This course is about helping individuals, teams, and organizations become more effective. The exercises and discussion with students and instructors let you personalize the material.

Sellers Smith - Director, Quality Assurance

A wonderful experiment-driven experience in understanding social interactions and how to effectively influence their outcome.

Michael Schreiber - Senior Software Engineer

Taking a systems view to complex organization problems (without going to crazy).

Paul Tevis - Coach
Appfolio

A great mix of theory and practice. Exercises use each attendee’s issues and contest, leading to real-life changes and actions which are easily begun.

Doug Kinney - Associate Director, Engineering
Best Buy

Three days to explore how YOU can learn to become a better coach.

Philipp Schneider - Director eSolution Development
Sonova

Energizing, safe environment.  You can work with 13 separate partners in 2 days.

JoAnne Brandstedter - Agile PMO

Highly interactive and engaging activities followed by thought-provking conversations.

Andrew Saeman - Senior Agile Consultant
Centare

Concepts & Tools

Concepts and tools for working with the rest of the organization.

Michael Wallace - Global Agile Coach
Global Financial Services Firm

Lots of hands-on exercises that help you see and depict a very complex organizational situation in systematic metaphors.

Molood Noori - Agile Coach

Better understand the system

It helped me better understand the system I work in, and gave me a plethora of tools I can bring back to my organization to make improvements in the system.

Mike Vitale - President
Mavelous

A very intense two days, from which you will come away with new tools & insights you can apply in the real world to coach beyond the team.

Em Campbell-Pretty - Partner
Context Matters

Engage in systems thinking

An opportunity to learn and experience practices and methods in systems thinking.

Jeff McKenna - Founder
Agile Action

Adjust after you understand

Learn a process framework for analyzing a problem, the players, and the factors that describe the context. Then you can consider how you might experiment with adjusting the system after you understand it.

Eric Proegler - Director, Test Engineering
Medidata Solutions

No powerpoint. Just engagement and collaboration.

Dave Cornelius - Value Delivery Leader
Bio-Rad Labs

Pure gold!

Paul Sutton - Agile Coach
@FragileAgile

Coaching Beyond the Team was amazing! Esther and Don gave real experiences and tools that are immediately relevant and valuable.

Kristen Belcher - Release Train Engineer
Vertafore