Enterprise Coach MasterCamp (MC APAC)

The Integral Sensemaking & Action™ Approach to Agile Transformation

Co-lead & facilitated by:

Michael Spayd & Padgett Rowell

Workshop Context

When we coach teams, the basic distinctions of teaching/mentoring and professional coaching/facilitation (embodied in the ICAgile learning objectives based on the original ACI Coach Competency Model) are powerful and sufficient. As we move from coaching teams to coaching organizations in Agile Transformations, however, everything changes: the stakes, the complexity, and the competencies required of us. This passage into the larger organizational sphere is not merely a matter of “scaling”.... Such complexity requires not just a new set of parameters; it requires, in fact, a whole new range of epistemologies--ways of knowing and perspective-taking--as well as a whole new level of complexity--new, more complex ways of being in the world. It takes a different relationship between mind, heart and spirit.

In the "Enterprise Coach Mastercamp: The Integral Sensemaking & Action™ Approach to Agile Transformation", you will gain key skills and knowledge necessary to facilitate and catalyze organizational change. The Integral approach helps you develop both your individual and collective sensemaking, and offers practices and action-orientations that enable you to lead dynamical change. Along the way, you will experience a significant shift in your own inner capacity for deliberate meaning-making, and in your personal capability to catalyze change in complex, ever-demanding environments. In this way, the course is both highly informative and personally transformative.

Virtual Format/Schedule  

This virtual workshop takes place over five days, three in the first week, plus two days in the second week. The Mastercamp is capped by a 3-hour follow-up session, held approximately two weeks after Day 5 -- all on Zoom.

The times below are all Australia Eastern Standard Time (AEST) -- 

• Day 1 (Tue Jul 23) - 10am-3:30pm - full workshop session, plus 3:30-4:30 pm - ensemble group work session.
• Day 2 (Wed Jul 24) - 10am-3:30pm - full workshop session, plus 3:30-4:30 pm - ensemble group work session.
• Day 3 (Thur Jul 25) - 10am-3:30pm pm - full workshop session.
• Day 4 (Mon Jul 30) - 10am-3:30pm - full workshop session, plus 3:30-4:30 pm - ensemble group work session.
• Day 5 (Wed Jul 31) - 10am-3pm - full workshop session.
• Follow-up Session (Wed Aug 14) - 3-hour session 10am-1pm.

The times below are all US Pacific Time (PT) --

• Day 1 (Mon Jul 22) - 5pm-10:30pm - full workshop session, plus 10:30-11:30 pm - ensemble group work session.
• Day 2 (Tue Jul 23) - 5pm-10:30pm - full workshop session, plus 10:30-11:30 pm - ensemble group work session.
• Day 3 (Wed Jul 24) - 5pm-10:30pm - full workshop session.
• Day 4 (Sun Jul 29) - 5pm-10:30pm - full workshop session, plus 10:30-11:30 pm - ensemble group work session.
• Day 5 (Mon Jul 30) - 5pm-10pm - full workshop session.
• Follow-up Session (Tue Aug 13) - 3-hour session 5pm-8pm.

Our Approach

Mastercamp is designed to help you expand into these enterprise coach competencies, oriented around advanced distinctions grounded in an integrated approach we call Integral Sensemaking and Action™. This approach is a deep integration of Spayd's work (Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently) with Hamman's (Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out), forming a new synthesis that participants have told us is groundbreaking.

Four core ways of knowing -- or epistemologies -- each grounded in a particular practice discipline, distinguish this framework. Among the benefits:

• By acutely observing our subjective experience – including beliefs, feelings, and subtle thought sequences – we are able to take responsibility for our meaning-making process, allowing us to make sense of our world in more adaptive ways.

• Examining the values, perspectives, and common constraints of our shared relationships frees us to make work relationships more satisfying and generative.

• By designing and conducting observable and repeatable change experiments and action cycles, we dramatically increase the likelihood of impact over a more plan-driven change approach.

• Applying concepts from complexity science, quantum physics, and systems thinking, we begin to understand in a new way, observing that reality is co-created rather than “given”, enabling deeper understanding and the ability to take effective action in a world where linear cause and effect rarely applies.

