Agile for Leaders

Challenges leaders to examine their style; does it align with business agility culture.

Most agile transformations do not fail because teams cannot learn Scrum. They fail because the leaders around those teams were never equipped to lead differently.

Agile for Leaders is a full-day, highly interactive workshop designed for managers, directors, and executives who want to understand what agility actually requires of them. Not the mechanics of sprints and standups. The leadership behaviors, cultural conditions, and organizational decisions that make agile work or quietly kill it.

Through real case studies, hands-on exercises, and honest self-reflection, you will leave with a clear picture of where your organization stands today, what is getting in the way, and one specific commitment to lead differently starting this week.

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Through Agile for Leaders, you’ll learn to:

  • Benefits of Agile: Why agility matters now, what the data actually shows, and how creativity and complexity are reshaping how organizations must operate
  • Top Predictors of Agility: What separates organizations that successfully transform from those that stall, and the friction points most likely standing in your way
  • Leadership Types: The three leadership styles that define how change happens on your team, and an honest look at which one you are operating from today
  • Lean Wastes: How to identify the eight types of waste hiding in your daily workflows, processes, and team structures that are silently killing your speed
  • Change Leadership: Why change efforts fail, where they fall apart on Kotter's model, and what leaders specifically need to do differently at each stage
  • Scrum Overview: How Scrum works, what your teams need from you to make it succeed, and what happens when leaders get in the way
  • Product Planning Overview: How high-performing organizations structure their product teams around outcomes instead of output, and what that shift requires from leadership
  • What Leaders Need to Do: The specific behaviors, commitments, and mindset shifts that separate leaders who enable agility from those who quietly block it
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Benefits

  • Badge in Hand: Walk away ready to lead AI adoption with confidence and a certification badge
  • Expert Instruction: Co-designed with Scrum Alliance and led by Lance Dacy, CST
  • Risk Mitigation: Learn to avoid costly bias or compliance missteps
  • Immediate Efficiency: Save hours each sprint by automating refinement, sizing, and summaries
Lance

Your Instructor

As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Lance has trained and coached teams through many successful Scrum implementations since 2011, from Fortune 20 companies to small start-ups. Lance is also experienced in showing agile coaches and managers how to help cross functional, self-organizing teams deliver high value for customers as early as possible by using Scrum. 

Scrum Certifications include: CSM, CST, CSPO, CAL-1, A-CSM, A-CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, Path to CSP Educator, Scrum Foundations Educator. 

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Upcoming Workshops

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with Lance Dacy
Early Price: $495
Regular Price: $595

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