Certified Agile Leadership I

Jesse Fewell, Agile Leadership
& Organizational Coach

Jesse Fewell is an author, coach, and trainer who helps senior leaders from Boston to Bangalore transform their organizations world-wide.

As a project management pioneer, he founded and grew the original PMI Agile Community of Practice to 18,000 members and 40 volunteer leaders, co-created the PMI-ACP agile certification, and co-authored the Agile Practice Guide, translated into eleven languages.

A global entrepreneur, he has distilled his remote leadership experiences in the handbook “Can You Hear Me Now: Working with Global, Distributed, Virtual Teams”.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is a dual-certified coach (Certified Enterprise Coach and Leadership Circle Profile) and an accredited instructor with four distinct agile certification bodies (Scrum Alliance, SAFe, ICAgile, Conteneo).

When Jesse isn’t serving his global clients, he is probably supporting his children’s sports activities in Washington, DC

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Day 1: Personal Agile Leadership (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM)

• Learn business trends driving the need for business agility within a global context.
• Understand the Agility Maturity Model that fosters self-awareness of leadership growth and discovers more Agile thinking and behaviors.
• Explore Agile leadership mindset and behaviors of leaders at varying maturity levels to reflect on leadership traits in our own leadership and in others.
• Practice a 5-step catalyst conversation technique to positively impact every aspect of our work (and personal) life – engaging others without micromanaging them.

Day 2: Leading an Agile Organization (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM)

• Explore organizational culture and structures and how they impact organizational agility, speed, innovation, and collaboration.
• Evaluate multiple case studies of real organizations with different cultures applying various structures to drive effective and sustaining change with positive results.
• Reflect and share participant organizational strutures, policies and metrics in comparison to these case studies and other participant models.
• Practice a 5-step organizational change approach (V2MOM) to guide effective and sustained agility.

Who Needs A Certified Agile Leader Certification?

This class is also for leaders who believe their organizations need agility to meet their business objectives and who have committed to making the transformation successful.   It is for leaders who need skills and tools that will help their organizations—from startups who want to disrupt an industry to enterprises who want to continue to lead the pack—navigate the constantly evolving business landscape.

Workshop Experience

This workshop is designed for organizational leaders who are responsible for people designing, developing and delivering products and services for their customers. Regardless of your focus – product strategy, business development, research, marketing, design, development, quality, project management, technical operations or deployment – this workshop builds effectiveness in guiding teams towards delighting customers in a fast-pace, complex and uncertain environment.

Organizational leaders of all levels are encouraged to attend including senior executives, vice presidents, directors, functional managers, and process and program-level leaders.