The investment in your people that will have the most impact

  • They will apply leadership situationally.

  • Be both inclusive and decisive.

  • Generate effective discussions.

  • Get the most out of their people.

  • Identify issues, as soon as they arise.

  • Be outcome-focused.

The world has changed. You need to adapt. Your people need to adapt. Help them.

The Constructive AgilityⓇ for Leaders curriculum: here.

Upcoming DevOps for Everyone 90-minute workshop on November 18 at 11:15am EST (4:15pm GMT): register here.

 

Some Companies and Organizations We Have Helped

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“…by applying deep experience in organizational design and implementation, including psychology, appreciative inquiry and the agile 2 strategic approach, they provide innovative, customized and functional insights and directions that are immensely valuable and unparalleled in my nearly 35 years of starting and running organizations.”

— Rob Breiman

Director, Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute

Why Most Leadership Training Is Not Effective for Product Companies

And how ours is different — because it focuses on the aspects of leadership that actually improve operational effectiveness and agility. Article.

Constructive Agility®

An approach to program management that is based on asking questions instead of checking boxes.

Companies don’t care about Agile — they care about agility and time-to-market, effectiveness, cost, and competitiveness.

Organizational culture expert and Human Synergistics CEO Dr. Rob Cooke:

"From my perspective, some of the most interesting work on project teams is being carried out by the Agile 2 Academy." (link to source)

Take a quick assessment of your organization’s path to agility!

We Help Organizations to Achieve True Agility and Effectiveness

Business leaders are disillusioned in the ability of “Agile methods” to help their organizations to improve in measurable ways. Yet organizations still need agility — now more than ever.

The problem is that so-called “Agile methods” and “Agile frameworks” do not actually lead to agility!

That’s why our approach is based on the actual research, rather than on the unsupported opinions of the Agile community.

In addition, we give you a dashboard that proves that things are working.

  • No Agile “frameworks”.

  • A learning-centric approach: Leadership, Communication, Collaboration, Neurodiversity, Theory of Constraints

  • Spanning all levels of leadership

  • Tailored to your situation and objectives

  • Measurement of outcomes — prove success

How We Are Different

Unlike large consulting companies,

  • We don’t bring in experts to make the sale to your execs and then “hand off” to junior people.

  • We don’t take your people’s ideas and put those in our slide decks with our logo.

  • We don’t try to place large numbers of people on site — we leverage your own people.

  • We don’t generate a lot of meetings, activity, documents, and reports and then leave, with essentially no outcomes achieved.

Instead,

  • Our experts work directly with your people at the various levels of your org.

  • We develop your people in the course of implementing strategies — a developmental approach.

→ Those people become the next leaders.

They own the insights.

That creates actual agility!

Clients

The Foundations Of Our Work

Rather than opinionated approaches, our work is grounded in established research in respected fields. Our model of organizational agility is informed by examination of companies that have exhibited actual agility at scale.

The agility-promoting behaviors of Agile 2

and widely accepted research in:

  • Leadership theory (read here)

  • Organizational culture theory (read here)

  • Behavioral psychology and group behavior

  • Cognitive science

  • Operations Research

Our Approach

We listen to your goals and concerns, interview your staff, do some value stream mapping and impediment identification, and conduct surveys. The survey assessment tools are based on industry-proven methods, are extremely powerful, and go way beyond Agile maturity assessments.

 

We share our findings and data about root causes and recommend areas of focus. We then work with you to devise strategies for both short-term and long-term improvement.

 
 

We support you in creating a learning-based system within your organization: one that continuously implements improvement strategies, measures outcomes, and adjusts the strategies to improve further.