Mike Burrows: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation is the model at the heart of Mike’s new book Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, a fresh, complexity-aware, and ground-up reconstruction of Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM). The diagnostic power of this classic organisational model remains unrivalled, and to it we bring a truly 21st century approach. We work with rather than against the grain of two key realities: that everyone’s experience of the organisation is different, and that they see different possibilities emerging for it. What’s at stake: how you think about organisations, and how you engage with their challenges.

About our Speaker

Five-time author Mike Burrows is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban, his advocacy for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy, and his relational approach to organisation. Prior to his consulting career, he was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and interim delivery manager for two of the UK government’s digital ‘exemplar’ projects. Through Agendashift and the Agendashift Academy, his focus now is on wholehearted, deliberately adaptive organisations and the transformational leadership that enables them.

About our hosts

Gregory Keegan
Gregory Keegan is an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer with 16 years of experience leading Agile transformations in many sectors. Gregory specializes in leadership coaching, team development, and organizational agility, having coached development teams, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners. Gregory is noted for his empathy, methodical expertise, and commitment to continuous improvement. He holds qualifications in Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Agile Leadership.

Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German. Reach out for speakerships