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 Potent

Winning Business Strategies are Adaptive

Aug 22nd, 2022 46m 30s

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 othe

Identify your passions to change the world

Jul 11th, 2022 37m 13s

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 excell

Igniting the spirit of agility amid the Great Reshuffle

Jun 6th, 2022 40m 41s

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:

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

May 16th, 2022 56m 35s

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 what comes their w

Elevating Black and Brown Voices in Agile

Apr 25th, 2022 28m 48s

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 lows with. So Biggs st

A Vision for Business Agility in Nigeria

Apr 5th, 2022 39m 45s

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 Wor

Six Enablers of Business Agility

Feb 28th, 2022 38m 28s

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 Harbott shares h

Mental Health in the Agile Space

Jan 24th, 2022 32m 51s

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 be

Facilitating Breakthrough to Move Forward Together

Dec 13th, 2021 40m 24s

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.

Personal Agility: Integrity, Empiricism and Change Fluency

Nov 22nd, 2021 41m 45s

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 pros

Luftfracht im Aufbruch: Nachhaltiger & effizienter

Nov 12th, 2021 20m 1s

„Sind globale Lieferketten eigentlich sinnvoll?“ Diese Frage sei heute viel stärker in der Diskussion als früher. Dorothea von Boxberg, CEO der Lufthansa Cargo, und Moritz Hagenmüller sind sich einig: Resilienz ist oberstes Gebot für Produktion

Defining Agility in Terms of Risk

Jul 19th, 2021 46m 53s

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 Jaco

Pride at Accenture

Jun 21st, 2021 45m

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 Pr

Pride and Intersectionality in Leadership

Jun 7th, 2021 28m 4s

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 typical. Desp

Innovation and Leadership for Humanity

May 17th, 2021 40m 57s

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

Learning to Create Thriving Systems from Nature

Apr 19th, 2021 48m 54s

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 think

Cloud Breaks Barriers to Agility

Apr 5th, 2021 36m 16s

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 system

FirstRoot: Growing Next Gen of Impact Investors

Mar 22nd, 2021 43m 23s

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 $1 billion or more

Riot Games Makes it Better to be a Player

Mar 8th, 2021 36m 51s

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 Enterprise Agility for Riot G

Modern Management Made Easy

Feb 22nd, 2021 26m 30s

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 bo

Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity

Feb 8th, 2021 29m 43s

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

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

Jan 25th, 2021 22m 23s

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-au

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

Jan 11th, 2021 44m 40s

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 leade

Building in Accountability Through Coaching

Dec 14th, 2020 25m 22s

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 A