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ABOUT 120VC

  • We are a Transformational Leadership Consultancy Firm.

    We are in the business of helping people lead and respond to change—with efficiency, agility, and humanity. We have written the manual for getting sh*t done #GSD.

    Founded by Jason Scott over 20 years ago to work with leaders and businesses that share our growth mindset, passion for people, and ambition to lead the transformation to what’s new and next.

  • At 120VC, we specialize in transforming groups of high-potential individuals into single, unified, high-performing teams that accomplish exponentially more as a team than any one of them could individually. We traditionally work with departments seen as overhead, cost center, or SG&A—such as IT, Human Resources, and Marketing—into dynamic epicenters of growth for their companies.

    Our approach starts with a fundamental shift in thinking. People must think differently before they can do differently. We shift them from thinking like an organization that takes work requests and manages their spending to an organization that is proactively identifying ways of working and initiatives that drive improvements to customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction, and profitability.

    “Transformational Leaders aren’t reacting to the future; they are focused on creating the future” – J. Scott

  • We bring 120% effort and humanity to all that we do. The letters VC, stand for "Venture Construction" and "Venture Consulting". We work with growth-minded businesses to build what’s new and next.

  • Jason Scott is the founder and CEO of 120VC.

    From the start of his career spent jumping out of helicopters as a rescue swimmer in the United States Navy, J. Scott has a long history of leadership, servanthood, and bearing witness to the transformative power of getting sh*t done. Since starting 120VC, he’s personally overseen the global transformational efforts within DirecTV, Trader Joe’s, Blizzard Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Mattel, and others. His team’s unique, human-centric approach to change has generated breakthrough results and created meaningful jobs. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur, J. Scott is a devoted husband and father and author of “It’s Never Just Business: It's About People" and "The Irreverent Guide to Project Management," both available on Amazon.com.

  • We bleed Olive Green. It’s a reminder of our history. It’s the historical color associated with leadership and self-sacrifice for the good of the team.

  • We intentionally limit our consulting | transformation team to no more than 120 members. This limit ensures that we can maintain the culture that enables us to deliver extraordinary value to our clients. It also allows us the ability to stay focused on serving clients that embrace us as part of their team, instead of trying to be everything to everyone.

    And, because there is no shortage of clients that need help transforming groups of high-potential individuals into single, unified, high-performing teams that accomplish exponentially more as a team than any one of them could individually, we always have more work than team members to fulfill. This enables our team members to enjoy an unprecedented amount of job security.

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WORKING WITH 120VC

  • 120VC helps people, leaders, and their teams Get Sh*t Done that matters. Fortune 500 call on 120VC to assist with the implementation or turn-around of their Global Enterprise Initiatives, Organizational Management Strategies, and Leadership Development to build single, unified, high-functioning Leadership Teams.

  • WE TRANSFORM ORGANIZATIONS BY UNLOCKING INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM POTENTIAL

    At 120VC, we specialize in transforming groups of high-potential individuals into single, unified, high-performing teams that accomplish exponentially more as a team than any one of them could individually. We work with departments seen as overhead, cost centers, or SG&A—such as IT, Human Resources, and Marketing — and transform them into dynamic epicenters of growth for their companies.

    WE INTEGRATE WITH YOUR TEAM, PROMOTING A UNIFIED APPROACH TO TRANSFORMATION

    We work as a “coach-sultancy” to help lead initiatives like change movements from within your organization. Together, we transform your leadership into a single, high-functioning team who can consistently deliver outcomes that matter. We accomplish this with a proven approach that combines: Transformational Leadership tools, coaching, training, and services.

  • For over two decades, we've transformed Fortune 500 business by enabling their teams to consistently deliver needed outcomes with a transformational leadership approach that combines consulting services, training, and coaching. Earning us the reputation as the Get Sh*t Done Company.

    1 - Transformational Leadership Development

    SHIFT in mindsets, skills, & behaviors to drive a performance. Adopt the proven practices and tools used by 120VC to create a culture of discipline, trust, transparency, and accountability.

    2 - Project Turnaround Transformation

    SHIFT a Global Enterprise Wide Project from failure to success mode. Deploy our team of Transformation Leaders as part of your team, leading transformation initiatives from within. Transform Cost Centesr to Epicenters of Growth.

    3 - Organization Transformation

    SHIFT from a high potential to high performing organization. Engage a comprehensive, “change movement” approach to help leaders align around a shared vision for the future, transformational leadership practices long-term success.

  • No. You can hire 120VC team.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

  • Each engagement starts with and is led by a 120VC Transformation Leader who embodies the 120VC ethos.

