commitment to create ideas and experiences that give people reasons to care and belong, not just reasons to choose. CTL® certification can be achieved with the help of experience and training. Certified Thought Leaders® are skilled in recognizing, reviewing, and analyzing any situation or problem and using a mindful approach. They use their thinking skills to imagine and create a solution that improves, advances, or even changes the direction of important decisions. A CTL® looks to discover the truth, matches it with opportunity, and takes appropriate action.
Inclusions of Professional CTL® Certification Program
- Foundational Course—Power Thinking
- Thought Leadership, Mental Modes, Mindfulness, Mindset, Mindshift, Mind Meld
- Thinking Tools
- Problem Identification, Prioritization, and Solutions
- First Principles Thinking
- Imagination (Creative and Synthetic), Ideas, Verification, Master Mind
- Decision Making, Organized Thought, Organized Action, Concentration
- Leadership for Change
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