Craig Cockburn - Award Winning Agile Coach - October 2020 Speaking Engagements

Craig Cockburn, winner of the Global Advisory Experts “Enterprise Agile Coach of the Year in the United Kingdom – 2020“, is pleased to announce the following list of speaking engagements across 2 major UK conferences as well as certification in Red Team Thinking.

Craig has recently completed all the masterclasses in Red Team Thinking: Devil’s Troika, PreMortem Analysis, Influencer Engineering, Four Ways of Seeing, Alternative Futures Analysis and Swan Dive. He is able to help clients in these practices to help them with strategic decision making.  Red Teaming is used by the US military to form robust strategic plans and can help give your company the strategic edge in a VUCA world.

Online speaking topics include:

• How to form and visualise agile strategy, a novel practice to get better strategy to deal with a VUCA world
• Visualising talks to help takeaway more, a novel alternative to mind maps

15 October:
Digital Leaders Week
https://week.digileaders.com/talks/how-to-form-and-visualise-an-agile-strategy-in-a-complex-changing-landscape/
‘Most strategy dialogues end up with executives talking at cross-purposes because…nobody knows exactly what is meant by vision and strategy, and no two people ever quite agree on which topics belong where’ (Geoffrey Moore Escape Velocity)

In addition, all too often strategy is a static powerpoint that goes out of date and gives little indication of the “why of movement”.

Craig in his presentation incorporates thinking from Simon Wardley and a visualisation practice to ensure the why of movement is visible and understood so that teams have context and can align more easily to a shared understanding of strategic intent and tactical moves.

22 October:
Visualising a talk, a mind map alternative – Agile Tour London Conference
http://2020.agiletourlondon.co.uk/Session/visual-learning-for-people-who-cant-draw-put-your-talk-on-a-page/
(UK Afternoon)

Recently delivered public talks:

Red Teaming with CityCurrent, a conversation with the director of business agility of Vaco management consultants in Memphis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRhc3WqCo8

Lean Agile Exchange – Online Conference, Sept 2020
Lean Agile Exchange brought together the communities from Lean Agile Scotland, Agile Cambridge, Agile in the City and Agile Manchester for a new virtual conference
https://www.leanagileexchange.net/programme/visualising-why-strategy-and-roadmaps-context
Feedback: This talk was great.  Probably one of the best conference talks I’ve seen for a while. Thank you, I had been quite critical of my company’s lack of a clear vision recently, but I’ve come to realise that the vision is probably fine and that the problem is strategy. I think this will be really useful.

Craig can be contacted via https://www.craigcockburn.com