Leading Agile Transformations

Agile can be summed up in two words: Continuous Learning! To optimize the positive impacts of agile for our customers and your business means a culture of learning. A culture that ‘gets’ the agile mindset and fosters innovation and meets customer needs. Pollyanna takes you through understanding the agile mindset and how to develop a culture to be able to ask the right questions at the right time to generate new ideas and develop creative products that identify customer pain points and delivers an innovative solution that works.

She outlines tools for leaders to create a culture of trust and help teams take ownership. Pollyanna shares her battle-tested tips for leading agile—fix processes, not people; take the fun out of being dysfunctional; eliminate constructive criticism, because it never is; and more.

--About Pollyanna Pixton--

An international collaborative leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her over forty years of working inside and consulting with corporations and organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more productive, efficient, and profitable.

Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova, a consulting firm for leaders transforming their organization. She speaks and writes on topics of creating cultures of trust, leading collaboration, and business agility and is a contributor to the Forbes leadership blog. Her models are found in the books she co-authored, The Agile Culture: Leading though Trust and Ownership, (Addison Wesley Professional, March 2014) and Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility, (Addison Wesley Professional, July 2009).

Since she participated in the first one day Agile conference she has participated in many Agile conference as a contributor or organizer. She was one of the founders of the Agile Leadership Network and served as a board member for many years.

Ms. Pixton was primarily responsible for building the Swiss Electronic Stock Exchange, developing sophisticated control systems for electrical power-plants throughout the world, and converting complex technologies and data systems to merge large financial institutions. Her background includes leading the development of e-commerce projects, real-time applications, positioning systems, and original computational research.

Her education includes a master’s degree in computer science, three years of graduate studies in theoretical physics, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. Contact her at ppixton@accelinnova.com.