Certified Agile Leader® 2

We lead Scaling, CAL, and Advanced courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here

Build on your CAL 1 understanding of why agile leadership is necessary in today’s organization.

The Certified Agile Leader 2 course emphasizes developing your agile leadership skills. You will deepen your knowledge of agile leadership through hands-on activities and self-assessment assignments. You will develop a personal action plan to build on your strengths and lead with integrity.

Courage is the only leadership virtue that cannot be faked, and this course will equip you to lead authentically and improve your world of work.

Strategic, Operational, Tactical Leadership

Agility as a concept is the talk of enterprises’ board rooms, but the systems needed to align people, resources, and capabilities to achieve an enterprise’s strategic objectives are lacking. Making the changes necessary to become nimble in a business environment of uncertainty requires agile leadership skills. You know that strategy without execution is just a dream. Join us to discover how you can develop leadership skills to realize your ambitious personal and enterprise goals.

Leadership Excellence

The art of leadership can only be learned on the foundation of authenticity. If you fake it, you will not make it. We have helped managers and agile practitioners in enterprises overcome obstacles to personal growth and develop their personalized leadership style. Excellence is an outcome that can be learned. Let us show you how.

Learn together, grow together

We recommend that leadership teams take this course together to develop a shared understanding of measurement and alignment systems necessary for the continuous improvement change journey ahead. This course explores the dynamics of risk-taking and strategies for influencing systemic organizational change required for leading knowledge workers.

Our curriculum will give you hands-on experience with

This is the only course that integrates systems thinking and complex thinking practices to enable resilient learning organizations. To develop these skills, you will engage in real-world case scenarios and group challenges.

• Understand how to engage and influence Executive management for enterprise agility.
• How to lead operational and tactical objectives and align with enterprise strategic objectives.
• Effectively lead groups and teams of knowledge workers for measurable impact.
• Learn directional delegation techniques to support the autonomy of empowered agile teams.
• Decision-making protocols and the role of data in influencing policy changes.
• Design resilient change initiatives that incrementally improve organizational capabilities. 
• Improve self-awareness of how you perform and what you can do to increase your impact.
• Develop conflict navigation and goal-setting competencies to increase staff engagement.
• Creating empowered agile teams that embrace autonomy to deliver excellence. 
• Explore human and systems dynamics to develop your agile leadership style.
• Authentically lead with integrity.

The Online experience FAQ

Answers to some of the commonly asked questions from our students

• We host our virtual training on Zoom
• We take breaks almost hourly, with a longer lunch break
• Certification fees are included
• A color pdf of the workbook will be provided
• Invitation to private Slack group where past and current participants network
• Complimentary 1:1 personal coaching session with your instructor

Course Instructor

Dhaval Panchal is an experienced Executive, Organization Design consultant, and Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Coach and Trainer (CEC, CTC, and CST), since 2008. He has been practicing agile since 2003 and helped build multiple agile organizations from the ground up. He is one of the first to bring Systems & Complexity thinking tools and techniques for transforming teams, and organizations.

Dhaval is the founder of Evolve Agility that provides Agile training and coaching services to enable his clients to amplify the scale and speed of Agile transformations. He has led large scale transformations at Fortune 500 companies, and mid-size Product Companies. Dhaval has first-hand experience with transformation challenges in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical domains. He is also member elected Scrum Alliance Board of Director for 2024-2026 term.

What participants say?

“We went above and beyond those expectations and dove deeply into a discussion of organizational philosophy that helped to really motivate what I learned and provide me with a solid understanding to Evangelize within my company. “ - James Fort, Program Manager at Amazon Alexa

“Dhaval is a perceptive thinker with an endless supply of ideas for ways to tackle tough problems. His knowledge of lean thinking is not simple text-book recitation but is genuinely in-depth. I think of him as the "Indiana Jones" of Agile, ready to cut-and-slash his way through whatever challenges he's presented with.” - Douglas Jones, Senior Analyst at Shelter Insurance

“He personified what he was instructing the class to become. His class truly experiences the agile process first-hand.” - Mark Bondonese, Software Development Manager

We lead Scaling, CAL, and Advanced courses monthly. For full calendar of upcoming courses click here