Practical Agile Leadership

Are you a manager/director, product lead, project/delivery manager, Scrum Master or coach? If you’re thinking:

“Why aren’t our Agile practices producing better outcomes?”
“How can my team have a better working experience?”
“How do I influence better ways of working?”

Attend Practical Agile Leadership, a unique training with Gil Broza, to get answers that work in your context. You’ll learn to:

See Agile beyond practices, ceremonies, and tools
Bridge Agile leadership thought and action
Plan for effective delivery of large-scale work
Plan impactful short cycles
Help your team embrace technical agility
Create real flow in value delivery
Enable and sustain engagement
Support both performance and growth
Set your team up for success
Make real collaboration possible
Lead meetings that move things forward

This is neither a Scrum course nor Leadership 101. The content is based on Gil’s work with hundreds of Agile leaders at companies large and small since 2004. Gil has been teaching it since 2015 and keeping it current with the changing landscape.

Wondering how this course compares to Certified Agile Leadership (CAL)? CAL is neither a requirement nor an alternative. In the words of many participants who had taken it previously, our course complements it, helping you become a better Agile leader of people in the messy reality of the world.

Delivery style: Each segment in this training involves a mix of interactive teaching, group discussions, activities, and reflection. We go light on theory and heavy on pragmatism. Expect conversations at multiple levels, frequent introspection, instructor advice, and insights from your peers. You’ll also receive a 60-page booklet with plenty of detailed guidance (not slide printouts!)

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Gil masterfully presented this course online using some of the best tools and practices that enabled all the participants to actively engage in the learning process. The training and the takeaway tools continue to provide amazing value to my leadership growth both at work and my personal life.
- Jeff GortonDirector of Client Experience, Pethealth
Highly recommended for people leaders at all levels, Gil's course broadens the definition of Agile, giving leaders a true sense of its value. With a keen focus on purpose, people and values, he showed us how to adopt Agile as a mindset and improve our ability to deliver value to our customers.
- Rachel Di SalleSenior Manager, Rogers Media
I was immediately able to apply principles I learned in this course -- identifying cost of change beyond dollars, asking for permission to help, chartering initiatives for understanding expectations and identifying gaps. The course was packed with information, and I use the printed checklists in meetings.
- Corina StoddardProduct Platform Manager, Canada Post
It has become very clear why our team failed at our first agile attempt, but now the way forward looks very bright.
- I. M.Development Manager
An eye-opening experience for technical and non-technical leaders alike. Gil does a fantastic job of articulating the motivation behind the process and how Agile tactics alone fall short of enabling agility. Two days of instruction and guided self-reflection triggered a paradigm shift of how I approach and advocate for Agile.
- Warren GrayTechnical Lead, Arctic Wolf Networks
The content focused purely on the Agile Mindset and making Agile choices. So much of the training we are offered mixes behaviors and frameworks, when in fact the Mindset is the hardest to master. The course certainly lives up to its name, imparting a lot of practical knowledge on applying agile behaviors in the workplace.
- Dan ParsonsLead Agile Coach, Fidelity Investments
This course will perfectly complement what you have already learned either through your own experiences or in other agile leadership courses.
- Alexandra UrseaAgile Leader
It's a fantastic training and an opportunity to get outside of the process of Agile. I'm walking away with a very different mindset, a much more open, human, people-centric kind of view.
- Craig DialLead ScrumMaster, cPanel
As a ScrumMaster, I've taken many Agile training and workshops; Gil's Agile Leadership training was very different and enlightening. Instead of focusing on implementation, practices and techniques, he focuses on values and beliefs as drivers of behaviors. Highly recommended especially for people at leadership levels.
- Efrat WareSr. ScrumMaster, Fidelity Charitable
Amazing amalgam of practical take-aways and deep underlying principles.
- Alex MorozovLead Member of Technical Staff, Arctic Wolf Networks
Now I have a vocabulary to apply and some strategies to use that will help me become more effective in my communication with my peers, my management, and my teams so that we can all grow and learn together.
- Jennifer BleenProgram Manager, Huntington National Bank
Now I have some specific steps, techniques, and tools that I can go back and apply, while growing myself into my next role.
- Kamran KhanScrumMaster/Agile Coach, Cisco
Absolutely worth the time -- I would have used PTO for this if required.
- Dave S.Software development project manager (attended an in-house session)
I left the workshop with both a much better defined framework of what soft skills are needed to grow my team, and techniques to improve those skills.
- Byron JungSoftware development project manager
I found the information Gil provided invaluable and very well presented. The insights gained in that seminar will change my approach to software development forever.
- Alon SabiCTO, Functionpoint Software
Getting back to work today after an amazing two day offsite workshop feeling very energized and invigorated! Gil Broza gave us some excellent ideas to amplify what we're doing now to continue our Agile journey. I have renewed confidence that my efforts to give people autonomy and safety will yield amazing things!
- Josh AssadDirector, R&D
Gil brings an enormously helpful message that companies ignore at their peril if they want to deepen their investment in Agile. He’s experienced in many of the challenges to Agile teams, and resourceful in coaching teams through new challenges.
- Michael GoiteinPrincipal project manager, Mobiquity

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