Agile Leadership Development Practice Program Testimonials

Tracey Wilson • Feb 17, 2021

Are you looking to improve your leadership skills? Change your default behaviors? Develop your leadership agility to better adapt to complexity and change?


Maybe you’ve tried a few online classes, attended a two-day workshop, watched videos, and read every article or book that spoke to you. And still, you may know the right thing but have trouble committing it to your daily life. Agile Leadership Journey’s Applied Agility in Leadership, is a training camp that develops leadership awareness, situational adaptiveness, social engagement and strategic orientation, solves this problem. We help you take your continued learning and embed it in your everyday life—at work, at home, and everywhere else. 


But don’t just take our word for it. Below, you’ll hear testimonials of previous participants describing the impact the program had on their leadership and life.

Travis Matthews is an IT Director and previous participant of the Practice Program. In the video clip here, Travis describes how being open-minded, creative, and courageous helps leaders grow. These are a few of the core tenets of this application and practice program.


Karen Kemerling, PhD is a leadership coach who was also a participant in this program. In this video, she explains the way the program moves beyond the typical classroom environment and effects your daily life. The intent of the program is to take your learnings and apply them to your work life, taking your desire to grow as a leader and making it a reality.


Dave Silberman, PhD is a Chief Development Officer and previous Practice Program participant. Here he describes how a component of the program, Catalyst Conversations, helped him overcome fears, broaden his perspective and become more effective as a leader.


Julia Deike is an Agile Coach and a previous program participant. In this video, she describes one of the most important aspects of our program: Changing your behavior to become a better leader. 


Andy Slain was a Managing Director of Software Development when he took this program and is now a professional coach. In this clip, he describes the importance of expanding your toolkit to become a more intentional leader, employing the right type of leadership approach at the right time.


Chris Knorr is a Global Leader Connected Device Portfolio. He found the notion of dial setting to be a valuable tool. Through the program, he was able to add more intentionality to his leadership. 



Rashmi Fernandes is a Lead Program Manager & Agile Coach. Here, she describes the feedback model created by peers in the program. Unlike a traditional classroom setting, this Applied Agility program allows you to try on different techniques in the real world. 



The Applied Agility in Leadership program provides the focus, feedback, structure and discipline for leaders to improve their self-awareness, power style, decision making and more. Leaders from around the globe  learn together and practice their learning while at work and home, with the support of their cohort and coach, not just in a classroom. Leaders now have a choice between adaptation or atrophy. Are you ready to evolve your mindset to be a change catalyst?


Explore our upcoming Applied Agility in Leadership Program.

For those pursuing Certified Agile Leadership training, this program also meets the requirements for Scrum Alliance CAL 2 certification.


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About the Author

Tracey Wilson has over 20 years of experience in operational leadership in organizations ranging from small startups and service providers to large financial institutions. Tracey lives in the Joshua Tree, California area with her partner, Dave, and a small menagerie of four-legged and feathered critters. Her background is in sociology and education, which she draws from in her work at Agile Leadership Journey and in the local youth development program she co-founded and co-chairs, the Yucca Valley Antlers. When she's away from the office, she can be found camping, hiking, tending her garden, reading a book, or spending time with family and friends.

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