Rolling out Scrum ceremonies across a department is not the same thing as transforming how an organisation actually works, and confusing the two is why many agile transformations stall halfway. This ICAgile-aligned course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built for the people expected to lead that harder, deeper change: it starts at the enterprise-agility level and works down into the mindset, culture and leadership behaviour that make transformation stick.

Participants move from being champions of change to being able to drive acceptance of it - covering organisational design for adaptability, the shift from directive to transformational leadership, and the emotional intelligence needed to support teams through uncertainty.

On the practical side, the course covers building and executing a transformation strategy, selecting and applying agile frameworks, aligning enterprise goals with agile principles, removing organisational barriers, and forming cross-functional teams capable of value-driven delivery.

Attendees finish with a working grasp of change management in agile environments and enough confidence to act as an agile champion inside their own organisation - useful for anyone determined to be a catalyst for agility-driven growth.

Who Should Attend

• Senior executives and managers steering change from an agile perspective.
• Agile coaches, Scrum Masters and Project Managers building their leadership capability.
• Change agents and HR leaders working on cultural transformation.
• Product owners, team leads and aspiring champions of enterprise agility.

By the End of This Course, You Will Be Able To

• Explain the fundamentals of business and enterprise-level agility.
• Apply agile leadership principles to lead cultural and organisational transformation.
• Draft and execute an agile transformation strategy using established frameworks.
• Build and embed an agile mindset across teams and departments.
• Identify and remove organisational barriers to agility, and align business objectives with agile value delivery.
• Lead teams through uncertainty using emotional intelligence and transformational leadership.

What You Gain

Beyond leadership and strategic-transformation skills, participants build cultural-change expertise, the confidence to manage resistance and engage stakeholders, wider knowledge of agile frameworks, stronger emotional intelligence, and ICAgile recognition as a credential in their professional profile.

Module 1: Enterprise Agility and the Case for Transformation

• The leadership role in agile environments and traits of effective agile leaders
• Fundamentals of business agility, systems thinking and organisational structures

Module 2: Leadership Styles and Emotional Intelligence

• Moving from directive to transformational leadership
• Leading with empathy and self-awareness

Module 3: Building an Agile Culture and Mindset

• Building a shared vision for agility
• Encouraging collaboration, learning and resilience

Module 4: Crafting the Transformation Strategy

• Creating transformation roadmaps and aligning strategy with agile delivery
• Overview of common agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Spotify and others)
• Selecting frameworks based on organisational needs

Module 5: Organisational Design and Removing Impediments

• Identifying and overcoming structural barriers
• Supporting cross-functional teams

Module 6: Change Management in Agile Environments

• Managing resistance to change
• Driving continuous improvement and innovation

Module 7: Sustaining Agile Transformation

• Measuring agility and transformation success
• Enabling long-term agile capability