Agile Leadership Network - Raleigh/Durham Area Chapter

Hello, Coaches!

Please join us Fri, January 9th for the our Coaches' Breakfast. This meetup is for all those interested in learning more about how to be useful and supportive for our teams and ourselves.

This month, we'll be using the wisdom of the crowd to learn about and to solve your issues. Please come ready with an issue, problem to be solved, and/or a topic of discussion you like to learn more about. We'll then use breakout rooms to meet and discuss the issues in smaller groups. Once done, we'll then share out in the big group and everybody learns.

We look forward to seeing everyone!

The ALN Leadership Team,
Tanner

In a world of complexity, constant change — even chaos — human leadership remains essential for delivering actual value. Join Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead Without Blame, as she explores the evolving landscape of leadership through practical, real-world lenses. Expect to discover why chasing accountability, removing personalization, and increasing control can be counterproductive. Instead, learn how effective leadership today is about intentionally igniting motivation and ownership — a new blueprint for leading in a rapidly shifting world.

Ever felt like you’re doing your best to lead — yet somehow losing touch with the person you were when you started? You catch yourself nodding along to things you don’t believe in, giving feedback that gets softened to fit the script, or being praised for your “resilience” when really, you’re just surviving.

You’re not broken — the system is.

In this talk Geoff Watts explores what happens when caring, values-driven people get trapped in environments that reward compliance over courage. Calm REBEL Leadership offers an alternative: a grounded, human framework for creating change without burning out or selling out.

Blending real stories with grounded psychology, Geoff introduces the Calm REBEL Arc™ — five practical steps to help you remember who you are, see your system clearly, and lead with quiet, steady courage.

You’ll leave with:
• A renewed sense of integrity and confidence in your leadership.
• Practical ways to stay calm, clear, and connected to your values.
• Hope — that real change can start with one quiet act of rebellion.

If you’ve ever felt torn between who you are and what leadership seems to demand, this is your invitation to lead differently — to create change without losing yourself.

When change feels urgent, and resistance runs high, even skilled professionals can slip into what I call the inner tyrant — that part of you that tries to control, convince, or coerce others into compliance. You don’t have to be the boss to act like one, and this quiet form of self-protective control is one reason so many change efforts stall.

In this interactive session, you’ll take a closer look at what happens inside you when others don’t follow, and then explore how to turn that tension into connection. Drawing on lessons from Build a Golden Bridge: How to Lead Change When You’re Not in Charge, you’ll learn how to rewire the impulse to control into a genuine desire to collaborate. You’ll leave with reflective exercises and practical tools to help you lead with greater self-awareness, empathy, and presence—no positional power
required.