We help leaders and engaged others speak the modern language of strategy – the language of needs, obstacles, and outcomes – as they engage with the right challenges, invite others into that process, and celebrate their successes.
As laid out in Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025), the marks and responsibilities of leaders at all levels of organisation – recognised in that role or growing into it:
Engage
To engage with the right challenges – be they problems or opportunities – engaging with what might make the organisation “unwhole” if neglected
Invite
To invite people into that process – integrating (making more whole) the development and pursuit of strategy around those challenges
Celebrate
To celebrate initiative, progress, and learning – innovations emerging from those closest to the need and the opportunity, and feeding back on the strategy process
And from Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges (2024), a structured but still generative form of organisation development:
A different kind of framework – an engagement model
At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards ("right to left") from key moments of impact and learning.
Not a change management model – we’re not in the business of imposition. Not a delivery framework – too disconnected from strategy. Instead, the development and pursuit of strategy in one, integrated process.
Training
Leading with Outcomes, Agendashift Academy’s core curriculum:
- Foundation module
- Inside-out Strategy
- Adaptive Organisation
- Outside-in Strategy
Available as self-paced online training or delivered in-person or online by an authorised trainer. Visit the Agendashift Academy Store for further information, or Contact us.
Workshops
Standalone workshops addressing different aspects of organisation development and deliverable by authorised facilitators and trainers alike:
- Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop
- Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop
- Adaptive Organisation Workshop
- Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop
Deliverable by authorised trainers only:
Assuming meaningful interest in the issues under consideration (i.e. “skin in the game”), they are suitable for participants of all levels of experience.
If interested in holding any of the above workshops or hosting Leading in a Transforming Organisation as public training, Contact us.
“Intensely practical with solid theoretical foundations”
“Expertly and confidently helps you learn how to get from strategy to execution and back again”
“You inspired people and got them talking – couldn’t have asked for more”
“Combines concepts I previously found challenging in a way that not only makes sense but is highly useful”
“I left motivated and confident enough to try these exercises the next day”
“Very practical, highly participative – learning by doing. I can see so many opportunities to use the approach and tools in my work”
As used in many of our workshops and training modules, our famously inclusive, non-prescriptive, and framework-agnostic assessment tools. Get a taste with one of our mini assessments:
- Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
- Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, mini edition
- Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment, mini edition
New! For a limited period only, you can access the full-length version of the Adaptive Organisation assessment via this article:
- Help our research: an “Organisational DNA test” (academy.agendashift.com)
Or go straight to it:
More: Assessments | Free 14-day trial | Upgrade options
About us
We are pioneers in outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation, expert practitioners working at the exciting intersection of strategy, organisation development, and delivery.
What makes us different:
- Our deep commitment to outcomes: not just outcomes first, but outcomes authentically agreed and kept at the forefront throughout – maximising their meaning, their significance, and their power to inspire collaboration, innovation, and renewal
- Our open framework: Having more in common with dialogic organisation development, Lean Startup, and OKR than it does with traditional change management, Agendashift is in the vanguard of a new category, the engagement model. Agendashift gives leaders at every level new ways to approach their adaptive challenges, to keep people engaged people in that process, and to keep the organisation whole as it transforms.
- Our mission: the wholehearted and deliberately adaptive organisation. Not someone else’s framework to be imposed out of context, but something to pursue – a holistic integration of strategy, delivery, and organisation development that works at each scale and between scales, embedding engagement, participation, and purpose
Our products and services:
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For transforming organisations and their leaders, Leading with Outcomes (academy.agendashift.com):
- Self-paced and instructor-led training and workshops for leaders at every level
- Subscription plans for individuals and businesses from just £18.40 per month
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For expert practitioners, Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes (academy.agendashift.com):
- Integrated workshop materials
- Certifiable training materials
- Our unique assessment tools
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Through our partner network and directly:
- consulting, training, facilitating, and coaching services
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Blog
- A couple more Wholehearted-related articles
- An addendum to Chapter 2 of Wholehearted
- (Video) The Three Amigos revisited: Minimising failures of context
- New versions (plural) of our Clean Language-inspired coaching game, 15-minute FOTO
- Rounding off 2025 with a special offer
- Videos of my Øredev talks are out
- Agendashift roundup, October 2025
- Polarities, asymmetries, and why we do what we do
- In two senses, a wholehearted organisation is a high-intelligence organisation
- Agendashift roundup, September 2025
More: Blog | Monthly roundups | Classic posts (blog.agendashift.com)
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Media
Webinar: Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
Blackmetric #BAcommunity webinars
Wholehearted Leadership in a Complex World
Rohit Gautam interviews Mike Burrows for the Curiosulus Chronicles podcast
Resources
A small sample of free resources:
Our Clean Language-inspired coaching game 15-minute FOTO
Our trusty context-capturing kickoff exercise Celebration-5W
Our Kanban simulation games Featureban and Changeban
More: Resources
Meet us online
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- Read our blog: blog.agendashift.com
- Join Agendashift on Slack
- Join our LinkedIn group: Agendashift
About us
Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.
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