Leadership Training and Development Programs
An Agile Leadership Journey™ education provides a research-based, holistic learning experience for leaders at all levels to improve themselves, their teams, and their organizations.
About Our Leadership Training, Development, & Coaching Programs
Agile Leadership Journey™ develops more creative, adaptive and resilient leaders through training and coaching. We start by educating and empowering team, organizational, and executive leaders in addition to those leading in unique, non-traditional managerial roles. The purpose of this education and empowerment is to help change their own thinking and behaviors, shaping micro-cultures through more effective engagements. Essentially, we build better, more effective leaders.
Our engaging and interactive leadership training programs offer three levels of engagement and development:
Our leadership training programs provide tools to understand and shape their organization or team-based culture for agility and change. Rather than teaching agile methods to leaders, we focus on emotional intelligence and the mindset of leaders. As a result, we enable leadership potential that fosters more agile ways of working.
Leading Yourself Through Change in Turbulent Times
As artificial intelligence takes on more routine analysis and tasks, the work that remains for leaders depends more on judgment, relationships, and self-awareness. This shift affects individual careers directly. Employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum expect 39 percent of workers' core skills to change by 2030. McKinsey's
State of Organizations 2026 finds that as AI reduces administrative work, managers will be able to focus more on leading people. It also finds that as organizations reduce layers of management, leaders who do not invest in their own growth are more likely to make reactive decisions under pressure. Our programs help you prepare for these changes, whatever your role or title. You build awareness of how you think and behave under pressure, practice adapting your approach to different situations, and strengthen your ability to influence and support others. AI tools and their uses will keep changing, so we focus on what lasts: your ability to keep learning and to lead well when the way forward is uncertain.
Certified Agile Leadership: Growth You Can See in Your Work
Our programs are designed to change how you lead in your daily work, not only what you know about leadership. Leaders who complete them report stronger leadership presence, more effective communication, and a greater ability to help their organizations improve, whatever their role or title. Alumni also report career advancement.
These outcomes come from how you learn. Our foundational workshops, Agility in Leadership™ and Agility in Organizations™, build awareness of your own leadership patterns and of the culture around you. The Applied Agility in Leadership™ program, made up of Developing a Growth Mindset™ and Developing Catalyst Behaviors™, turns that awareness into new habits. You work toward a personal growth goal through weekly practice with a peer cohort and one-on-one coaching.
Each program includes a validated certificate from Agile Leadership Journey that recognizes your learning and practice. We see certification as a starting point, not the goal. Learning and practice as a leader continue, and they are more effective with the support of a community of peers.
Foundational Workshop
Agility in Leadership™ develops insight and awareness for leaders to discover new ways to think, focus, and behave.
Foundational Workshop
Agility in Organizations™ helps leaders align, focus, and accelerate change throughout their organizations.
Advanced Development
Through two courses and dedicated practice, leaders will expand their leadership competencies with improved awareness, balance, adaptivity, performance, communication, and engagement.
What are the FOUNDATIONAL Steps on the Leadership Journey?
Leadership Training Workshops
Agility in Leadership™
This leadership training workshop is the introduction to awareness practices and the starting point in our Agility in Leadership™ Series. Participants are introduced to the Leadership Agility Framework and core catalyst practices to improve self-awareness, situational adaptiveness, communication, and influence. This leadership workshop helps to broaden perspectives, engage stakeholders, co-create solutions, and foster innovation.
This workshop provides the context, framework, and tools for leaders to improve their own leadership awareness and adaptiveness to improve engagement and outcomes.
Agility in Organizations™
This leadership training explores work culture and how leaders align, focus, and accelerate change throughout organizations. This first step in our Agility in Organizations™ Series helps leaders learn to identify and shape culture toward more iterative, adaptive, innovative, and sustainable practices. Participants are introduced to the context of business agility and culture, the Competing Values Framework, and key levers and leadership focus to develop increased business agility.
This workshop provides the context, framework, and tools for leaders to develop awareness of
organizational culture and systems to improve business agility, performance, and health.
Next Steps on the Leadership Journey:
Advanced Leadership Development Courses
The Applied Agility in Leadership™ Certification Program
The second level of our Agility in Leadership™ Series, this advanced leadership development program dives deeper into practicing the skills learned in the Agility in Leadership™ workshop - developing awareness, situational adaptiveness, social engagement, and strategic orientation to improve leadership capacity. Applied Agility in Leadership™ is an immersive learning, application, and practice program requiring 90-minute weekly cohort sessions, one-on-one coaching, and monthly global masterclasses, which are delivered in two three-month courses as described below.
