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The challenges facing today’s leaders are no longer just complicated—they are complex, turbulent, and deeply human. Lyssa Adkins’ work is dedicated to improving the performance of leaders and change-makers while expanding their internal range—ensuring they are not only fit for today’s complexities but Future-Fit for the existential challenges of a world in flux. She facilitates this through a high-bandwidth blend of individual and systems coaching that addresses both the “doing” of the work and the “being” of the leader.

To navigate this terrain, Lyssa works with leaders across three essential toolboxes: the cognitive, the emotional, and the energetic. By integrating these three dimensions, she helps leaders unknot intractable organizational blockers and build the scaffolding needed to work with the anxiety of turbulent times.

The Next Horizon: Composting the Old to Make Way for the New In her current work, Lyssa is exploring the vital integration of grief work and hospice accompaniment within the context of modernity. She helps organizations navigate the necessity of endings, recognizing that many structures are kept on “life support” long after their natural expiration. Lyssa brings the wisdom of the death doula into the corporate sphere—not just to make transitions more humane, but to allow what is dying to do so with grace, clearing the space for the “something new” that the world urgently requires.

A Legacy of Excellence Lyssa has been a foundational figure in the emergence of agile coaching as a profession. In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute, a legacy organization that developed over 10,000 leaders before its acquisition by a global multinational. Her book, Coaching Agile Teams, has remained a top-ranking business text for over fifteen years with more than 75,000 copies sold.

The Evolving Craft & Global Impact To support the full breadth of this work, Lyssa constantly hones her craft, integrating trauma-informed collaboration, somatic intelligence, neurodiversity, and adult development into a coaching architecture designed for the full human experience. This evolved craft fuels her current community service focus: inspiring the global network of agilists to apply their “agile superpowers” toward the significant planetary challenges of our time.

Foundations of Rigor Professional Certified Coach (PCC) • Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC) • Certified Integral Facilitator (IF) • Leadership Circle Profile Certified Practitioner (LCP) • ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) • Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach Emeritus (CEC-E) • Trained Co-Active Coach and Leader

SHORT BIO (100 WORDS)

Lyssa Adkins is an author, systems coach, and architect of capacity who accompanies leaders and change-makers in navigating the high-stakes complexity of modern organizational life. She specializes in expanding a leader’s internal range across three essential toolboxes: the cognitive, the emotional, and the energetic. A foundational figure in the agile movement, Lyssa co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and authored the industry-defining book Coaching Agile Teams. Today, her work focuses on helping leaders become Future-Fit by navigating transitions with grace and unknotting the systemic blockers that prevent new growth from taking root.

STAGE INTRODUCTION (30 SECONDS)

Our next guest is a foundational figure in the world of professional coaching and a dedicated partner to leaders navigating deep organizational complexity.

She is the author of the landmark book Coaching Agile Teams and a co-founder of the Agile Coaching Institute—an organization that shaped the skills of over 10,000 practitioners worldwide.

Today, she works with leaders and change-makers to expand their internal range across the cognitive, emotional, and energetic domains. She is here to help us build the scaffolding needed to become Future-Fit, ensuring we can lead through turbulent times with clarity, wisdom and inner peace.