The biggest barrier to agile at scale isn’t the framework it’s the leadership above it.

Agile Leadership And Strategy Training

Develop the agile leadership training, strategic agility, and team empowerment skills that leading organizations through agile ways of working genuinely demands at a senior level.

  • UK Licensed
  • Global Standards
  • Expert Instructor
  • 5 Day Training
  • Overview

Course Overview

Most agile transformations stall in the middle. The teams adopt the practices. The scrum ceremonies run. And somewhere above it all, the leadership layer keeps operating on annual budgets, quarterly reporting cycles, and command-and-control decision making that quietly undermines everything happening below it. The transformation doesn’t fail because the teams weren’t agile enough. It fails because the leadership wasn’t.

This agile leadership program is built for the layer above the teams executives, senior managers, department heads, and programme leaders who need to understand what agile leadership actually requires of them, how to connect agile ways of working to real business strategy, and how to lead change and scale agility across an organization without mandating a framework and hoping for the best.

It sits within our corporate training programs portfolio alongside generative AI course and other certificate programs bringing the same practically grounded, senior-audience-focused approach to agile leadership development that we apply across our leadership programs.

SAFe, Scrum, and PMI-ACP are covered in dedicated programs for those who need framework-level depth. This program is specifically about the leadership and strategy layer the agile leadership principles, strategic agility, and organizational change disciplines that senior leaders need to make agile work at scale.

  • Goals

Course Objectives

By the end of this program, attendees will be able to:

  • Apply agile leadership principles to shift from command-and-control management toward team empowerment without losing strategic coherence
  • Use agile mindset frameworks to understand how agile ways of working challenge traditional leadership assumptions and what needs to change
  • Apply strategic agility methodology to connect organizational vision and goals to agile execution across teams and functions
  • Communicate and influence across the senior stakeholder landscape that agile transformations always encounter
  • Design an agile strategy framework covering vision, goal linking, and resource allocation that closes the strategy-execution gap
  • Lead organizational change and develop a scaling agility roadmap relevant to their own organizational context
  • Key Points

Who Should Attend?

  • Executives and C-Suite Leaders Overseeing Agile Transformations
  • Senior Managers and Department Heads Leading Agile Teams
  • Programme Leaders Responsible for Agile at Scale
  • HR and L&D Leaders Building Agile Leadership Development Programs
  • Transformation Leads and Change Directors
  • Organizations Building Senior Leadership Capability for Agile Environments
  • Key Benefits

Key Benefits of the Course

  • An agile leadership course program built for senior leaders, not scrum team members
  • Practical strategic agility and agile strategic planning skills applicable from the next leadership cycle
  • Stronger agile leader communication and influence capability across the senior stakeholder dynamics that transformations consistently encounter
  • Clear agile leadership framework for empowering teams without creating strategic drift
  • A recognised credential from our certificate programs portfolio supporting progression toward senior agile leadership and transformation roles
  • Outline

Course Outline

Day 1: Why Agile Leadership Matters and the Agile Mindset

  • Most organizations that struggle with agile transformation have a leadership problem, not a team problem this session examines what specifically goes wrong when senior leadership continues operating on traditional management assumptions while teams below them try to work differently, and what the evidence from scaled agile programs says about where transformation value is won or lost
  • Agile leadership principles at the level that matters for this audience: what the agile mindset actually requires of executives and senior managers, how it differs from the mindset that traditional management structures reward, and why the behavioral changes it demands are harder for senior leaders than for the teams they’re asking to change
  • Attendees complete an agile leadership self-assessment, identifying the specific leadership habits and organizational behaviors that are most likely limiting agile effectiveness in their current context

Day 2: Leading and Empowering Agile Teams

  • Moving from command-and-control to empowered teams is harder than most agile programs acknowledge this session covers what genuine team empowerment looks like in practice, how to maintain strategic coherence while distributing decision-making authority, and the specific leadership behaviors that enable teams versus those that undermine them while appearing to support them
  • Agile leadership development at the team interface: how senior leaders create the conditions for self-organization, how psychological safety connects to agile performance at the team level, and what the leadership disciplines that scale high performance across multiple agile teams actually look like
  • Attendees work through realistic team empowerment scenarios, developing the judgment that distinguishes leaders who build genuine team capability from those who delegate without the trust and support structure that makes delegation work

Day 3: Communication and Influence in Agile Organizations

  • Agile transformations create communication challenges that traditional leadership structures weren’t designed for this session covers how senior leaders communicate direction without over-specifying delivery, how to influence the organizational culture that agile requires without having direct authority over it, and how to manage the senior stakeholder dynamics that every significant agile change effort encounters
  • Agile leader communication methodology across the specific audiences that matter most: board members who want predictability, finance teams managing annual budgets, and business units with competing priorities who see agile as someone else’s initiative
  • Attendees work through communication and influence scenarios drawn from realistic transformation contexts, developing the messaging and stakeholder engagement skills that agile leadership at an organizational level demands

