Upgrade your Leadership Skills and your Organization’s Operating Model
This course will empower you to be a leader that people will want to follow, and to build a more adaptive and resilient organization.
For leaders at all levels from team lead to CEO, you’ll learn how to :
Maximize your influence as a leader - even without formal authority
Optimize your organization's culture for sustained success
Build an adaptive organization that thrives amid complexity, uncertainty, and rapid change
Successfully implement organizational change initiatives
Deliver complex products and projects using Agile principles
“The CAL 1™ course is a masterclass in agile leadership. It provides the strategic clarity needed to lead in an AI-driven world. If you are looking to evolve your role from oversight to enablement, this is the course you want.”
“Interactive exercises. Thoughtful case studies. Next level thinking. Tangible examples/exercises that can be taken back to my organization.”
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What you'll learn
Managing initiatives amidst complexity & uncertainty
The Leadership Agility® Model for optimizing your leadership effectiveness
Balancing your leadership power style: assertive and accommodative
Developing Catalyst leadership skills
The Catalyst conversation technique for crucial conversations
Optimizing organization culture with the Competing Values Framework
Case studies of successful organizational transformations
Leading organizational change initiatives using the Bridges and Kotter models
Tools for co-creating strategy and aligning people for action
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
Curriculum from the World’s Best Leadership Coaches
Our course content and facilitation and has been refined over many years by a global team of 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.
We invite you to watch our 2-minute video introduction to the Agile Leadership Journey experience.
A few Testimonials from our workshop participants
“I took this class in 2019 and I bet I use the content at least once a week. Highly recommend!”
“Excellent course with tons of great takeaways. More executives need to get on board.”
“This course was eye-opening and empowering in helping me understand how to redirect an incomplete rollout of Agile in my organization. ”
Agile Leader workshop participants share the benefits of the program.
Hear about the impact of this workshop directly from Leaders who have completed the program.
Certification
Participants in our Certified Agile Leader® workshop earn three certifications.
more testimonials from our workshop participants:
“Deep insight into Agile methodology and how to enable/support teams to be successful in Agile.”
“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.”
lead trainer: Brad Swanson, CST®, CEC™, Certified Agile leader®, 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 an Executive in the consulting and software industries.
Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Agile Leader®, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), Certified Agile Coach (Certified Enterprise Coach™), 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 the Global Scrum Gathering® in the USA, Europe and Asia (10 times), Agile 20xx (5 times), Mile High Agile (7 times), Agile Tour Toronto, AgilePalooza, Agile Development Conference East & West, PMI Mile Hi Symposium, and many Meetups in the USA, South America and Asia.