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Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations episodes:

10.19.2022
The omni-connected agile leader
Simon Hayward is an honorary professor at Alliance Manchester Business School in the UK and author of The Agile Leader and Connected Leadership. He is also Global Lead for Leadership and Culture at Accenture’s Talent & Organization/Human Potential practice. In...
08.22.2022
Winning Business Strategies are Adaptive
Julian Mancia is interested in helping humans get out of their own way, specifically when it comes to business innovation. As a Director of "What If! Innovation," part of Accenture, Mancia is excited by nebulous projects that might terrify others....
07.11.2022
Identify your passions to change the world
Lisette Zounon is passionate about building quality into everything she does. A quality engineering leader with over 15 years of experience, Zounon is agile at work and at home, whether she’s planning her wedding or helping teams deliver excellent products....
06.06.2022
Igniting the spirit of agility amid the Great Reshuffle
The world of work has irreversibly changed. As the CEO for Institute Agility, Neville Poole is actively making space for people-centric work experiences. Physical workplaces now serve to bring people together to do what they cannot do remotely: connect, align...
05.16.2022
Business agility: where we are and where we’re going
Agile began in software but has evolved to impact every part of the business. Now business agility is seen as a way for organizations not just to create better products but also to run more effectively overall — regardless of...
04.25.2022
Elevating Black and Brown Voices in Agile
Who do you turn to to celebrate or to commiserate? When Apriel Biggs started her career 15 years ago, she didn’t have a community of agilists who shared her experiences, other Black and Brown people to share her highs and...
04.05.2022
A Vision for Business Agility in Nigeria
Abiodun “Abby” Osoba has tirelessly been creating a community of agilists based primarily out of Lagos, Nigeria, through her commercial and non-profit efforts. Osoba is the founder of the Agile Advisor Africa, co-founder of the Remote Agile Workspace (RAW) as...
02.28.2022
Six Enablers of Business Agility
There isn’t a single playbook or recipe for success, but one thing is certain: while scaled agile done well can turn into business agility, they aren’t the same thing. In his new book "The 6 Enablers of Business Agility," Karim...
01.24.2022
Mental Health in the Agile Space
Self-identified “agile unicorn” Jackie Chambers de Freitas rarely sees others like her in her work as a VP of technology transformation and executive coach. In this episode, she shares how her uniqueness as a Black woman working in agile can...
12.13.2021
Facilitating Breakthrough to Move Forward Together
Facilitation involves “removing obstacles to contribution, connection and equity.” This is at the center of our guest Adam Kahane’s book “Facilitating Breakthrough.” Kahane argues that facilitating isn’t just trying to get people to do things. He discusses what he calls...
11.22.2021
Personal Agility: Integrity, Empiricism and Change Fluency
Accenture | SolutionsIQ alumna and former Agile Amped host Leslie Morse is our guest in this episode. Serving as Product Owner for the Professional Scrum Community with Scrum.org has put Morse on a journey to help agilists “drink their own...
07.19.2021
Defining Agility in Terms of Risk
In his book “Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption,” Leo Tilman offers a comprehensive definition of the word “agility.” According to Tilman and co-author former NORAD commander General Charles Jacoby, agility is...
06.21.2021
Pride at Accenture
This special episode celebrates the Pride month of June and features the hosts and producer of Agile Amped as the guests. Alalia Lundy (she/her/hers) is a Business Agility Enablement Manager; William Rowden (he/him/his) is a Business Agility Practice Development Associate...
06.07.2021
Pride and Intersectionality in Leadership
Kayton Bhatia is a Senior Leader in Digital Product Management at Kaiser Permanente. For Pride Month, he is sharing his story about bringing his whole self to work. As a gay, Indian man, Bhatia’s path to leadership is anything but...
05.17.2021
Innovation and Leadership for Humanity
Sandy Beky is the founder of two companies whose work, at first blush, seems unrelated. The first is HeHop, a nonprofit that uses blockchain technology to empower victims and witnesses of domestic violence to capture and store tamper-resistant evidence for...
04.19.2021
Learning to Create Thriving Systems from Nature
Colleen Kirtland is on a learning journey, and in this episode, she shares her passion for and commitment to learning as much as possible from nature. Pointing to many resources and examples of biomimicry, economics, and above all systems thinking,...
04.05.2021
Cloud Breaks Barriers to Agility
Adam Burden is Accenture’s Chief Software Engineer and a senior managing director leading Technology services for Accenture in North America. In this episode, Burden shares how Cloud helps break barriers to agility. One barrier is legacy systems. While package solutions...
03.22.2021
FirstRoot: Growing Next Gen of Impact Investors
What happens if you put $1 billion dollars in the hands of students to invest collaboratively? Luke Hohmann is Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, which wants “to get $1,000 into a million schools so that children are in control of...
03.08.2021
Riot Games Makes it Better to be a Player
What does it mean to put customers at the center of everything you do? For Riot Games, the brand behind League of Legends, it means “making it better to be a player.” Our guest Michael Robillard is the Principal of...
02.22.2021
Modern Management Made Easy
Johanna Rothman, a.k.a. the Pragmatic Manager, is author of 18 books and frequent blogger on the topic of product management and more. Rothman shares with us insights about her latest three-book bundle on “Modern Management Made Easy.” These books are...
02.08.2021
Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity
Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity Self-defined Soul Craftswoman April Jefferson applies her experience in coaching, crafting experiences, and conference speaking to help “bring up new voices.” Jefferson shares her story of striving to increase equity of the Black, indigenous,...
01.25.2021
You Can’t Iterate Your Way to Game-Changing Innovation
Rajesh Nerlikar is chief product advisor at Prodify and the co-author of the book “Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management” with Ben Foster. Nerlikar highlights a few of the ten dysfunctions that the co-authors had seen...
01.11.2021
Leadership Agility in the New World of Work | Business Agility Series
Nick Horney is an organizational psychologist and founder of Agility Consulting. He spent 23 years in Special Operations in the U.S. Navy, before building a career in the agile space. Horney joins us to discuss his ideas and experience in...
12.14.2020
Building in Accountability Through Coaching
Alicia McLain is a small-business owner, executive leadership coach, public speaker and co-founder of the Agile Coaching Exchange North America. McLain shares her experience speaking on the topic of “Coaching, the Secret Sauce to a Culture of Accountability.” Building on...
12.07.2020
Your Big Agile Adoption Probably Isn’t a Transformation
Michael Spayd is the co-founder of The Collective Edge, which seeks to “transform the transformers.” In this episode, Spayd shares some of his thinking behind his new book “Agile Transformation” and reminds us of the difference between organizational transformation and...
11.29.2020
The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing | Business Agility Series
