Name: Feelings Aren’t Fluffy; They Fuel Influence!
Start: 2025-10-22T17:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-10-22T19:30:00+11:00
Location: Onset Group Pty Ltd

It's wonderful to have executive coach Lai-Ling leading this interactive workshop as our third Agility & Value Sydney in-person meetup. This event was rescheduled from late August.

**Session description**
In fast moving, complex, and high stakes environments, emotional blind spots can derail progress, erode agility, and stall value creation. This 1 hour in-person interactive workshop reveals how discerning leaders can decode emotional signals to shift stakeholder dynamics, earn trust, and inspire action. You will learn how to treat emotions as strategic inputs, not distractions. Influence starts where logic ends.

**When**
5:30pm (AEDT) Doors open for networking over pizza and drinks
6:00pm Welcome
6:05pm Introduction
6:10pm Workshop
7:10pm Networking
7:30pm Close

**Venue**
We're delighted to be at [The Onset](https://theonset.com.au/)'s office very close to Central Station in Surry Hills. Come along for networking over pizza and drink before the magic of Open Space. Be prepared to be surprised!

**Scrum Education Units (SEUs)**
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**Appreciations**
A big thanks to Lai-Ling for volunteering to run this session.

Thanks very much to [The Onset](https://www.linkedin.com/company/onset-group/) for providing the venue, food and drinks. In particular, thank you to Alyse Lucey for leading the logistics at the venue.

The Onset connects tech talent with innovative and inspiring career opportunities as Australia's leading technology and executive recruiter. Onset has partnered with some of Australia's most successful startup, scaleup and enterprise businesses, as they build and grow high-impact teams or go through digital transformation.

Thanks to the Adapt WithStyle team for organising and promoting this event as well as ordering the pizza!

Adapt WithStyle is Scrum WithStyle reborn to offer consulting to product development scale-ups interested in extending their competitive advantage through scaled agility and value maximisation. Check out the new [Adapt WithStyle website](https://www.adaptws.com.au/).

Thanks to Scrum Alliance for sponsoring the food and soft drinks.

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Lai-Ling Su helps General Managers in Product and Transformation turn around multi-year, multi-million-dollar investment programs and get their products out to market faster by teaching them how to deal with the people and politics that come with their jobs. 
 
She holds a Master of Science in Coaching Psychology and is accredited to administer MSCEIT®2, the only scientifically validated abilities-based emotional intelligence test in the world. This session references what she has learnt from these qualifications and two decades of real-world product and transformation experience.

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