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Great organizations don't just manage services. They lead change.

The ITIL® Strategic Leader Path is built for professionals who want to connect business goals, technology investments, and transformation initiatives into a clear strategy for success.

This path helps you:
• Lead digital transformation initiatives
• Strengthen governance and decision-making
• Align technology with business objectives
• Drive long-term organizational growth

Your journey starts with:
ITIL® Foundation → ITIL® Strategy → ITIL® Transformation → ITIL® Strategic Leader

Are you ready to lead beyond operations and influence the future direction of your organization?

Why does everything in your business keep coming back to you?

Every approval. Every decision. Every escalation.

While it may feel like leadership, it often signals a deeper issue: critical knowledge, decision-making, and accountability are concentrated in one person.

In ITIL®, this is a common challenge organizations face when processes, practices, and governance are not mature enough to support consistent outcomes across teams.

In this episode of Fix My Business, B. Scott Todd explores the Control Trap and why many business owners unintentionally become the bottleneck they are trying to eliminate.

Key takeaways:
• Why delegation often fails
• How over-reliance on individuals creates operational risk
• The importance of documented practices and decision frameworks
• How to build teams that can make confident decisions without constant approval

High-performing organizations don't scale because leaders do more.

They scale because their people, processes, and practices are designed to deliver value consistently.

That's a lesson every ITIL professional can appreciate.

Join us for a special webinar featuring ITIL experts from PeopleCert and PassionIT Group as we discuss the latest trends shaping service management, digital transformation, and professional development.

ITIL (Version 5) Unfiltered: The Mid-Year Career, Skills & Governance Audit

📅 June 25, 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM – 12:00 NN (EST)
🎟️ Free Registration

Secure Your Free Access Here: https://passionitgroup.com/itil-5-unfiltered-webinar-career-skills-governance-audit/

Which ITIL® (Version 5) path aligns with your career goals?

The ITIL® Managing Professional designation is designed for professionals who want to lead end-to-end service management, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and deliver value across the ITSM lifecycle.

This pathway helps build practical, integrated skills focused on modern service delivery, operational excellence, and customer value.

The ITIL® Managing Professional Path includes:
• ITIL® Foundation
• ITIL® Product
• ITIL® Service
• ITIL® Experience
• ITIL® Transformation

If you are working across multiple ITSM disciplines and want to strengthen your impact in service management, this could be the right next step for your career growth.

Start your journey with PassionIT Group.

AI should not replace people.

It should remove friction.

Most teams try AI once, expect instant magic, get a weak result, and give up too early.

But the real value of AI comes from helping people:
• Work faster
• Reduce repetitive tasks
• Organize ideas better
• Focus on meaningful decisions

The best teams are not replacing human thinking with AI.

They are using AI to support smarter workflows and stronger ex*****on.

Humans still review. Decide. Lead.

AI simply helps remove the roadblocks.

Which ITIL® (Version 5) Path fits your career goals?

The ITIL® Practice Manager path is built for professionals focused on:
• IT operations
• Service delivery
• Process improvement
• Operational excellence

Starting from ITIL® Foundation, this pathway helps build practical, hands-on expertise in managing and improving modern IT services.

If you want to strengthen service operations and deliver consistent business value, the ITIL® Practice Manager path could be the perfect next step for you.

Why do so many business owners feel stuck even when they know something is wrong?

Because the real problem is often hidden inside the way the business operates.

In this episode of Fix My Business, Scott Todd explains the 4 traps that quietly create friction inside organizations:

• Control Trap
• Variability Trap
• Memory Trap
• Visibility Trap

These traps lead to bottlenecks, inconsistent results, missed tasks, and poor decision-making.

The important question is:
Which trap is slowing your business down right now?

Listed to the full episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2d0RBSv1YxZAQVgeZFpjek?si=20ea9578494d4aae

Most employees do not quit AI because the technology is bad.

They quit because:
• They do not know what to ask
• The output feels too generic
• It takes too much time to learn
• Nobody teaches them how to use it properly
• AI feels separate from their actual workflow

The companies winning with AI are not just buying tools. They are helping people build confidence, habits, and real workflows around AI.

AI adoption is not just a technology problem. It is a people and process problem too.

So what is slowing AI adoption in your team right now?

A. Fear
B. Quality
C. No Time

Drop your answer below. 👇

Strategy is more than planning. It is about creating direction, aligning teams, and driving real business value.

Our final ITIL® (Version 5) Guide Series post explores ITIL® Strategy (Version 5) and how it helps professionals lead with confidence in today’s digital environment.

Learn how ITIL® Strategy helps organizations:
• Align services with business goals
• Manage risks and opportunities
• Improve governance and decision-making
• Support sustainable growth and resilience

If you are aiming to move beyond operations and into strategic leadership, this is one pathway worth exploring.