Jim Ewel is one of the earliest advocates for Agile Marketing and is one of the authors of the Agile Marketing Manifesto. His new book “The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing” provides a framework for applying Agile principles and practices...
11.23.2020
Value Streams and Human Centered Design
Corey Post is a Lean-Agile transformation management consultant with 20+ years of leadership experience developing large solutions, new products, and complex systems. Recently he authored two talks for the Agile2020 conference: · Use Product Value Streams to Rapidly Deliver Customer...
11.16.2020
Practical Techniques for Change with Esther Derby
Esther Derby has four decades of experience with organizational change and she’s a well-known author and thought leader in the agile space. Derby chats with us about her latest book: “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results”...
11.10.2020
Why Do Efforts to Change Organizations Often Fail?
Mik Kersten, author of “Projects to Products” and CEO of Tasktop, has seen a reoccurring theme. We go to conferences; we hear about all these fantastic things that can happen when we incorporate lean practices, continuous flow, and feedback. We...
11.09.2020
From Chasing Empty Goals to a Life of Fulfillment
In a former life, Marc Siles was a senior executive chasing a corporate career – until he had a near burnout experience. Originally from Spain, Siles has been living in Finland for the last 18 years, where he dedicates his passion and energy...
11.02.2020
How to Be Forever Employable
Jeff Gothelf helps organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book “Lean UX”, “Sense & Respond”, and his latest, “Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking Work and...
10.08.2020
A Venture Capital Model for Innovation | Business Agility Series
How important is transformative innovation to your company and are you willing to invest in it? John Carter, a product development expert and inventor, shares his advice for how to nurture innovation within an organization. He believes a governance structure that includes...
10.01.2020
9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do
Alicia McLain is the co-founder of Agile Coaching Exchange (ACE) in North America, an organization with an intent to bring coaches together around the mission of building competency and community. She joined us to share more about ACE, as well as the nine things she has seen that wildly successful...
09.24.2020
2020 Business Agility Report Key Insights
Evan Leybourn is the founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute, an international membership body to both champion and support the next generation of organizations. He joins us to discuss the key findings from this year’s Business Agility Report,...
09.17.2020
Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits | Business Agility Series
Bruce Nix is the Director of Business Agility at Vaco Memphis, a talent and solutions firm. He shares with us a wonderful example of agility: pairing up people impacted by the pandemic with non-profits in need of their talent. Listen...
09.10.2020
Structural Agility to Enable Flow | Business Agility Series
Jardena London’s mission is to help organizations become healthy, productive and fun. She is founder of Souls@Work, a movement to help bring soul back into the workplace. She explains to us the concept of Structural Agility and how it can help businesses achieve true agility and survive the challenges posed...
09.03.2020
Using a Trojan Horse to Introduce Agility
Michael Hamman helps organizations grow their inner capacity for leadership agility. He joined us for this “geek fest” of an episode on the topic of agility and transformation. Hamman delves deep into a discussion on how people must shift their mindset in order to deal with the...
07.23.2020
Introduction to Agile Portfolio Management
In this special episode, we offer a broad overview of portfolio management that uses lean and agile thinking and approaches. Our guides are Evan Campbell and Kat Conner, who together have 50 years of experience in portfolio, budgeting and funding. “Agile...
07.16.2020
Our Systems Are Failing! Resilience for the Rest of Us
Complex systems are in a state of continuous failure. Resilience is the ability of the system to maintain its performance characteristics when failures occur. Benefits of resilience include high availability, quality, scalability, and improved business KPIs. But, high level of resilience...
07.09.2020
The Best Virtual Teams Do These 3 Things | Business Agility Series
The drive for virtual meetings that are efficient and goal-oriented can often cause us to lose sight of the fact that we are people, needing real connection. Without the visual and often unspoken cues that normally surround us, our virtual...
07.02.2020
Meaningful Metrics are Simpler than You Think
How do you know that you’re achieving the goals of your change? How do you know that large dashboard of OKRs and metrics will show you what you need to see? It’s not easy. Many organizations tend to measure the...
05.21.2020
SAFe in a Virtual World
How will agile at scale change in an increasingly virtual world? SAFe Fellow Scott Frost and SPCT Shawn Lowe – both business agility consultants at Accenture | SolutionsIQ - discuss the best approaches and mindset for success in a virtual...
05.14.2020
Your Board of Directors Needs Agile | Business Agility Series
Sandra Davey is founder of and product coach at Product Space in Australia. She also serves on the board of several Australian companies, including CHOICE. She shares her experience as the board chair for a consumer rights organization that she helped take through an agile transformation: “The business plan that...
05.06.2020
Bringing Agile to Non-Software Teams
Gil Broza is the author of three acclaimed books including his latest “Agile for Non-Software Teams.” It was written to be practical and applicable for the roles “we always forget in transformation,” like marketing and HR. Each chapter is a...
04.30.2020
Adult Developmental Stages and Leadership
William Rowden is an executive coach and consultant here at Accenture | SolutionsIQ. His journey to leading transformation initiatives has piqued his curiosity in org development and adult developmental psychology. For the past few years he has been researching how...
04.23.2020
Setting Up an Internal Coaching Office
Tony Bonfante is an agile coach who shares his recent experience setting up an internal coaching office at a Fortune 50 corporation. The first step in the process is to fill the roles of coaches with individuals who are called to serve...
04.16.2020
Dojo Goes Remote
Jessica Guistolise is an experienced leader, consultant and coach at Accenture SolutionsIQ. For the past few years, Guistolise was part of a dedicated Dojo team at a major US-based insurance company, where she learned how to scale dojo experiences and even virtualize them. From a few...
04.09.2020
Once Upon an Agile Organization | Business Agility Series
Melissa Boggs and Howard Sublett, the Chief Scrum Master and Chief Product Owner respectively at the Scrum Alliance, return to tell us about their own organizational transformation. Throughout 2019, the pair completely restructured the organization into cross-functional and community-centric teams that are empowered to deliver on the needs...
04.02.2020
The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste
This is a special episode. After our blog (with the same title as this podcast) blew up on LinkedIn, the post’s author Evan Campbell was featured on a webinar Q&A; hosted by Gene Gendel, organizational design specialist, agile/lean coach and...
03.26.2020
Remote Agile Coaching
In this episode, Agile coach Joe Fecarotta hosts, interviewing Caro Paduch who is currently leading the agile transformation for Learning & Leadership Development at Accenture. Fecarotta has been coaching Paduch for the last 18 months in a remote setting, as...

