There is a statistic in the Agile community: the number one reason Agile initiatives fail is a lack of executive support. We see this stat, we nod our heads, and then we proceed to complain that leadership just “doesn’t get it.”

But CEOs and executives aren’t sitting around wondering how to make YOU and your team more effective. They are worried about revenue, market share, and survival. If you don’t have executive support for your initiative, it’s not because they don’t care; it’s because you haven’t given them a compelling reason to care.

Executive support is something WE have to take responsibility for soliciting. The problem is that most Agile practitioners have zero experience driving high-stakes conversations with people in power. We are great at talking to teams, but we freeze up when it comes to the C-Suite.

So, how do you fix this? You don’t do it by waiting for the next quarterly review to make your case. You do it by practicing in public.

Speaking to power is a skill, not a talent. Like any muscle, it needs resistance training to grow. You need to get in the habit of having a strong point of view on what Agile success actually looks like, and you need to start marketing that opinion aggressively.

Here’s what I did. I took a specific, tactical approach to building this muscle: Start doing LinkedIn Lives.

This isn’t about getting “likes.” It is about two critical outcomes:

If you want executive support, stop treating Agile like a methodology and start treating it like a product you have to sell. When you market your POV publicly, you build credibility. You build trust.

Most importantly, you practice the art of holding your ground in a conversation. By the time you actually need to pitch an initiative or ask for executive support to your internal leadership, you won’t be nervous. You will have had that conversation a dozen times already on your livestreams.

Don’t wait for permission to be a leader. Turn on the camera, state your case, and build the executive support you need to change minds and create Agile success.

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Episode 230 – The Difference-Makers

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I figured it was about time I addressed this one.

You can’t breathe without taking in some serious AI hype right now. How much is fluff and smoke, and how much is real? AND…how will this apply to Agile?

Great question. I have a few gut-level reactions to this. First, I think there’s a gold-rush feel to what’s going on right now. With any new technology, especially the monumental ones, there’s always speculation that this ‘changes the game forever’. But that can’t always be true.

On the one hand, AI has a lot of issues. But its early stages. I think the biggest threat is the unbridled greed that goes with mass adoption. Who’s regulating the copyrights of the material AI is trained on? Who makes sure that AI doesn’t recommend or do dangerous or immoral things?

But the big question I have is “why would you want so much stuff created by robots?” I can’t articulate why, but I know I don’t want to read a book or watch a play written and mounted by robots. And hey, if LLM’s need our inventions to grow, learn and innovate, what happens when we no longer create ‘things’?

As of this writing, so much of the conversation is about using AI to take the rote tasks out of a Scrum Master’s day…preparing reports or briefs, summarizing retrospectives, and writing user stories. But there’s also discussion that maybe AI can replace Scrum Masters and Coaches. That’s a little scary for those of us who hold or want to occupy these roles in the future. So maybe someday AI can plan our sprints, produce empirical estimates, and even hold coaching conversations.

But Will AI Save Agile? That supposes that the solution to all of our current Agile pains have a known solution. After all, we can’t code or teach things that we have no certain knowledge of. And until we do, it would impossible for AI to magically fix what’s wrong with Agile in 2026. That’s still very much a human concern. Stay tuned – I’ll be exporing more about AI’s role in the future of Agile in some upcoming episodes as I learn more…

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Something is definitely up.

People are angrier, meaner, less fulfilled, less patient and more intolerant. Manners and decorum are taking a back seat to ego and impulse.

I won’t get into where I think this is all coming from, but I do know one thing. If you want to make things better, the fastest way is to set an example with Badass Leadership.

For a leader to set a powerful example, they have to be in control of their emotions. You have to let situations bounce off of you – including criticism, failure, unfairness, difficulty and conflict. Technically, it doesn’t have to “bounce off of you”, but the badass leader must be in charge of their response to situations like these.

That means you’re aware of how situations affect you. You understand your default reactions, and learn how to subvert them. It means you know what is important to you as a leader, and never allow your ego (or your emotions) to take precedence over your vision.

It’s never been more important to let your badass leadership shine.

Thinking back to some very early episodes, Badass Leadership refers to the qualities that a highly seasoned and powerful leader possesses. You are not influenced by currents and tides, nor the opinions of others. You can see clearly where you want to go, and are willing to experiment in an effort to get there.

You don’t value being right. You don’t need credit, acclaim, wealth or fame in exchange for what you do. Your leadership is about serving. That means bringing clear value to those who need it the most.

At its core, Badass Leadership is about strength. Steadiness, especially in the face of adversity, is a sign of great wisdom and power. Having the humility to realize you’re not perfect, but on a path to mastery, is key.