    • Proactive instead of reactive

    • Eliminate all work that will not result in an improvement in customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction, or profitability.

    • Disciplined about ensuring all future work meets this criterion, is socialized with senior leadership to ensure buy-in and is funded because of a universal belief that the work will contribute to company growth and success.

    • An unwavering focus on delivering the defined outcomes efficiently, instead of managing activities and spending.

    Transformational Leaders transcend their company's business vertical and skillset by leveraging their industry know-how and education to build single, unified, high-functioning teams 100% focused on improving customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction, and profitability without sacrificing one for the other.

    The 120VC Transformation leader owns and is responsible for the success of each engagement. All other 120VC team members, including the CEO, are there to support and take direction from the Transformation Leader. We work as a single unified, high-functioning team.

    The Transformation Leader is working as both coach and consultant driving major shifts in the way our clients think and work. During the transformation, it's easy for customers to slip back into old ways of thinking and working, and not unusual for them to ask supporting 120VC team members to do something status quo. When that happens, the 120VC team member will bring the request back to the team and the Transformation Leader to ensure alignment with the deep work they are doing with their clients before proceeding. Otherwise, teamwork breaks down, and our clients suffer.

    This structure allows our Transformation Leaders to seamlessly integrate into the client's team, channeling the full power of the 120VC collective without the client needing to manage multiple 120VC team members. It's about delivering unparalleled value with efficiency and precision.

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (TLA)

  • 120VC Transformative Leadership Academy – Online training and certification program that we originally created to train our 120VC team members, is now available for anyone who leads a team. Our mission is to empower a generation of transformative leaders who enable teams to #GSD through the application of the 120 Standard.

  • 120VC Transformative Leadership Academy is a PMI Approved Training Provider and is authorized to give PDU’s to students for course completion. For example, our flagship Transformational Leadership program can earn 47 PDU’s. To qualify for PDU’s you will have to complete courses with a 70% or better participation score and complete the requirements for the course or workshop certificate.

  • If PMI is undergrad, think of TLA as grad school. Other programs teach what they think works; we teach what’s proven to work. The TLA delivers how-to, real-world instruction on the latest best practices being used by our teams to execute enterprise-wide projects for our Fortune 500 clients. 120VC Transformative Leadership Academy is a PMI Approved Training Provider and is authorized to give PDU’s to students for course completion.

    The TLA follows the principles of the Kolb Model, to create an experiential learning experience. Our trainings follow a cycle of four stages: of (1) having a concrete experience followed by (2) observation of and reflection on that experience which leads to (3) the formation of abstract concepts (analysis) and generalizations (conclusions) which are then (4) used to test a hypothesis in future situations, resulting in new experiences.

  • Yes. We offer individuals and organizations leadership programs to unlock their potential, achieve true agility, increased efficiency, and positive team culture. If you are a large group of participants or have special requests, you might benefit from a course designed specifically for your company. We recommend learning in teams of 4 to 20 individuals.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM (TLP)

  • The Transformational Leadership Program exists to develop and support a generation of leaders that aren’t reacting to the future, because they are focused on creating it.

    For the past 2.5 decades, 120VC has been helping people, leaders, and their teams Get Sh*t Done that matters. We get called to assist with the implementation or turn-around of their Organizational Management Strategies, Leadership Development, and to build single, unified, high-functioning Leadership Teams for both the Fortune 500 and startups.

    The Transformational Leadership Program is a 14-week, intense learning experience featuring 8 live interactive classes with break-out sessions, and a collaborative self-guided online learning cohort with other leaders that consists of 14 distinct learning modules that will transform the way you think, which in turn will transform the way you lead.

    The mastermind-like leadership program is made available to the employees of 120VC clients. It’s open to the public only twice a year for high potential or high-performing individuals seeking to up their leadership game, a proving ground for leaders seeking to work at 120VC, or leaders looking to be part of a community that is transforming the way we work and win as a team. Because Transformational Leaders change things, they push the human race forward.

  • Transformational Leaders transcend their company's business vertical and skillset by leveraging their industry know-how and education to build single, unified, high-functioning teams 100% focused on improving customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction, and profitability without sacrificing one for the other.

    Transformational Leaders transform divisional cost centers into epicenters for growth. They unify discipline-based divisions that have historically operated at odds with each other like Sales, Operations and Human Resources, into high-performing teams all working toward the common goal of improving customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction, and profitability.

