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

Instruction on tools that can be used to help teams and others throughout the organization see the big picture more clearly and how things affect the big picture.

Mariah Colero - ScrumMaster
Bio-Rad Labs

One of the best workshops

The knowledge that I gained from the three day workshop … I can’t even imagine how i would have learned any of this without Don and Esther. It was one of the best workshops I’ve been to.

Chaid Przybelski - Business Analyst
Baird

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

We are all at sea in a fleet without a map. Now you will see this situation more clearly and how to help navigate.

Ryan Latta - Senior Consultant / Wizard
ThoughtWorks

Nice way to learn about change together with other interesting people.

Adam Killander - Agile Coach
Adaptiv

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

Share a lens

Esther and Don share a a lens that coaches can use to gain insights into their organizations and create small experiments that create an opportunity to learn and improve.

Ryan Ripley - Agile for Humans
Ryan Ripley & Company

A hands-on workshop with brilliant facilitators / teachers that gives you insight and courage about how to approach your challenges.

Jennie Mårtensson - Business Developer
Lantmȁteriet

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

JoAnne Brandstedter - Agile PMO

Multi-faceted

Sometimes (most times) the problems we face are multi-faceted and complex. The workshop gives tools to pause & observe, analyze the system & determine what experiments you want to take.

Lynn Woody - IT Release Manager
John Deere

Pure gold!

Paul Sutton - Agile Coach
@FragileAgile

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

Fireside Chat

Powerful / Pragmatic / Contemplation / Experiential Learning

Like a fireside chat / mountain retreat with Esther & Don.

Learning with the best of the best.

Mark Biro - Business Consultant
Nationwide

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

Molood Noori - Agile Coach

The workshop will introduce a bunch of useful tools when you are in the position of implementing a change in an org.

Jim Petersson - Head of Dev
SBAB