Past Events: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022
Upcoming Event: March 2026
Thursday, March 19th at 12:00pm PT / 2:00pm CT / 3:00pm ET
Guest Speaker: Helene Gidley
Topic: “From Overwhelmed to Focused: An Agile Approach to Daily Life’“
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Most Recent Event: February 26th
Summary:
The headlines are wrong. Agile isn’t dead! What’s dying is the cargo-cult version obsessed with rituals instead of results. Want to win more agile engagements and deliver better outcomes?
Join this session with Mike Lyons from KaiRise to learn how they’re partnering with firms to cut through the noise and deliver real results, chiefly using the power of AI-enabled, on-demand training and more. We need to get back to the first principles: improving flow, tightening feedback loops, empowering teams, and designing systems that adapt as quickly as the world changes. This event with KaiRise calls on transformation leaders to drop the dogma and rediscover true agility – small batches, decentralized decisions, and relentless learning.
Join us to explore what lowercase-a agile looks like today and how KaiRise partners with consultants to deliver it in real client engagements.
Takeaways:
- Leading Teams with Impact
- Improving Flow
- Empowering Teams
- Relentless Learning
About the Speaker:
Mike Lyons is an experienced agile delivery expert and course creator who’s spent decades helping teams cut through the noise and deliver what matters. From state election systems to global non-profit apps, Mike has helped thousands of master agile practices across government, corporate, and non-profit sectors. He brings a straight-talking, story-driven approach to leadership, project delivery, and learning. He co-founded KaiRise to equip the next generation of agile professionals with practical tools and tough questions, because agility isn’t theory, it’s what you do next.
Past Event: January 22nd
Summary:
The rapid rise of LLMs has created a productivity gap: many are concerned about falling behind, while power-users are achieving massive strategic gains. This 60-minute session moves past vague theory to deliver the high-leverage mental models, practical techniques, and a master tool needed to quickly catch up on the AI adoption curve. We will demystify the mechanics of LLMs (Token Dynamics, Context Dilution) and teach you the Augmentation Mindset (Human in the Loop). The session culminates in a live demonstration of the “Prompt Architect”—a powerful meta-prompt that instantly designs and executes sophisticated prompts for complex real-world strategic tasks.
Handouts: The Prompt Architect (metaprompt)
Takeaways:
- Acquire the Augmentation Mindset and the ethical framework (Human in the Loop) needed to elevate your role to a strategic AI architect.
- Master high-leverage techniques like the Persona Superpower, the Context Port workflow, and the Transcription Superpower to achieve precision and control over your outputs.
- Understand the fundamental mechanics (Token Dynamics) and advanced limitations (Sycophancy, Bias) to anticipate and correct AI failures.
- Walk away with The Prompt Architect metaprompt—a tool that automates complex prompt engineering, allowing you to focus on strategy instead of syntax.
About the Speaker:
Ian Palonis is a Technology Strategy Advisor and Platinum “AI Accelerator” at WEX, Inc. He is also the Co-Founder / COO of Viridian Guard, a Maine-based technology start-up. In his personal life, he describes himself as a perpetual learner, grower, maker, and nature lover, engaged in a personal process of continuous and ongoing improvement.
Past Event: December 11th
Summary:
Learn agile mindsets by doing, not reading.
In this interactive virtual workshop, you’ll practice the core skills that make agile teams effective: deep listening, collaborative building through “Yes, And”, and real-time adaptability. Through applied improv exercises, you’ll build behaviors you can use immediately in sprint planning, stakeholder conversations, and team collaboration. Walk away with three takeaways grounded in the Agile Manifesto and hands-on experience applying them.
Presentation: Stay Tuned
Takeaways:
Participants will develop three core agile mindsets through applied improv:
1. Listening is your most powerful tool
Agile value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. “Yes, And” unlocks collaboration
Agile value: Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
3. Adaptability comes from practice
Agile value: Responding to change over following a plan
About the Speaker:
Kristian has been performing improv for over 20 years and teaching applied improvisation for 8 years. She specializes in helping product managers and technical teams build the listening, collaboration, and adaptability skills that make agile frameworks actually work. Kristian’s facilitation style is engaging, accessible, and grounded in adult learning principles—participants leave with practical tools they can use immediately.
Past Event: November 20th
Summary:
What if the next frontier of leadership isn’t about becoming more like machines but about becoming more human, with machines as our trusted partners in leadership & team effectiveness? AI is not here to replace us—it’s here to augment us! But—only if we can effectively partner with the AI tools powerfully & positively.
It’s been proven that individuals and teams that include AI outperform those without an AI component. This is NOT about learning a new app or AI chatbot tricks. It’s about becoming the kind of human leader that can leverage AI to make the “impossible” inevitable. In this highly engaging and interactive session, we’ll explore what it means to lead from the inside out—with help from AI—through five interconnected levels of leadership:
- Self-Leadership
- 1:1 Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Organizational Leadership
- Global Leadership
This isn’t about becoming a machine! It’s about becoming the kind of bold, self-aware, globally conscious, and effective leader that our world needs with AI as your “coach in your pocket”. Whether you lead a team of 3 or 30,000, this session will challenge, empower, and equip you to lead more effectively, from the inside out.
If you’re ready to leverage AI to be an “AI-augmented Leader” who uses AI as a “coach in your pocket” to help your team make the extraordinary, or even “impossible”, inevitable—this session is for you!
Takeaways:
- A future-ready mindset about AI: beyond fear & hype, toward practical partnership where you become an “AI-augmented” leader.
- A clear map of the five levels of leadership (Self→1:1→Team→Organization→Global) and how AI can support each.
- Specific examples of AI tools that augment—not replace—your leadership capacities.
- Real-world use cases from global organizations that are getting this right.
- Provocative questions that will expand how you think about being human in a world where AI is integrated into our work and our lives.
- Inspiration to lead not just more efficiently, but more effectively — with the help of AI tools — to become a BETTER version of YOURSELF.
About the Speaker:
Kimberly Wiefling is a physicist turned leadership expert, known for helping teams achieve what seems impossible. She’s the author of the global bestseller “Scrappy Project Management”, the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. Her latest book, “Turning Ideas Into Impact”, is an anthology with 15 Silicon Valley consultants.
With a decade at HP and years in startups leading complex product development, Kimberly has worked with over 50+ globalizing Japanese companies and professionals from 50+ countries to solve global challenges profitably. Kimberly lives and works in Silicon Valley. She’s helped to start, run, and grow many small businesses, including several that are still alive and profitable. One of these successful businesses even grew to millions in revenue with only seed funding from her and the other founders. Kimberly’s superpower is transforming managers into leaders and groups into high-performing teams who can achieve “Impossible” together. She is a passionate advocate for planetary sustainability and has been supporting it through hervolunteer efforts for several years. This includes facilitating a course called “Engineering Climate Management & Entrepreneurship” at Stanford’s Doerr School every year. She is shifting her focus more towards facilitating breakthroughs in corporate sustainability that benefit Our World.
Described as a “force of nature,” Kimberly is harnessing that energy—alongside today’s powerful AI tools—to drive meaningful, impactful changes and build a sustainable futurefor planet Earth.
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