The Founding 50

I wrote Operational Modernization because I kept seeing the same thing across every operation I touched: teams doing real work, held together by people quietly patching the gaps technology and process leave behind. Most of them don't have a name for what they're doing. I think they should.

I'm looking for the first 50 people to formally practice Operational Modernization alongside me — not to take a course, but to help build one. The Founding 50 is a small group of practitioners who already do this kind of work, whether or not they've called it that, and who want to help define what OpMod practice actually looks like as it grows.

This isn't a polished certification program yet. It's deliberately not. The material, the standards, the way this gets taught — a lot of that gets built with the people who join early, not handed to them finished.

What being a Founding 50 practitioner means

• Certification as an OpMod Practitioner — the first cohort to hold it.
• A direct hand in shaping the discipline — the frameworks, the standards, how OpMod gets delivered and taught going forward.
• Access to opportunities — TGN works with organizations that need this capability, and Founding 50 practitioners are who we look to first.
• A real network — a small, high-caliber group of people doing this work, thinking out loud together as it develops.

Who this is for

You've probably already done this work without the label. You've fixed operating processes nobody assigned you to fix. You've been the person translating between systems, strategy, and the people actually doing the job. You're comfortable in ambiguity, and when people meet you, they tend to remember it.

If that sounds like you, I want to talk.