Mike's journey has been driven through curiosity. As an agilist with IT software delivery background,  he brings organizational & relational systems coach and mediator to leadership coaching. 

He uses a broad set of tools he integrates to great effect to help leaders as a coach. His protagonists in his agility narrative are leaders seeking change. The theme is meaningful connection with showing how fear, the villain of the narrative, breaks trust and connection. He also discusses resolution processes where interests compete and trust is in place. 

His call to action is to work with neutral third parties to help lay out your thoughts, similar to how executive coaches are used today, but for relational issues. He sees great opportunity in the movement towards the engaged workforce, people oriented cultures, purpose driven organizations. 

We really enjoyed this conversation and seeing how Mike integrates mediation into his coaching practice with leaders.  We hope you will enjoy this conversation and find it insightful. We did.

00:00:00
Welcome to The Agility Narratives Podcast
 
00:00:13
Mike's Introduction
 
00:00:46
Mike's Agile Origin Story
 
00:02:19
Mike's journey to the organizational-leadership aspects of Agile
 
00:05:02
Mike's experience with conflict
 
00:06:28
Context to Mike's agility narrative - How he integrates coaching, relational techniques and mediation
 
00:08:49
Martin's experience with integrating different relational approaches
 
00:09:47
Mike's protagonist - Leaders wanting to make an impact
 
00:10:00
Mike's theme is connection to self, others and the ecosystem
 
00:10:58
We are hardwired to be in connection
 
00:14:18
Discussing the "villain" - Fear breaks connection
 
00:17:32
Fear, conversations, assumptions, experiments and challenging assumptions
 
00:19:20
Exploring interests in context of trust and shared interests
 
00:21:04
Exploring competing and underlying interests are
 
00:24:23
What's at stake of not having these types of conversation that make connection meaningful
 
00:25:52
The call to action - Understand the value of a neutral third party
 
00:28:01
The opportunity in movement towards the engaged workforce, people oriented cultures, purpose driven organizations
 
00:29:10
Threats to human connection
 
00:29:55
Thank you - Sharing about how we enjoyed "geeking out" as agilists and mediators