Lyssa Adkins: Integrating Feminine and Masculine Energies for a Better World

ABSTRACT:
Scrum Event and Lyssa Adkins present: Integrating Feminine and Masculine Energies for a Better (Agile) World

Let’s explore a way to deepen our Agile-Lean practice through integrating feminine and masculine energies. You heard that right! Feminine and masculine energies. Yes, we are “going there.”

Almost 20 years into the Agile movement we see that so many, perhaps most, Agile-Lean implementations stay on the surface. We’ve tried a lot of things to address that. We’ve even changed the word from implementation to transformation, but that hasn’t yet done the trick. In our community, we hear one another decry, “They are sorta doing agile, but how do I get them to BE Agile?”

We know that if Agile says on the surface as a “thing to do” we will never get to the root of the root of the aim of Agile which is to bring in ways of working with complex and confounding circumstances.

In this session, Lyssa Adkins will explore the capacities of feminine energy that she believes must come online for us to go deeper than the surface-level implementations we worry about so much. This isn’t about making the feminine better than the masculine — it’s not about recapitulating the one up-one down dynamic that gets us nowhere new. It is about integrating feminine and masculine energies in ourselves individually, and as a worldwide community, to move into the deeper set of skills that must come on-line if we are to — finally — realize the full promise of Agile.

ABOUT LYSSA ADKINS:

Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer.

Her current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, helping leaders take up the “Agile transformation” that is theirs to make…this is where she thrives and helps thrive.

Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.

She has been pleased to serve the emergence of Agile Coaching as a profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute which has developed over 10,000 people in the knowledge, skills and being-ness needed to yield genuinely competent agile coaching. Since 2011, she has been a member of the ICAgile working committee that defines the learning objectives for Agile Facilitation and Coaching and she assesses candidates for the ICAgile-Expert in Agile Coaching competence-based certification. She has also served the Scrum Alliance as an application reviewer for the Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation.

She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication and will be released as an audiobook in Fall 2020.

She likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance of the provocative and practical.

Lyssa holds an alphabet soup of certifications: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), Project Management Professional (PMP), Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC) and Certified Integral Facilitator (IF). She is also a trained Co-Active Coach and Leader.

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AGENDA:
18:45 - 1900 - Event Welcome & Networking
19.00 - 20:00 - Scrum Event and Lyssa Adkins present: Integrating Feminine and Masculine Energies for a Better (Agile) World
20:00 - 20:15 - Event Questions & Networking

SEU:
As a Scrum Alliance endorsed user group you will earn upto 1.5 SEUs for this event.