How to become a CTO in under 3 years – 5 practical ways!
What you'll learn
- Know the skills gap they have to fill from engineer to CTO
- Have 5 practical ways to transition from engineer to cto in under 3 years
- Know clear actions to take to move from engineer towards a CTO role
- Can identify ways to start taking up opportunities towards becoming CTO in your current role
- Know exact names of people, places and companies to include in your network to become a CTO
- Know where and how to find opportunities to become a CTO
- Know to create opportunities to become a CTO
- Can take at least 5 different actions to move their career towards a CTO role
- Uncover the stories of other engineers and how they became CTO
Requirements
- No experience needed. You will learn everything you need to know.
Description
This course is for ambitious engineers, developers, programmers who want to become a CTO.
By doing this course you will have a minimum of 5 easy to implement actions you can take today to move your career towards becoming a CTO within 3 years.
This course will answer (with practical actions you can take) the key questions:
how do I transition from engineer to CTO in under 3 years?
how do I become a CTO founder in a company?
how do I work my way up to becoming a CTO in a company?
Many engineers want to become CTO, but most of the advice online is confusing, unrealistic, untested, with no practical steps you can take today or it requires a long term plan that can take 7+ years.
This course is based on the hundreds of real CTOs (in companies from 10-100,000 staff) I have advised in the last 13 years and talking to them about their backgrounds and how they became a CTO.
No other course on Udemy gives you kind level of practical details on how to become a CTO that you can start implementing today.
During this course:
You will have 5 videos of me each describing a different way you can become CTO in under 3 years
You will get clear actions you can take at the end of each video that will take you 5-10 min max but can accelerate your transition to CTO
Hear from the former Confused,com CTO on how he transitioned from engineer to CTO
Hear from ProWritingAid CTO how he transitioned from engineer to being CTO in a company of 50 staff in under 3 years.
In my business, I advise CTOs, VP/Heads/Directors of Engineering on how to become successful in their roles.
I have hundreds of LinkedIn and Google recommendations for my work with CTOs and engineers in companies as small as 10 and as big as 100,000 staff.
Here are some of the testimonials I have received from CTOs and other engineering leaders:
Adelina helped me secure significant development budget for a breakthrough product range from a highly commercial focused board. I had previously tried over a number of months to get the innovation approved, but only when I changed the approach to Adelina's recommendation, I was able to shift the mind-set of the board and get them to buy into the vision and support the development.”
Tim Moore, former CTO at Shark Ninja and GHD
As a relatively new VPE I've found it challenging to make the IC (individual contributor) transition at times and to feel confident that I'm adding value. However, Adelina's help, guidance and insight have been invaluable and all achieved within one week! I feel invigorated again with the role and looking forward to moving forward with the plans set out.”
Rich Reeves, VP Engineering, Netwealth
Straight-shooting and not prone to waffle or exaggerate, Adelina immediately added value that helped me get what I needed, bringing her deep yet varied industry experience to bear. What is clear to me is that Adelina helps her clients with specific tactics and strategy needed. I am grateful for her support and highly recommend her services.
Jason Dolan, Director of Software Development, Dynatrace
Who this course is for:
- software engineers, hardware engineers, analogue technology engineers, developers, coders, programmers, product managers, anyone with a product or technical background who would like to become CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 33 Reviews
- 140 Students
- 1 Course
Since 2013 I have been guest lecturing on the topics of: presenting for investment, building business cases and negotiation in the context of science and technology initiatives at Cambridge University.
For over a decade I have been teaching engineers how to pitch for investment for their startups and helped them secure millions of pounds (check my 250+ LinkedIn Recommendations) and helped engineers and CTOs in companies as small as 10 and as big as 100,000 to translate technical concepts into business goals.
I was nominated on UK Computer Weekly’s Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech list in 2021 and won my place in the Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech in 2022 and 2023.
I have worked with scientists and engineers from Software Engineer all the way up to CEO/CSO/CTO who work for: Fujitsu, ARM, Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, Compare the Market, Microsoft and hundreds of scale-ups.