Leadership Training with Michigan Technology Services
Michigan Technology Services offers instructor-led AI Leadership training, as well as other AI, Agile and Scrum courses, through partnerships with a number of Leadership Trainers and Coaches.
Our workshops help you unlock your full leadership potential — with actionable insights and strategies — taking you to the next level on your leadership journey.
We walk the path of technical and business leadership – from solving problems to guiding programs to developing people. We address the key challenges and changes required at each stage, in this new AI era. Blending research with pragmatic and applicable practice, you’ll leave with new clarity and actionable steps to accelerate your growth as a leader.
While we are located in the Farmington Hills/Novi area, 20 miles outside of Detroit, our training can take place at your location anywhere around the world. Our Leadership workshops and coaching sessions are offered both in-person, and online/virtually, reducing your need to travel.
Our core group of coaches and trainers live here in metro Detroit and we support the local Agile community. We continue to sponsor conferences, and have successfully run Leadership courses for multiple teams all over the globe.
About Leadership Education in an AI Era
AI is not a fad, and organizations that successfully integrate AI will enjoy a significant competitive advantage.
Learning AI tools is not enough.
We believe that in this new Generative AI landscape leaders need to apply leadership agility techniques to influence successful adoption at the team and org levels. Traditional leadership paradigms need to be challenged along with a shift in mindset from “AI as a tool” to “AI as a catalyst for business culture change.”
We believe that AI success is every leader’s responsibility, not just IT leaders. As a leader it is imperative that you understand the behavioral shifts needed to foster, create and maintain a positive AI culture.
Our leadership Agility workshop will help you create that AI positive environment for you and your colleagues to succeed.
We offer our impactful 2-day Leadership Agility workshops two ways. First, we offer in-person workshops – in Michigan – or onsite at your location. We also conduct the leadership workshop via two independent online engagements. The first portion is focused on the leader and the second on the organization.
Our in-person workshop follows the learning objectives and meets the requirements for Agile Leadership Journey Certification.
Our online and/or in-person workshop with Scott Dunn follows the learning objectives and meets the requirements for Agile Leadership Journey Certification and also the Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership (CAL 1) Certification.
Our Leadership Instructors
Pete Behrens and Scott Dunn are our Leadership Agility instructors and coaches.
Pete guides leaders to transform themselves and their organizations toward improved outcomes. He is a globally recognized leadership coach, consultant, and in-demand speaker. As the founder and CEO of Agile Leadership Journey, he has built a curriculum and global community dedicated to building better leaders. Pete has led agile transformations for dozens of Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations, improving organizational health and performance. His goal is to show leaders that shifts in mindsets, behaviors, and culture are an asset—not a liability. He shares his insights at various global conferences. He also hosts the Relearning Leadership podcast, where he engages with industry experts and leaders to explore the evolving landscape of leadership and organizational development.
Scott is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Agile Leadership Educator and Agile Leadership Journey guide. He has been training leadership teams for over twenty years, and is passionate about helping executive teams grow their startup organizations. He is one of only a small group of people worldwide who are dual certified as a Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Enterprise Coach. Scott is also a SAFe Program Consultant, certified in Large Scale Scrum and an authorized Atlassian Jira trainer. Formerly a developer, project manager, and Scrum Master for Inc 500 and Fortune 500 companies, Scott has led agile adoptions at companies such as Dell/EMC, Canon, Assurant, First American, Blizzard, Yahoo!, Kaiser Permanente, eBay, Technicolor, and more. His pragmatic approach to AI, agility and coaching has made him an in-demand consultant.
