The map the role was never given.
Every other seat at the executive table inherited a profession. Technology never did. Innovant is the assessment and coaching practice that builds what the role has been missing — grounded in the framework at the heart of Invisible.
Finance, operations, and HR each spent decades building a profession. Technology leadership never got one.
There are mountains of writing on executive leadership, and worlds of writing on technology. Almost nothing connects the two. The people asked to lead technology at the most senior level have been handed a role with no codified body of knowledge, no development pathway, and no honest way to answer a simple question: am I actually effective, and where am I not?
Innovant closes that gap. It turns the framework behind Invisible into two things you can use: a clear, evidence-based assessment of where you stand across seven domains, and coaching that does the real work of crossing the distance the assessment reveals.
An honest map of where you actually stand.
The Technology Executive Effectiveness Assessment measures capability across seven domains — built on the strongest evidence available, not on how confident anyone feels. It is designed to replace a flattering, general impression with a specific, useful picture you can act on.
The Full assessment
Boards and CEOs evaluating or developing a technology executive.
A complete, multi-source diagnostic that sees the role in its real context:
- Self-assessment across all seven domains
- 360 input from direct reports and executive peers
- Organisational context survey (CEO, chair, CFO)
- Legacy audit — what actually outlasts the leader
Delivered with a personal debrief. Begins with a conversation.
The individual assessment
Technology executives seeking a clear, private read on themselves.
The self-assessment instrument, offered on its own — currently in limited release and delivered with a human debrief rather than an automated report, because the most important results deserve a conversation, not a screen.
By invitation for now. Start with a conversation and we will tell you where it stands.
The map, in full.
Effectiveness in this role is not one thing. It is seven — each developable, each assessable, and most people are not strong across all of them at once. Naming them precisely is the first honest step.
The work of crossing.
An assessment tells you where you stand. Coaching is how you move — technology-executive effectiveness coaching built specifically for the role, grounded in original research, and delivered by someone who has lived it.
Full Framework Coaching
A technology executive with their organisation behind them.
Begins with a Full assessment debrief, then a structured engagement using the framework itself as the curriculum:
- Six to twelve months, two or three development priorities
- Confirmed strengths, primary gaps, and blind spots
- A repeat assessment at the end, measured against your baseline
Between-Roles Coaching
For a leader between roles, reflecting on their trajectory, or recently passed over.
Real coaching for a real moment — not tactical job-search support, and not a thinned-out version of anything. It starts from an honest read of where you are and builds from the parts of the framework that are true without an organisation around you:
- Self-awareness and personal effectiveness
- Preparing you to walk into your next role already further along
Shorter and lower-priced, shaped to where you actually are.
The bridge. When a between-roles client lands a new role and an organisation ready to back them, the work carries forward into Full Framework Coaching — the same destination, reached on a longer and more human timeline. It was never a lesser path.
Someone who has lived the role — and built the framework it never had.
Jamie Vachon is a technology executive with two decades in financial services and insurance, and a former global CTO responsible for technology transformation across Asia. He spent a career building leaders, and a decade developing the Capability Inversion framework through practice and research.
Innovant is not generic executive coaching pointed at technology leaders. It is the practice behind Invisible — the same framework, put to work for the people the book is written for.
“Your legacy isn't your technology. Your legacy is you.”
Invisible — Why Great Technologists Struggle to Become Great Leaders
The argument, the evidence, and the framework in full. Start here if you want to understand the idea before you put it to work.
Start with a conversation.
Whether you are weighing the assessment for your organisation, thinking about coaching, or simply want to know where to begin — the first step is a conversation, not a commitment.
Prefer email? jamie.vachon@innovant.com.au