The Agility Narratives is a podcast and community book initiative. We hold space for leading changemakers and enterprise Agile leaders to share their Agility narratives and related insights on the challenges and potential solutions to achieving agility. With this content as input, we want to turn the light of inspect & adapt on ourselves and start a co-creation journey together and see where this takes us.
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Gen-AI: 3 Essential Conversations for Senior Leaders to lead complex change
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30:37As senior leaders we want to focus on the key conversations to have with ourselves, our leadership team, teams and our organizations around change and AI. What are the essential three conversations to have? We will explore this topic. Martin discusses the role of a leader as a change champion during a time of change, such as the introduction of AI.…
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Why evolve with adaptive conscious teams?
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16:03About this event - LinkedIn Audio Event - (link) As a leader, what are some of the complex challenges you face? Is there a mindset or practice change that would make a fundamental shift in the value your team delivers? Do you want to evolve the quality of the holding space with your team? Would you benefit together from more meaningful and challeng…
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Charly Cox's Agility Narrative on Climate Change Coaching
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1:04:24We are pleased to welcome Charly Cox of Climate Change Coaches to the Agility Narratives, where she joins us to talk about her personal journey as an advocate of climate coaching, and her book - a first on Climate Coaching in the world - “Climate Change Coaching: The Power of Connection to Create Climate Action”. Charly is impassioned by storytelli…
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Liz West's Agility Narrative on the enneagram
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55:04Thanks Liz. In this podcast, you helped us embrace a world that is changing. You've introduced us to a tool, the Enneagram, a very ancient tool that helps us develop personal insight to our defenses and our essential selves. It is a slow burn which takes time, as people doing personal work create deeper connections and relationships with themselves…
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Kai Mosebach's Agility Narrative on vertical development
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1:17:40Kai Mosebach of Integral Works' personal journey starts with shadow work. He introduces: 03:44 the modules of Integral life practice: Shadow (unconscious), Mind (cognitive & trust), Body (emotions, life happens in your body), Spirit (mediation, observing your own system, states) 06:42 Integral theory - Ken Wilber initial story - All quadrants All l…
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Klaus Nielsen's Agility Narrative on Agile portfolio management gap
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41:42Klaus Nielson talks about his personal journey as a product manager, his passion for writing based on his need to understand. How scaling of Agile, and hybrid models of portfolio management is challenging. He talks about how he uses knowledge to solve these challenges. He sees agile portfolio management and the value management office as the next f…
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Christopher Avery's Agility narrative on living a life at choice
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46:59For more about Christopher Avery. Click here for The Responsibility Process® A good place to connect with us is LinkedIn with Janet, and Martin Thanks Please see chapter headings; 00:01:27 Driving question, why so many smart people are unhappy at work? 00:04:25 Back to studying, then working in consulting firm - creativity, entrepreneurship, cultur…
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Ken Cloke's Agility Narrative on the power of conflict resolution & mediation
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59:490:44 The early part of Ken's journey with conflict, parents relationship, a shared heritage, and being close to Latino and Anglo communities. 1:42 Going to Berkeley, becoming an activist initially in the civil rights non-violent movement and working in the south 2:29 Part of the antiwar movement trying to stop the war in Vietnam and represented GIs…
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Peter Pula's Agility Narrative on the power of being present to another in community
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57:50We are really pleased to welcome Peter Pula to the Agility Narratives to talk about his personal journey as an advocate of generative dialogue and journalism that supports the art of collective conversations as a transformation tool. Peter leads by holding space for and challenging changemakers, organizations and individuals with generative dialogu…
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Kerry Woodcook's Agility Narrative on relational systems
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43:20We are really pleased to welcome Kerry Woodcock to the Agility narratives to talk about her personal journey as an advocate of change and the challenges she sees for organizations in being responsive to opportunity and change. Kerry leads by holding and challenging leaders, organizations and social systems to amplify the power of relationship Weavi…
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Larry Coopers' Agility Narrative on getting strategic about agility and innovation
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28:52Larry's shares his agility narrative, tells us a story of many aha! moments where he learned the power and impact of innovation in terms of: technology work process focus on the why? and targeting impacts people having real conversations. Enjoy! Larry Thank you Janet for being the co-host on this event and for your highly insightful questions. 0:00…
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Peter Merel's Agility Narrative on learning flow & responding to market change
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51:35Peter Merel, founder of xScale Alliance, in his Agility Narrative talks through the xScale's approach to agility, and enabling organizations build capability to respond to market conditions. He talks through how learning flow in an organization is key to responding to market change. This is something that 95% of agile transformations do not achieve…
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Mike Kaufman's Agility Narrative on meaningful connection thru difficult conversations
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31:06Mike's journey has been driven through curiosity. As an agilist with IT software delivery background, he brings organizational & relational systems coach and mediator to leadership coaching. He uses a broad set of tools he integrates to great effect to help leaders as a coach. His protagonists in his agility narrative are leaders seeking change. Th…
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Francois Bachmann's Agility Narrative on the power of the conversation
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39:52I really enjoyed hearing about Francois' transition from an early idealistic young agile evangelist to an independent coach and trainer. And how a crucial conversation with a wise mentor helped him make the decision to transition. The context of his Agility Narrative is leadership in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world. Key i…
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Steve Tendon's Agility Narrative on Theory of Constraints for Knowledge Work
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37:56We started this conversation with Steve Tendon talking about the theory of constraints and doing a deep dive into how Steve has taken the theory of constraints and applied it to knowledge work. It's fascinating. It's interesting. We didn't end up getting to the agility narrative until 25 minutes in. Feel free to skip around this interview. Steve ha…
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Ardita Karaj' Agility Narrative about bamboo and the agile organization
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39:46Ardi learned Agile & fell in love with products working with small teams in a startup and a 3D product company. After this, she became an Agile coach, exploring agile in government, through consulting assignments and in large financial services. She has impacted many in the Toronto area as a community leader, supporting and running meetups. For Ard…
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Michelle N Moore's Agility Narrative on the Battle for Attention
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28:19Michelle shared her story of going behind the iron curtain visiting East Germany as a 16 year old and wanting to become a spy. Disillusioned by a CIA job fair decided to be a management consultant and worked with PwC and E&Y in Russia. Her protagonist for her agility narrative is a caring leader that sought for the team high performance and high we…
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Enjoy Alok's personal story as a change maker, his patterns for success delivery of agility, organizational constraints, and his call to action... (a list of 5). There is no cookie cutter... Yet Alok outlines key principles and lights the path towards success. Alok, Thank you for sharing Your Agility Narrative. ENJOY! 4:04 Alok's origin story with …
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