Thought Leadership

What do all successful coaches have in common? During the recent BeLiminal Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training, I demonstrated what personal coaching could look like by coaching my friend and [...]

Scrum Coaching Retreat Copenhagen 2017 The Scrum Coaching Retreats are a safe place for coaches to get together and share deep learning, develop their understanding and improve the world of agile [...]

“You’re equal but different” – Au Pairs, “It’s Obvious”, 1981 At our last away day, we explored what each of our five values meant to us. You can read about Joy here, so let’s now look at [...]

Embracing personal mastery is inevitable As Agile practitioners, if we are serious about the business of improving organisations, teams, leaders and individuals, we must inevitably embrace the [...]

How well are organisations meeting the employees emotional needs? In many organisations people are not flourishing; employees are disengaged which often leads to high staff turnover. The basic [...]

For some years, in the UK, there has been a drive by the government towards very traditional methods of schooling. The focus of the education department returning to learning by rote and of [...]

Yesterday, February 21, I delivered a Keynote to the delegates of BarclayCard Agile Fest. This is kicking off a series of experiential sessions I will be hosting at meetups in London this year. [...]

  We often hear of organisations adopting Agile, and transforming their world of work. It sounds so exciting. Yet we also hear about such adoptions failing. Failures aren’t bad, as we know, [...]

A little while back on a trip to Las Vegas I went to see a great show. After the show, I encountered a surprisingly large taxi queue, a good 150-200 people deep. As I  joined it I noticed that [...]

This article is based on a talk that I gave as part of the Keynote mash-up at the Scrum Gathering in Munich, 2016. Transforming the world of work is about investing in people, specifically about [...]