Applied Agility in Leadership™
Turn What You Learned in Agility in Leadership™ into Lasting Change
In Agility in Leadership™, you began to see your own leadership patterns: when you rely on your expertise, when you push for results, and when you create space for others to contribute. That awareness is an important first step. Changing how you lead every day requires more: regular practice, honest reflection, and support from people who understand the challenges you face.
Applied Agility in Leadership™ provides all three. Over two 12-week courses, you apply what you learn directly in your work, reflect on the results with a small group of peers, and receive one-on-one coaching from a licensed ALJ Guide. The focus is on building habits that last beyond the program. At the end, you'll recognize your own personal change story that describes how your leadership has grown.
The Applied Agility in Leadership™ Courses
Developing a Growth Mindset™
The skills that helped you succeed as a leader, such as deep expertise and a strong focus on results, can start to limit you as your work becomes more complex. These limits are often hard to see in yourself. This course helps you examine how you lead from expert, achiever, and catalyst perspectives, and understand when each approach is effective and when it is not. You explore what may be keeping you from changing, even when you want to, and set a personal growth goal that matters in your current role. You learn when to rely on your expertise and when to step back, how to build alignment without pressuring people into agreement, and how to stay open to new ideas and different perspectives. The result is a clearer view of your own thinking and more deliberate choices about how you lead.
Developing Catalyst Behaviors™
A catalyst mindset makes the greatest difference when it shows up consistently in how you lead each day, especially under pressure. This course helps you turn the awareness you built in Developing a Growth Mindset™ into lasting habits. You learn how your authority and presence affect others, and how to adjust them so people contribute more fully in meetings and decisions. You practice Catalyst Conversations™ to handle disagreement, conflict, and feedback in ways that strengthen relationships and build alignment. You also examine where you focus your attention, rebalance it across the work, the people doing it, and the coordination between them, and begin coaching others to grow as leaders. The result is stronger relationships with stakeholders, more engaged teams, and a way of leading that others notice.
What You'll Gain
- Stronger team performance and morale. Your team takes more ownership and contributes more fully when you share decisions and develop the people around you.
- Confidence to lead through change. You learn to act with clarity even when the right answer isn't obvious and the situation keeps changing.
- Better communication and collaboration. You build stronger relationships with your team, peers, and stakeholders, including those you don't have authority over.
- Practical tools you can use right away. These include the Catalyst Canvas™ for goal setting and alignment as well as methods for adjusting your use of power and focus, which you practice in your own work from the first week.
What You'll Be Able to Do
Through weekly practice, peer feedback, and one-on-one coaching, you'll develop the skills to:
- Build high-performing teams by coaching others, sharing ownership of decisions, and balancing your attention across the work, the people doing it, and the coordination between them.
- Work through complex challenges by inviting different perspectives, building alignment, and avoiding groupthink.
- Create conditions for innovation and creativity where people feel safe to offer new ideas and solve problems together.
- Communicate and influence more effectively, especially during disagreement, conflict, and difficult feedback using the Catalyst Conversations™ technique.
- Recognize when your expertise helps your team and when it limits their thinking, and adjust your approach.
- Use your authority and presence deliberately, so others contribute more fully in meetings, projects, and teams.
Is This Program Right for You?
This program is a good fit if you have completed Agility in Leadership™ and want to turn your insights into consistent practice. It is designed for leaders at every level, with or without formal authority, who are ready to work on real challenges in their own roles. Learning happens alongside your job, so you don't need to take time away from work. You do need to commit to weekly cohort sessions and daily practice.
Prerequisite Notice: If you've not yet participated in the Agility in Leadership™ workshops, that's your first step. We encourage you to find a workshop that fits your location and schedule preferences.
How the Program Works
The program has two courses of 12 weeks each, with a break between them. Each course includes:
- Weekly 90-minute sessions with a small peer cohort
- Monthly 60-minute global masterclasses led by ALJ Guides from around the world
- Three one-on-one coaching sessions with your licensed ALJ Guide
- Daily practice in your own work
All sessions are facilitated exclusively by licensed and experienced ALJ Guides.
