Adaptiveness is a journey. Executives need to ask different questions if a 21st-century direction-of-travel is to be achieved. In this workshop, John Coleman shares what learned from his experiments. Where should you start? John Coleman is an active practitioner with 14 years of experience in growing sustainable agility. He is an Irish Professional Scrum Trainer, a candidate LeSS trainer / LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, organizer of ELNA (Executive Leadership Network for Adaptiveness), and he's Europe’s most prominent Professional Scrum with Kanban trainer. John practices with team, leaders, execs more than 80% of the time.

1. The path to
Executive Leadership Network for Adaptiveness (ELNA)
John Coleman PST (incl. Scrum with Kanban), LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, #MarshallGoldsmithLead60
@JohnColemanIRL
www.ace.works
john@ace.works

2. Organizational agility
is…
• What?

3. Organizational agility is… (John’s version)
The ability to drive disruption in the industry & the marketplace, an adaptive way of being/
learning/sensemaking, through ↑effectiveness, ↑frequency-of-impact, ↑quality, ↑learning,
↓impediments, ↑flow, ↑efficiency, and ↑sustainability.
It looks like small cross-skilled cross-functional teams or teams-of-teams using Agile, Lean,
Lean/Agile methods, or the Agile Manifesto principles.
It feels like, ↑psychological-safety, ↑engagement (employees, customers, partners and other
stakeholders), ↑respect, ↑leaders-embracing-uncertainty, ↑leaders-serving-teams, ↑leaders-
as-coaches, ↑excellence, ↑transparency, ↑inspection, ↑adaptation, ↑team-based-
commitment, ↑openness, ↑inclusion, ↑courage, ↑passion, ↑focus, ↑energy, and ↑fun.
It is underpinned by the Agile Manifesto at www.agilemanifesto.org.
It’s a helpful way of being in this Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous world. It is a
required skill set for the 21st century, regardless of speciality or function.

4. What’s your
organization’s
direction of travel?
I’m aware of 29 reasons agility
might be useful, and it’s just a
mean to an end…

5. Liberating Structures: Ecocycle Planning
Co-developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz (www.liberatingstructures.com)
Creative Commons License

7. The good, the bad,
and the ugly
• 21st century exec leadership
that supports the direction of
travel via agility

9. –John Coleman
Thank you for coming to this workshop!!
Check out my blog series on scrum.org

10. Aha moments - step 1
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VHNYSNT

11. Aha moments - step 2
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VGVR9RR

12. Aha moments - step 3
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VFHPHM6

13. Aha moments - step 4
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VXBJGQS

14. Aha moments - step 5
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VRRFMC5

17. Question time!