How to Achieve Sustainable Business Agility

The full benefits of an Agile transformation are well known, yet reaching that goal remains elusive at many organizations. This workshop will teach you the skills and tools to lead your organization to achieve sustainable business agility.

The workshop covers two key dimensions for success:

1. Leadership skills growth: increase your influence and impact
2. Organizational change strategies & frameworks

“This course was eye-opening and empowering in helping me understand how to redirect an incomplete rollout of Agile in my organization.”

— Veronika Vacek, Managing Director at Charles Schwab & Co.

“I took this class in 2019 and I bet I use the content at least once a week. Highly recommend!”

— Regis McGarry, Product Leader

Workshop schedule:

March 11, 12, 18 and 19: Mondays and Wednesdays.

9:00am - 1:30pm US Central Time (15:00 - 19:30 Central Europe)

Training Developed by a Team of the World’s Best Agile Coaches

Our course content and facilitation and has been refined over many years by a team of the world's best Agile Leadership coaches & trainers. We have leveraged our collective expertise and experiences to create the Agile Leadership Journey - a truly world-class learning experience for Leaders.

“Excellent course with tons of great takeaways. More executives need to get on board.”

— CHRIS PORTER, COO & CO-FOUNDER AT GOHUNT.COM

What you'll learn

• How to lead amidst complexity and uncertainty
• The Leadership Agility® framework for developing visionary & catalyst leadership skills
• Case studies of Catalyst leadership behaviors & mindset
• Practical techniques for breakthrough conversations with peers & teams
• How to assess and shape your organization’s culture
• Case studies of successful Agile transformations
• A strategic framework for leading organizational change
• Simple yet powerful techniques for aligning and empowering action

The three-stage Leadership Agility framework for expanding the breadth and depth of your leadership skills. Only 10% of leaders reach the Catalyst level of competence.

Certification

Participants in our Certified Agile Leadership workshop earn four certifications.

1. Scrum Alliance CAL Essentials (CAL-E)
2. Scrum Alliance CAL Organizations (CAL-O)
3. Agile Leadership Journey: Agility in Leadership Certified
4. Agile Leadership Journey: Agility in Organizations Certified 

MORE TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:

“Deep insight into Agile methodology and how to enable/support teams to be successful in Agile.”

— JENNIFER N., VP OF ENGINEERING OPERATIONS AT SOFTWARE COMPANY BAZAAR VOICE

“Interactive exercises. Thoughtful case studies. Next level thinking. Tangible examples/exercises that can be taken back to my organization.”

— JOHN G., PRACTICE AREA LEADER AT A NATIONAL CONSULTING COMPANY

“The Leadership Agility program has given me a lot of valuable, actionable feedback. It has really made me think about the different levels (individual, team, and organization) of interaction and how I behave at each level. I really appreciate the focus on not just my weaknesses, but also my strengths. It gives me a good idea of what I should continue to do while I also have areas to improve. Brad is an excellent coach and has given me many good insights. He has provided many good suggestions on tools that I can use while I’m working on my improvement items.”

— TREVOR P, DIRECTOR AT A NATIONAL TELECOM COMPANY

LEAD TRAINER: BRAD SWANSON, CST®, CEC, CAL EDUCATOR, CERTIFIED LEADERSHIP AGILITY® 360 COACH

Brad Swanson is a Leadership and Organizational Coach who guides organizations to achieve sustainably better results using Lean & Agile principles. He has been a trusted advisor for executives and organizations across the globe. He honed his own leadership skills as a Vice President in the consulting and software industries.

Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Agile Leadership® (CAL) Educator®, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® - CEC), Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), and Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large Scale Scrum). He is a member of the Agile Leadership Journey, a global federation of Leadership coaches. Brad has been an Agile practitioner since 1999, is former President of Agile Denver and co-founder of the Mile High Agile conference, and a speaker at international conferences including numerous Global Scrum Gatherings in the USA and Asia (6 times), Agile 20xx (4 times), Mile High Agile (6 times), Agile Tour Toronto, AgilePalooza, Agile Development Conference East & West, PMI Mile Hi Symposium, and many Meetups in the USA, South America and Asia.