After years of coaching enterprise agile transformations, I shifted my focus to coaching C-Suite leadership, letting my team of coaches do the rest of the important work with product teams and their leaders. In this talk, I'm sharing the insides and patterns from various organizations on what’s going on in the C-Suite these days, and how it can either hinder or support your organizational agility.

1. C-​
suite
Middle
Teams
Yuriy Koziy
Agile beyond
the teams-​
level

2. About me
Yuriy Koziy
Managing Partner @ agiledrive
Executive Agile Coach
18 years of experience in IT/Consulting
Facilitated 20+ Agile org Transformations
Facilitated/trained 30+ executive teams in 8
countries

3. We're a team of expert yet humble Agile Coaches
We enable the new ways of working in enterprises
in Ukraine and beyond since 2016. www.agile-​
drive.com

4. Yura, we run Agile here...

5. — Agile is for IT, right?
— Agile is for a team-​
level
— We like this framework...
But we don't do the reorg, and
don't touch the executive level
C-​
suite
Middle
Teams
C-​
Suite Misconceptions

6. We learned how to deal
with "chaos" from the
top...
But what if we could give
it a little structure?..
We're changing
the direction...
(again)
Undone Work?
it's your fault!
Teams/Middle Layer Dreams

7. Company-​
wide Agile: is
it possible?
1 2 3
What's the executive
board's take on that?
How can you influence
that from your level?

8. Successful agile transformations need strong and aligned
leadership from the top. A compelling, commonly
understood and jointly owned aspiration is critical for
success.
McKinsey
Agile requires a leadership team that is fully united,
that is willing to look outside for inspiration, and that is
willing to really embrace radical change.
Martin Danoesastro,
BCG Senior Partner & Managing
Director
If a company wants to be fast on its feet, transform end-​
to-​
end customer experiences, and continuously outpace
competitors, it needs more than lots of agile teams.
A truly agile enterprise requires that the company’s top
officers — most, if not all, of the C-​
suite — embrace
agile principles, too.
Bain & Company

9. Agile
Top-​
Team
Clear mission
Common goals
ceo = po
of the business
cross-​
functional
collaboration
improves
continuoUsly
data-​
driven
decision-​
making
sits together?

10. A squad of
in-​
house coaches
Daily stand-​
ups
for C-​
Suite
Chief of Culture &
Transformations, Exec
coaching for tops
Agile on C-​
level
Ukrainian experience
Hiring Chief of Staff
(C-​
Suite Scrum Master)

11. PI-​
Planning
QBR
Strategic Offsites
Executive/Team Coaching
Engaging Top-​
Team via
Org-​
Wide Agile practices
mirror
the Reality
to them
STRENGTH

12. The Movable
Middle
Opponents Promoters
Attitude towards change
"Actors of Change", W.Kruger, 1996
+
–

13. How do I
make an
impact? 1
Demonstrate
results
2
3
Build alliances
Promote Stronger
org-​
wide agile
practices

14. Look at your organization
with the eyes of
a newcomer leader

15. What is your key
takeaway today?

16. Yuriy Koziy
thank you.
questions?