Engineering Leadership Mastery Bootcamp: Tools, Foresight & Influence for the Modern Technical Leader by Tonex
A hands-on leadership experience using the Engineering Leadership Toolbox™
The Engineering Leadership Mastery Bootcamp is a high-impact, 3-day intensive designed to transform engineers and technical managers into strategic, influential, and ethically grounded leaders. This program equips participants with Tonex’s Engineering Leadership Toolbox™ — a comprehensive set of frameworks, templates, models, and tools across seven leadership domains. Through scenario-based simulations, team exercises, guided reflections, and hands-on labs, participants develop practical leadership capabilities to guide cross-functional teams, align engineering with business strategy, drive innovation, and foster inclusive and resilient technical cultures.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this bootcamp, participants will be able to:
- Strategically lead engineering initiatives aligned with organizational goals and long-term innovation.
- Forecast technology trends and build engineering roadmaps using foresight tools.
- Lead technical teams by fostering psychological safety, accountability, and performance.
- Communicate complex ideas to executive stakeholders through briefings, storytelling, and active listening.
- Coach and mentor engineers, delivering feedback using proven models and peer development systems.
- Manage engineering projects and innovation using Agile, TRIZ, risk tracking, and ideation tools.
- Make high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, using decision trees, trade-off matrices, and systems thinking.
- Navigate ethical dilemmas and lead engineering teams with trust, integrity, and resilience.
- Influence cross-functional decisions, understand business finance, and contribute to organizational growth.
- Create inclusive technical cultures and develop succession plans to grow future leaders.
Target Audience
This course is ideal for:
- Engineering team leads, project leads, and technical managers
- Senior engineers preparing for leadership roles
- Engineering program managers and R&D leads
- Technical executives and directors
- Cross-functional product and innovation leaders
3-Day Bootcamp Agenda
DAY 1: Strategic Thinking & People Leadership
Module I: Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Workshop: Strategic Engineering Canvas Lab
- Tools: Business Model Canvas, OKRs, Leadership Identity Mapping
- Activities:
- Breakout: Build a business model for a technical team initiative
- Design a vision-mission alignment map
- Write OKRs for an R&D team
Module II: Tech Forecasting & Strategic Foresight
Workshop: Foresight Studio – Map the Future
- Tools: Futures Wheel, 2×2 Scenario Matrix, S-Curve, TRIZ Trends
- Activities:
- Delphi Roundtable Simulation on emerging tech
- Build a Technology Radar and forecast disruptive shifts
Module III: Leading Technical Teams
Workshop: Engineering Team Leadership Sprint
- Tools: Tuckman Model, Gallup StrengthsFinder, Team Health Monitor
- Activities:
- Team scenario: “Storming Stage Fire Drill”
- Psychological safety checklist walkthrough
- RACI exercise on a systems project
DAY 2: Communication, Coaching & Innovation
Module IV: Technical Communication & Executive Briefing
Workshop: Pyramid to Pitch Deck
- Tools: Pyramid Principle, SBAR, Storytelling with Data
- Activities:
- Write an executive memo using SBAR
- Brief a simulated board on a tech concept (role-play)
Module V: Coaching, Mentoring & Feedback
Workshop: Leadership Conversations Lab
- Tools: SBI, GROW Model, Radical Candor, 1:1 Templates
- Activities:
- Feedback triads using SBI scenarios
- Pair up for GROW model development plan creation
- Build a peer mentoring circle structure
Module VI: Project & Innovation Management
Workshop: Agile-Innovation War Room
- Tools: Scrum Board, PERT, Risk Register, TRIZ, SCAMPER
- Activities:
- Run an Agile sprint planning simulation
- Use TRIZ + SCAMPER for ideation on real R&D issue
- Design Review checklist simulation
DAY 3: Decision-Making, Ethics & Influence
Module VII: Decision-Making & Systems Thinking
Workshop: Strategy Under Uncertainty Lab
- Tools: Decision Trees, Trade-off Matrix, Real Options, Causal Loops
- Activities:
- Map a system using Iceberg Model and identify leverage points
- Run a “Tech Investment Dilemma” decision-making sprint
Module VIII: Ethics, Trust & Resilience
- Workshop: Crisis & Integrity Roundtable
- Tools: Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, Ethics Risk Matrix
- Activities:
- Analyze a real-world ethical failure (e.g., Boeing 737 Max)
- Design a Whistleblower Protocol
- Build a Resilience Canvas for a crisis response
Module IX: Organizational Influence & Inclusive Leadership
Workshop: Influence Without Authority Studio
- Tools: Stakeholder Mapping, ROI Template, 9-Box Talent Matrix
- Activities:
- Simulated stakeholder negotiation
- Build a technical career ladder & internal rotation plan
- Diversity Hiring Scorecard challenge
Included Materials – Engineering Leadership Toolbox™
- Business & Strategy Canvas Templates
- Foresight Tools Pack (Futures Wheel, Scenario Maps)
- Communication Templates (SBAR, Pyramid, Brief Decks)
- Feedback & Mentoring Worksheets
- Innovation Toolkits (TRIZ, SCAMPER, Design Thinking)
- Risk & Decision Tools (PERT, CPM, Trade-off Grids)
- Systems Thinking Modeling Tools
- Ethics & Resilience Frameworks
- Finance Templates (ROI, CapEx/OpEx, CBA)
- Inclusion & Succession Planning Tools
Completion Certificate
Issued by Tonex | 2.1 CEUs | Engineering Leadership Mastery Certified