Day 4: Agile Strategy and Strategic Agility

  • Connecting agile ways of working to business strategy is where most agile transformations have the least clarity this session covers agile strategic planning methodology, how to link organizational vision to agile execution through goal frameworks that work in agile environments, and how to make resource allocation decisions that support agility rather than locking it into annual budget cycles
  • Strategic agility as an organizational capability: what it means to build a strategy that responds to changing conditions rather than being undermined by them, how agile business strategy differs from traditional strategic planning, and what the strategy-execution gap looks like specifically in agile contexts and how agile strategic thinking closes it
  • Attendees develop an agile strategy framework for a realistic organizational scenario, applying strategic agility principles to a goal-setting and resource allocation challenge that reflects the actual strategic decisions senior leaders in agile environments face

Day 5: Leading Change, Scaling Agility, and Personal Leadership Plan

  • Scaling agility across an organization is a change leadership challenge before it’s a framework challenge this session covers how senior leaders build the organizational conditions that allow agile to spread beyond isolated teams, how to sequence change initiatives so early wins create momentum rather than isolated pockets of agility that don’t connect
  • Leading agile teams through resistance, setback, and the cultural friction that agile transformation consistently produces at the organizational boundary between agile and non-agile ways of working the specific leadership capabilities that keep transformation momentum going when the organizational immune system pushes back
  • Attendees complete a personal agile leadership action plan covering the specific leadership behaviors to change, the strategic agility initiatives to prioritize, and the scaling roadmap most relevant to their organizational context with direct instructor and peer feedback on realism and implementation specificity
  • Terms

Training Methodology

This program combines:

  • Agile leadership workshops using realistic organizational transformation and strategic agility scenarios
  • Team empowerment and communication exercises with structured peer review and instructor feedback
  • Agile strategy and scaling sessions built around real senior leadership transformation challenges
  • Agile leadership framework and action planning preparation aligned to recognised agile leadership development competency standards
  • Achievements

Certification

Attendees receive a course completion certificate from our Corporate & Industrial Training Center. This program is not affiliated with any named agile certification body, and no external agile credential is implied. The program develops practical, immediately applicable agile leadership training capability across mindset development, team empowerment, communication, strategic agility, and scaling. In-house delivery is available for senior leadership teams and executive cohorts building shared agile leadership language and commitments. Contact us now for upcoming dates across our training calendar.

  • Case Study

Case Study Example

A financial services organization had been running an agile transformation for eighteen months. The delivery teams were working in sprints. Retrospectives were happening. And the senior leadership team was still approving every significant decision through a monthly governance committee that moved at a pace the agile teams had long since left behind.

The transformation wasn’t failing at the team level. It was failing at the leadership level and nobody had framed it that way until the programme director named it directly. After the senior leadership cohort completed this Agile Leadership and Strategy Training program, the governance structure was redesigned around agile decision-making principles, resource allocation was decoupled from the annual budget cycle for a pilot portfolio of initiatives, and the leadership team developed a shared vocabulary for what empowering teams actually meant in their specific organizational context. Read insights from similar agile transformation outcomes in our learning resource library.

  • Why Choose

Why Choose This Program?

Agile leadership training that covers agile principles without developing the strategic agility and organizational change disciplines that senior leaders specifically need produces executives who understand agile without knowing how to lead it at scale. This program is built around the senior leadership layer the mindset shifts, the communication disciplines, and the strategic agility frameworks that determine whether an agile transformation delivers organizational value or stays contained within the teams that started it. Explore our generative ai course and other tech certifications across our training portfolio for a complete view of what we offer.

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Ready to build agile leadership training capability across your senior leadership team? Contact us now for upcoming dates and in-house solutions tailored to your organizational transformation context.

  • FAQs

Fequently Asked Questions

What does the Agile Leadership and Strategy Training program cover?

Five days across the agile mindset and why agile leadership matters, leading and empowering agile teams, communication and influence in agile organizations, agile strategy and strategic agility, and leading change and scaling agility with a personal agile leadership action plan on Day 5.

Scrum and SAFe courses train practitioners in agile frameworks and delivery methodologies. This program trains senior leaders in the leadership behaviors, strategic agility, and organizational change disciplines that make those frameworks work at scale a different audience, a different focus, and a different kind of value.

Some exposure to agile ways of working is helpful but not required. Senior leaders who are familiar with agile from an organizational perspective but haven’t had formal agile leadership development will find the program immediately relevant. Those with deep agile practitioner experience will find the strategic agility and organizational scaling content the most valuable new territory.

SAFe and other scaling frameworks are covered at an overview level as context for organizational agile scaling decisions. Detailed SAFe and agile framework training is available in dedicated programs for those who need that depth.

Organizations mid-transformation where the team-level agile adoption is outpacing the leadership layer’s ability to support it, and organizations beginning transformation and wanting to build senior leadership alignment before the delivery teams get ahead of the governance structure, both see strong direct value from this program.

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20 Jan -- 24 Jan

Czech Republic

GBP 4595/Person

7 Apr -- 11 Apr

USA

GBP 4595/Person

30 Jun -- 4 Jul

UAE

GBP 4595/Person

6 Oct -- 10 Oct

Spain

GBP 4595/Person

20 Jan -- 24 Jan

Czech Republic

GBP 3595/Person

7 Apr -- 11 Apr

USA

GBP 3595/Person

30 Jun -- 4 Jul

UAE

GBP 3595/Person

6 Oct -- 10 Oct

Spain

GBP 3595/Person

Duration

5 Days

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