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

Organizational agility
is…
• What?

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.

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…

Liberating Structures: Ecocycle Planning
Co-developed by Keith McCandless + Henri Lipmanowicz (www.liberatingstructures.com)
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The good, the bad,
and the ugly
• 21st century exec leadership
that supports the direction of
travel via agility

–John Coleman
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Aha moments - step 1
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Aha moments - step 2
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Aha moments - step 3
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Aha moments - step 4
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Aha moments - step 5
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Question time!