ATS Academy

We Coach Leaders in Strategy Management

We encourage leaders and rising leaders to invest in their professional growth. Dr. Wallace has created several self-paced training courses to get you started on your own strategic management journey.

Mastering Human Capital Readiness

Mastering Human Capital Readiness (HCR) is a self-directed online course that is designed to teach leaders how to evaluate a strategic plan, identify strategic competencies in a strategic plan, align talent to pillars in a strategic plan, create a readiness assessment to evaluate the readiness of your talent, and develop talent to successfully implement your strategic plan.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate a strategic plan
• Explain the components of a strategy map 
• Identity strategic competencies in a strategic plan 
• Align strategic jobs families to a strategy map 
• Create a readiness assessment 
• Establish a development program 
• Develop personal scorecards 

The course consists of suggested readings from articles, the book Strategy Is Spelled ADEM, and the Executive Performance Journal.

Mastering Strategy Management

Mastering the Strategy Management is a self-directed online course that is designed to teach leaders how to implement and manage all four phases of strategy management (i.e., analyze, develop, execute, and manage) to foster a strategy-focused organization. 

Learning Objectives:

• Process effective strategy development and translation 
• Explain the components of a strategic vision and change agenda 
• Describe the components of a strategy map 
• Demonstrate the components of a balanced scorecard 
• Teach the methods and techniques necessary to cascade and align strategy 
• Articulate Principles of effective execution and governance 
• Connect the key linkage points between strategy and operations 
• Explain the processes and tools to monitor/test/adapt strategy and improve decision-making

The course consists of suggested readings from articles, the book Strategy Is Spelled ADEM, and the Executive Performance Journal.

Mastering the Strategy Map

Mastering the Strategy Map is a self-directed online course that is designed to teach leaders the perspectives and elements of a strategy map and how to successfully develop one. 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the components of a strategy map 
• Describe tangible financial assets and intangible non-financial assets of a strategy map 
• Articulate the cause-and-effect logic of a strategy map 
• Logically organize strategic objectives on a strategy map  

The course consists of suggested readings from articles, the book Strategy Is Spelled ADEM, and the Executive Performance Journal.  

Since this course is self-directed, you may study and complete assignments at times that are most convenient for you from the comfort of your own home.

Mastering Strategic Risk Management

Mastering Strategic Risk Management is a self-directed online course that is designed to teach leaders how to evaluate a strategic plan for strategic risk and to successfully develop a strategic risk plan to help achieve a company’s strategic priorities. 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the purpose of having a strategic risk plan
• Articulate a categories of enterprise risk 
• Create a criterion for strategy risk (i.e., Likert scale, descriptions, etc.) 
• Develop a strategic risk plan (i.e., risk priority rating, heat map, etc.) 
• Plot a heat map priority score
• Manage strategic risk 

The course consists of suggested readings from articles, the book Strategy Is Spelled ADEM, and the Executive Performance Journal.