Creating Collaboration & Autonomy
One of the big reasons why I started Deeply Agile is that the processes and concepts around Agile just don’t seem to be enough to shift people & spaces out [...]
Finding My Why in New York – Simon Sinek Style
2017 was the year of really finding my passion – namely group coaching and facilitating around shifting behaviours and mental models and maps. The problem was, I wasn’t sure why [...]
And That is How Leaders Create Compliance, Thinking it is Great Leadership
LEADER (as a participant in the room), " So we all agree it is....." or the faster, "Does everyone agree ?" ROOM ..... some nods, mostly that suspicious silence that [...]
When Roles Own Delivery – how to shift that to teams
One of the interesting parts of my job as a Agile Transformation Coach is the shift from command and control cultures (that created waterfall as a way of delivering software), [...]
Listen to my Talk from Agile Africa 2017 on Agile Leadership Labs
Alomgside all the other talks from Agile Africa 2017, my talk is now available on YouTube. I was talking about my passion, creating spaces where people are able to shift [...]
Living my Awesome, Creating Awesome Workplaces, Delivering Awesome Products
This ain’t a short, in and out post! It’s about finding and living from a deeper sense of purpose and finding and connecting with people who are also living from [...]
Unilateral Control isn’t Restricted to Leaders…
We tend to think of command and control (unilateral control) as something that only leaders live. The language we use re-in forces this belief, especially as the values that Roger [...]
Scrum Gathering Here I Come!
It seems to be the year for me to speak at conferences. Agile Africa went really well and the topic seems to be connecting well into a new direction for [...]
A New Way of Using Information – Distributed Intelligence
"Could the next leap in evolution arise out of a shift in identification, in which we shed the story of battling for supremacy and move instead to playing our role [...]
Can We Really Change Corporates – Rethinking Ambition
One of the things I fundamentally hold to be both true (and so possible) is that we can shift corporate culture. So it was a surprise for me to hear [...]