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The Roadmap to Delivering Better Results

How to Unlock Your Organization’s Potential

Your organization needs to improve — perhaps even transform — its product development or solution delivery. But how? Big-bang change is risky and hard, team retrospectives have limited impact, and popular practices and frameworks don’t always deliver the promised results.

Drawing from his experience supporting over 100 client organizations, Gil Broza has developed a novel roadmap for achieving meaningful and sustainable improvement. This non-dogmatic approach outlines a leadership foundation and 10 sequential strategies that will gradually make your whole system of value delivery more fit for purpose. These strategies are adaptable to your operating model, whether it’s product-oriented or project-oriented, agile or hybrid, single-team or scaled.

Attend this session to discover a practical model that respects human systems’ capacity for change without being philosophical, touchy-feely, or prescriptive.

Audience takeaways:

• Explain why common approaches to improving value delivery may not produce the desired results
• Describe what kind of leadership is needed to enable real, sustainable, and efficient improvement
• Discover the 10 strategies that achieve value delivery excellence in months instead of years

This presentation is for all levels of leaders in technology development.

If you’re looking to deliver better results in a healthy and sustainable way, this talk is for you!

“Gil helped the attendees understand that no matter how good their part of the business is performing, it is the output of the system as a whole that matters. Gil has a great skill in being able to translate complex system thinking theory into something everyone can digest. Recommended to any organisation wishing to make a real difference to their customers and colleagues.”
— Darren Yeates, Head of Business Agility, SITA

Get Your Mind Set on Agile

How to Achieve Better Outcomes

An Agile way of working can help you achieve better outcomes for your customers and stakeholders, and you don’t have to be in tech to benefit from it.

If you’re interested in having an Agile way of working, how would you establish one? Is it by adopting Agile practices and frameworks, by installing Agile tools, or by mimicking successful software teams?

The answers are no, no, and no. The world’s been conducting a giant, uncontrolled experiment with these strategies for two decades, and they don’t work.

You’re Agile when the Agile mindset – a specific set of values, beliefs, and principles — drives your everyday decisions and actions. It’s these choices that produce agility and improved outcomes.

Using various real-world examples, Gil will make the Agile mindset concrete and tangible, and share practical, effective strategies for adopting it.

Audience takeaways:

• Acquire helpful language for articulating the motivation for Agile
• Describe the aspects of Agile that actually matter (contrary to accepted wisdom)
• Explain what leadership needs to do to achieve real agility

This talk is for leaders and teams, both tech and non-tech.

If you’re looking to help both teams and leaders understand how having an Agile mindset is something they can embrace and benefit from, this talk is for you!

“Gil did a fantastic job helping attendees understand not only the importance of having an Agile mindset, but also why one is essential for any organization going through an Agile transformation. He presented the content in a relatable, interesting and thought-provoking way.”
— Director of Enterprise Agility at a financial institution

Practices Alone Won’t
Make You Agile

A Deep Dive into What Will

These days, almost every tech/IT organization has embraced Agile practices. And yet, only few have achieved real agility. Many others are experiencing a “transformation” of teams, lingo, and tools but work-wise, it’s business as usual.

Why is that? Aren’t the ingredients for effective transformations available to everyone? There is no shortage of motivation, established practices, detailed processes, ever-improving tools, literature, consultants, employees with agile experience, and certifications.

Gil Broza, author of Deliver Better Results, The Agile Mindset, and The Human Side of Agile, thinks that a crucial ingredient continues to be overlooked in corporate implementations of Agile. In this session, he leads us on an exploration of that ingredient and its role in successful transformations.

Audience takeaways:

• Explain a powerful model for helping individuals and organizations change behaviors
• Acquire language to enable Agile transformations beyond buy-in to sprints and stories
• Describe leadership’s role in effective transformations

This presentation is for Agile practitioners and leaders.

If you’re looking to understand why your Agile transformation isn’t producing much agility – and to fix that – this talk is for you!

“Gil’s goal is to make his audience feel comfortable and equipped to take a different view on what was previously axiomatic. He succeeds.”
— Talk attendee

Your Process Blind Spots

What’s Limiting Your Team’s Performance and What You Can Do About It

Your team uses all the modern tools and has a solid process for planning, building, and delivering. It runs so smoothly, it might seem there’s nothing left to improve. But have they truly reached their performance potential?

For many teams, performance hits a limit well below what’s possible. The cause? fundamental process factors are missing, but neither the teams nor their managers and leads realize it.

In this talk, Gil Broza reveals the seven biggest overlooked drivers of team performance. You’ll learn how to recognize these blind spots, understand their impact, and take practical steps to address them. Whether you lead engineers, manage programs, or guide delivery, you’ll come away with new clarity and actionable strategies to help your teams thrive.

Audience takeaways:

• Discover what’s keeping you from achieving greater performance
• Recognize what needs to change and specific actions you can take
• Appreciate how popular practices, such as sprints, velocity, and backlogs, may actually backfire

This presentation is for team leaders, managers, and directors.

If you’re looking to catalyze team performance improvements, this talk is for you!

“Gil has a way of sharing knowledge that is hugely inspirational, motivating and refreshing. I truly recommend that all professionals that have a leadership role know more about Gil’s work.”
— Paula M., conference organizer, Agile Thinkers

Create the Best Agile Way of Working for Your Non-Software Team

How to Avoid or Correct False Starts

You’ve heard the buzz about Agile — how it’s helped software/IT teams become faster, more customer-focused, and responsive. It might help you too, especially if you’re navigating shifting priorities or pressure to deliver more value.

But… what does it take to become agile outside of software?

If you’ve tried sprints, standups, or Kanban boards, you may have found that these surface-level changes didn’t produce the impact you hoped for. More extensive change — adopting Scrum roles and meetings — often leads to confusion, unnecessary pressure, and resistance.

This session offers a different approach: co-creating a way of working rooted in Agile values and principles. You don’t need to be an Agile expert; you do need to lead the right conversations with your team, management, and stakeholders. And in those conversations, make smart, intentional choices without being tied to any prescription, tool, or so-called best practices.

Led by the author of Agile for Non-Software Teams and The Agile Mind-Set, this session will show you how to build a way of working that truly fits your team, vision, and goals.

Audience takeaways:

• Outline the steps to take and conversations to conduct for an Agile implementation that fits your vision and purpose
• Feel confident making Agile-minded choices without being tied to any prescription, tool, or so-called best practices
• Examine strategies for avoiding common pitfalls that lead to false starts, mediocrity, and bounce-backs

This presentation is for managers and leaders in non-software units (such as marketing, finance, and legal) or entire non-tech organizations.

If you’re looking to effectively achieve agility in your context, this talk is for you!

“I appreciate the message that Agile works outside of IT and outside of software development. The presentation spoke to our organization and culture which really helped me see ways I can apply Agile.”
— Talk attendee