Improve Organizational Agility by Uncovering Hidden Truths

How many times have you felt that you're making progress towards a goal at work, such as an Agile transformation or enablement, only to see those advances unwind when you or another champion is no longer dedicating their full energy towards that goal? How many times have you seen that happen in your personal life? How can we tell the difference between apparent progress and sustainable change?

In times before the discovery of germ theory, the cause of diseases - dis (without) ease (comfort) - were unknown, and there were ideas that ranged from the obscure to the absurd in an effort to return health to the patient. We look back at those failed theories and attempts with a mixture of amusement and contempt. Sound familiar? If one is to look at the landscape of available approaches to the Agile Transformation Journey a similar pattern starts to emerge with the new flavor of the year moving to the head of the class only to be largely left behind some years later.

Why is this the case? We can clearly conclude that in the medical example above, when you are treating symptoms rather than the root cause, you're not going to get very far. The first step to identifying the root cause is to SEE what you previously could not. Integral Theory, when applied correctly can give us the power that microscopes gave our forebears.

Leor, Alanna, and Ben will give you a brief introduction to Integral Theory, and how it can apply to Agile. They will lead an interactive exercise to demonstrate how the current map of agility tools might only be covering half of the organizational terrain.

OUTCOMES:

An introduction to the Integral Theory and how it can apply to Agile (and life)
A tangible revelation of blind spots that exist both organizationally and within ourselves
A mapping of the common challenges facing individuals and organizations on their Agile journey - the impact of those blind spots
The ability to use some of these objective tools to prompt insight in areas that we might not systematically consider.
How we can use our new insights to build an individual, team, or organizational change backlog.

BEN WILLIAMS is an organizational design consultant, executive coach and transformation specialist with a passion for improving client delivery.
Drawing predominantly from Agile and lean disciplines, Ben has been involved in driving radical and sustainable large scale organizational transformations and has extensive experience in the financial services domain. In addition to his experience with implementing sustainable transformations at several institutions, Ben has designed and delivered training courses for thousands of professionals in the US and Europe.

LEOR HERZFELD is a partner in Integral Agile to help define the product vision, UI/UX, brand, and overall Agile transformation strategy from an Integral perspective. Leor is an enterprise coach who is passionate about providing next-generation collaboration tools. He is particularly interested in the optimization of organizational design through evaluating operational and development value streams with a focus on enabling flow and creating reusable capabilities. Leor’s approach to Agile Transformation uses metaphors and components that closely resemble how matter, energy and systems arise and operate in the natural universe, requiring a scientist’s mind to fully understand and an artist’s mind to fully implement.

ALANNA FINN is a multiskilled Agile practitioner who consistently draws from her previous professional experiences, including her time as a journalist at a local television station and subsequently holding a position as a director for a real estate technology PR firm. While Alanna spent many years testing the waters in other industries, producing TV segments and learning about the intricacies of real estate tech have armed her with the much needed skills to successfully drive organizational change, improve process and empower teams.