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Cracking the Agility Code

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Wondering How Best to Inspire Your Audience with Agility?

 Enterprise Agility Transformations start with the Individual.  I help them understand how to begin stepping up as the Chief Agility Officer of their business or their role in their business, being an Agile Leadership Presence not a Fragile Leadership Presence.  That is the question I love to ask your audience. 

are you an agile leadership presence or a fragile leadership presence?

Let Me Make It Simple for Them

Let Me Make It Simple for Them

Let Me Make It Simple for Them

 Helping them understand the difference by cutting through the clutter and complexity, revealing the Myths, Mysteries and Magic of Agility in ways they can relate to. 

Let Me Inspire Them

Let Me Make It Simple for Them

Let Me Make It Simple for Them

 By being simultaneously provocative, profound and practical, interpreting the secrets of Everyday Agile Leaders in the real world and translating them into business terms.

Let Me Mobilize Them

Let Me Make It Simple for Them

Let Me Mobilize Them

 Helping them understand simple steps they can start with, to begin changing their relationship with key attributes of Agility and facilitating their Leadership, Teams and Organizations.    

Tireless and Inspiring!


Canadian Division of a Global Corporation

“Tireless and  Inspiring!  Mike Richardson worked with our leadership team  tirelessly and collaboratively to deliver an extremely inspiring virtual keynote session on enterprise agility as a part of our digital transformation  program.  We weren’t surprised by his excellent evaluation scores,  averaging 3.75 on a 4-point scale (94%), as he always went the extra mile  and was a real education for all of us.”

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Sharing Insights at the Intersection of Deep Agility Experiences in 3 Worlds

  • In the Real World, I  started my career working as a Petroleum Engineer on offshore oil & gas drilling rigs and now study other Everyday Agile Leaders in the real world (Fighter Pilots, Navy Seals, Fire Fighters and others) to interpret their secrets.  
  • In the Business World I ended  ended up running the Aerospace Division of a British public company, translating the agility secrets into business terms.   
  • In the Advisory World as an author, keynote speaker, facilitator, coach and board member, including 15 years as a CEO peer group chair and speaker, facilitating CEOs, Executives and their teams in applying the agility secrets with their leadership, teams and organizations.   


I triangulate a unique combination of insights at the intersection of this unusual combination of deep agility experiences in these 3 worlds, as an interpreter, translator and facilitator of agility.  I distill  the complexity of agility into the simplicity of The 5 Roles for Everyday Agile Leaders, which add up to you becoming the Chief Agility Officer of your business or your role in your business.  Providing a window into the world of enterprise agility and stepping up to the totality of an agility operating system which is fit for the journey challenge of your business these days.  All starting with the individual and unfolding from there.

become the chief agility officer by stepping up to the 5 roles of everday agile leaders

Enterprise Agility Transformations Start with the Individual

Engaging every individual in being the Chief Agility Officer of their business or their role in their business, changing their relationship with key attributes of agility and stepping up to the The 5 Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders.   Progressively facilitating their Leadership, Teams and Organizations, the Enterprise Agility Transformation can unfold from there, prone to success not prone to failure.  Let's Talk Transformation.  Through a unique combination of ideas, stories and examples, I invite your audience members to decide to become students of agility, for the next phase of your journey to begin.

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Virtual Options

Full Studio Capabilities

A Diversity of Formats

Inspiring Audiences Internationally

Demystifying Enterprise Agility

Agile Transformations start with the Individual - Will you be an AGILE Presence or a FRAGILE Presence in the Equation of your Enterprise Agility?  We will explore the myths, mysteries and magic of agility together, cutting through the complexity and hype, and getting back to basics … indeed, I will show you that you are already masters of Agile in  everyday life …  and give you some practical tips on how you can begin to apply it in business, no matter what role you are in.  Your Agile future depends upon it and I look forward to being with you and helping you on your way.

Virtual Keynote Introduction

Get a taste for my work with the introductory 15 minutes of one of my virtual keynotes.

AGILE of FRAGILE? Moving from the Fragile Majority to the Agile Minority.

  • AGILE is the New Lean! Change has Changed; VUCA; The AGILE Model
  • The 5 Key Attributes of AGILITY to change your relationship with/The 5 New Roles of Everyday AGILE Leaders
  • From Offshore Oil & Gas Drilling Rigs to Business. 

The Challenge of Agile Innovation, 1.0 and 1.1/1.2/1.3 and 2.0 and 3.0 simultaneously, self-disrupting us before the world does for us!

The 5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Began Leading Companies, Revealing the 5 Attributes of Agility to Change Your Relationship With:

  • Making Friends with Chaos
  • Developing Trust in Your Triage
  • Having a Never-Ending Journey with Insight
  • Embracing Luck
  • Becoming One With the Nature of the Journey

Sharing My Experiences as an Everyday Agile Leader in the Real World on Offshore Oil & Gas Drilling Rigs

  • Where I first began Learning the Secrets of Agility
  • Especially Getting Organized for Full Triage, Organized Chaos and Agility in the Face of VUCA
  • With Consequences Which Became Very Apparent, Very Big and Very Fast with Few Second Chances.

The 5 Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders to Step up to for being a Chief Agility Officer.

