Applied Agility in Leadership™

The Applied Agility in Leadership™ program is a leadership development course designed to foster new ways of thinking and behaving within the daily context of work. 

It emphasizes collective leadership, integrating leaders into small peer cohorts for collaborative learning, practice, and growth.

The program is conducted remotely, allowing participants to apply their learning at work every day. 

It includes daily personal reflection and weekly cohort interaction, facilitated by a licensed Agile Leadership Journey Guide.

One-on-one leadership coaching is also part of the program.

The complete Applied Agility in Leadership™ program is segmented into two courses: Developing a Growth Mindset™ and Developing Catalyst Behaviors™.  Developing a Growth Mindset™ is designed to be completed before Developing Catalyst Behaviors™. 

• With cohorts meeting weekly throughout the courses, leaders are deeply immersed into the content and shared learning experience, providing safety, accountability, and connection throughout. 
• Global Masterclasses are held monthly during active courses and once between terms to maintain focus, practice, and connection.
• One-on-one leadership coaching is part of each course to help focus and track the individual leader's goals, help extend learnings into practice, explore obstacles, and help accelerate mindset and behavior changes.

The program is available to leaders at all levels, from any industry seeking to improve their agility and leadership capabilities.

• Participants do not need to be in a "people management" role to enroll in this program.
• Anyone seeking to improve their focus, influence, communication, adaptability, and performance who is committed to being open to new ways of thinking and behaving is welcome.

• Participants engage through professional one-on-one coaching and peer cohort interactions. 
• Cohorts provide a safe space for experimentation, peer coaching, practice, and reflection, facilitated by experienced Agile Leadership Journey Guides.
• Global Masterclasses provide opportunities to engage and learn amongst a diverse community of leaders.
• Leadership coaching provides participants opportunties to develop and refine their leadership goals and to work with a professional coach to accelerate the change they are seeking.

In part 1, Developing a Growth Mindset™, participants explore self-awareness and dives deep into the leadership agility model as it applies to their ways of thinking. They will explore their expert mindset, achiever mindset, and catalyst mindset, exploring and experimenting with new ways of thinking throughout. 

In part 2, Developing Catalyst Behaviors™, participants build on the the knowledge, skills, and experience gained in part 1. In this course, they will focus on exploring and balancing their leadership power and presence, improving their communication and engagements with stakeholders, and honing their leadership focus. 

A Growth Mindset Journey

• Getting Started: Participants kick off the program with a cross-cohort session followed by a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide and meeting their cohort of peers in their first weekly session.
• Setting Expectations & Goals: Participants will explore their immunity to change and create a personal leadership growth goal to take them beyond their current leadership context. 
• Expert Mindset: Participants explore the difference between expertise and an expert mindset, and how that shapes their impact as a leader. They discover areas that require letting go and areas requiring grabbing on in order to shape an improved leadership profile. They reflect on other experts they work with and how their mindset shapes those relationships and their results.
• Achiever Mindset: Participants explore the fine line between influence and manipulation as they learn the value of alignment alongside the challenge of groupthink. They learn how to broaden their gaze from the details of work toward coordinating that work and the strategy shaping the focus of that work. They navigate the stakeholder landscape of authority and politics to focus on performance and results.
• Catalyst Mindset: Participants explore the boundaries where patience becomes stagnant, openness becomes uncertain, and empowerment becomes indecision. They learn that a true catalyst mindset is an alert and active mindset requiring courage, choice, and reflection. They begin to open their own mind to new possibilities, more diverse perspectives, and a more co-creative culture.
• Growth Mindset Checkpoint: Participants reflect on their journey and  reflect on their initial goals, to where they feel they currently are today, and where they want to focus going forward.

A Catalyst Growth Journey: 

• Getting Started: Participants kick off the program with a cross-cohort session followed by a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide and meeting their cohort of peers in their first weekly session.
• Role as Leader: Participants will explore their role as a leader and how a more catalyst approach might offer areas for improvement and greater adaptability. 
• Leadership Power & Presence: Participants explore their leadership power, the power through relationships, and how their power influences their presence as a leader. They learn how to situationally adjust their power balance to improve their effectiveness at work. Finally, they practice rebalancing power “in the room” for more effective teams, projects, and meetings. 
• Stakeholder Engagement: Participants discover how to make every conversation and decision better through a communication technique called Catalyst Conversations™. 
• Managing Conflict and Difference: Participants learn the triggers that invoke threats and rewards in others and how to navigate dialogue to foster alignment and improve their influence, especially when dealing with differences, conflict, and feedback. 
• Leadership Focus: Participants explore the focus of leadership across three key domains: the work to be done, the people doing the work, and coordinating across them. They learn to inventory and rebalance their focus to improve their leadership effectiveness and grow others in the organization. Finally, they apply their learning in coaching and catalyzing others to improve their own leadership focus. 
• Catalyst Behaviors Checkpoint: Participants reflect on their journey and develop a change story to share with their cohort, peers, and manager (when appropriate). 

Participants must complete an introductory Agility in Leadership™ workshop before enrolling in this advanced leadership development program. 

In order to enroll in Developing Catalyst Behaviors™, leaders must first complete Developing a Growth Mindset™.

Participants receive verifiable digital certificates of completion for each course –  Developing a Growth Mindset™ and Developing Catalyst Behaviors™ when they successfully complete the course requirements.

Upon completion of both courses in the program and a final closing reflection call with the program director, participants will received the designation "Applied Agility in Leadership Certified". Both a digital badge and a digital certificate will be issued.

All Agile Leadership Journey certificates may be added to the leaders' LinkedIn experience sections and may be easily shared with their social network and employer.

Agile Leadership Journey believes in providing fair and equitable pricing for our global programs.

• We offer tiered pricing adjusted for the United Nations Inequality Human Development Index (IHDI) for this program. When you register, you will provide your country of residence and, if applicable, a discount will be applied. Learn more about our IHDI-influenced pricing here.
• We may also offer special discounted rates for leaders from non-profit, mission-oriented  organizations. Learn more about our work with non-profit leaders and how to apply here.