CTO Craft Circles:
Support That Scales With You
Joining a CTO Craft Mentoring Circle provides you with a Community of Practice, with regular peer-led discussions facilitated by an experienced CTO Coach, a private channel to get input from peers, discounted conference tickets and more, as well as all courses, discussions, assessments and resources on Campus.
What's a CTO Mentoring Circle?
Meeting monthly, Mentoring Circles provide you with regular, facilitator-led discussions and learning in a small group of peers
Circles are groups of up to 8 technology leaders of similar experience levels
Each Circle is facilitated by an experienced CTO Coach
Members suggest and vote on discussion topics for each session
Members bring their own experiences, along with insights from the Coach
Why join a CTO Mentoring Circle?
Becoming a CTO or tech leader can be isolating. Big decisions, leading teams, and driving innovation, while juggling constant pressures.
But where, or to who, can you turn to when you need help?
CTO Craft Circles connects you with a hand-picked group of peers who get it. Each Circle brings together around eight senior tech leaders, led by an experienced CTO facilitator. You’ll meet online, monthly to work on solutions to your challenges, swap insights from the job, and build your leadership muscles in a collaborative setting.
This isn’t just another networking group. Circles are designed to help you grow faster, lead better, and stay grounded when things get tough.
What you get from a Circle
- Monthly 90-minute online sessions, led by an expert CTO coach
- A trusted group of peers, selected for chemistry and relevance
- Optional one-to-ones with other members or facilitators
- A space to talk openly and get honest, useful advice
You’ll leave each session with more clarity, more confidence, and more tools to tackle your job and all it throws at you.
Plus, Circle members have access to all courses, assessments, groups and resources in our exclusive learning platform: Campus
What we focus on together
You already know how heavy the role can feel. What we aim to do to help is tackle the most important issues, such as:
- How to lead with more clarity and less second-guessing
- Handling constant decision-making without burning out
- Building trust in your team while still pushing things forward
- Making space for development, yours and others
- Enhancing innovation and pushing for a competitive advantage
The challenges are shared, even if the contexts are different. Circles give you the space and the right people to work through them properly.
This naturally sets you up for what changes once that support is in place.
What changes when you're in a Circle
Circles are built to create real, lasting impact. If you’re wondering what that actually looks like, here’s a rough idea.
Decisions tend to come easier. When you’re surrounded by trusted people to learn from and talk to, there’s less second-guessing and fewer blockers slowing things down.
Delivery improves. Better leadership has a habit of trickling out to the rest of the team.
Time to market gets shorter. When you’re clearer on the path ahead, the team can move faster.
Of course, the pressure doesn’t vanish, but it becomes a lot more manageable. And Circles make sure that support is always there, ready when you need it.
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What you'll learn
Design, Build & Debug Engineering Culture
Build Leadership and Team-building Skills
- Vision, values and goal-setting
- Hiring, on-boarding, retention, development and motivation
- Meetings, 1:1s and time management
- Teamwork, collaboration and team building
- Stakeholders and upward management
- Stress and burnout
- Feedback, delegation and decision-making
Architect & Maintain Quality Technology Products
Learn how to Plan and Build Products the Right Way
- Software architecture and engineering practices
- Platforms and technologies
- Security and data privacy
- Research and development
- Data engineering and science
- Quality assurance
Create Sustainable Operations, Process & Infrastructure
Bullet-proof Ops, Project Management Processes and Secure Platforms
- Product management and roadmapping
- Process and release planning, Agile and Lean
- Infrastructure, performance and ops
- Continuous integration and release management
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Budgets and resource planning
- Security, governance and risk
Want to chat about joining a circle?
If you’d like to know more about the benefits of joining a Circle, the kinds of conversation you’ll have, the support you’ll gain from being part of a group, and so on, click below and fill in your details to arrange a chat.
Commitment and costs
Membership of a Circle costs £2199 per year, which includes full access to Campus. We ask for a commitment of 12 months in order to build trust and coherence in the group, and to ensure every member has an opportunity to speak about issues that are important to them.