• Finally, a deeper understanding of sensemaking -- in ourselves and in others -- is essential, as we activate deep competence and capability across these four ways of knowing if we are to master the dynamics of self-organized systems and to effectively lead in the arena of transformative change. 

Who Would Benefit from This Workshop?

1. Current Enterprise Coaches wishing to extend their skills and presence as transformational leaders, gaining a broader, more systemic picture of organizational agility, and seeing how their own sensemaking can be used to increase the possibility of transformation.
2. Organizational Change Agents such as Transformation Leads who wish to gain deeper insight, and develop greater skillfulness, in helping create the leadership and organizational culture needed to fully succeed with organizational agility in an Agile Transformation.
3. Agile Team Coaches & RTEs who wish to expand their competence and self-awareness, both those wishing to take on the enterprise coach role in the future, as well as those who intend to remain team or program coaches, but wish to better understand and become effective with the organization surrounding their teams.

Outcomes from Your Participation

By participating fully in this course, you can expect a significant upgrade in your capacity to meaningfully engage and lead transformative change initiatives across organizational systems, in the following ways:

•You will experience a significant upgrade in your own inner leadership, which you will be able to readily observe and even measure for yourself. Along the way, you will find yourself with an increasing level of confidence and manifested ability in your leadership.

•You will increase your skillfulness in the arena of relationship, communication, and group dynamics, finding yourself being more effective in your ability to facilitate groups and teams toward increased relationship intelligence, leading to better performance.

•You will have gained a more expanded set of distinctions and vocabulary through immersion in Integral Theory and Sensemaking, enabling you to understand and more effectively deal with the challenges you face as you strive to expand agility across the enterprise.

•You will learn and gain facility in key practices from the field of organization development (OD) such as systems entry, readiness assessment, change design, etc., as well as how to conceive this work within an adaptive frame.

•You will have immersed yourself in – and have practical ways to integrate – the distinctions and practices of adaptive action at the organizational level, as a way to equip the organization in which you serve with an expanded ability to perform in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. 

•You will have established a deep community of shared learning, insight, and connection from which you will be able to draw support and inspiration for months, if not years, to come. Some previous Mastercamp cohorts still meet on their own to offer support and get help on their challenges!

• Assuming full participation in all sessions and completion of the case study homework, you will achieve both certifications in the ICAgile Certified Professional Enterprise Coaching for Agility track—Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT) and Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT).

Journey of the Course

The underlying structure of the course is designed to facilitate the learning process on both the informing and transforming fronts. 

Daily Agenda

Day 1 - Provides an overview of the Integral Sensemaking and Action framework, as well as briefly covering the four epistemologies, deliberate sensemaking, and adaptive change. We will explore a case study to ground ourselves in the major issues in an Agile Transformation and the dilemmas associated with them, including the change process itself. The need for the four epistemologies and an understanding of our individual and collective sensemaking embedded within a change intention, will gradually become evident. We come away from Day 1 (like an overture to the full opera) with a clear sense of workshop themes, and a dawning understanding of how the distinctions of the course map to the practical, day-to-day concerns which we face.

Day 2 - We move into the realm of complexity and the Integral Discipline of Evolving Adaptive Architectures. We look at insights from the study of complex adaptive systems, quantum physics, Human Systems Dynamics, and systems thinking to understand the organizational limitations of using a "predict-and-plan" mindset in a "sense-and-respond" world. Topics include: organizational structure, organizational design, Lean, value streams, scaling, and performance management and other policies and systems. We come away from Day 2 with a far deeper understanding and appreciation for the nature of complexity, and how we might leverage that understanding in our role as Enterprise Transformation Agents.

Day 3 - Next we move into the realm of individual consciousness and mindsets, using the Integral Discipline of Evolving Consciousness, and how this shapes leadership. With a focus on ourselves and our own capacity for leadership, we explore developmental models, the deep architecture of meaning making (underlying beliefs, assumptions, and theories about our world), practices to develop our meaning-making, and ways to work with and develop other leaders. We come away from Day 3 with a new way of seeing ourselves, and with a deep insight into what it means to be “self-authoring” and how such a stance can empower our leadership.

