Tuesday, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Joanna Vahlsing and Paul Tevis

Start the Agile Executive Forum with our Welcome Reception, hosted by Joanna Vahlsing and Paul Tevis. This relaxed and informal gathering lets you connect, network, and share initial insights with fellow executives and senior leaders. Enjoy light refreshments and engaging conversations as we set the stage for an enriching and collaborative event experience.

Wednesday, 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Joanna Vahlsing and Paul Tevis

The Agile Executive Forum begins in earnest with this interactive session. From the very beginning, we’ll create connection and participation, focusing the day on your challenges and the business results you need to achieve. We’ll also set ground rules and expectations for the day, establishing norms for sharing, involvement, and confidentiality.

The second part of the session features a fishbowl-style panel with our featured executive presenters. Each will share stories, pitfalls, and advice from their own experiences with agility. A facilitated discussion will allow you to compare and contrast these accounts with your own circumstances, as well as to ask deeper questions for more insight.

Wednesday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Experimentation for Executives

Doc Norton

“Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations.” –Peter F. Drucker

Innovation is about exploration. Whether you are amalgamating the existing into something as yet unseen or you are inventing something entirely new, your journey is into unchartered territory. You cannot know the entirely right course, perhaps not even the right next step. Probing, Sensing, and Responding is your only responsible course of action. Experimenting is crucial.

In this session, we will look at why experimentation is needed, when it makes the most sense (and when it makes little sense), and some simple tools that can aid in your innovation journey. You will walk away with at least one experiment you can try in your organization.

Shaping Culture

Esther Derby

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This quote has been around for a long time. It’s very catchy and oversimplified.

Culture is the name given to prevailing norms, beliefs, and behaviors within a certain group. Culture establishes the guardrails for how people in your company act, interact, and make decisions as they work with both colleagues and customers.

One approach to managing how people approach their work is through policies. However, it's impossible to devise a policy for every situation. Another approach is to use simple rules and narratives that can apply at all levels and generalize across a broad range of situations.

In this session, we’ll explore your culture by examining what gets rewarded and what that communicates to the organization. Then, we’ll test whether that’s really what you want and what you might want to shift.

OKRs: Visualizing Strategy and Results for Clarity and Alignment

Troy Magennis

In today's fast-paced business environment, aligning organizational efforts with strategic goals is crucial for success. This session helps company leaders bridge the gap between high-level strategic objectives and operational results.

Leaders face the challenge of ensuring that every team understands and works towards the company's strategic goals. This session will show you how to use Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to make your strategy clear and actionable, enhancing overall alignment and performance.

This session will explore the art and science of visualizing OKRs, providing you with practical techniques for setting and communicating goals that resonate across all levels of your organization.

Wednesday, 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Evan Leybourn and Laura Powers, Business Agility Institute

Based on the challenges facing participating organizations, explore cutting-edge approaches to organizational change from the industry and your peers in the room. Through facilitated conversations and micro-learning moments, tap into the wisdom and experience of the whole room to uncover new approaches to achieving your transformation objectives.

In this facilitated plenary session, you can expect to:

• Discover the key constraints within your organization that are the greatest limitations on the journey from agile to agile business to business agility.

• Explore how your peers have overcome executive resistance within their companies while dealing with entrenched silos and politics.

• Learn how other leaders are coping with the evolving demands and expectations on them.

• Describe and apply a model of business agility that connects individual behaviors and organizational capabilities.

• Outline potential approaches to lead your organization toward greater Business Agility.

Thursday, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Various Presenters

These sessions, from the Agile2024 program, are curated specifically for executives and senior leaders, offering valuable insights tailored to their unique challenges. Selected to address key leadership issues, they provide perspectives on innovative practices, emerging trends, and practical strategies from the Agile community.

Choose one of the sessions to enhance your understanding of agility, gain knowledge from diverse experts, and explore new methods to boost your organization’s agility. If you have team members attending Agile2024, you can attend these sessions together to foster collaborative learning. This is a prime opportunity to learn and connect with the broader Agile community.

Thursday, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Joanna Vahlsing and Paul Tevis

The Agile Executive Forum officially closes with this wrap-up session. We’ll focus on consolidating what you learned from the event and what you plan to do when you return to your organization.