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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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

3rd Leadership Agility Coaching Group

Debbie Whitestone and I started a third Learning Group for coaches yesterday. As with the first group, this is a 6-month series for experienced coaches who want to add the Leadership Agility perspective and coaching methods to their repertoires. Building on learnings from doing two previous groups along similar lines, we’ll meet together for one […]

Mini-Workshop on Leadership Agility

I did a public mini-workshop on Leadership Agility yesterday, a half-day session sponsored by the Sawyer Business School and the Institute for Executive Education at Suffolk University. For recap of the event, click here.

2nd Leadership Agility Coaching Group

Debbie Whitestone and I had a the first meeting today of our 2nd Learning Group on Leadership Agility Coaching. We have a great group of eight experienced coaches, some of whom have already had some significant exposure to stage development psychology. A primary focus for this first session was on how to work collaboratively with […]

ChangeWise Leadership Agility 360

Great meeting today with Bernie Cullen and George Klemp, partners at Cambria Consulting. As a result of this meeting, Cambria and ChangeWise have decided to join forces to develop a 360 instrument based on the research that went into Leadership Agility. This will be an online, research-based instrument, the first to provide 360-feedback on a […]

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