Scrum Masters are leaders — but most are never taught how to lead.
If you want to influence decisions, work confidently with senior stakeholders, and step beyond team-level support, you need leadership capability — not just more frameworks.
This is the layer that turns capable practitioners into highly effective Agile Coaches.
This course is for:
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Scrum Masters who see themselves as leaders but want practical tools
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Agile Coaches who want stronger presence and influence
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Leaders who want to deepen their coaching approach
What you’ll learn in Leading with Agility
The course focuses on real leadership capability — the skills that sit underneath effective Agile Coaching and help you operate confidently with teams and leaders.
Presence & Confidence
Develop a calm, grounded leadership presence so you can hold your own in challenging conversations without needing a title.
Coaching Upwards
Support and challenge senior stakeholders effectively, without slipping into passivity or confrontation.
Influencing Decisions
Shape thinking and guide decisions without authority, helping teams and leaders move forward with clarity.
Handling Complexity
Stay effective when things are ambiguous or political, without hiding behind process or tools when pressure rises.
Adaptive Leadership
Turn adaptive leadership ideas into practical behaviours you can use in real conversations with teams and leaders.
Trust & Credibility
Build the kind of trust where teams and leaders actively seek your input because they know you’ll help them move forward.
Scrum Masters feel the weight of leadership every day — but most have never been taught how to lead.
This course gives you the tools, language, and capability to operate credibly with leaders and step into higher-impact coaching work.
Course Breakdown
Personal Agility – Self-Awareness & Self-Management
Develop greater self-awareness and emotional regulation. Explore your values, purpose, and default patterns so you can lead more intentionally, especially under pressure.
Self as Leader – Mindset & Leadership Style
Examine your mental models and assumptions about leadership. Learn how and when to adapt your style to context, and identify the habits that either support or limit your impact as an Agile leader.
Relationship & Communication Agility
Build skills for high-quality conversations: coaching upwards, navigating power dynamics, creating psychological safety, and building trust and credibility with teams and leaders.
Organisational Awareness & Agile Leadership Mindset
See organisations as human systems, not just structures. Understand how culture, politics, and decision flows shape what’s possible — and where an Agile leader can realistically have influence.
Leading Change & Transformation in Complexity
Explore practical ways to lead through uncertainty and change. Learn how to support teams and leaders as they experiment, adapt, and embed more agile ways of working over time.
Practical Tools – Conversations, Storytelling & Influence
Apply concrete tools for adaptive conversations, leadership storytelling, and influencing decisions without formal authority, so your leadership has both depth and visible impact.
Upcoming Course Dates
Choose the cohort that fits your schedule. Live, online, interactive training.
09–12 February 2026
9:00am – 1:00pm (GMT)
13–16 April 2026
1:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT)
15–18 June 2026
9:00am – 1:00pm (GMT)
Includes 2 days live training + ICAgile Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA) certification