Applied Agility in Leadership™ —
Developing a Growth Mindset™
Developing a Growth Mindset™ is the next step on the leadership journey after Agility in Leadership™ and fulfills the first half of our Applied Agility in Leadership™ Certification Program. In this course, participants explore their orientation as a leader from an expert, achiever, and catalyst perspective to improve their awareness, thinking, and behaviors for greater effectiveness.
Applied Agility in Leadership™ —
Developing Catalyst Behaviors™
Developing Catalyst Behaviors™ is the third educational offering and is taken after Developing a Growth Mindset™. This course fulfills the second half of our Applied Agility in Leadership™ Certification Program. In this course, participants explore their presence and balance their power as a leader to strengthen stakeholder relationships and improve team engagement.
Join the waiting list for our next Applied Agility in Leadership™ course.
Applied Agility in Organizations™ — Shaping Culture for Business Agility
The second level of our Agility in Organizations™ Series, this program exposes, aligns and directs leaders toward improved business agility through the exploration of cultural values. This program is limited to cohorts made up of leadership teams within organizations.
Participants use the Competing Values Framework to situationally identify, direct, and begin to shape organizational culture for improved performance and health. Leaders will run experiments to shape the culture in their organization to improve business performance and organizational health. This program helps leaders within an organization identify and shape their organizational culture to enable, support, and grow agile ways of working.
Leadership teams and dedicated change teams may apply for this immersive learning, application, and coaching program, which is structured to meet organizational needs typically over a three to twelve month period.
Assessments and Coaching to Accelerate and Support Leadership Journeys
ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360
Assessment + Coaching
Part of our Agility in Leadership™ Series, this program is focused on vertical development and provides a direct connection for leaders who want to see the impact of their expert, achiever and catalyst biases on their leadership effectiveness.
This personalized leadership program pairs a ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360 Assessment with one-on-one professional leadership coaching. The tool assesses the leader's current leadership agility level and provides a detailed report of their leadership thinking and behaviors. Through the debriefing process and one-on-one coaching, participants are provided with an actionable roadmap for the next steps on their leadership career journey.
This program supports both individual leaders and leadership teams at any point on their leadership journeys.
Culture Values 360
Assessment + Coaching
Part of our Agility in Organizations™ Series, this program provides leaders with a detailed view of their organization's culture based on the Competing Values Framework as perceived by both employees and leadership.
Our Culture Values 360 Assessment identifies key gaps in the current state versus the desired state related to the organization's cultural values at various leadership levels, departments, divisions, locations, business units, and other organizational dimensions. Professional leadership and transformation coaches help organizations align their focus, shape the desired culture, and improve business agility.
In this program, leadership and change teams engage in up to eight coaching sessions focused on improved organizational alignment and business performance.
Special Programs on the Agile Leadership Journey
Women in Agile Leadership
This leadership workshop is focused on developing women leaders, improving organizational leadership, and shaping culture. It is offered to the public occasionally and may be scheduled for groups and organizations.
Covering both halves of our Leadership Journey Compass™, this program combines our Agility in Leadership™ and Agility in Organizations™ workshops with a specialized focus on developing adaptive leadership skills and strategies for women to improve their own and their organization’s performance.
Train the Trainer: Agility in Leadership™
Our Train-the-Trainer program is for large organizations that want to bring the Agile Leadership Journey™ curriculum into their internal training and development portfolio.
Whether you have an existing leadership training program or desire to start a new one, this program coupled with corporate licensing develops and authorizes internal trainers and coaches to teach Agility in Leadership™ workshops to employees within your organization.
Online & In-Person Formats
ALJ Guides are trainers and coaches who provide leadership training workshops, coaching, and consulting both in-person and online. Public workshops are offered with a variety of scheduling options, depending on the ALJ Guide leading the course. Private workshops can be customized to your team's schedule.
Engaging and Interactive Workshops
Whether in person or online, our workshops and programs are designed to be engaging and interactive. We utilize powerful visual facilitation and interactive online learning platforms to fully engage leaders in the learning process.
Leaders are provided with the structure required for program learning clarity, personal engagement to connect to the learning, and the visual connection to others learning in their same cohort.
Public Workshops
Our network of global ALJ Guides regularly offer our Agility in Leadership™ and Agility in Organizations™ workshops and our Applied Agility in Leadership™ courses. If you're an individual looking for leadership training and development for yourself or your team, either online or in person, check the schedule of upcoming events to find a next step that fits your schedule.
For large group registrations or in-house training for your organization, contact us for a private engagement.
Private Engagements
All of our workshops and programs are available for delivery within teams and organizations both online and in person around the globe. Our programs may be offered independently or in conjunction with other employee development and organizational change efforts already underway.
Get in touch with our team to co-design a leadership development and training program specific to the needs and goals of your team or organization.