When you’ve begun to master emotional control in yourself, you’ll notice something very cool happening. You can notice it in others. If you’ve been working on emotional control in yourself, you can then use your wisdom and experience to help others. That’s what Badass Leadership is all about.

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The Forge – Badass Agile Immersion Experience

Career Freedom with Forge Genesis

Episode 168 – The 13 Qualities Of A Badass Leader (Revisited)

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Open To Work. I see new contestants every day. The Agile Job Market is broken, and its not coming back.

There is no Agile 2.0. This isn’t a drill. No one is coming to save you.

Sure, you can pivot careers. Go back to project management, or rebrand yourself as a Product Manager. Here’s the good news. If you love this work because of the people you help, and the way Agility makes work better, you will always be in demand. Your future is secure. The bad news is…you’re going to have to go chase it.

If there’s a brand new job title for us, I don’t know what it is. That means it’ll be years before employers, HR departments and recruiters know either. You have two choices. You can either accept what’s being handed to you (diminished opportunities and pay, or compromised titles and responsibilities) OR you can start creating your own opportunities.

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On this episode, I sit down with Paul LePage, founder of Foundation BTS, a managed IT services and threat management company, in his office in Newmarket, Ontario. Paul shares his path from corporate IT manager to successful entrepreneur, revealing how embracing agile principles and learning from failure played a pivotal role in building his business.

He shared real-world stories about risk-taking, adapting to rapid changes in technology, including the growing impact of AI, and figuring out what it truly means to lead and serve in today’s market.

Whether you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master thinking about striking out on your own, or just looking for inspiration on leading with resilience and passion, I think you’ll enjoy Paul’s practical wisdom and candid storytelling. Join me for a look at what it takes to build a thriving business on your own terms.

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To me, the 12 Agile Principles are everything you need to build and guide your practice.

Rather than memorizing a ton of frameworks, rules and regulations, the Agile Principles allow us to hold in memory a few simple, yet elegant, virtues that can be adapted to any industry, client or context.

It’s easy to recite the twelve Agile principles, but living them is a whole different story, and we aren’t always honest about the ways we fall short.

This episode focuses on which of the original Agile principles we tend to violate most often:

Honestly, a lot of us treat Agile principles like slogans, not lived virtues. We tend to avoid the riskiest, but most effective, aspects, and fill the gaps with invented “principles” that are easier to check off. This episode is a nudge for all of us to look inward and challenge the ways we’re cutting corners or playing it safe, instead of truly leading our teams and adding value.

Episode 43 – Revisiting the 12 Agile Principles

We Failed Agile

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As you progress in your career, you might be tempted to accumulate MORE – more knowledge, more processes, rules, and templates. Why not sign up for one more newsletter, or substack, or Discord, or podcast, or blog. Why not read one more book? Why not go to another Agile Coaching camp, or conference?

It makes sense on the surface. If something has the potential to help me, why not get more of that?

But then you never really develop the instinct to solve specifically for each customer. You’re busy trying to remember and apply all of the rules, processes, and best practices you’ve collected.

It feels like we’re busy enough – Agile Coaching usually involves helping multiple teams at once. We may feel “on the hook” for financiall results, budgets, team happiness, individual well-being, and corporate practices and standards. That’s a lot. The last thing you need is more information – especially if it all seems to contradict one another. You’re going to feel overwhelmed pretty soon, and in 2025, we don’t need help with that.

We already feel like Agile is on borrowed time. Our reputation is at stake and we’re trying harder and harder to prove ourselves worthy. That’s not a great way to feel.

So we keep searching for that magic hack. We keep digital clips and link lists of our favourite articles. Stuff we promise ourselves to remember to try. Here’s what I want you to remember. There is no magic salve. There’s no one thing you must do in order to be great. In fact, you can’t chase greatness as though it were a destination. You will approach greatness through humble practice. Humble meaning – be curious, be open to learning, but don’t crowd yourself with someone else’s rules or virtues. You have to earn them. The hard way.

Rather than obsessing about how well you conform to other people’s prescriptions of “good” Agile Coaching, set your own standards. We do that by learning to trust the process. Try, fail, repeat.

If you believe that you don’t have enough info to get started, you’re suffering from “but first” syndrome – the belief that there’s a low-water mark of things you need to know or have before you begin. In the beginning you know nothing. The paradox is, the more you know, the more you realize you still know nothing. You will always be stretching and reaching. Don’t let the sense of inadequacy thwart you. The only way to get great is to endeavour. Do the work. Your Agile Coaching will automatically get better as you work.

