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Why RLF?

RLF helps emerging technology leaders make the shift from leading projects and initiatives to leading hearts and minds. Through sustained reflection, trusted peer connection, and real-world leadership development, participants build the confidence, influence, and self-awareness to lead people more effectively and step into greater responsibility.

Who Is RLF For?

RLF may be right for you if you’re ready to:

  • Expand your influence beyond projects and technical expertise
  • Better understand yourself and how you lead others
  • Build stronger relationships across teams and organizations
  • Prepare for broader leadership responsibility
  • Invest meaningfully in the next stage of your career

Participants may have completed IT Management & Leadership Professional (ITMLP) or the IT Management & Leadership Studies (ITMLS), or already bring comparable experience and responsibility.

THE RLF EXPERIENCE

Six Sessions. One Shared Leadership Journey.

Each RLF cohort moves through six in-person sessions together over approximately eight months. The experience combines facilitated learning, reflection, peer dialogue, mentoring, and relationship-building around the leadership questions that become more important as responsibility grows.

Participants explore how to:

Know Yourself

Deepen self-awareness and understand how your values, behaviors, and leadership style shape others.

Build Authentic Relationships

Develop the trust, empathy, and communication needed to influence people and strengthen teams.

Leave Your Mark

Clarify the kind of leader you want to become and the impact you want to have.

Navigate What’s Next

Build the perspective and confidence to take on increasingly complex leadership opportunities.

RLF graduates leave with stronger leadership capabilities, enduring peer relationships, an expanded network of technology executives, and a clearer path toward executive leadership.

34+ Years
Developing technology leaders
12 Days
Of in-person leadership development
6 Regions
Forums close to home
100% Practitioner Led
Facilitators are Technology Leaders
1 Cohort
The same peers all year
6,000+ Graduates
Across the RLF community
FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Develop the Leaders Your Organization Will Need Next

RLF gives organizations a structured way to invest in high-potential technology leaders who are ready to expand beyond technical and operational responsibility. Participants return with stronger self-awareness, broader perspective, ability to build deeper relationships, and greater confidence leading people through complexity and change and a peer network to support them.

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Beginning in 2027, Rising Leader Forum (RLF) graduates will be eligible for a Certificate of Completion from University of Oregon Continuing and Professional Education.