CAL1 - US/EU Feb | Live Online | Certified Agile Leader

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From Big Goals to Real Results: Leadership is the Missing Link

You’ve seen it before: big goals meet a complex organizational system that wasn’t designed for speed, learning or scale – change stalls, teams burn out and “agile” becomes a label for frustration while your transformation investment quietly fails to pay off.

The reason? Most organizations try to install agile practices – but then it stalls because organizational systems and behaviors undermine it.

True agility isn’t unlocked by better practices or new frameworks. It’s unlocked when leaders learn how to shape the system – decision rights, incentives, feedback loops and cultural signals – so teams can move fast without burning out or fragmenting the organization.

Turn Intent into Impact

This Certified Agile Leader® (CAL 1™) course is for leaders responsible for outcomes in complex organizations – leaders who need agility to deliver results, not just practices. It’s for those who want to unlock measurable breakthroughs in decision latency, alignment and reliability — in themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

Through real world examples, practical exercises, peer discussion, and guided reflection, you’ll discover how to:

• Recognize the patterns that limit agility in your organization,
  and cultivate the influence to change them.
  
• Build trust, psychological safety, and alignment,
  to grow meaningful autonomy in your teams.
  
• Lead coordinated change across culture, structure, strategy and systems,
  levers that deliver results that matter and build teams who thrive.
  
• Shift from managing performance to creating conditions for performance.

You’ll understand how people, systems and culture all connect. You’ll leave with techniques to identify, describe and shift leadership behaviors and the organizational systems so agility shows up in decision speed, stronger alignment, greater trust and reliable execution, not just language. And you’ll be able to articulate how to apply specific shifts within your current constraints.

Such skills are hard to learn via lecture alone - so this workshop is hands-on and interactive. This is no Powerpoint snoozefest. Short presentations cover concepts. Immersive discussions and exercises are interwoven into each lesson to get you hands-on practice. With your peers in the workshop you'll find you're not alone, and together you'll recognize and practice

Workshop Hours:

4h Sessions:

• 9 Feb: 11a - 3p ET / 8a - Noon PT
• 10 Feb: 11a - 3p ET / 8a - Noon PT
• 11 Feb: 11a - 3p ET / 8a - Noon PT
• 12 Feb: 11a - 3p ET / 8a - Noon PT

All sessions include breaks of about 10 minutes each hour. Whole day sessions also include a mid-class break of about 45 minutes.

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Grounded in Experience, Built for Results

This course brings agility out of the abstract. You'll see how agility functions inside large, complex organizations — including stories from billion-dollar businesses running weekly iteration cycles. You’ll work with real scenarios and use practical leadership tools that you can apply the next day — connecting leadership concepts directly to your business reality.

This is not a theory session — it’s a workshop built for people who lead real change.

What You’ll Take Away

You’ll leave with clarity, confidence, and capabilities to:

• Diagnose cultural and systemic blockers with clarity
  Learn to spot the hidden structures, incentives, and leadership patterns that silently stall performance — and know exactly where to intervene for the highest leverage.
• Turn strategic intent into aligned, actionable focus
  Gain techniques for translating high-level direction into coherent priorities that teams can actually execute, reducing churn and restoring momentum.
• Build the conditions to balance autonomy and accountability
  Discover leadership moves that increase trust, decision speed, and ownership across teams — without sacrificing alignment or transparency.
• Lead change across hierarchies even without positional authority
  Use practical leadership techniques to shift behaviors, norms, and expectations across your organization, even when you don’t control all the levers.

The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Agile Leader 1 certification. It lays the foundation for Agility to spread across your business. You’ll get:

• certification fees included
• a digital workbook and scrapbook of all class exercises
• access to a private community of your peers for perspective when challenges arise
• complimentary 1:1 personal coaching with your instructor
• stories, tips and practices to shape your organization so it can thrive in change, profitably.

Get a taste of the engaging instruction style you'll experience with this video that shows the growth possible as you shift culture and systems, AND where you can start:

Lead with Clarity.  Shape the System to Deliver Where it Counts.

Be the leader who helps catalyze breakthroughs — not by pushing harder, but by leading smarter.  You’ll link leadership behaviors to organizational outcomes and alignment.  Join this workshop and learn how to shape culture, enable flow, and help your organization deliver results that matter and transformation that lasts.

Here's what students say about these online workshops:

"If you're taking this course, "you're in the right place"... Thank you for providing a safe environment to learn new skills. It's crazy how a good teacher can help you learn new things without making it feel like a chore. Take this course, you won't be disappointed." -- Christina Monti

"This class is worth EVERY PENNY! Bernie is a great instructor that keeps the class entertaining but also provides useful application for real world scenarios." -- Jascelyn Gause

"Multi hour sessions are undeniably daunting, but within the first 15 minutes I was interacting, laughing, and learning. ... I can feel myself using some of the techniques of your flavorful delivery with my team already - and it's making a difference." -- Craig Cochran

Even more students share about these workshops at this link.