If you like this topic, you might also like…

Badass Unscripted – Too Much of The Wrong Thing

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Episode 209 – Knowledge

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There seems to be an awful lot of sameness out there. If you follow social media, especially LinkedIn, I’ve been seeing more and more Agile advice that encourages people to follow templates. Whether it be for retrospectives, standups, meetings, reports, or what to say to your boss, we’re promoting sameness as a virtue – whether we intend to or not.

I think the big issue with sameness is that it teaches us not to trust our unique voice. As agilists, we solve problems for businesses. We deliver solutions to market in a way that allows us to serve the end customer better. We owe it to them to bring our creativity and originality to that enterprise. When we don’t, our work is seen as a factory where requirements are poured in and what comes out the other side is measured primarily on cost and productivity.

Here’s the thing – we’ve been taught to keep quiet, to know our place, to stay in the development room. We no longer see ourselves (if we ever did) as crucial to business success. And we must. If you expect Agile to survive the next five years, and not be replaced by the latest fad or marketing invention…sameness has got to go.

We can’t wait for someone to save us…our success, and our reputation for being badass practitioners rests with you.

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Corporate Agile refers to the diluted practices, unnecessary compromise, and prioritizing uniformity and safety over innovation and impact. Now 25 years old, has the potential to make work better. Yet, as it’s been adopted by massive companies, we’ve seen a slow erosion of its core intent.

What many of us are feeling is that in large companies, genuine Agile ways of thinking and working rarely fit. We see the focus shift to efficiency, dashboard-driven status checks, and a risk-averse culture where the boldness of Agile is stifled.

So why do we keep doing Corporate Agile? The benefits that once justified staying inside these environments—steady pay, benefits, job security—have almost disappeared altogether. Layoffs, stagnant career growth, and a loss of purpose and connection to meaningful work are becoming the norm, not the exception.

Within the Agile community, we’re grappling with the realization that many of the practices and mindsets that once set us apart are now seen as basic “table stakes.” The expertise that used to matter so much is expected everywhere, often in a watered-down form. The market doesn’t value these skills in the same way, and many of us are wrestling with what comes next. Do we keep conforming to systems that don’t value us, or do we find new spaces to apply (and expand) the Agile mindset?

I’m challenging our loyalty to institutions that don’t reciprocate, and asking you to imagine where Agile might bring real impact outside the safe confines of big corporate IT. We can ditch the Corporate Agile, and take our skills and learning into sectors and settings where its spirit can thrive again, and where we as practitioners can rediscover genuine meaning and pride in our work.

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This week, let’s focus on a new future for your Agile practice. If you’re unhappy with the status quo, where agility has gotten stuck in endless frameworks, roles, certifications, and tired routines. This episode is for you. We explore Forge Genesis, a project that’s taken shape from persistent questions about what comes next, especially for those of us craving true career freedom and impact outside of traditional frameworks and job opportunities.

Agile has reached an inflection point. Framework fatigue has set in. Companies are growing skeptical, and the market is crowded with followers rather than leaders. We believe that just doing what’s written—or expected—is no longer enough. More and more, we face resistance: anti-Agile bosses, managerial pushback, a return to rigid control. Organizations are searching for consistency and predictability, but we know the real breakthroughs happen when we embrace change and tackle new problems head-on, not when we play it safe.

So we’re turning away from the “employee mindset”—titles, roles, job definitions—and looking at what we need to become: builders, entrepreneurs, problem-solvers ready to spot real needs, craft solutions, and bring those ideas to those who crave them. The skills that serve this mission aren’t just the ones you find in Agile manuals. It’s about communicating a vision, connecting with real needs, testing assumptions, marketing new offerings, and having the courage to take a risk. That’s the path to true career freedom. We want to help people step beyond the familiar and begin shaping products, services, or movements that truly matter—inside or outside traditional organizations.

Not that everyone needs to quit their job and go solo. But if you do feel called to create, to lead a new way, or to focus your hard-won expertise on problems that excite you, you need more than just Agile know-how. You need the entrepreneurial skills to identify and connect with people who need what you can offer. That’s where Forge Genesis comes in.

So many people I’ve met have something to offer. A service. A product. Content. Expertise they’ve gained and honed through years in the field. It could be time to take your idea to market and have career freedom. But unless you know how to do the icky stuff – selling, communicating, marketing, branding, finding an audience – you’ll be stuck with an audience of one. You’ll lose hope and go back to the regular full-time or contract scrum master/coach positions (which are vanishing fast!)

This episode is an invitation to find—or create—the arena where you can be most useful, influential, and fulfilled. Whether you’re itching to found your own venture, start a new consortium, or even revolutionize Agile education, we’ll be here to guide you through the mindsets and moves that make it real.

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