Leadership Workshop Overview
Agility in Leadership
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| Developing leadership self-awareness, capacity and situational agility to improve the leader’s impact on organizational health and performance. | Developing organization culture awareness and alignment toward agile ways of working to improve cross-team, department and division effectiveness. | Combine Agility in Leadership and Organizations Workshops to complete the full awareness curriculum. Workshops will be run consecutively. |
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OVERVIEW: Agility in Leadership Workshop The Agility in Leadership Workshop develops insight and awareness for leaders to discover new ways to think, focus, and behave in the AI era. Leaders learn the fundamentals of leadership agility and improve their own leadership agility in this pragmatic interactive workshop. |
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MODULE 1: Workshop Kickoff & Business Agility Context Complexity, uncertainty and the pace of disruptive change continue to escalate globally. We demonstrate the need for new ways to reduce risk, manage budgets, lead projects, and engage stakeholders. |
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MODULE 2: Leadership Agility Introduction Leadership is a choice. Yet most leaders are unaware of the hundreds of choices they make each day, limiting their effectiveness. We show leaders a new path to improve engagement and effectiveness. We will discuss how expert, achiever, and catalyst leadership approaches can be situationally applied at work. |
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MODULE 3: Catalyst Leadership Beyond servant leadership, catalyst leaders are more purposeful, creative, balanced and adaptive. We develop proactive and positive agitators of change for themself and others they engage. |
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MODULE 4: Catalyst Conversations Leadership is not a solo sport. We teach leaders a catalyst conversation technique to improve every discussion, decision and team meeting with more balance, voice and shared-ownership. |
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MODULE 5: Catalyst Feedback Feedback is a core principle of an empirical approach. We help leaders recognize common threats and to create an environment for safe feedback to give and receive feedback more effectively. |
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MODULE 6: Catalyst Habits Like health and fitness, leadership requires a disciplined routine to sustain and grow. We teach leaders the importance of, and techniques to, build their new skills into disciplined growth habits. |
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OVERVIEW: Agility in Organizations Workshop The Agility in Organizations Workshop provides education for leaders in understanding how to shape the macro culture by identifying and modifying structures, policies and measures to align values and drive behavior to support agile ways of working in this new AI era. |
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MODULE 1: Program Kickoff & Organization Culture We introduce cohort participants and their guide, build working agreements, and dive into organizational culture and how those values can both inhibit and enable more agile ways of working. |
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MODULE 2: Agile Organizations We compare outside-in and inside-out approaches to adopting more agile ways of working across the organization. Explore case studies in how other organizations have shaped their culture through changing structures, policies and measures. |
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MODULE 3: Shaping Culture with Structures, Policies and Measures Leveraging the previous two modules as the core learning, we leverage this session to focus on their organizational culture, and the structures, policies and measures that are key to influencing it. Further, they create a direction to shape a desired culture as influenced by experiments to try. |
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MODULE 4: Alignment & Co-creating Change Following the discovery of the desired culture to shape, and potential experiments to influence that shape, leaders will explore together on one prioritized change to focus and create an actionable plan using a V2MOM to align them and their stakeholders on that change. |
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MODULE 5: Leading Change in an Agile Way Change creates a threat to many within the organization. The challenge is that it impacts each employee differently. Navigating the transition caused by change is a key responsibility of an agile leader. We explore healthy transitions and the leader’s role in creating such an environment. |
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MODULE 6: Workshop Closure & Taking it Forward Finally, we don’t leave leaders with only a “that was fun” feeling, we help them identify clear action plans to carry forward in their practice following the workshop. We introduce a 4-meeting protocol for leaders to operate effectively every day, week, quarter and throughout the year. |
How We Engage with You
| Intimate Cohorts While in-person workshops have up to 30 attendees, we break large online classes into small 15-person or less cohorts to foster safety, engagement and discussion. Each cohort is led by a professional Agile Leadership Journey Guide.The small cohorts create a natural shared accountability engagement, with little reason or desire to disengage from the sessions.Cohort members build relationships and journey together through the workshop schedule. |
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| Flexible Scheduling When our 2-day onsite workshop is offered online we break it down into 6 modules each delivered in 60-90 minute sessions per day with flexible daily schedules. For example, public workshops may be run Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays for 2 weeks and private workshops can be modified to Tuesday/Thursday for 3 weeks, or every day for a week. Workshop schedules may also be customized to align with organizational needs. |
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| Powerful Visual Collaboration Platforms We build our online programs on Mural, enabling powerful visual facilitation to engage leaders fully in the learning process.Through module-based visual boards, leaders are provided the structure required for program learning clarity, personal engagement to connect to the learning and the visual connection to others learning in their same cohort. |
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| Secure Zoom Video Conferencing We use secure Zoom video conferencing and request all participants enable video to further connect to their peers and the guide. |
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Schedule:
In-person
Pete Behrens and Scott Dunn teach our in-person Leadership workshops (ALJ). Our training takes place at Walsh College in Troy, Michigan.
Dates for our next 2025 in-person leadership workshop with Pete will be Monday and Tuesday, October 27 and 28. The regular course fee is $2,250/student, but early enrollment for our in-person training two weeks prior is $1,995/student.
Pete Behrens also offers an Executive Leadership workshop.
Online
Scott Dunn teaches our online Leadership Agility workshops.
Our next online Leadership Agility workshop (CAL 1) is: – Monday and Tuesday, August 4 and 5, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm. The regular course fee is $1,650/student, but early enrollment one week prior to a workshop is $1,550/student.
Call 248-489-0408 for info on our August online workshop.
The online workshop follows the learning objectives and meets the credentials for Agile Leadership Journey Credentials and also the Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership (CAL 1) Credential.
Want a class before August 2025? The majority of our Leadership workshops are private workshops for groups or companies. They are available upon request. We have conducted numerous onsite and/or online classes for clients all over the globe. We can also customize an AI training session and AI Leadership workshop for you, and address specific needs with a selection of modules.
Our AI and Leadership educators are also available for coaching and consulting. Contact us for additional details.
Course Schedule
Private, Corporate or Group Training Available
Early-Bird Price: $1,550, online
Regular Price: $2,250
Special: $1995 in-person
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For complete information on Leadership classes or to request a class date contact Michigan Technology Services. 248-489-0408