
September 11-12 | Renaissance Atlanta Midtown | Atlanta, Georgia
Accelerating Your Transformation
This exclusive event is designed for senior leaders and directors navigating their Enterprise Business Agility journey and enabling company-wide transformations.
- Shifting focus from Outputs to Outcome based planning
- Measuring what matters and enabling a culture of Continuous Improvement
- Designing lean portfolio mgmt teams and optimizing team design for FLOW
- Developing talent and transforming HR
- Investing in the people, culture and leadership agility
- Giving customers a seat at the table and discovering new markets through rapid experimentation
Our goal is to connect you with your peers who are on their own Enterprise Business Agility journey so you gain insights into patterns they’ve leveraged, and the lessons they’ve learned transforming complex enterprises with hundreds of teams and thousands of employees.
What You Get
- Learn from other leaders on the journey and meaningful build relationships
- Take back real solutions and ideas to address your top 3 challenges
What to Bring
- Three challenges from your organization that would make your time investment worth it
- Your curiosity and appetite for learning!
Join Us for Solutions to These Challenges

Speakers


Andrea Willemse
Enterprise Business Transformation Strategist
Former Executive, Royal Bank of Canada
Kristen Dalton
Former Vice President, Vistaprint
Summit Agenda
48 Hours of immersive Enterprise Business Agility storytelling, best practices and the tactical “how-to” information needed to accelerate and sustain your own Enterprise Business Agility journey
(agenda subject to change)
KICK-OFF
/ 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. (30 min.)
Opening Remarks: Accelerating Your Enterprise Business Agility Journey by Measuring What Matters
Sally Elatta, CEO and founder of AgilityHealth®, will share important patterns and insights from large corporations on an enterprise business agility journey including key lessons learned from more than 10 years of helping organizations sustain their path towards business agility.

Sally Elatta
CEO, Founder
AgilityHealth
TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY
/ 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (60 min.)
9:00 a.m.–9:20 a.m. (20 min.)
Leading Change Through the Pain
Learn how the pain of enterprise level alignment and planning acted as a catalyst for Enterprise Business Agility and how courageous change leaders are inspiring executives to ‘opt-in’ to the journey.
Lisa Popplewell
Enterprise Agility Strategist
American Express
9:20 a.m.–9:40 a.m. (20 min.)
Leading Enterprise Change to Scale Business Agility
Andrea will share her learnings from scaling Enterprise Business Agility at Canada’s largest bank. She will cover what it takes to get started, who needs to be part of the transformation enablement team, what the scaling journey looks like, and the role of the transformation leader.
Andrea Willemse
Enterprise Business Transformation Strategist
Former Executive, Royal Bank of Canada
9:40 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (20 min.)
Assessing your Agility Transformation Readiness
This presentation will provide an overview of how to ask senior executives to devote their personal time to overseeing an Enterprise Business Agility transformation. Specifically, how to structure the value proposition so that the executive feels that the benefits are worth the investment of their personal time. It will also cover the various areas which a senior executive needs to consider when creating an environment in which Enterprise Business Agility can thrive.
Rupert Schmidtberg
Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
Schmidtberg Consulting
Panel Discussion
10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
(15 min.)

Moderator
Sally Elatta
Founder, Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
AgilityHealth
Moderator
Evan Leybourn
Founder and CEO
Business Agility Institute
LEAN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
/ 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (60 min.)
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (30 min.)
Enterprise Planning and Visibility – Five Things I Wish I Knew
Reflecting on Vistaprint’s three year journey implementing Enterprise Visibility, there were many successes, lots of lessons learned and some things that were unexpected. This discussion will focus on the five things that I wish I knew at the beginning of the journey.
Kristen Dalton
Former Vice President, Vistaprint
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (30 min.)
Our Journey Toward Outcome Alignment
Getting the attention of senior leaders, who manage large business portfolios, can be tough. They’re worn out of the word transformation. I want to share how moving to Business Agility and focusing on business outcomes has helped us bridge this gap and how we jump started our journey to becoming nimble, adaptive and ready for the future.
Alida Saleh
Business Transformation Strategist
Royal Bank of Canada
Panel Discussion
11:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
(15 min.)

