Thursday, August 28th, 2025

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

Leadership Agility and Conscious Business

Three young entrepreneurs in the Netherlands have put together an impressive, globally-broadcast series of  interviews called Wake up the Workplace.  They say, “We spent about a year planning and designing this series because we’re fascinated by the emergence of more conscious ways of doing business.  We wanted to create a space for a global conversation […]

Leadership Agility in Team Leadership

On March 23, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on a blog radio program called Leadership Matters. The host was E.G. Sabastian, and my topic was “Leadership Agility in Leading Teams.” The interview was recorded and can be accessed at no cost via the links below … In the introduction, I describe three increasingly […]

Zoom In, Zoom Out

Rosabeth Kanter just published an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review called “Zoom in, Zoom Out:  The best leaders know when to focus in and when to pull back.”  Here is how the ideas in that article intersect with what we discovered in the research for the book, Leadership Agility … When working on […]

5th Leadership Agility 360 Certification Workshop

This was the fifth LA360 certification workshop, held at the Hyatt in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was attended by coaches and leadership development professionals from around the US, as well as from Canada, Dubai, Singapore, and the UK.

4th Leadership Agility 360 Certification Workshop

This was our fourth LA360 certification workshop. Coaches and leadership development professionals attended, coming from around the US and from Australia, Canada and the UK.

3rd Leadership Agility 360 Certification Workshop

The third Coach Certification Workshop for the Leadership Agility 360, was held on April 27-28 at the Hyatt in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The training was co-led by Debbie Whitestone and myself. It was attended by a wonderful group of highly experienced coaches from Australia, Germany, Sweden, and Thailand, as well as from various US locations.

2nd Leadership Agility 360 Certification Workshop

This was our second coach certification workshop for the LA360. A “full house” of coaches attended, coming from all over the US and from Canada and Sweden.

3rd Canadian Public Workshop on Leadership Agility

The 3rd public Agile Change Leadership Lab held in Ottawa, Ontario. I was joined in leading this workshop by Gilles Brouillette, currently of the Transformational Learning Institute.

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 […]

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