Agile culture transformation

Objective: Align company’s purpose and strategy; Become an agile organization

Situation:

Lack of organizational alignment across 5,000+ employees around strategy
Low employee engagement survey scores
Development of organizational silos over time
Lack of fast adaptation to to market / competitor changes
Strong desire to become more agile to improve collaboration across business units, empower employees, and be accountable for results

Held executive workshops at a two-day strategic offsite to realign company’s purpose and strategic priorities, and identified ten improvement opportunities to build a better culture
Launched culture transformation initiatives using agile framework where I acted as Chief Scrum Master (and the company’s President as the Chief Product Owner) to oversee five cross-functional teams across Canada
Provided agile training to over 50 culture ambassadors across the company

Strategic framework with the company’s purpose and story, along with culture transformation priorities
Developed communications strategy to expose all employees to culture transformation
Recommended change management plan to transform into agile culture
Tracked and reported results to executive team on the five agile team’s pilot projects and tests to improve culture
Proposed governance structure going forward so that culture transformation initiatives are continuous and ongoing