TALKS & WORKSHOPS
THAT MAKE COMPLEX SYSTEMS FEEL USABLE
I speak and facilitate on scaling, organisational design, product ownership, psychological safety and neuroinclusion. The bar I set myself is simple: everyone leaves with something they can do differently when they get back to the day job.
Featured Talk: PMI Agile 2026
26–28 July, 2026 | National Harbor, MD, USA
SCALING AGILE WITHOUT SCALING PROCESS
What happens when one team becomes many? And why do organisations seem to, almost out of reflex, respond to growth by introducing more and more control mechanisms? And, what is the alternative?
Drawing on organisational research, including William Ouchi’s work on control mechanisms, and on empirical thresholds from real scaling programmes, this talk shows how to scale the conditions that make agility work: ownership, feedback, learning and decision flow.
SIGNATURE TOPICS
Scaling Agile Without Scaling Process
Control without micromanagement
Communities of practice that outlast the transformation
Psychological safety without the fluff
Neuroinclusion as a performance advantage
Product ownership beyond backlog administration
WORKSHOP FORMATS
Throughout my workshops, you can expect to find practical structure, honest conversation, and challenge without cruelty. My style is human, without the fluff.
Leadership alignment workshops
Product strategy and prioritisation sessions
Ways-of-working and team health resets
Scrum Master and Product Owner capability sessions
Retrospective and improvement facilitation
Operating model and scaling design sessions
EDUCATION
I also work with universities. Most recently helping redesign a final-year undergraduate module for the University of Central Lancashire on IT project and product management, bringing agile methods into parity with traditional approaches.
If you’re an educator trying to teach real agility, I’d love to hear from you.