Bill Joiner’s Leadership Agility Blog

Continued writing with occasional podcasts on Leadership Agility, the research-based book on stages of personal and leadership development. This blog captures and extends the book's key ideas; shares new insights, research, and applications from client work.  Comments welcome!  You can also follow Bill on Twitter: @leaderagility

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Presentation: Coaching with the Leadership Agility Compass

My third presentation for the Massachusetts Bay OD Learning Group, focused on how coaches can use the Leadership Agility framework and related methods to enhance their work with leaders. Whereas my first presentation for this association focused mainly on conveying the model (agility levels, 3 action arenas, 4 kinds of agility), this one was more […]

1st Leadership Agility 360 Coach Certification Workshop

Debbie Whitestone and I facilitated the first Leadership Agility 360 Coach Certification Workshop. The workshop was held at a charming conference center in Essex, Massachusetts. 20 coaches attended. Most were based the Boston area and have been tuning into the work over the past 1-2 years, but we also had coaches fly in from the […]

2nd Canadian Public Workshop on Leadership Agility

This was the second public Agile Change Leadership Lab conducted in Ottawa, Ontario.  I led this workshop with my colleague, Dorothy Hutt of the Collaborative Leadership Institute (CLI). The workshop was sponsored by Bell Canada. About half the participants came from Bell. The other half came from a variety of other organizations. A very gratifying […]

Mini-Workshop: Leadership Agility at Brookings

I spent the morning at the Brookings Institute, speaking and working with about 50 career leaders in the US federal government in Brooking’s hallmark program for senior government executives. The title for the overall week-long program was “Executive Leadership in a Changing Environment.” After an introduction on what leadership agility is and why it is […]

Panel: Leadership Agility Coaching for Boston ASTD

I served as part of an evening panel on the topic of coaching for the Boston chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). My fellow panelists were Ina Jubert and Jean DiGiovanna. My focus was on coaching as an organizational change intervention, highlighting how the Leadership Agility framework can be used for […]

Presentation: Pivotal Conversations

I presented at a monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Bay OD Learning Group. The theme of the evening was “conversations.” The format had four presenters each doing two relatively brief presentations, with participants going to those sessions that interested them most. My session was on “Pivotal Conversations,” a central topic of the book on Leadership […]

Presentation: Leadership Agility for Applied Psychologists

I was honored today to present and discuss the core ideas of Leadership Agility with the New England Society for Applied Psychology. NESAP is a association of organizational change consultants, licensed psychologists, and other senior professionals working to apply research and insights from the field of psychology to improve the quality and effectiveness of leadership […]

2nd Public Workshop in Canada on Leadership Agility

I co-lead a 2-day public Agile Change Leadership Lab in Ottawa, Ontario, with Dorothy Hutt, principal of the Collaborative Leadership Institute. We were joined by Arawana Hayashi, a lovely practitioner of “embodied presence.” (Those rare leaders – about 1% – who exhibited the highest level of leadership agility in our research sample all engaged in […]

Keith Johnston – Oxfam

Debbie Whitestone and I had a lovely dinner last night with Keith Johnston, the founding chair of Oxfam New Zealand and now chair of Oxfam International. As he says on his website, “I believe that as global citizens it is within our power to eliminate poverty and to confront injustice. Working with Oxfam on local, […]

Public Workshop: Leadership Agility for HR Professionals

I led a one-day version of the Agile Change Leadership Lab with Charlotte Kells, a great friend and colleague, who contributed to the original design of this workshop. This event was sponsored by NEHRA, the New England Human Resource Association, and was attended by over 20 HR professionals. As in the two-day workshop, participants focused […]

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