Day 4 - From individual consciousness, we move into the realm of group or systemic consciousness (Integral Discipline: Evolving Systemic Consciousness). Exploring the concept of relationship systems, we tackle the difficult issue of existing and desired organizational culture, working with executive teams, engaging leaders to influence culture as an emergent property (one under no one's control), Agile team culture, and so forth. We come away from Day 4 with a deeper insight into the nature of relationship systems, and some tools for catalyzing relationship intelligence and systemic consciousness to benefit our relationship effectiveness.

Day 5 - On the final day, we dive into empiricism and the Integral Discipline of Evolving Product Innovation. We will explore the nature of experiments and validating hypotheses, as well as engaging in adaptive action (from Human Systems Dynamics and Glenda Eoyang) as a method of changing a complex system. Transformation topics include organizational processes and improvement, executive advising, and the notion of practices as embedded knowledge. We come away from Day 5 with a way of pulling all of our learning together into a coherent framework for helping organizations leverage complexity toward greater performance. And you will have made deep connections to the entire cohort -- you will be amazed how deeply connected we can become in this process. 

Follow-up - Two weeks after Day 5, we will have a closing session, which culminates the intensive period of study, reflection and practice, and starts the final period during which you will complete an Integration Project, synthesizing all you have learned within the context of your particular enterprise situation. We come away from the Follow-up with a clear sense of how to use what we’ve learned in our role as Enterprise Transformation Agents.

Virtual Format

This virtual workshop takes place over three consecutive days the first week, and two more days the following week. Most days are from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm ET, with an hour period (3:30-4:30 pm) for pair and group work on Days 1, 2, and 4. Please plan to be available during all these times. See the schedule above for full details. 

With a virtual offering of a transformational workshop such as this, there are certain basic protocols that will assure a safe container, such as each participant having their own video camera, staying fully present during sessions, and scheduling other work to not interrupt class hours.

A Note on Price

We have recently simplified our pricing -- we will no longer have a "full price" ticket, but limit to the "Always Early" price of $2200. We believe this is a fair price for the value received. At the same time, we know that some people need to "self pay" for the workshop. For them, if the cost is the barrier to your attendance, let's have a conversation -- we want as many as possible to be affected by this work and will do our best to work with your situation. 

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel more than three calendar weeks prior to the class, a full refund will be offered. If you cancel within the timeframe, refunds will be considered based on circumstances, but not at all during the final week. A cancellation can always be used as a credit for upcoming workshops.

Workshop Leader

Michael Spayd has been a pioneer in the Agile world for 20 years, bringing in thinking and methods from professional coaching, leadership development (LD), organization development (OD), Integral and systemic methods that are relevant to the transformation of self, culture, and leadership in service of organizational agility. Michael is known as a transformational teacher and leader, with a deep ability to facilitate both compelling and transformational learning environments.

Michael is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute, Trans4mation, and most recently, The Collective Edge. He has taught, coached, and mentored several thousand Agile coaches, managers, and leaders in his 20 years in the field. He is the co-author of a highly anticipated book, Agile Transformations: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently, which was published in December 2020.

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Padgett Rowell is an inspirational and pragmatic agilist. 

You might imagine him with his current grapple - "If you could build an organisational mind, how would it work?"

His aspiration is to build higher purpose-driven organisations:

• that mirror the flexibility and adaptability of our minds structure, as an organisational structure, to relentlessly evolve in pursuit of purpose, with maximal resource efficiency.
• centred around individuals who bring their uniqueness, joy and drive
• forming teams, who amplify each individual's contribution to the shared goal
• and a meshwork between teams that enables the whole to move in harmony

He is deeply invested in the development of others:

• seeing potential in people and wanting them to have that and also seeing people as perfect just the way they are, and in need of nothing,
• loving the ideas and approaches people come up with that are surprising and delightful, 
• and the moments when knowledge becomes understanding, and theory becomes experience.

Padgett has led multiple enterprise transformations, is the co-founder of Two Percent Shift, has managed development teams in multiple countries as part of a health tech start-up, led the development of commercial software for start-ups, government, enterprise, and SME's and been a Lead in a global consultancy. Padgett has led the transformation of many teams to an agile way of working and coached leaders, teams, and individuals to better outcomes for their customers, people and organisations.

At the heart of this is his ability to meet people where they are and work collaboratively to solve complex, real world problems.

Padgett's happy place is riding a motorbike around the south west of Australia.