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Women in Agile Leadership

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This leadership workshop is focused on developing women leaders, improving organizational leadership, and shaping culture (covering both halves of our Agile Leadership Compass™). The Women in Agile Leadership workshop is available both as a public class and as a private engagement, either in person or online, with flexible scheduling options available.

This workshop provides practical agile leadership skills and strategies for women to improve their own — and their organization’s — performance. Over the course, leaders will learn and practice how to:


  • Understand the importance and dynamics of agile leadership
  • Recognize your own leadership patterns and biases
  • Expose organizational biases and their impact on women leaders
  • Explore topics unique to the experiences of women leaders
  • Help grow yourself, your colleagues and the organization to improve results
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A Leadership Development Workshop for Women Leaders

Agile has exploded in popularity as an effective methodology for building software. However, it is fundamentally a set of principles, a way of looking at organizations’ work and culture that is very different from what we’ve traditionally been taught. Leaders who embrace an agile mindset and apply such principles to their leadership approaches can better respond to change, inspire teams, and help their organizations grow and succeed.

Agile leaders improve shared focus, align departmental priorities, empower teams to deliver great products/services, and cultivate a healthy high-performing work environment.

As a woman leader, you know that navigating work culture and expectations require special attention. Women leaders are required to navigate double standards driven by broader cultural biases and expectations. New awareness, language, and tools to navigate this arena can help you and your colleagues improve effectiveness in any environment.

The Women in Agile Leadership workshop will give you the skills needed to successfully adopt and thrive in leadership roles. You’ll learn and practice how to:



  • Increase safety, trust, and collaboration in your teams
  • Employ a growth-mindset to value diversity, be open to ideas, welcome feedback, and improve yourself
  • Build confidence and courage in asserting your perspectives and opinions
  • Become more aware of your own biases and triggers
  • Improve your strategic orientation, direction-setting, and decision-making 
  • Engage colleagues without over-influencing or micromanaging them
  • Inspire, encourage, and empower others fostering creativity
  • Deploy metrics in a health way that drives health and performance


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Women in Agile Leadership Training Focus

Participants explore a comprehensive view of agile leadership. This is presented first from the leader’s personal perspective in how agility impacts their thinking and behavior, then from an organizational perspective in how they can effectively align, guide, and scale their organization’s agility. The Agile Leadership Compass provides guidance for participants both during the workshop and as an aid in their practice after completion.

The Women in Agile Leadership workshop includes all of the learning objectives outlined in the Agility in Leadership and Agility in Organizations workshops. However, it offers  a unique focus for women leaders facilitated by women trainers. 

Agile Ways of Working

We look at the factors that have evolved to the current business need for increased agility and change-based approaches. This context for agility lays a foundation for why this is important for leaders now. 

Agile Leadership Mindset

We’ll examine a leadership development model for an agile mindset and behaviors through catalyst leadership, and how it shapes a culture of improved decisions, actions, and outcomes.

Developing Catalyst Leadership

Increase our self-awareness of leadership habits and identify opportunities to improve reactions, thinking, and behaviors and how micro-moments shape culture for agile ways of working.

Catalyst Conversations

Practice a co-creative technique to improve decisions and outcomes. Learn how micro-moments and everyday conversations and meetings shape culture for agile approaches. 

Organizational Culture

Learn what organizational culture is, why it has such a critical impact on organizational effectiveness, and the leader’s role in shaping an agile culture on a broad scale.

Agile Organization Cases

Explore case studies from organizations with different cultures and the role of mindset, structures, policies, and metrics in shaping culture for agile ways of working. 

Leadership Transitions in an Agile Way

Consider change and transition to successfully embark on a culture change journey, all while navigating it with an engaged, motivated, and purposeful workforce.

Visioning and Aligning Agile Ways of Working

Leadership’s role in creating and establishing the vision, aligning the values, setting the conditions and measures, and removing the roadblocks for a successful cultural change journey.

Building Community and Open Space

Explore how women can build community amongst program participants and in their own organizations. There will also be opportunities to share insights or experiences about successes and challenges in leading as women.

Agile Ways of Working

We look at the factors that have evolved to the current business need for increased agility and change-based approaches. This context for agility lays a foundation for why this is important for leaders now. 

Agile Leadership Mindset

We’ll examine a leadership development model for an agile mindset and behaviors through catalyst leadership, and how it shapes a culture of improved decisions, actions, and outcomes.

Developing Catalyst Leadership

Increase our self-awareness of leadership habits and identify opportunities to improve reactions, thinking, and behaviors and how micro-moments shape culture for agile ways of working.

Catalyst Conversations

Practice a co-creative technique to improve decisions and outcomes. Learn how micro-moments and everyday conversations and meetings shape culture for agile approaches. 

Organizational Culture

Learn what organizational culture is, why it has such a critical impact on organizational effectiveness, and the leader’s role in shaping an agile culture on a broad scale.

Agile Organization Cases

Explore case studies from organizations with different cultures and the role of mindset, structures, policies, and metrics in shaping culture for agile ways of working. 

Leadership Transitions in an Agile Way

Consider change and transition to successfully embark on a culture change journey, all while navigating it with an engaged, motivated, and purposeful workforce.

Visioning and Aligning Agile Ways of Working

Leadership’s role in creating and establishing the vision, aligning the values, setting the conditions and measures, and removing the roadblocks for a successful cultural change journey.

Building Community and Open Space

Explore how women can build community amongst program participants and in their own organizations. There will also be opportunities to share insights or experiences about successes and challenges in leading as women.

Women in Agile Leadership Program Availability

If you are interested in participating in a public version of the program, please sign up for the waiting list below and we will contact you when the workshop is being offered. If you are interested in a private workshop for your organization or a group of women leaders, please submit a request and we will connect you with one of our Guides who will lead the training.

IHDI Pricing Eligible

Agile Leadership Journey believes in equitable global pricing. Many of our leadership development programs are priced based on the Guide’s country of origin and their individual pricing plans, thus taking into account a fair local price and local currency. In those cases, the prices listed reflect the prices to be paid without other discount compensation.


Global public programs offered directly through Agile Leadership Journey, however, include prices that are adjusted for the United Nations Inequality Human Development Index (IHDI). This program qualifies for our IHDI-influenced pricing when offered directly by ALJ and this information, if applicable, would be included in the public course description.

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