Mike Richardson
Cracking The Agility Code

About
Mike Richardson has over 25 years of experience as a scientist, engineer, manager and CEO. Drawing upon his diverse management experience, research and thought-leadership, Mike is an agility expert and management innovator of new methods for agile leadership. He is also one of Vistage’s most sought-after speakers, recognized as their thought leading expert in agility in their global community of 20,000 members in 17 countries.
Mike leads the Team Agility Practice for Agility Consulting and Training. He is a world-leading specialist in Agile Decision Making and helping teams master the agility challenge of “C2C: Conversation-Flow to Cash-Flow” in an increasingly volatile world. Mike specializes in facilitating, mentoring and coaching CEOs and their teams from start-ups to public/global companies, young and old, high-tech and low-tech, new-economy and old-economy, for-profit and not-for-profit.
Speaking Topics
- Thriving in the Chaos of a VUCA World
- Agile Confidence: The Secret of 21st Century Teamwork & Leadership
- Cracking the Code of Enterprise Agility
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Speaking Topics
Thriving in the Chaos of a VUCA World: The 5 Realities & Roles of Everyday Agile Leadership & Teamwork
Learning what agile leaders do every day to build the agile teamwork needed to prevail, survive and thrive in the increasing chaos of the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) business world in which we live. My message to CEOs, Senior Executives and Managers? If you don’t take full responsibility to be Chief of these 5 roles in your business, overcoming the 5 realities, then trust me, nobody else will! You risk paying a huge price.
Agile Confidence: The Secret of 21st Century Teamwork & Leadership
Understanding the secrets of teams and leaders who are fully present to and fully engaged in the agility challenge of today’s VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) business world, with the confidence which comes from that, remaining composed and courageous. My message to CEOs, Senior Executives and Managers? Be in the minority who are an Agile Leadership Presence not the majority who are a Fragile Leadership Presence.
Cracking the Code of Enterprise Agility: The Mindsets, Skillsets & Toolsets for Agile High-Performance-Teamworkand Leadership
Comprehending the whole challenge, the whole problem and the whole solution of agility, enterprise wide and enterprise deep, to be in traction and avoid wheel-spin on your desired trajectory as a high-performance-team. My message to CEOs, Senior Executives and Managers? Enterprise agility is the only competitive advantage which has any permanence these days. Everything else is increasingly temporary, increasingly quickly.
Book

Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto – Accelerate Your Growth, Leverage Your Value, Beat Your Competition