Your Instructors:

Both Bernie and Anil are international trainers, speakers and coaches. They're two of only a few hundred people worldwide who hold the Certified Scrum Trainer® credential with the Scrum Alliance, the most widely recognized and largest credentialing body in Agile.

Anil Jaising's been tinkering with code, infrastructure and product development from the beginning of his career with expertise in both financial services and startups. In the early 1990s he worked to develop a product that distributed messages worldwide within 3 seconds. He's led cloud transformation programs across 250 application teams for one of the world's largest banks. With his deep experience in Agile, DevOps and leadership, he's helped to guide multiple organizations to achievements in market focus, productivity and quality gains. He teaches in the graduate program at New York University and is well regarded as an Agile, Executive and Technical Coach.

Bernie Maloney’s helped grow businesses from breakeven to beyond $1B / quarter. The teams he’s worked with have delivered products ranging from award winning consumer electronics to network infrastructure to services & payments. He’s worked with firms including Bell Labs, HP, TiVo, Cisco, Wells Fargo and more. In addition to his client work, he's taught Agile Product Development and Agile Leadership at Stanford Continuing Studies. He helps clients to accelerate the genius in their leaders, teams and organizations, so they experience not only greater success, but also a whole lot more fun.

Get your CAL 1 and More!

The workshop includes all the material required by the Scrum Alliance for its Certified Agile Leader 1 certification. It lays the foundation for Agility to spread across your business. Included are:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leader 1 (CAL 1) certification fee
• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community
• a digital workbook and scrapbook of all class exercises
• access to a private community of peers for perspective when challenges arise
• complimentary 1:1 personal coaching with your instructor
• 16 PMI PDUs for PMPs

Who Should Attend

Have you struggled with getting the benefits of Agile beyond a team or two? Is strategically important work overwhelming your organization’s capacity like nearly 80% of those researched by the Business Agility Institute? Is collaboration stalled with nothing being done about it like 60% of those same organizations? Is complexity overwhelming Agile’s promised benefits, risking taking your business off the rails?

Then this course is for you.

While there are no prerequisites, this workshop is designed for leaders accountable for outcomes in complex organizations, not just practices. It is especially valuable for leaders navigating decision bottlenecks, misalignment across teams, stalled change, or burnout driven by competing priorities and unclear systems

As participants come from diverse industries, they often learn from each other’s experiences, contexts and perspectives. Typical participant roles span:

• Executives, Directors and Senior Management
• Head of Engineering / Product / Operations
• Transformation and Change Executives
• Chief Product Owner, Product Director
• Architects, along with Functional and Technical Managers

If you’re accountable for outcomes and want to learn how to shape decision speed, alignment and trust to deliver results, you’re in the right place.

The Fine Print

FAQ

• How soon can I get my CAL 1 certification? At the end of the workshop, we will let the Scrum Alliance know of your successful completion of the course. You'll receive an email from them to setup your profile on the Scrum Alliance website. There you'll accept your license agreement with Scrum Alliance and activate your new certification.
• Wait! Don't I Need to Take an Exam to be Certified? No. Currently the only requirement to earn the CAL 1 is the successful completion of the full course, including exercises.
• Can I Miss Several Hours of the Workshop and Still be Certified? No. Scrum Alliance does have an attendance requirement. Because Scrum Alliance requires 16 hours of instruction, if you miss more than 15 minutes of the workshop, you will not be eligible for certification, yet you will be welcome to attend the rest of the workshop. Don't worry, if something big comes up, we'll move you at no charge to a future workshop.
• Can I Make Up Missed Material by Attending Part of Another Workshop? No. Amongst other factors, each class moves through the material at different paces. This means it's unreliable to predict a clear window where a set of previously missed learning objectives will be covered. There are further complicating factors in partial attendance. For the smoothest experience for all, you're welcome to make up missed material by attending a future workshop in full at no charge.
• What do I need to bring to class? You'll need a computer with microphone, camera and speakers. Use https://fast.com to test your internet connection. After the download numbers stop, use the "more" option to calculate your upload speed. You'll need 5 down / 1 up - and more is better. Now, while you're in class you'll be actively using your computer to participate in exercises, so plan to peek at your email only during a break or at lunch.

Cancellation Policy

We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations. Please email us no later than 5 business days before the start of the workshop and we'll arrange a refund or transfer to a future date. Cancellations received within 5 full business days of the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. Please request changes by emailing hello@poweredbyteams.com.

Questions?

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