Certified Agile Leader® 1

Why is this course important?

Highly successful organisations have leaders at every level who operate with radically different mindsets and behaviours. This course will provide a platform for you to evolve your leadership capabilities to build a more resilient, adaptable, empowering, creative and innovative culture.

Actionable and practical leadership mechanisms are a focus to ensure you can make an immediate positive impact. This course combines a diverse set of modern leadership research and concepts and wraps them in a cohesive learning experience.

Here are a few examples of leadership thinking included in our course:

• The Principles and Mechanisms of Intent-Based Leadership from David Marquet (author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership is Language).
• Psychological Safety from Amy Edmondson (author of The Fearless Organization).
• Lean Enterprise by Jez Humble et al
• Lean Thinking from Toyota
• Cynefin from Dave Snowden
• Richard Hackman, Stephen Bungay, Dan Pink

In addition to the practical benefits, this course will provide you with an industry-recognised Agile leadership accreditation. The Scrum Alliance has recently refactored their Agile Leadership prorgamme and effectively replaced the CAL-E, CAL-T and CAL-O with a merged and updated CAL 1 accreditation. This course is a CAL 1 course incorporating the course content from the three previous foundational Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership certifications CAL-E, CAL-T and CAL-O.

The CAL 1 accreditation will be the basis for further development of your leadership skills in the upcoming CAL 2 programme.  

Your Trainer - Colin Bird

Although best known for my long association with Scrum, I love everything Lean, Agile and Kanban. I get a buzz out of catalysing new ideas, collaboration, creativity and innovation to engage the full potential of teams and leadership.

Since 2005, I have been assisting organisations wrestle with the challenges of retaining agility as the scale of the challenge moves beyond a single team. My experience spans many different sectors and involves a broad spectrum of organisational elements, including strategy, budgeting, portfolio management, leadership, team design and engineering at scale. I enjoy using my hard-won years of team and senior leadership experience to help others.

I am an Agile coach and consultant, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), a Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Trainer, a TAC (Trainer Approval Committee) member for the Scrum Alliance, and a cocreator of ELSE (Emergent Large-Scale Evolution) - an evolutionary approach to scaling agility.