  1. Chief Chaos Coach
  2. Chief Triage Facilitator
  3. Chief Insight Trainer
  4. Chief Luck Consultant
  5. Chief Journey Architect

The 5 Roles of Everyday Agile Leaders (#5REALS)

Amsterdam

Doing a Big Program for Sony

Doing a Big Program for Sony

Great to be back in Holland where I lived for 5 years when in the Oil & Gas business with Shell

Doing a Big Program for Sony

Doing a Big Program for Sony

Doing a Big Program for Sony

Fantastic time working with my good friend and partner in Agility Consulting & Training, Tom O'Shea

AGILE Boards

Doing a Big Program for Sony

AGILE Boards

Loving working with Boards of Directors and being on Boards as an AGILE voice around the table.

Vistage

5 Speaking Tours of Australia

AGILE Boards

Spoke to 400 Peer Groups of CEOs/Executives in 5 Countries, acknowledged as the Global Community's thought leading expert on Agility

5 Speaking Tours of Australia

5 Speaking Tours of Australia

5 Speaking Tours of Australia

One of my favorite places to speak

Agility in 18 Minutes

5 Speaking Tours of Australia

5 Speaking Tours of Australia

How fun was that!

Another Day in the Office

Another Day in the Office

Another Day in the Office

Inspiring Audiences with Agility

… Explaining VUCA ...

Another Day in the Office

Another Day in the Office

We live in an accelerating VUCA World (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity)

... Defining Agility ...

Another Day in the Office

… Revealing the Secrets ...

The ability to adapt

… Revealing the Secrets ...

… With Powerful Simplicity ...

… Revealing the Secrets ...

Answering the backbone questions:  Why Agility, What is Agility (and what is it not - it is very prone to misinterpretation) and most curucially, Who do we need to be in the equation of our Agility?  Then How/Where/When can we get started on our journey to becoming more Agile?

… With Powerful Simplicity ...

… With Powerful Simplicity ...

… With Powerful Simplicity ...

Using stories, analogies, models concepts and vocabulary from my days in Aerospace

… From Experience ...

… With Powerful Simplicity ...

… With Powerful Simplicity ...

Drawing on career experiences from working as a Petroleum Engineer on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, to becoming an Executive, a CEO, a Divisional CEO, Chairing and speaking to peer groups of CEOs, serving on Boards and working with diverse clients globally

… Busting Myths ...

… and inviting audiences to become Students of Agility

… and "Waterfall" Thinking ...

I love busting common myths about Agility

… and "Waterfall" Thinking ...

… and inviting audiences to become Students of Agility

… and "Waterfall" Thinking ...

I love contrasting a Waterfall mindset with an Agile mindset

… and inviting audiences to become Students of Agility

… and inviting audiences to become Students of Agility

… and inviting audiences to become Students of Agility

Becoming an AGILE Leadership Presence

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Keynotes

The Secrets of AGILE Leadership in a VUCA World

We live in an accelerating VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity) for which the only antidote is AGILITY.  I ask your audience, "are you AGILE or FRAGILE?"  Are you a FRAGILE Leadership Presence (like the majority) or an  AGILE Leadership Presence (like a minority) and what does it take to move from the majority to the minority?

The 5 Roles of Everyday AGILE Leaders

What separates the minority from the majority?  5 new roles that AGILE Leaders live up to every day:  

  • 1: Chief Chaos Coach
  • 2:  Chief Triage Facilitator;
  • 3: Chief Insight Trainer
  • 4: Chief Luck Consultant
  • 5: Chief Journey Architect

Trust me, if you don't live up to these roles everyday, no one else will!

AGILE C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Where your conversation-flow goes, your cash-flow follows.  Understanding AGILE conversation-flow as the unfolding flow of thoughts, questions, decisions and actions, divergently and convergently, present forwards and future backwards.  AGILE conversation-flow becomes AGILE cash-flow becomes AGILE share-price (whether you are a public listed company or not).  How's your share-price?  Rising, flat-lining or falling?  As an enterprise, an organization, as a team and as a leader?  I challenge leaders to look in the mirror and ask what is happening with their leadership stock/share-price?

Other Topic Title/Subtitle Ideas for Your Target Audience:

  • Cracking the Code of Agility for Small Business CEOs & Executives: Changing Your Relationship with Chaos and other Key Attributes of Agility. 
  • The 5 New Roles of Everyday Agile Leadership: Immediately Actionable Insights for Small Business CEOs & Executives
  • Enterprise Agility: The Myths, Mysteries & Magic for Small Business CEOs and Executives. 

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On the Roster with Jim Collins

Explaining Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Explaining Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Explaining Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Explaining Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Explaining Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Speaking in Argentina

Explaining Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow

Speaking about Alan Mulally and how he saved Ford with Agility

Speaking about Alan Mulally and how he saved Ford with Agility

Speaking about Alan Mulally and how he saved Ford with Agility

Speaking about Alan Mulally and how he saved Ford with Agility

What a delight it was spending time with him and comparing notes on Agility

Loving Q&A Time

Speaking about Alan Mulally and how he saved Ford with Agility

Having a Blast in Haiti

Having a Blast in Haiti

Speaking about Alan Mulally and how he saved Ford with Agility

Having a Blast in Haiti

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