    Transformational Leaders have clarity of purpose and understand that things like Technology, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing & Operations aren’t the business they are in, they are tools used to grow the business they are in. They understand that things like Hospitality, Healthcare, Finance, Technology, Travel, Manufacturing, Real-estate, and Energy are the tools they provide their customers to improve their own lives, not the business they are in.

    Transformational Leaders are in the business of building high-performing teams that leverage those tools to constantly improve customer satisfaction, team member satisfaction and profitability. To enable the team they lead and the team they are on to Get Shit Done that Matters.

  • The Transformational Leadership Program is led by Jason Scott, founder and CEO of 120VC, known as “The GSD Company”.

    “Transformational Leaders aren’t reacting to the future, they are focused on creating the future.” - J. Scott

    For the past 2.5 decades, 120VC has helped people, leaders, and their teams Get Sh*t Done that matters. When Fortune 500 organizations and startup organizations call J. Scott and 120VC to assist with the implementation or turn-around of Organizational Management Strategies, Leadership Development, and to build single, unified, high-functioning Leadership Teams for both who consistently increase team satisfaction, customer experience, and profitability.

    J Scott is also the best selling author of “It’s Never Just Business, It’s About People” and founder of the Transformational Leadership Academy.

  • Go beyond theoretical concepts. The mastermind-like leadership program is a deeper dive into J's popular #GSD Talks and Coaching Forums organized into an immersive learning cohort community with other leaders. The 14-week program features 8 live interactive classes with break-out sessions, and an online platform loaded with 14 distinct self-guided and community learning modules that will transform the way you think, which in turn will transform the way you lead.

    Modules:

    • The Discipline of Reducing Stress & Getting Sh*t Done

    • The Power of People: Building a High Performing Team

    • Coaching & Results Driven Leadership

    • Building a Culture of Accountability

    • Leading Meetings that #GSD

    • The 8 Transformational Disciplines & How to Use Them

    • Visionary Leadership & the Role of Brand

    • The Science of Planning a Project that #GSD

    • Transformational Program & Portfolio Leadership that Delivers ROI

    • Time Commitment

    • 100% online, 14-weeks, 8 two-hour online instructor-led video Zoom classes.

    • Two weeks of assignments and learning community interaction between each online instructor-led class.

    • Plan 2–3 hours for each week’s assignments to watch videos and read articles, complete assignments, and engage in discussion and reflection.

    • Live ZOOM classes every other week, Wednesday 3-5 pm Pacific Time

    • Book

    • All learning materials are covered by the enrollment fee and provided by 120VC including J. Scott’s book “The Irreverent Guide to Project Management”.

    • Computer and Internet Access

    • You will need to have an up-to-date browser and operating system.

    • High-Speed Access to the internet to participate in the bi-weekly online instructor-led classes.

    • Download and ability to use free version of the Zoom (video conferencing).

    Mobile

    • DO NOT attempt to engage in the bi-weekly instructor-led classes on a mobile device. Mobile and tablets are NOT required but are great learning aids.

  • No Certification. After successful completing the course, participants receive a Certificate of Completion.

    Earn up to 47 PMI PDUs & CEUs.

  • Yes, the TLP is perfect for teams. The 14-week TLP course is made available to the general public multiple times each calendar year with each cohort limited to 30 seats.

    Register for 5 or more people and receive a group discount during early registration and while spots are available.

    If you are a large group of participants or have special requests, you might benefit from a course designed specifically for your company. Contact us to learn about your options.

    Not ready for the 14-week TLP? Plan or attend talks and workshops, or book Jason Scott to speak at your organization.

  • After years of running the TLP we know that sometimes unforeseen or unavoidable life circumstances can come up. While we do not offer discounts or refunds for cancellations, in such circumstances, we allow people one opportunity to reschedule to future cohorts as availability allows. We offer the TLP multiple times each calendar year, each cohort limited to 30 seats.

    Participation is essential to your success in this class. You are required to participate just as if you were in a face-to-face course. To get full credit for participation, you will have to complete your assignments on a timely basis. Consistent failure to participate in the class will result in being dropped from the course. We do not offer refunds to students that are dropped from the course.

  • Yes. And the successful completion of the course. It also happens to be our favorite place to recruit new Transformation Practice Leads.

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  • See the final shipping costs during checkout, expect $3.99 per item and $1.25 per additional item.

  • Typically 6-14 business days to delivery. Shipping time depends on product availability and delivery destination.

    We partner with Printful and our merch products are made to order. It takes 2–7 business days to create a product and fulfill an order.

    These shipping times are estimates, not guarantees.

    Printful ships globally, but there are some countries we can’t deliver to due to legal or shipping carrier restrictions.