Expert Workshop: Leading With an Agile Mindset to Create an Edge for the Future

As a leader and manager, you are positioned to lead transformation at your organization. But exhibiting high performance and operational excellence aren’t enough when working in an agile environment.

Get ready to change your way of thinking and adopt an agile or learning mindset that top performers use every day. Engage in adaptive actions, learn from challenging cases and awaken your agile self through inspiring activities. Lead your organization into an ever-changing future by understanding the qualities of safety, diversity, slack and tension, innovation, sense-making, managing complexity and the importance of cultivating learning experiences.

Make sure you have an adaptive management style to become a future-ready leader.

Your Instructor

Patricia Reed, Agile Executive, Coach, Transformational Leader, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley
Patricia Reed is an experienced Agile executive, coach, transformational leader, Adjunct Professor of UC Berkeley and instructor. She has proven success transforming large Agile organizations and developing world-class enterprise Agile practices (including accounting, PMO, portfolio management, strategy, release, DevOps, change, performance management, and adaptive leadership and career processes and practices).

Pat has 40-plus years of experience in leveraging cutting-edge technology, delivery and project management methods to solve challenging business problems. Her experience encompasses 15 years as executive director at the Walt Disney Company and Walt Disney Pictures and Television, five years at Universal Studios Motion Picture Group; CIO at GameWorks; and leading delivery management services and Agile transformation of global PMO as an executive at Gap Inc. for eight years.

Developing her entrepreneurial talents, Pat co-founded and launched iHoriz Inc. (Innovative Horizons) eight years ago and has earned international recognition as a highly sought-after executive and transformational coach. She currently works with the most senior leaders of the Australian government and many of the major banks throughout Australia. Pat's unique skills include transformational leadership; connecting strategy to delivery; and solving impossible business challenges by leveraging deep-domain knowledge of human behavior, patterns, design thinking and empirical (scientific) methods with a razor-like focus on value.

Her academic background includes a B.S. in Psychology and an M.B.A. Pat regularly speaks at conferences and industry events locally and worldwide, and teaches Agile and project management courses at UC Berkeley Extension.