Most of your organization’s problems are not about product or process. There’s no question that aligning your organizational product priorities and improving your delivery processes is critical. In order to do these effectively, you have to engage your people and help them collaborate on organizational problems. In our experience, that is the hardest part. To succeed in today’s complex world, we need to tap the potential of all the people in our organizations.

We all say we hire great people. If that’s true, why don’t we let them do their jobs?

We know that as speed, change, and unknowns increase, leaders can no longer rely on knowing everything. Instead of developing a plan and then telling others what to do, you need to engage your people and teams in ways that allow them to own innovation and delivery. You need to model the behavior you want to create the culture you want. While many people intend to lead in this way, they are held back by a variety of factors. We help you dig into the root of these issues, including busting assumptions about people, teams, and yourself; teaching new skills and abilities; shining a light on the abilities your people already have that are underutilized; and helping leaders step back and get out of their teams’ way.

Leadership, people, and change are at the heart of some of the most intimidating challenges we work through — and often the root of other problems. These issues are intangible – but failing to address them has tangible consequences, and working through them pays real dividends. As you know, there are no perfect answers – no magic wands to wave – that will solve all your people, leadership, and change problems. We know that your people are important to you, as is delivering innovative products to your customers, and doing that efficiently. We help you find ways to do all three – even when it doesn’t seem possible.

Leading Amazing Teams Training

Leading Amazing Teams is designed for leaders and agile coaches who want and need to go beyond simply telling teams they are empowered. This course teaches leaders how to create and maintain high-performance teams with pragmatic tools and approaches. This course brings critical tools, techniques, skills, and ideas from professional coaching, brain-based training, and much more to leaders, managers, and agile coaches.

Change Leadership & Management

Change Leadership and Management is focused on helping people lead changes in ways that allow you to actually achieve the change goal. “Change leadership is about understanding how individuals, groups, and organizations experience change and using that knowledge to make a change easier and more likely to succeed.” Change leadership works with product or project management to ensure the goal of the change is achieved, because without adoption, the value of the change is often not realized. Successful change focuses on not simply delivering the work to achieve the goal, but also on the people-focused transition work that must happen to reach the goal.

Agile for Executives Training

Executives and managers need to know agile if they want to succeed with agile. They need to understand not just the tactical aspects but also the mindset shifts they need to make to support their people and teams. This course explores how agility will impact the job of managers, directors, and executives. It gives you will have an opportunity to explore what agile means and its impact on your organization. Students should expect to be challenged and to pose challenges to agile ideas – and to each other.

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) – Agile Facilitation

Take your ScrumMaster and Agile Facilitator skills to the next level with Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) – Agile Facilitation. Facilitate better dialogue, respond with confidence when you encounter challenges, increase engagement within teams, and unravel what agile scaling really means. Our two-day workshop digs into these topics and many more!

Solving Execution Problems in Your Organization

You’ve learned to shift from solving everything yourself to enabling others. But organizational realities often block execution. Strategy, structure, how decisions cascade, how change actually happens, competing initiatives pulling resources in different directions, how people work together — these all impact whether your initiatives move forward or stall. This class explores how organizations actually work and how to lead change through organizational reality. You’ll examine your own organization’s structure, culture, and decision-making. You’ll see where work gets stuck and why. You’ll discover how to navigate change in ways that make it stick. You’ll work with real problems from your organization and develop strategies for solving them. Depending on your specific challenges, this can include one-on-one coaching or consulting to support implementation.

Leadership Development with Assessment & Coaching

Leadership development isn’t one class. It’s ongoing work — understanding how you show up, how others experience you, and where you need to grow. We offer a leadership development approach that combines the Leadership Circle 360° assessment (which shows you the gap between how you see yourself and how others experience you), personalized coaching to work through what you learn, and the classes that give you frameworks and skills. We work with individual leaders and entire leadership teams. This is for leaders who are serious about developing themselves and want real feedback and support as they grow.