Building High Performing Technology Teams
We help leaders become the CTO their business needs and help their teams become capable of supporting that level of leadership. Real transformation happens when both rise together.
Book AssessmentBecome CTO is not about giving someone a title. It is about helping a leader become the CTO the business truly needs for its stage of growth, and helping the team grow into the team that leader can rely on. Leadership and team rise together when they are shaped for the same stage and the same goals.
When the leader is ready but the team is not, nothing changes. When the team is capable but the leader does not match the stage, nothing changes. Real transformation happens when the leader and the team evolve together, aligned with the needs of the business today.
Technology teams fail because of clarity, structure, and leadership alignment, not code. We rebuild those foundations through embedded support that creates lasting performance. CEOs and boards call us when confidence in their technology function has been shaken, and we rebuild that confidence by working alongside your team to fix what is broken.
Backed by the LIT Framework. Proven Across Seven Countries.
Since 2011
Experience
Teach the What. Coach the How. Explain the Why.
This foundation guides every engagement and creates leaders who act with confidence and think with purpose.
We Teach the What
Clear structure and language defining what high performance looks like. Standards become repeatable, decisions become visible, and teams work with focus.
We Coach the How
Live guidance in real work, not theory. We coach teams until strong habits take root and confidence builds through measured progress.
We Explain the Why
Principles that turn experience into insight. Leaders learn when to adapt and when to hold course, building independence and long term thinking.
Assess to Ascend: Four Clear Stages
Every engagement follows the same pathway. Clear steps, proven results.
Assess
A 30 minute conversation identifying your technology function's maturity, leadership alignment, and capability gaps.
Diagnose
A two week embedded review uncovering what is working and what is broken. Credit applied to full transformation if you proceed.
Transform
A six month embedded program rebuilding your technology function's operating rhythm, structure, and capability to perform at a CTO level.
Ascend
Ongoing support for teams maintaining high performance after transformation. Flexible engagement adapting to your needs.
Experience Backed by Proven Results
Timothy J. Hitchens
Six time CTO, leadership adviser, and builder of high performing technology teams across startups, scaleups, and global enterprises.
Timothy founded Become CTO to transform how technology leadership is built, not by replacing people but by embedding capability. His experience shaped the methodology behind our pathway, built on the LIT Framework (Leader, Innovator, Technologist).
Every framework and principle comes from real transformation work with real teams.
Start with Assessment. Build to Transformation.
One clear pathway. Proven results. Capability that lasts beyond our engagement.
Book Your AssessmentBecome CTO
Building High Performing Technology Teams
We embed to fix how teams operate while coaching CTOs to lead at that level.
