A comprehensive programme on leadership, culture, transformation, and agility

Holistic Agility has been a pioneer of short-session online learning since early 2020. Shorter sessions improve retention of learning, fit more easily into busy schedules, and lead to better results back in the workplace.

The challenges we help you meet

Leadership today is under real pressure — AI reshaping the job, teams stretched thin, change that never lets up. The programme is built around the challenges leaders actually face, and you leave with practices for each.

Reclaim your time

Cut low-value meetings and coordination, and win back capacity as your span of control grows.

Find your edge in the age of AI

Move from coordinating work to the judgment, coaching and meaning that AI can’t replace.

Re-engage your team

Create the safety, purpose and trust that re-engage a stretched, disengaged team — you’re most of the difference.

Lead yourself first

Build the resilience, boundaries and purpose to lead well without burning out.

Change without the mandate

Lead change by invitation and opt-in, so it takes root — without exhausting everyone.

Faster, clearer decisions

Decide quickly and make it stick; design out the dependencies that stall everything.

Grow the next leaders

Distribute leadership and build your bench, so progress doesn’t all depend on you.

Culture & strategy under uncertainty

Use culture as a lever, lead the whole system, and learn when to let go of control.

Part 1 comprises four half-day sessions, with time to integrate and practice between sessions

Part 1 — four half-day sessions with time to reflect and integrate between each, leading to CAL 1

Maximum of twelve participants

Part 2: six 90-minute sessions, with time to practise between sessions, receive mentoring and coaching, and work with peers

Part 2 — six 90-minute sessions with practice, feedback and mentoring between each, leading to CAL 2

TWO personal 30-minute sessions with a Master Coach

Included in CAL 2 are TWO individual mentoring/coaching sessions:

  • Work on a personal goal or explore something you’d like to be better in your current organisation.
  • Professional, master-level coaching and mentoring to amplify your effectiveness.
  • Apply what you’ve learned, gain feedback, advance with confidence.

Course Philosophy

Coaching, integrated with an understanding of complex adaptive systems, behavioural science and a deep understanding of agility, reveal a radical clarity that makes effective leadership rapidly achievable.

Here’s what leaders are saying after participating in Stuart’s CAL course:

J. Dutta

“A very deep and introspective learning session on agile leadership. The group of learners, who are already well aware of transformation contexts, agile basics, enterprise challenges and have been responsible for large org influencing programs to show results, will gain tremendously. They will know how to work on their own self, post the CAL I course.”

J. Dutta — Sr Unit Quality Head
R. Roach

“Stuart’s passion will give you critical insights into the underlying, non obvious, issues as well as techniques you can use to immediately increase the odds that your organisation’s journey to becoming agile is a successful one.”

R. Roach — CIO
J. Fortuin

“Stuart’s CAL training fuelled me with valuable new views on Agile, Scrum and the way I could improve the impact of departments and teams in our organisation.”

J. Fortuin — Transformation Coach

Improving Effectiveness

The Leadership Diamond (Koestenbaum)
  • Get the Right things Done
  • Advance your leadership abilities
  • Move from busyness to a focus on business
  • Leverage greater agility when interacting in a broader range of situations
  • Identify and break through your self-perceived limits
  • Cultivate mindfulness for tangible business results
  • Remain effective, even with the unknown
  • Mitigate risks with agile decision-making

Self Awareness is essential for recognising your own preferences and strengths

Advance your abilities to lead in an agile organisation

Cynefin and Wardley mapping
  • Champion the people in your life to be the best version of themselves
  • Learn how to be a great host, switching perspectives with agility
  • Hone your skills in taking responsibility in and for your world
  • Interact with greater awareness, intention and agility within your community
  • Identify and reduce your own (unintended) causes of complexity
  • Unlock the possibilities when not seeking a step-by-step guide
  • Employ simple Coaching skills
  • Have more time and be more strategic

Situational Awareness is essential for adapting your leadership to the current context

Discover how to educe agility in your organisation

Open Space Agility — the big picture
  • Mitigate risks, reduce budgets and improve customer experience
  • Simplify governance, reduce healthcare costs and improve employee experience
  • Reduce or eliminate “predict and execute” approaches, including projects, annual budgets, etc.
  • Learn why most initiatives fail, despite huge investment and effort
  • Create structures and an ecosystem that support advancement
  • Work fewer hours, reduce anxiety and achieve better results
  • Employ negotiation skills for win-win-win outcomes
  • Create working environments that naturally adapt and improve
  • Support teams and individuals that take responsibility and continually improve

Agility is an ability to not only adapt to change, it’s also having the ability to concurrently discover desirable change.

Holistic Agility’s CAL programme is an opportunity to experience how leadership behaviour, workplace environment and approaches to change combine to affect the outcomes you and your organisation can achieve.

J. Tassel

“The best course I’ve been on in five years!”

J. Tassel — Program Director, Sky

Why choose Holistic Agility?

Stuart Turner, course trainer
  • Stuart’s genuine curiosity makes him a valuable guide and coach for personal growth, organisational development, and evoking transformation.
  • He has great passion for increasing the vitality of workplaces, creating the conditions for people to be highly effective and fulfilled.
  • Such workplaces, he has discovered, are typically much more financially successful, so Stuart believes all work will be performed this way in the future. He’s just helping people and companies get there sooner.
  • Whilst living in Singapore, Stuart was an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and offered this course in partnership with NUS. He is featured in the Singapore edition of “Who is Agile?”
  • Stuart is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), recognised as defining the worldwide professional coaching standard.

Includes

  • Two years membership with Scrum Alliance
  • Lifetime membership of the Open Leadership Network — including 15% off all future courses and events
  • Invitation to participate in ongoing monthly group sessions
Event Venue Date
Certified Agile Leader 1 ONLINE
  • 17 September 2026 8:00 am
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