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.

Do your solutions keep becoming their own problem? An imposition, even? When you need to be innovating, that distraction becomes a strategic weakness you can’t afford.

Agendashift is an engagement model, an open framework that helps people engage meaningfully in strategy. Unlike traditional change management methods, which for most of the people impacted begins when a monolithic solution (a technology or a process framework for example) becomes its own focus, Agendashift keeps agreement on meaningful outcomes ahead of solutions. Hypotheses about outcomes and the relationships between them combine to create a rich and highly testable kind of strategy, exactly what a healthy innovation process needs.

Agendashift as leadership development? That's Leading with Outcomes (community.agendashift.com). Developed for leaders in transforming organisations at all levels of experience, it covers the core patterns of the language of outcomes, their everyday use, and their application to inside-out, outside-in, and relational approaches to strategy.

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 (community.agendashift.com):
  • Self-paced and instructor-led training and workshops for leaders at every level
  • Subscription plans for individuals and businesses from just £24.50 per month
• For expert practitioners, Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes (community.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

• Engage, Invite, Celebrate: Leading “wholeheartedly” for innovation
• Agendashift roundup, June 2024
• A taste of my own medicine: Why “Organizing Conversations” took two and a half years to write
• Agendashift roundup, May 2024
• “Organizing Conversations” is now out
• Help our research: an “Organisational DNA test”
• The May TTT/F begins in a week’s time
• Agendashift roundup, April 2024
• Agile’s Great Rebalancing: My next book’s take on the Agile manifesto
• Venue confirmed for Leading in a Transforming Organisation (London)

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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:

• Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
• Kanban from the Inside (2014)

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