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Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations episodes:

The omni-connected agile leader

Winning Business Strategies are Adaptive

Identify your passions to change the world

Igniting the spirit of agility amid the Great Reshuffle

Business agility: where we are and where we’re going

Elevating Black and Brown Voices in Agile

A Vision for Business Agility in Nigeria

Six Enablers of Business Agility

Mental Health in the Agile Space

Facilitating Breakthrough to Move Forward Together

Personal Agility: Integrity, Empiricism and Change Fluency

Defining Agility in Terms of Risk

Pride at Accenture

Pride and Intersectionality in Leadership

Innovation and Leadership for Humanity

Learning to Create Thriving Systems from Nature

Cloud Breaks Barriers to Agility

FirstRoot: Growing Next Gen of Impact Investors

Riot Games Makes it Better to be a Player

Modern Management Made Easy

Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity

You Can’t Iterate Your Way to Game-Changing Innovation

Leadership Agility in the New World of Work | Business Agility Series

Building in Accountability Through Coaching

Your Big Agile Adoption Probably Isn’t a Transformation

The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing | Business Agility Series

Value Streams and Human Centered Design

Practical Techniques for Change with Esther Derby

Why Do Efforts to Change Organizations Often Fail?

From Chasing Empty Goals to a Life of Fulfillment

How to Be Forever Employable

A Venture Capital Model for Innovation | Business Agility Series

9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do

2020 Business Agility Report Key Insights

Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits | Business Agility Series

Structural Agility to Enable Flow | Business Agility Series

Using a Trojan Horse to Introduce Agility

Introduction to Agile Portfolio Management

Our Systems Are Failing! Resilience for the Rest of Us

The Best Virtual Teams Do These 3 Things | Business Agility Series

Meaningful Metrics are Simpler than You Think

SAFe in a Virtual World

Your Board of Directors Needs Agile | Business Agility Series

Bringing Agile to Non-Software Teams

Adult Developmental Stages and Leadership

Setting Up an Internal Coaching Office

Dojo Goes Remote

Once Upon an Agile Organization | Business Agility Series

The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste

Remote Agile Coaching