Founder Mastery · Advanced learning
Founder Mastery
Advanced learning and leadership development for founders preparing to scale, raise capital, or navigate complex decisions.
LOI program pillars
Founder Start
An entry point into entrepreneurship
Founder Acceleration
Building toward product–market fit
Founder Mastery
Leading at the next level
Skills rarely taught early enough.
As ventures grow, the challenges change.
As ventures grow, challenges shift from building a product to leading people and making high-stakes decisions: skills rarely taught early enough.
Founder Mastery gives experienced founders advanced learning and leadership development through partnerships that open doors, so they can scale, raise capital, and navigate complex decisions with confidence.
Who it’s for
01
Experienced founders
Founders approaching key inflection points: fundraising, governance, or scale.
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Moving from builder to leader
Your challenges are shifting from building a product to leading people and making high-stakes decisions.
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Thinking about a board
You want to strengthen governance literacy, board readiness, and fiduciary understanding as you scale.
Innovation Governance Program (iGP).
A national certificate program focused on governance in Canada’s innovation economy.
Governance literacy
Understand how boards work
Learn how governance supports a growing innovation company, and how board processes can protect the company with more structure and accountability.
Board readiness
Prepare for your first board
Build the confidence to set up, recruit for, and work with a board as your venture scales.
Fiduciary understanding
Lead with accountability
Understand the responsibilities that come with leading a company and making high-stakes decisions on behalf of others.
Sponsored seats for LOI founders
LOI covers the cost of iGP for founders in our community, so price isn’t the barrier. Each sponsored seat is valued at over $2,500.
“Reframed a board as a strength rather than something to fear.”
“Before iGP, I mostly associated boards with risk and loss of control. The program helped me see that many board processes mirror founder instincts around protecting the company, just with more structure and accountability.”
Kyle George, CEO & Founder, Forged Operations · iGP 2025
The details
Next cohort dates coming soon
Innovation Governance Program (iGP)
Council of Canadian Innovators
National certificate program
Governance literacy, board readiness and fiduciary understanding
Sponsored seats for LOI founders, valued at over $2,500 each
Interested in the next cohort?
Dates for the next sponsored iGP cohort are coming soon. Let us know you’re interested and we’ll be in touch.