Bringing Leadership Agility to Agile

For an Agile transformation to succeed, an organization not only needs to adopt Agile methods on a widespread scale, it is also essential to develop an agile culture. Overarching both these needs is the need for agile leadership. In this talk Bill Joiner presents a fresh new approach to agile leadership that’s based on years of in-depth research and work with leaders. This approach, called “leadership agility,” says that, yes, agile leaders need to adopt an agile mindset, but there’s a lot more that’s needed. The Leadership Agility approach identifies three predictable levels that leaders can move through in increasing their agility. These levels are based on well-established stages of adult development. These stages are not age-based but instead represent increasing levels of cognitive complexity and emotional intelligence. This talk covers the core practice of leadership agility, the four types of agility that today’s leaders need to master, the three levels of mastery in developing leadership agility, and tools and methods for developing agile leaders.

About Bill Joiner

Bill Joiner is one of the world’s foremost thought-leaders on agile leadership. He is lead researcher and author for the award-winning book, Leadership Agility. He has decades of experience completing successful consulting and coaching projects with companies based in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is the founder of ChangeWise, a firm that partners with leaders to transform leadership culture. ChangeWIse also provides training for coaches – Agile and otherwise – for the Leadership Agility 360, the Leadership Agility Accelerator, and Leadership Agility Coaching. Bill earned his Doctorate in Organization Development at Harvard. He has authored numerous articles on Leadership Agility.

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• https://www.changewise.biz