Moderator
Jason Molesworth
Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
AgilityHealth
LEADERSHIP & ENGAGING EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
/ 1:00 p.m.–2:10 p.m. (70 min.)
1:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. (30 min.)
How Leadership and Culture Influences Your Transformation
Learn about Anthem’s journey of enabling a culture of agility across 50k people. Why it started, how we enabled it and the journey ahead.
Sheri Reed
Vice President, Enterprise Agile
Anthem, Inc.
1:30 p.m.–1:50 p.m. (20 min.)
Consciously Moving Beyond Leadership Practices that Reinforce the Traditional “Command & Control” Culture
Jennifer is planning to share a range of approaches she’s experimented with to bringing awareness to traditional command & control practices, and creative ways to evolving Leadership approaches for increased team autonomy and empowerment.

Jennifer Bensky
Business Transformation Strategist
Royal Bank of Canada
1:50 p.m.–2:10 p.m. (20 min.)
Gaining Executive Buy-In (and Fostering Better Executive Understanding) in a Global, Distributed Organization
Learn about a leadership growth journey that Celeste has successfully coached many leaders on; enabling change from a fixed to a growth mindset to enable a culture of continuous improvement at the leadership level; including proven practices, creating the awareness of the need for a changing organization, what leadership participation looks like, reinforcement and celebrating the successes along the journey.
Celeste Richardson
Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
Micron Technology
AGILITY IN BUSINESS OPERATIONS
/ 2:40 p.m.–3:20 p.m. (40 min.)
2:40 p.m.–3:00 p.m. (20 min.)
Agile/Lean Finance
Evan will present real-life examples on how organizations can move beyond traditional finance models including forecasting, performance management, and asset allocation (funding) functions. He’ll also share some patterns for how finance itself can achieve agility by evolving its roles and structures.
Evan Campbell
CTO, Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
Accenture | SolutionsIQ
3:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m. (20 min.)
“Are We There Yet?” Lowe’s journey to Enterprise Business Agility
The road to Business Agility at Lowe’s has been filled with many twists, turns and weather patterns during our two year journey. Please join us for the ride as we reflect upon our Enterprise Business Agility trip so far and seek to answer the age old question: “Are We There Yet?”
Jean Resener
Business Transformation Strategist
Lowe’s
Roger King
Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
MAKE IT REAL ACTIVITY
/ 3:35 p.m.–3:50 p.m. (15 min.)
CLOSING REMARKS
/ 3:50 p.m.–3:55 p.m. (10 min.)
EVENING RECEPTION
/ 4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Located at the
Renaissance Rowdy Tiger Rooftop Garden
Sponsored by:

KICK-OFF
/ 8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. (30 min.)
The State of Enterprise Business Agility
Why are organizations embracing Enterprise Agility? What are the drivers to this change? Evan Leybourn, founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute, will present answers to these questions and more as he addresses the State of Enterprise Business Agility across the world.
Evan Leybourn
Founder and CEO
Business Agility Institute
MEASURING WHAT MATTERS
/ 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (60 min.)
9:00 a.m.–9:20 a.m. (20 min.)
Integrating Key Business Metrics into your Business Agility Story
New Presentation Topic & Presenter
Jason Molesworth
Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
AgilityHealth
9:20 a.m.–9:40 a.m. (20 min.)
Evolving a Continuous Improvement System
Continuous improvement should be a foundational tenet of every large-scale agile transformation. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to assemble the essential elements of a continuous improvement system from day one. This talk reviews the early days of the Fannie Mae journey and explains how continued application of systems thinking evolved into a powerful improvement engine.
Dan Craig
Business Agility Strategist
Fannie Mae
9:40 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (20 min.)
Team Health Metrics
This session will explore ways the Paychex team: 1) Identified, captured, and visualized the key metrics that have proven helpful when assessing the overall productivity, predictability, health, and happiness of Agile teams across the organization, 2) Developed a custom “Team Health Dashboard” that pulls multi-dimensional data from AgilityHealth, HP PPM, and JIRA to produce a holistic view of how the teams are performing today, where they’re making measurable progress over time, and where additional focus may be needed, 3) Leveraged this insight to focus continuous improvement efforts at the team, program, and enterprise levels and ultimately delivered increased value and quality to the organization while working in more sustainable ways.
Panel Discussion
10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m.
(15 min.)
Moderator
Samar Elatta
Enterprise Transformation Coach
AgilityHealth
TALENT & HR
/ 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (60 min.)
10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. (30 min.)
Fueling Performance: A future-focused approach
Katie will be presenting on Farm Credit Services’ path to transforming performance management. She will present their lessons learned, ideas tested, and how their performance management looks today and what’s next in their journey.
Katie Mullin
Vice President of Human Resources
Farm Credit Services
11:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. (30 min.)
Onboarding and Enabling Team Success
Summer will be presenting on Agile onboarding & how she has been sustainably enabling her teams’ success throughout their many years of transforming.
Summer Mau
Business Transformation Strategist
Valmont
Panel Discussion
11:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
(15 min.)

