A Leader’s Guide to Agile Coaching

Our Agile & Scaled-Value Project Management Meetup hour in October 2025 is scheduled for Thursday, October 16th, 2025.
Time: 12:00pm PT / 2:00pm CT / 3:00pm ET
Topic: "A Leader’s Guide to Agile Coaching"
Our Guest Speaker: Bob Galen

An introduction to the meetup:

Some perspectives imply that Agile Coaching is for a small set of specialized agilists who serve to improve everyone else, or that it’s a unique role that others, including managers and leaders, shouldn’t do or will find difficult to master. This talk intends to debunk those notions. Everyone has leadership potential and can rise to be a leader. Leaders must learn to coach if they are to be effective.

In this workshop, Bob Galen will explore the nuances associated with Agile Coaching to demystify it and encourage you to find your inner Agile Coach in whatever leadership role you currently hold. He’ll share and explore the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as a competency model for agile coaching. Next, he'll explore the critical characteristics of an agile coaching mindset. Finally, he’ll give you a chance to practice having a coaching conversation or two.

In this engaging and interactive workshop, Bob hopes to inspire you, so your inner Agile Coach emerges, grows, and shines.

Takeaways:

1. Introduction to the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel.
2. Critical aspects and characteristics for your agile coaching mindset.
3. Exploration of a coaching conversation metaphor & guidance that will help frame your coaching sessions

Our Speaker:

Bob Galen is an Agile Practitioner, Trainer, and Coach based in Cary, North Carolina. He helps organizations and teams adopt agile practices pragmatically and guides their transformation toward agile ways of working. With experience dating back to the late 1990s, Bob brings deep expertise to every engagement. He currently serves as the Director of Agile Practice at Zenergy Technologies, a leading firm in business agility transformation. He is also the President and Head Coach at Agile Moose, a boutique agile consulting company.

Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach Emeritus (CECem) with the Scrum Alliance, an authorized trainer with iCAgile, and an active member of the Agile Alliance. He has authored and published four agile-focused books, most recently Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching (2022). In addition to his books, Bob is a prolific writer, blogger, and podcaster.
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Bob Galen's Websites – www.rgalen.com, www.agile-moose.com
Additional learning resources will be shared with the participants during the meetup session.