CI3 Impact Lab
Two tracks, one Lab. Applied project experience is mentored delivery work for emerging leaders, newcomer professionals and career transitioners building portfolio-ready evidence. Credibility to Influence is structured one-to-one coaching for established professionals building organisational authority, external recognition or both. Both are tracked through the Impact Track.
Applications are open. Track A uses the application below. For Track B coaching, apply through CI3 Inc.
Two tracks
The Lab runs two tracks for two different points in a career. They share one thing: your progress is recorded in the Impact Track, CI3's accountability and progress tracker, so your commitments, check-ins and evidence stay in one place.
For emerging leaders, students, newcomer professionals and career transitioners who need real, documented Canadian project experience. You join a live CI3 workstream with a named supervisor and leave with a reviewed portfolio.
For established and advancing professionals: managers, senior specialists, technical leads and new executives who are trusted to deliver but not yet consulted when decisions are made. Weekly one-to-one coaching to build organisational influence, external professional recognition, or both.
Track A · Applied project experience
Participants support CI3 event planning, stakeholder communication, content operations, sponsorship activity, registration, logistics, research, and reporting.
Work is scoped against one of the year's three cohorts, March, July or November, with a named role and supervisor.
Practice Canadian professional expectations, project documentation, stakeholder communication, and reflective leadership.
Leave with role, deliverables, contribution record, learning hours, feedback, and approved portfolio artifacts.
The promise is precise: CI3 provides mentored, documented Canadian project experience through real event and platform delivery work. The Lab does not guarantee employment, immigration benefit, credential acceptance, paid work, or employer recognition.
Track A · Three pathways
Applied project experience runs for one year as three cohorts: March, July and November. Each cohort is one of the year's in-person experiences, and each pathway is a number of those cohorts. Pricing is tailored to you after a short scoping call, and nothing is charged when you apply. Start with the application →
One cohort of the year, March, July or November, for beginners, students, newcomer professionals, and career transitioners testing project delivery.
Two cohorts of the year: a leadership progression from contributor toward workstream lead and project management responsibility.
The full year: all three cohorts, March, July and November, and a complete annual portfolio.
Track A · Your record of work
The portfolio is not a generic completion receipt. It records the work a participant actually performed and the review it received.
Project assignments, milestone status, learning hours, and supervisor context stay connected.
Charters, trackers, meeting notes, risk logs, communications, research, reports, and reflections.
Use verified evidence to strengthen a résumé, portfolio, interview example, and professional narrative.
CI3 Inc. · Credibility to Influence
This is private, structured coaching for experienced professionals who want their expertise to carry more weight. Some want influence inside their organisation. Others want to be known beyond it. You can work on either or both.
Work on an actual challenge involving decision rights, strategic voice, leadership scope or internal positioning.
Clarify what you are known for. Develop a credible point of view, make useful contributions, and build relationships that lead to speaking, publishing or advisory opportunities.
Build one coherent professional identity that supports your authority at work and your reputation in your field.
Explore the full Credibility to Influence program →
The method: Competence → Credibility → Influence → Power. Every week you work with a coach for 60 minutes, apply a commitment to a real situation, and document what happens. The Competence Trap Wheel and Ethical Drift Compass inform your starting point and help you reflect on progress. Results remain private. The work is grounded in The Competence Trap and carried through the Impact Track.
No guaranteed promotion or invitation: Coaching develops your judgment, positioning and capacity to influence. Employers and external organisations make their own decisions.
Weekly one-to-one coaching
Each package includes one 60-minute session per program week. The curriculum builds across packages, so an approved continuation does not repeat earlier work. Fees and engagement terms are shared privately after the application review.
A focused four-month coaching engagement. Work through one important professional challenge. Define your position, make your judgment visible and test your first influence moves.
An extended eight-month coaching engagement. Extend the work across teams, professional networks and harder decisions. Develop sponsorship, relationships and evidence that your judgment is being sought.
A twelve-month coaching engagement. Develop durable authority and external standing, pursue consequential opportunities and build a reputation that can outlast your current role.
Applying is free. Acceptance, session dates and private engagement terms are confirmed before enrolment.
Applications
This form is for Track A, Applied Project Experience. To apply for CI3 Inc. Credibility to Influence coaching, use the separate coaching application. Applying costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If admitted, payment arrangements are agreed before enrolment.
Applications are reviewed for fit, learning goals, availability, and the support CI3 can responsibly provide.