Think about any change that you’ve tried to achieve or were a part of.

Now tell me what impact did your culture have on the success of that change?

More often than not my clients tell me that their “culture” is holding them back from the changes they want to make in business. The people aren’t engaged and are rejecting the new way of working.

Have you thought about how much of that is to do with the individual and how much is systemic?

This talk explores the business culture as a living ecosystem and the impact that this system has on the individuals ability to make change in business.

Through case studies we explore why change failed and how understanding the ecosystem would have created a different outcome.

The purpose of the session is to introduce the principles of Design Sprints. It will provide a method to bridge the gap between strategy and execution to solve big problems and test new ideas.

The session will showcase tools and techniques to demonstrate this as an effective way of working. We will be referencing our global partner the Design Sprint Academy's Design Sprint 3.0 which is the version that we use when coaching, facilitating and training organisations.

This workshop is suited for those that struggle with fostering collaboration due to silos, wanting to understand their audience, improve efficiency, reduce risk when investing in new products/services.

This presentation is a short introduction to Kanban. It will take attendees through the basic practices that are involved so that they start to apply them at work.

"... make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer and more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? " (Greenleaf 1991)

Join us for an interactive and fun session on servant-leadership, how agile coaches aspire to lead. We will share a few paradigms and principles, and we will then practice these in real-world scenarios to gain an understanding of the mindset required to be a great servant leader. Inspired by Lyssa Adkins's "Coaching Agile Teams", Carol Dweck “Mindset” and Game of Life board game, this session will challenge your mind and spirit!

Hard choices to be made...

Leveraging experience on numerous digital transformation programs, including the multi-award-winning ME Bank transformation, Glenn will describe the key features of an agile, or Digitally Transformed organisation from an architecture perspective. This will describe the target architectural state for a digitally transformed organisation by covering each of these features and the critical success factors for each feature. The presentation will be peppered with real-life examples and cover the critical supporting design paradigm for an agile organisation, truly enabling Minimal Viable product delivery, of exceptions based straight-through-processing (STP) in some detail. This is Architecture the noun. Glenn will also cover "Architecture the verb" - how do you do architecture in an Agile delivery based organisation.

The WiP Game is a generic kanban simulation designed to re-enforce basic knowledge of Kanban. We'll see dealing with flow, blockers, WiP limits (of course) and different classes of service play out in this simulation. Also there's a focus on metrics, so for those who haven't used these before it would be useful to build the skill.

The 6 Trends of Progressive Organisations

Less than 15% of the companies listed in the fortune 500 in 1955 still exist today!

Past success is no longer a guarantee of future success. Despite an environment of constant change driven by global connectively and rapidly evolving technology, some companies are thriving in today’s uncertain and complex environment. Why?

These companies operate with a completely different operating system to traditional organisations. They dare to be different by leveraging technology, capturing unique talent and embracing new ways of working that allow them to outpace the competition.

In this innovative and informative presentation, Pete will focus on the approaches that leading global organisations like Netflix, Buurtzorg, Amazon, Spotify, Google and Morning Star are deploying to remain relevant in a world of constant change.

Pete will share how you can deploy these six key principles to transform your workplace, resulting in greater collaboration, transparency, and high performance.

Experiential learning workshop which will simulate a team self-selection event based on the book by Sandy Mamoli and David Mole 'Creating Great Teams - How Self-Selection Lets People Excel’. Frank and Chetan have created this workshop, with guidance from Sandy, and this collaboration will extend into the workshop.

We are going to talk about the secrets of high performance teams and how it is related to innovation and the best customer experience. Exploring the main challenges and mindsets, I will share some techniques to boost collaboration in your team as well as how to measure team's performance.

There's a huge problem in our industry, I call it "inertia-driven leadership".

We promote our "rock star" engineers, with their excellent technical skills, into leadership positions; then we sit back and watch as they fail.

We wonder why they fail at leadership but the answer is simple, we don't support them to improve their people skills!

In fact, we often don't even help them realise that the role of a "senior developer" is drastically different to that of a "leader"

What we can we do to stop inertia in our new leaders?

How can we support them to learn the soft skills they need?

How can we position with them that those soft skills are important to their career?

That is what we will discuss in this session.

Globally, organisations are wasting over $50 Billion a year on leadership development. We’re simply not lifting leadership capability overall; we still rely on ‘hero’ leaders and ‘stars’ in our teams, to really get stuff done…and that’s not scalable.

Why? We don’t focus on the behaviours that really matter in a given context and we don’t measure return on investment, through applied results.

Make it matter with the “one change to rule them all” – updating your leadership and organisational development approaches to focus on Behavioural Insights.

Cultivating insights from behavioural economics and cognitive neuroscience, we develop your ability to understand and mitigate the limitations of your own brain - and all the other brains around you.

A Behavioural Insights focus will ensure you and your team learn faster. And make better decisions.

Organisations exist in an increasingly competitive, disrupted landscape. Yet the fundamental behaviours of human beings haven’t changed a lot over hundreds of thousands of years. We help organisations leverage this understanding, to innovate and win.

It isn’t enough to break down our portfolio into small pieces and execute them in isolation from one another. We must acknowledge that variance in knowledge work is a fact of life, specialists are scarce, people find new jobs, life happens. Rather than think of an organisation as individual parts to be managed, think of it as a living organism which adapts and responds as a whole.

By empowering people to take decisions based on objective data linked to a shared vision people are not simply playing a game according to a set of rules, they are responsible for the game.

Don Reinertsen in his seminal book "The Principles of Product Development Flow" states:

"If you only quantify one thing, quantify the Cost of Delay. "

In this talk I will present how the Cost of Delay can be derived from data your organisation has lying around how you can super charge decision making speed and consequently the flow of value.

Agile transformations are not easy. And if you’ve ever been involved in one, or two (or more!) you’ve hopefully figured out that they’re not all the same.

In my experience, there are some common patterns that are a hindrance to agile transformations. This topic will explore 10 of these patterns which either impede organisations or delay their move to an agile organisation.

Everyone thinks they are a good at communication, but... how many times have you been at an event talking to someone you really didn’t want to talk to? Been sold to by someone who didn’t get that you weren’t interested?

These are examples of bad communication and they all have a few things in common, they weren’t efficient and they weren’t effective

.They didn’t go into the communication with the right mindset and the right preparation

Also, sorry to say it, but your own communications probably suck too. But after this talk you’ll have a leg up on your competition: you’ll know your communication sucks... and you know how to fix it.

In interactive session where participants will expand their understand of Lean through a review of a recent review I completed of a South Australian business. Participants will explore how Lean can improve customer experience, processes and culture.

To truly understand Lean, participants will play an interactive, competitive and incredibly fun lean game!