Coming soon:
20-22 June, London, UK – 1-day, 2-day, and 3-day tickets available, each day certified
Mike Burrows
12-20 September, online training, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time)
Mike Burrows
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I need to lead in a transforming organisation:
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- For leaders at every level of experience and scope
- Video-based self-paced study and interactive training
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Trainer & Facilitator Programmes
- Teach certifiable training in Leading with Outcomes
- Facilitate inside-out and outside-in strategy workshops
- Access our full range of assessment tools and supporting materials
We help leaders and engaged team members at every level to gain fluency in the language of outcomes – developing and pursuing strategies together, innovating and adapting as the organisation learns to renew and transform itself.
“Intensely practical with solid theoretical foundations”
“Expertly and confidently helps you learn how to get from strategy to execution and back again”
“You inspired people and got them talking – couldn’t have asked for more”
“Combines concepts I previously found challenging in a way that not only makes sense but is highly useful”
“I left motivated and confident enough to try these exercises the next day”
“Very practical, highly participative – learning by doing. I can see so many opportunities to use the approach and tools in my work”

Hosted by Agendashift founder Mike Burrows, a rolling series of free monthly webinars, each focussed on one of the three questions that drive us:
- What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions?
- How do we keep bringing outcomes to the foreground?
- Where – and where else – could we be developing and pursuing strategy?
All sessions live, not pre-recorded. Sessions not billed as having an invited guest will finish with an “Ask Mike Anything” (AMA) session.
06 June, online webinar, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10am EDT
Mike Burrows
11 July, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET
Mike Burrows
Developing and pursuing strategy
in the language of needs, obstacles, and outcomes
The drivers for organisational change are familiar enough:
- Dynamism – levels of innovation, adaptability, and responsiveness that your customers will love
- Creativity – the working experience characterised by collaboration, sharing, and learning
- Wholeheartedness – an energising clarity of purpose seen at every level of organisation
But just as familiar are these change-related obstacles:
- Cynicism and disengagement – increasing with every failed attempt at change
- Same old, same old – untamed forces driving the same old results
- Innovation stifled – your innovators made irrelevant by decisions already made
Fail to deal with these in the right way and you risk becoming part of the problem. But a traditional, project-style change management approach won’t help – probably it’s what got you here in the first place.
So what’s the alternative?
We took Agendashift – an open engagement model trusted by expert practitioners around the world – and from it distilled an integrated leadership and organisation development programme, Leading with Outcomes.
We have learned to keep asking these three questions, questions you can keep asking too:
- What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions?
- How do we keep bringing outcomes to the foreground?
- Where – and where else – could we be developing and pursuing strategy?
These deliberately non-prescriptive questions can be asked for any organisational scope – even scopes that don’t yet exist – and by leaders at any level of experience.
Where these questions can take you:
- Fluency in the language of needs, obstacles, and outcomes
- Confidence in the patterns of the everyday and set-piece strategy conversation
- Innovation, sustained by your continued attention to outcomes – exploring them, realising them, and learning from the processs
In short: the vision, skill, and confidence to engage with your organisation in all of its complexity and potential.
Who 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 (deliberately-adaptive.org) 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:
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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 £24.50 per month
- Core modules (academy.agendashift.com):
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For expert practitioners, Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes (academy.agendashift.com):
- Integrated workshop materials
- Certifiable training materials
- Our unique assessment tools
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Through our partner network and directly:
- consulting, training, facilitating, and coaching services
I need to lead in a transforming organisation:
Take me to Leading with Outcomes™
- For leaders at every level of experience and scope
- Video-based self-paced study and interactive training
- Subscription plans for individuals and businesses
- From just £24.50 per month, 7-day free trial
I want to help others to lead with outcomes:
Trainer & Facilitator Programmes
- Teach certifiable training in Leading with Outcomes
- Facilitate inside-out and outside-in strategy workshops
- Access our full range of assessment tools and supporting materials
Headlines
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Blog
- Picturing Foundation
- Yesterday’s talk and tomorrow’s
- Agendashift roundup, April 2023
- Adaptive Organisation (II) is complete – and with it, Leading with Outcomes too
- A new pathway to Leading with Outcomes Facilitator
- On one slide, a five-way mashup
- Agendashift roundup, March 2023
- Adaptive Organisation (I)
- Balance, constraint, and freedom
- Three days in sunny June, London (updated)
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Media
With special guest Klaus Leopold: Between and across scales
Agendashift Academy's webinar series: The questions that drive us
Right to Left: Implementing Agile Strategies That Deliver Real Business Outcomes
PMI Central Arkansas Chapter
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you
BVSSH meetup
Closing thoughts from Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale
Leading with Outcomes / Agendashift Academy
Ep. 83: Agendashift
Definitely, Maybe Agile – Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you
Systemic Agility meetup
March webinar: Stephen Dowling and Deepak Ganga on unlearning, interviewed by Mike Burrows
Agendashift Academy's webinar series: The questions that drive us
Leading the change: Strategies to achieve enterprise agility
Mike Burrows interviewed by Jeff Keyes of Atlassian
Our famously inclusive, non-prescriptive, and framework-agnostic assessment tools. For a taste, try a mini assessment via one of our global surveys:
- Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
- Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment, mini edition
- New! Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, mini edition
For more information on our range of assessment tools and how you can access them, visit Agendashift Assessments.
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Read the book, now in its second edition:
Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
Mike Burrows, (2nd 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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I need to lead in a transforming organisation:
Take me to Leading with Outcomes™
- For leaders at every level of experience and scope
- Video-based self-paced study and interactive training
- Subscription plans for individuals and businesses
- From just £24.50 per month, 7-day free trial
I want to help others to lead with outcomes:
Trainer & Facilitator Programmes
- Teach certifiable training in Leading with Outcomes
- Facilitate inside-out and outside-in strategy workshops
- Access our full range of assessment tools and supporting materials
Meet us online
- Subscribe (1-3 emails per month)
- Read our blog: blog.agendashift.com
- Join Agendashift on Slack
- Join our LinkedIn group: Agendashift
- Follow us on Twitter: @agendashift
About us
Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.
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