ABOUT LYSSA

My focus is improving the performance of organizational leaders to solve the challenges they face today while expanding their capacities to be more fit for the challenges right around the corner. I do this through skillful professional and organizational systems coaching. Helping leaders make difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknot challenging organizational blockers, create the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, work with the anxiety of turbulent times and take up the transformation that is theirs to do… this is where I thrive and help leaders thrive.

In partnership with Greaterthan, I deliver larger consulting engagements for organizations stepping into the “future of work” featuring self-organization, distributed leadership, participatory governance and decision-making at scale.

I have been pleased to serve the emergence of agile coaching as a profession. In 2010, I co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute which developed over 10,000 people in the knowledge, skills and being-ness needed to deliver on the promise of agile. I am the author of Coaching Agile Teams which has been a top ranking business book for more than a dozen years and has sold over 75,000 copies.

My current community service focus is inspiring the worldwide network of agilists to see the devastating planetary challenges we are already experiencing as an opportunity to express their agile superpowers to make a significant impact locally and globally.

I constantly hone my craft and have recently developed skills in trauma-informed collaboration and coaching, somatic coaching, neurodiversity coaching, coaching for adult development and coaching for future-fit leadership.

I hold key industry certifications: International Coach Federation 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) and Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach Emeritus (CEC-E). I am also a trained Co-Active Coach and Leader.