Leadership Agility Training with Michigan Technology Services
Michigan Technology Services offers instructor-led Leadership Agility and Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) training, as well as other Agile and Scrum courses, through partnerships with a number of Agile Leadership Journey guides, in addition to Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers and Agile Leadership Educators.
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. Blending research with pragmatic and applicable practice, you’ll leave with new clarity and actionable steps to accelerate your growth as a leader.
In a pre-Covid world our training would take place at our location in the Farmington Hills/Novi area, 20 miles outside of Detroit, or at your location anywhere around the world. Our Agile Leadership workshops and Agile coaching sessions are now offered both in-person, and online/virtually, reducing your need to travel.
Our core group of Agile coaches and trainers live here in metro Detroit and we support the local Agile community. We continue to sponsor conferences, and have successfully run Agile Leadership and Certified Scrum courses for multiple teams in the Great Lakes area, and all over the globe.
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 agility and coaching has made him an in-demand consultant.
About Leadership Agility and Culture-Shaping Education
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 with Pete follows the learning objectives and meets the requirements for Agile Leadership Journey Certification.
Our online and/or in-person workshop with Scott follows the learning objectives and meets the requirements for Agile Leadership Journey Certification and also the Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership (CAL 1) Certification.
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. Leaders learn the fundamentals of agile leadership 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: Agile Leadership 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. |
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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 teaches our in-person Agile 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 Tuesday and Wednesday, June 24 and 25. 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 Agile Leadership workshop.
Online
Scott Dunn teaches our online Certified Agile Leadership workshops.
Our next online Certified Agile Leadership workshop (CAL 1) is: – Tuesday and Wednesday, May 13 and 14, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm. The regular course fee is $2,250/student, but early enrollment one week prior to a workshop is $1,550/student.
Call 248-489-0408 for info on our May online workshop.
The online workshop follows the learning objectives and meets the credentials for Agile Leadership Journey Aware Leader Credentials and the Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leadership (CAL 1) Credentials.
Want a class before May 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 a workshop for you, and address specific needs with a selection of modules.
Our Agile 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: $1550, online
Regular Price: $2250
Special: $1995 in-person
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For complete information on Agile Leadership classes or to request a class date contact Michigan Technology Services. 248-489-0408
Benefits of Online Learning
Higher Retention Learning - Our online education is not simply a remote version of our onsite workshops. Rather, we break our workshops into modules and spread them out over a longer period of time allowing for a higher degree of retained learning. Each 60-90 minute online session is combined with pre-work and practice.
More Intimate Learning - Our online workshops do not attempt to engage 25-30 leaders at a time. Rather, we break large classes into multiple cohorts of 6 or less participants. Each cohort meets separately online and is facilitated by a professional Agile Leadership Journey Guide. Furthermore, online discussion is combined with off-line video watching, pre-work and practice.
More Flexible Learning - Our online workshop delivery is customized by time of day and days of the week. For example, clients can customize cohort sessions to Tuesday/Thursday for 3 weeks, Monday/Wednesday/Friday for 2 weeks, every day for a week. Furthermore, each cohort can be run on different schedules.
Build Online Engagement Competency - We role model effective online engagement for leaders who themselves are responsible to engage employees online.
More Climate-Friendly - Online workshops reduce travel and your carbon footprint.
Less Expensive - With reduced overhead for travel, venue, and food costs, the overall program is less expensive than an onsite workshop.
Social Distancing Support - In a time of social contact concerns due to the recent virus, our workshops enable at home and at work engagement with less risk of exposure.
Additional benefits of joining our Agile Leadership workshops
Participants are eligible for SEUs (Scrum Educational Units)