Released April 2025: Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation is released worldwide in print and Kindle editions on Amazon, and available on another four e-book platforms. More....

Wholehearted-related training

Our leadership model: Engage, Invite, Celebrate:

Engage

Leaders of all kinds and at all levels of organisation engaging with the right challenges

Invite

Inviting the engagement of others, energising the strategy process through participation

Celebrate

Celebrating innovations emerging from the people closest to the need and the opportunity

A different kind of framework – an engagement model

At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards ("right to left") from key moments of impact and learning.

Not a change management model – we’re not in the business of imposition. Not a delivery framework – too disconnected from strategy. Instead, the development and pursuit of strategy in one, integrated process.

Training

Leading with Outcomes, Agendashift Academy’s core curriculum:

1. Foundation module
   • Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
2. Inside-out Strategy
   • (I): On the same page, with purpose
   • (II): Fit for maximum impact
3. Adaptive Organisation
   • (I): Business agility at every scale
   • (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales
4. Outside-in Strategy
   • (I): Positioned for success
   • (II): A platform for performance

Available as self-paced online training or delivered in-person or online by an authorised trainer. Visit the Agendashift Academy Store for further information, or Contact us.

Workshops

Standalone workshops addressing different aspects of organisation development and deliverable by authorised facilitators and trainers alike:

• Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop
• Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop
• Adaptive Organisation Workshop
• Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop

Deliverable by authorised trainers only:

• Leading in a Transforming Organisation

Assuming meaningful interest in the issues under consideration (i.e. “skin in the game”), they are suitable for participants of all levels of experience.

If interested in holding any of the above workshops or hosting Leading in a Transforming Organisation as public training, Contact us.

We are pioneers in outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation, expert practitioners working at the exciting intersection of strategy, organisation development, and delivery.

What makes us different:

• Our deep commitment to outcomes: not just outcomes first, but outcomes authentically agreed and kept at the forefront throughout – maximising their meaning, their significance, and their power to inspire collaboration, innovation, and renewal
• Our open framework: Having more in common with dialogic organisation development, Lean Startup, and OKR than it does with traditional change management, Agendashift is in the vanguard of a new category, the engagement model. Agendashift gives leaders at every level new ways to approach their adaptive challenges, to keep people engaged people in that process, and to keep the organisation whole as it transforms.
• Our mission: the wholehearted and deliberately adaptive organisation. Not someone else’s framework to be imposed out of context, but something to pursue – a holistic integration of strategy, delivery, and organisation development that works at each scale and between scales, embedding engagement, participation, and purpose

Our products and services:

• For transforming organisations and their leaders, Leading with Outcomes (academy.agendashift.com):
  • Self-paced and instructor-led training and workshops for leaders at every level
  • Subscription plans for individuals and businesses from just £18.40 per month
• For expert practitioners, Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes (academy.agendashift.com):
  • Integrated workshop materials
  • Certifiable training materials
  • Our unique assessment tools
• Through our partner network and directly:
  • consulting, training, facilitating, and coaching services

Blog

• Wholehearted Leadership in a Complex World
• Prescriptive vs descriptive
• Agendashift roundup, April 2025
• OODA loop takeaways
• It gets complicated…
• Engage with the organisation *as it actually is*
• Wholehearted, backwards
• One week on, two weeks to go
• Systems, purpose, and perspective: Pointers to Wholehearted’s philosophical influences
• Where’s the complexity in ‘Wholehearted’?

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Read the book, now in its second edition:

Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
Mike Burrows, (2^nd edition March 2021)

By the same author:

• Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges (2024)
• Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019)
• Kanban from the Inside (2014)

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A small sample of free resources:

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I need to lead in a transforming organisation:

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Trainer & Facilitator Programmes

• Teach certifiable training in Leading with Outcomes
• Facilitate a range of strategy workshops
• Access our full range of assessment tools and supporting materials