Five-time author and international keynote speaker Mike Burrows is a consultant, facilitator, and trainer. On a reputation established in the Lean-Agile world and committing himself to developing alternatives to the managed change frameworks that prevailed at that time, Mike founded the Agendashift community in 2015. His latest book, *[Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation](https://www.agendashift.com/books/wholehearted)* (2025), integrates the generative and theory-guided aspects of that work and builds on his previous books, *[Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges](https://www.agendashift.com/books/organizing-conversations)* (2024), *[Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation](https://www.agendashift.com/book)* (2nd edition March 2021), *[Right to Left: The digital leader's guide to Lean and Agile](https://www.agendashift.com/right-to-left)* (2019, audiobook 2020), and the Lean-Agile classic *[Kanban from the Inside](https://www.agendashift.com/kfti)* (2014).
Mike was previously an Executive Director and global development manager for UBS Investment Bank, CTO for a late-stage startup, and as a Valtech UK associate, the interim delivery manager for two UK government digital ‘exemplar’ projects. Now as an Equal Experts associate, he has returned to the government digital space in the supplier-side role of Delivery Group Manager, working on an increasingly integrated product platform for Waste & Circular Economy at Defra.
In 2009, Mike and his family moved from the London commuter belt to the picturesque Derbyshire village of Matlock Bath on the edge of the Peak District, the UK’s first National Park. He and Sharon now live a few miles further north in the market town of Chesterfield. They have two grown-up sons, Matthew and Simon.