Limited Cohorts, Offered at Select Times
Applied Agility in Leadership™ is delivered in small, facilitated cohorts, so it is available only at certain times of the year. We keep each cohort small so that every participant receives personal attention, meaningful peer discussion, and one-on-one coaching from a licensed ALJ Guide. To protect this experience, we open public registration only periodically, and places in each cohort are limited to six leaders.
Join the waitlist to be among the first to know when registration opens. You'll receive program dates, cohort options, and registration details as soon as they are available.
Joining the waitlist is free and does not commit you to register.
Applied Agility in Leadership™ Program: Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Applied Agility in Leadership Program™?
The Applied Agility in Leadership™ program is a leadership development course designed to foster new ways of thinking and behaving within the daily context of work.
It emphasizes collective leadership, integrating leaders into small peer cohorts for collaborative learning, practice, and growth.
How is this leadership development program conducted?
The program is conducted remotely, allowing participants to apply their learning at work every day.
It includes daily personal reflection and weekly cohort interaction, facilitated by a licensed Agile Leadership Journey Guide.
One-on-one leadership coaching is also part of the program.
What is the structure of the program?
The complete Applied Agility in Leadership™ program is segmented into two courses: Developing a Growth Mindset™ and Developing Catalyst Behaviors™. Developing a Growth Mindset™ is designed to be completed before Developing Catalyst Behaviors™.
- With cohorts meeting weekly throughout the courses, leaders are deeply immersed into the content and shared learning experience, providing safety, accountability, and connection throughout.
- Global Masterclasses are held monthly during active courses and once between terms to maintain focus, practice, and connection.
- One-on-one leadership coaching is part of each course to help focus and track the individual leader's goals, help extend learnings into practice, explore obstacles, and help accelerate mindset and behavior changes.
Who can participate in this leadership development program?
The program is available to leaders at all levels, from any industry seeking to improve their agility and leadership capabilities.
- Participants do not need to be in a "people management" role to enroll in this program.
- Anyone seeking to improve their focus, influence, communication, adaptability, and performance who is committed to being open to new ways of thinking and behaving is welcome.
- If you've not yet taken our Agility in Leadership™ workshop, that's your first step as it's a prerequisite for this advanced program.
How do participants engage in the program?
- Participants engage through professional one-on-one coaching and peer cohort interactions.
- Cohorts provide a safe space for experimentation, peer coaching, practice, and reflection, facilitated by experienced Agile Leadership Journey Guides.
- Global Masterclasses provide opportunities to engage and learn amongst a diverse community of leaders.
- Leadership coaching provides participants opportunties to develop and refine their leadership goals and to work with a professional coach to accelerate the change they are seeking.
What is the difference in focus between the two parts of this leadership development program?
In part 1, Developing a Growth Mindset™, participants explore self-awareness and dives deep into the leadership agility model as it applies to their ways of thinking. They will explore their expert mindset, achiever mindset, and catalyst mindset, exploring and experimenting with new ways of thinking throughout.
In part 2, Developing Catalyst Behaviors™, participants build on the the knowledge, skills, and experience gained in part 1. In this course, they will focus on exploring and balancing their leadership power and presence, improving their communication and engagements with stakeholders, and honing their leadership focus.
What are the learning objectives for part 1, Developing a Growth Mindset™?
A Growth Mindset Journey
- Getting Started: Participants kick off the program with a cross-cohort session followed by a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide and meeting their cohort of peers in their first weekly session.
- Setting Expectations & Goals: Participants will explore their immunity to change and create a personal leadership growth goal to take them beyond their current leadership context.
- Expert Mindset: Participants explore the difference between expertise and an expert mindset, and how that shapes their impact as a leader. They discover areas that require letting go and areas requiring grabbing on in order to shape an improved leadership profile. They reflect on other experts they work with and how their mindset shapes those relationships and their results.
