"Bringing Leadership Agility to Agile" with Bill Joiner

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 you’ll learn 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 will cover:

• The core practice of leadership agility
• Four types of agility that today’s leaders need to master
• Three “levels” of mastery in developing leadership agility
• Tools and methods for developing agile leaders with brief case examples

Bill Joiner

As lead researcher and author for the award-winning book, Leadership Agility, Bill has become one of the world’s foremost thought-leaders on understanding and developing agile leadership. Bill has decades of experience completing successful consulting and coaching projects with companies based in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is founder and CEO of ChangeWise, a firm that partners with senior leaders to transform leadership culture. ChangeWise also provides training for coaches – Agile and otherwise – in the Leadership Agility 360, the Leadership Agility Accelerator, and in Leadership Agility Coaching.

Bill earned his Doctorate in Organization and Leadership Development at Harvard. He has authored numerous articles on Leadership Agility.