About the Transformation Management Institute™
Who We Are
The first question we hear is: “How is this different from the Project Management Institute?”
It’s the right question. PMI gave the world a profession for delivering projects. Project Managers protect feasibility, schedules, and delivery. But too often they are asked to carry more than their role was designed to hold.
Projects begin with scope and schedules. Transformations cut across silos, unsettle authority, and demand legitimacy before a schedule even matters.
That is the ground of Transformation Management.
Why We Built This
We did not arrive here as theorists. We arrived as the exhausted.
Project Managers blamed for outcomes they never had authority to govern.
Corporate Trainers who watched teams onboard, then burn out again and again.
Executives left holding promises no one ever secured.
What failed was not talent. What failed was discipline. The practice people needed did not exist, so we built it.
Our Mandate
The Transformation Management Institute™ exists to fill these gaps:
Codify the practices that come before execution and adoption.
Set the standards and credentials that demand clarity, dignity, and continuity.
Protect Project Managers, Sponsors, and Teams from being left exposed.
Establish Transformation Management as a profession in its own right.
This is not another framework. It is not a rebrand of change management. It is the missing discipline: the one that makes the others possible.
The Profession We Stand For
Just as PMI transformed project delivery, and Scrum reshaped software, the 3E Standard™ establishes Transformation Management as the profession that safeguards legitimacy itself.
We know the cost of its absence: wasted capital, wasted trust, wasted people. We also know the relief when preventable failure stops being business as usual. Drift culture is preventable.
Recognition for Practitioners
Professionals have already led this work without recognition or protection:
Naming risks no one else would face.
Absorbing blame when others looked away.
Keeping their people steady through crisis and moving targets.
The endorsement of the Transformation Management Institute makes their role undeniable. When leaders see the credential after a name, they will feel relief: that someone can give their effort a fair chance. And practitioners will recognize one another not by title, but by stewardship of dignity.
Our Vision
Legitimacy is not argued. It is practiced.
The vision of the Institute is to give this profession not just a practice, but a home.
—Jordan Vallejo, PMP®
Founder, Transformation Management Institute™