Moderator
Nicole Safley
Enterprise Business Agility Strategist
AgilityHealth
PATTERNS FOR AGILITY
/ 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. (120 min.)
12:30 p.m.–1:10 p.m. (40 min.)
Interactive Working Session
Evan Leybourn
Founder and CEO
Business Agility Institute
Sally Elatta
CEO, Founder
AgilityHealth
1:10 p.m.–2:00 p.m. (50 min.)
Leveraging the Mobius Loop for High-Impact Product Development
Gabrielle will provide a mix of interactive exercises, practical real-life examples & lively discussion related to leveraging the Mobius Loop for high-impact product development. Coffee break included!
Gabrielle Benefield
Founder
Mobius
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. (30 min.)
The Target Dojo Experience
In this presentation, we’ll share with you why Target pursued creating a Dojo for learning, how it evolved over its 3.5 years, the outcomes and success that teams take back with them, and the behavior changes this learning style has impressed on the culture of our organization. We will also talk through the mechanics, physical environment, coaching investment, process, and other tactics of implementing a Dojo in your company.
Travis Klinker
Business Agility Strategist
Target
CUSTOMER SEAT AT THE TABLE
/ 3:00 p.m.–3:40 p.m. (40 min.)
3:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m. (20 min.)
IHG: Beyond IT – Transforming Marketing and Design
An overview of how Agile and Lean Practices were leveraged across IHG’s Brand, Architecture, and Design teams to: test and capture the “Voice of the Customer”, rapid prototype and test potential solutions, maximize the impact of IHG’s marketing and hotel design efforts, and dramatically reduce the time to market for new brand, architecture, and design efforts, including national ad campaigns, and hotel and restaurant prototypes.
3:20 p.m.–3:40 p.m. (20 min.)
How the Customer is Key to Our Culture
At AgilityHealth, the culture is front and center on a wall that holds meaning to those that choose to work with us – employees, customers AND partners. “Trusted partner to our customer; impact over effort; care deeply” are a few key statements that ensure a customer-focused approach starts with an integrated voice of the customer in everything we do. In leading people operations, it offers the opportunity to build a culture inclusive of our customer and Dawn will share AgilityHealth’s key lessons from integrating those voices into core values.

Trisha Hall
Vice President
AgilityHealth
Panel Discussion
3:40 p.m.–3:55 p.m.
(15 min.)

Moderator
Deema Dajani
Business Strategist
Scaled Agile
MAKE IT REAL ACTIVITY
/ 3:55 p.m.–4:10 p.m. (15 min.)
CLOSING REMARKS
/ 4:10 p.m.–4:15 p.m. (5 min.)
Presenting Companies




Cost
The cost to attend the Summit is $750/person, with a discount available for groups of four or more. Breakfast and lunch provided both days of the summit, with light appetizers served at the reception. Hotel location and sleeping room discount information can be found here.
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About AgilityHealth
AgilityHealth is an enterprise business agility enablement company that’s accelerating the business agility journey. We help large enterprises define a transformation strategy with our EBA model, measure and grow at every level with our AgilityHealth® platform, and develop your Agile talent for the future of work.
Unlike current transformation strategies, which are fragmented, not aligned, not measurable and not sustainable, our philosophy is built on enabling you and measuring what matters as a way of sustaining the journey.