Our live-online or in-person Certified Agile Leader 1 course helps leaders, managers, Scrum Masters, agile coaches and change agents develop the mindset and leadership behaviours needed to create adaptive, high-performing organisations.
You will explore practical models including Leadership Agility, the Responsibility Process and Intent-Based Leadership, and learn how to lead change through clarity, participation and accountability.
You can book a place at one of our scheduled events, or we can teach a private in-house course for your organisation.
This course is taught by Simon Roberts, ScrumCenter’s Certified Scrum Trainer. Scrum Alliance® accredits this course. To receive your CAF certification, you must take the course and complete a range of follow-up activities.
The ScrumCenter Certified Agile Leader 1 course is a practical and reflective leadership workshop. It helps participants understand how leadership needs to change in complex environments, and how leaders can create the conditions for agility to flourish across teams and organisations.
The course covers:
The case for agile leadership
Why traditional leadership approaches often struggle in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments, and how agile leadership supports learning, adaptation and value flow.
Agile leadership mindset shifts
Moving from control to empowerment, predictability to adaptability, directive leadership to servant leadership, individual success to team success, and siloed thinking to systems thinking.
Leadership Agility
Using the Expert, Achiever and Catalyst levels to understand how leaders develop, how they respond under pressure, and how they can make more context-appropriate leadership choices.
The Responsibility Process
Recognising reactive patterns such as blame, justification and obligation, and learning how to move towards ownership, responsibility and conscious choice.
Intent-Based Leadership
Creating clarity of intent so that people closest to the work can make better decisions, take more responsibility and act with confidence.
High-performing teams
Exploring trust, psychological safety, healthy conflict, cognitive diversity, shared accountability and continuous learning.
Culture and organisational agility
How stories, structures, processes, policies and leadership behaviour shape culture, and how culture can either enable or constrain agility.
Leading change
How to reduce threat, increase engagement, invite participation, create urgency without fear, and lead change through trust, transparency and clear boundaries.
This course is particularly relevant for:
You do not need to be in a formal senior leadership role to benefit. CAL 1 is valuable for anyone who wants to lead with greater clarity, responsibility and adaptability.
To become a Certified Agile Leader 1, you need to attend the full Scrum Alliance approved CAL 1 course and participate actively in the learning activities. There is no exam.
During the course, you will take part in facilitated discussions, small-group exercises, reflection activities and practical leadership scenarios. These activities help you connect the ideas from the course to your own leadership context.
After the course, ScrumCenter will register eligible participants with Scrum Alliance. You will then be able to access your Certified Agile Leader® 1 certificate and digital badge through your Scrum Alliance account.
Successful completion includes:
The certification also includes Scrum Alliance membership, subject to Scrum Alliance’s current terms.
When you attend ScrumCenter’s Certified Agile Leader 1 course, you will get an interactive, instructor-led learning experience focused on practical leadership in real organisational contexts.
You will receive:
Participants can also choose to take part in a Leadership Agility Accelerator assessment, followed by a one-to-one coaching session with the trainer to review the results and identify practical development actions.
Our live-online or in-person CAL 1 course is interactive, reflective and practical. It is instructor-led and designed to help participants connect leadership ideas directly to their own organisational context. The course uses short inputs, facilitated discussion, small-group work, realistic leadership scenarios and personal reflection.
Our course is:
The course is taught by ScrumCenter’s Founder, Simon Roberts. He has a wealth of experience supporting large, medium and small companies to adopt agile ways of working through consulting, coaching and training. Simon has worked with leaders and teams across many organisational contexts, including large-scale agile transformations, product development environments and complex change initiatives.
Simon is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Path to CSP Educator, Agile Coaching Skills Educator, ORSC® Trained Coach, Trained Leadership Agility 360 Coach and ChangeWise-Authorised Leadership Agility Coach. He has trained and coached thousands of people over many years.
ScrumCenter’s CAL 1 course connects Scrum Alliance learning objectives with practical leadership development. It draws on models such as Leadership Agility, the Responsibility Process and Intent-Based Leadership to help participants develop the awareness, mindset and behaviours needed to lead in complex environments.
For the online version of this course, you will need a laptop or desktop computer. Access through a tablet or phone is not sufficient. We recommend that you use a personal laptop or PC, as work laptops may restrict access to the online collaboration tools used during the course.
Your computer must have a camera and microphone. Built-in cameras and microphones are fine.
The course uses Zoom, a web browser, and online collaboration tools such as Mural. Chrome or Firefox is recommended. Please make sure your Zoom client is up to date before the course.
You do not need a computer for the in-person version of this course.
The course is taught by ScrumCenter’s Founder, Simon Roberts. He has a wealth of experience supporting large, medium and small companies to adopt agile ways of working through consulting, coaching and training.
Simon has used lightweight and agile methods since the late 1990s and works with organisations large and small to help them achieve better results by creating the conditions for effective, self-organising teams. He has consulted for and led several large-scale agile transitions, including at DAX companies in Germany, and regularly works with leaders navigating complex organisational change.
Simon’s work increasingly focuses on agile leadership, organisational agility and the leadership behaviours that help teams and organisations thrive in uncertainty. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Path to CSP Educator, Agile Coaching Skills Educator, ORSC® Trained Coach, Trained Leadership Agility 360 Coach and ChangeWise-Authorised Leadership Agility Coach. He is also co-author of Thrive: A Pragmatic Guide to Enterprise Agility.
Simon holds an MBA specialising in Creativity, Innovation and Change from the Open University Business School. ScrumCenter Limited is based on the West Coast of Scotland.
After the course, you can book
a free agile coaching/mentoring call with the trainer!
3 days.
English or German.
Online or in-person.
Public or in-house.
