Lyssa Adkins
Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She loves it when groups "sing."
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI's competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.
Lyssa likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance of the provocative and practical, and likes to make sure she really listens to someone's question before responding.
Lyssa holds an alphabet soup of certifications: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), Project Management Professional (PMP), Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC) and Certified Integral Facilitator (IF). She is also a trained Co-Active Coach and Leader.
Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She loves it when groups "sing."
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI's competence-based coaching curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication.
Lyssa likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance of the provocative and practical, and likes to make sure she really listens to someone's question before responding.
Lyssa holds an alphabet soup of certifications: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), Project Management Professional (PMP), Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC) and Certified Integral Facilitator (IF). She is also a trained Co-Active Coach and Leader.
KEYNOTE:
Integrating Feminine and Masculine Energies
for a Better (Agile) World
Let’s explore a way to deepen our Agile-Lean practice through integrating
feminine and masculine energies. You heard that right! Feminine and
masculine energies. Yes, we are “going there.”
Almost 20 years into the Agile movement we see that that so many, perhaps
most, Agile-Lean implementations stay on the surface. We’ve tried a lot of
things to address that. We’ve even changed the word from implementation to
transformation, but that hasn’t yet done the trick. In our community we
hear one another decry, “They are sorta doing agile, but how do I get them
to BE Agile?”
We know that if Agile says on the surface as a “thing to do” we will never
get to the root of the root of the aim of Agile which is to bring in ways
of working with complex and confounding circumstances.
In this keynote, Lyssa Adkins will explore the capacities of feminine
energy that she believes must come online for us to go deeper than the
surface-level implementations we worry about so much. This isn’t about
making the feminine better than the masculine — it’s not about
recapitulating the one up-one down dynamic that gets us nowhere new. It is
about integrating feminine and masculine energies in ourselves
individually, and as a worldwide community, to move into the deeper set of
skills that must come on-line if we are to — finally — realize the full
promise of Agile.
WORKSHOP:
A Taste of TENWOMENSTRONG Gathering:
The Strength of Feminine Leadership
Integrating Feminine and Masculine Energies
for a Better (Agile) World
for a Better (Agile) World
Let’s explore a way to deepen our Agile-Lean practice through integrating
feminine and masculine energies. You heard that right! Feminine and
masculine energies. Yes, we are “going there.”
Almost 20 years into the Agile movement we see that that so many, perhaps
most, Agile-Lean implementations stay on the surface. We’ve tried a lot of
things to address that. We’ve even changed the word from implementation to
transformation, but that hasn’t yet done the trick. In our community we
hear one another decry, “They are sorta doing agile, but how do I get them
to BE Agile?”
We know that if Agile says on the surface as a “thing to do” we will never
get to the root of the root of the aim of Agile which is to bring in ways
of working with complex and confounding circumstances.
In this keynote, Lyssa Adkins will explore the capacities of feminine
energy that she believes must come online for us to go deeper than the
surface-level implementations we worry about so much. This isn’t about
making the feminine better than the masculine — it’s not about
recapitulating the one up-one down dynamic that gets us nowhere new. It is
about integrating feminine and masculine energies in ourselves
individually, and as a worldwide community, to move into the deeper set of
skills that must come on-line if we are to — finally — realize the full
promise of Agile.
feminine and masculine energies. You heard that right! Feminine and
masculine energies. Yes, we are “going there.”
Almost 20 years into the Agile movement we see that that so many, perhaps
most, Agile-Lean implementations stay on the surface. We’ve tried a lot of
things to address that. We’ve even changed the word from implementation to
transformation, but that hasn’t yet done the trick. In our community we
hear one another decry, “They are sorta doing agile, but how do I get them
to BE Agile?”
We know that if Agile says on the surface as a “thing to do” we will never
get to the root of the root of the aim of Agile which is to bring in ways
of working with complex and confounding circumstances.
In this keynote, Lyssa Adkins will explore the capacities of feminine
energy that she believes must come online for us to go deeper than the
surface-level implementations we worry about so much. This isn’t about
making the feminine better than the masculine — it’s not about
recapitulating the one up-one down dynamic that gets us nowhere new. It is
about integrating feminine and masculine energies in ourselves
individually, and as a worldwide community, to move into the deeper set of
skills that must come on-line if we are to — finally — realize the full
promise of Agile.
WORKSHOP:
In today’s busy world, it is easy to lose ourselves. As women, we are constantly giving ourselves away. We can feel depleted, overwhelmed, lacking creative spark, stuck or off track. This is especially true in many work environments where our female leadership style can elicit eye-rolls or may not be welcome at all.
Take a purpose-full pause to drink from the well of your authentic self, the place from which your authentic leadership springs. Allow yourself to be guided through inquiries and activities that let you explore the contours of your natural way of leading. Your co-leaders, Lyssa Adkins of TENWOMENSTRONG, and Anjali Leon of PPL Coach and a local community leader will bring fresh perspectives from our work understanding Shakti Leadership and Yin Leadership and why they are so needed.
Expect the session to be interactive, practical, evocative and designed with time to think solo and to explore in conversation. We will not be in a rush! Instead, we will be in a space where the feminine essence is welcome and creates a vibe that is reflective, vulnerable, daring, enlivening and maybe even full of belly laughs!
In today’s busy world, it is easy to lose ourselves. As women, we are constantly giving ourselves away. We can feel depleted, overwhelmed, lacking creative spark, stuck or off track. This is especially true in many work environments where our female leadership style can elicit eye-rolls or may not be welcome at all.
Take a purpose-full pause to drink from the well of your authentic self, the place from which your authentic leadership springs. Allow yourself to be guided through inquiries and activities that let you explore the contours of your natural way of leading. Your co-leaders, Lyssa Adkins of TENWOMENSTRONG, and Anjali Leon of PPL Coach and a local community leader will bring fresh perspectives from our work understanding Shakti Leadership and Yin Leadership and why they are so needed.
Expect the session to be interactive, practical, evocative and designed with time to think solo and to explore in conversation. We will not be in a rush! Instead, we will be in a space where the feminine essence is welcome and creates a vibe that is reflective, vulnerable, daring, enlivening and maybe even full of belly laughs!
Take a purpose-full pause to drink from the well of your authentic self, the place from which your authentic leadership springs. Allow yourself to be guided through inquiries and activities that let you explore the contours of your natural way of leading. Your co-leaders, Lyssa Adkins of TENWOMENSTRONG, and Anjali Leon of PPL Coach and a local community leader will bring fresh perspectives from our work understanding Shakti Leadership and Yin Leadership and why they are so needed.
Expect the session to be interactive, practical, evocative and designed with time to think solo and to explore in conversation. We will not be in a rush! Instead, we will be in a space where the feminine essence is welcome and creates a vibe that is reflective, vulnerable, daring, enlivening and maybe even full of belly laughs!