The workshop covers a series of concepts and tools that you can learn and apply to help improve your effectiveness.

Lawrence Ludlow - Director, Process
Intelliware

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

No powerpoint. Just engagement and collaboration.

Dave Cornelius - Value Delivery Leader
Bio-Rad Labs

Collaboratively improve a system

A series of ideas and techniques to collaboratively improve a system.

Nick Korbel - Development Manager
Pampered Chef

Understand any organization

Years of research in complex fields distilled into an applicable set of principles and toolkits. This workshop will allow you to understand any organization and put in place the work to improve it.

Aldric Giacomoni - Director of Engineering
Stash Invest

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

Adam Killander - Agile Coach
Adaptiv

It was such an intimate setting and a great collaborative learning experience.

Charlie Sweet - Application Development Team Lead
Baird

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

Engage in systems thinking

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

Jeff McKenna - Founder
Agile Action

This workshop teaches a framework for change and gives you experience in using that framework to solve real problems in real organizations.

Nick Amundsen - Director, Research
Jamf Software

It’s great if you’re feeling like you’re stuck. The class gives you some tools to look at a problem in different ways that lead to new insights and a confidence that there are things you can do to be useful.

Crystal Harris - Director of Agile Delivery
Penn Mutual

Great tips on problem visualization techniques.

Superb facilitation.

Natalja Calderon - Agile Coach / Consultant
Omega Point

Shift your organization postively

Process of learning how to engage problems in a way consistent with your values and shift your organization positively.

Jason Blosser - Assist VP of IT Services
North Dakota State University

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

Super valuable if you want to understand and influence the organization you work in!

Rickard Sundin - Consultant
Citerus

It provides both insights and specific tools for making effective change – within an organization as well as within one’s self.

Markus Silpala
Silpala Software