- Achiever Mindset: Participants explore the fine line between influence and manipulation as they learn the value of alignment alongside the challenge of groupthink. They learn how to broaden their gaze from the details of work toward coordinating that work and the strategy shaping the focus of that work. They navigate the stakeholder landscape of authority and politics to focus on performance and results.
- Catalyst Mindset: Participants explore the boundaries where patience becomes stagnant, openness becomes uncertain, and empowerment becomes indecision. They learn that a true catalyst mindset is an alert and active mindset requiring courage, choice, and reflection. They begin to open their own mind to new possibilities, more diverse perspectives, and a more co-creative culture.
- Growth Mindset Checkpoint: Participants reflect on their journey and reflect on their initial goals, to where they feel they currently are today, and where they want to focus going forward.
What are learning objectives for part 2, Developing Catalyst Behaviors™?
A Catalyst Growth Journey:
- Getting Started: Participants kick off the program with a cross-cohort session followed by a one-on-one coaching session with their licensed ALJ Guide and meeting their cohort of peers in their first weekly session.
- Role as Leader: Participants will explore their role as a leader and how a more catalyst approach might offer areas for improvement and greater adaptability.
- Leadership Power & Presence: Participants explore their leadership power, the power through relationships, and how their power influences their presence as a leader. They learn how to situationally adjust their power balance to improve their effectiveness at work. Finally, they practice rebalancing power “in the room” for more effective teams, projects, and meetings.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Participants discover how to make every conversation and decision better through a communication technique called Catalyst Conversations™.
- Managing Conflict and Difference: Participants learn the triggers that invoke threats and rewards in others and how to navigate dialogue to foster alignment and improve their influence, especially when dealing with differences, conflict, and feedback.
- Leadership Focus: Participants explore the focus of leadership across three key domains: the work to be done, the people doing the work, and coordinating across them. They learn to inventory and rebalance their focus to improve their leadership effectiveness and grow others in the organization. Finally, they apply their learning in coaching and catalyzing others to improve their own leadership focus.
- Catalyst Behaviors Checkpoint: Participants reflect on their journey and develop a change story to share with their cohort, peers, and manager (when appropriate).
What are the prerequisites for this leadership development program?
Upcoming TrainingsParticipants must complete an introductory Agility in Leadership™ workshop before enrolling in this advanced leadership development program.
In order to enroll in Developing Catalyst Behaviors™, leaders must first complete Developing a Growth Mindset™.
Are certifications awarded upon completion of the program?
This program is Agile Leadership Journey's advanced Certified Agile Leadership program. Participants receive verifiable digital certificates of completion for each course – Developing a Growth Mindset™ and Developing Catalyst Behaviors™ when they successfully complete the course requirements.
Upon completion of both courses in the program and a final closing reflection call with the program director, participants will received the designation "Applied Agility in Leadership Certified". Both a digital badge and a digital certificate will be issued.
All Agile Leadership Journey certificates may be added to the leaders' LinkedIn experience sections and may be easily shared with their social network and employer.
Is special or discounted pricing available?
Agile Leadership Journey believes in providing fair and equitable pricing for our global programs.
- We offer tiered pricing adjusted for the United Nations Inequality Human Development Index (IHDI) for this program. When you register, you will provide your country of residence and, if applicable, a discount will be applied. Learn more about our IHDI-influenced pricing here.
- We may also offer special discounted rates for leaders from non-profit, mission-oriented organizations. Learn more about our work with non-profit leaders and how to apply here.
Certificates of Completion
Digital and verifiable certificates are issued by Agile Leadership Journey for this program.
- Upon sufficient participation and successful completion of each course, participants receive certificates of completion in Developing a Growth Mindset™ and Developing Catalyst Behaviors™ from the Agile Leadership Journey.
- Following successful completion of both courses and a closing reflection session, participants earn the designation Applied Agility in Leadership™ Certified from Agile Leadership Journey. Those who become certified receive both a badge and a certificate reflecting this designation.
