LEADERSHIP AGILITY
BOOTCAMP
Add to your capacity as an authentic and inspiring leader in this four-week program.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
Agility as a leader simply means being prepared to bring the best approach to each situation.
Our best leaders have the ability to adapt to what’s right in front of them.
Who Will Benefit from the Leadership Agility Bootcamp?
This intensive bootcamp is designed to rapidly expand the leadership skills of people managers across diverse industries. Whether you lead teams in technology, services, education, government, or nonprofits, you’ll gain practical strategies to build higher-performing and more engaged workgroups.
The Bootcamp provides an impactful learning opportunity to invest your end-of-year development budgets. Participants will emerge with the agility and confidence to elevate their leadership impact and unlock new levels of team potential.
What is the Leadership Agility Bootcamp?
This transformative program is designed to amplify your existing leadership strengths and expand your capacity to empower your team. Rather than attempting to “correct” your skills, the Bootcamp leverages your natural talents and provides practical strategies to elevate your impact.
Over four interactive, immersive two-hour sessions, you’ll engage in interactive learning and one-on-one coaching to sharpen your leadership agility. The program culminates in three follow-up sessions, scheduled monthly, to help you lock in the learning and see lasting results.
This bootcamp is an exceptional investment for people managers looking to unlock new levels of team engagement and performance. Participants will emerge with the tools and confidence to navigate complex challenges and drive sustainable growth.
What we’ll cover:
This will be an interactive, experiential program which relies on scientifically-supported human dynamics and neuroscience to build muscle in five leadership pillars:
- Clarity of communication
- Time Management and Delegation
- Effective Feedback
- Coaching for performance
- Building an engaged, strengths-based team
Here’s how it will work:
Pre-Work: Participants will prepare by reviewing some shared resources around how you’re showing up and reflect on your leadership style.
Session I: December 2:
- The role of the leader
- Your Leadership toolkit and what skills do I already have
- A review of core human needs and how to meet them in your leadership.
- A coaching demo and practice on powerful inquiry
Homework: adding powerful questions to everyday interactions; identifying a conversation you’re avoiding
Session II: December 9:
- The five elements of Team Engagement
- Hard Conversations, Clear and Powerful Communication
- The core elements of coaching: practicing powerful questions, the mindset of coaching, practice peer coaching with a partner and feedback
Homework: practice a coaching conversation and track the result; review materials on time management for leaders
Session III: December 16:
- Best practices in feedback
- Practice peer coaching for accountability
- Time and energy management
[Between December 9 and 19, each participant will meet with me for individual 1:1 coaching, ask questions, hone their skills, and gain feedback]
Session IV: December 19: applying the learning
- What are the new leadership muscles I’ve built and how might this fit into my work
- Masterminding with your peers around common leadership issues
- What might change about my approach with my team
- One more peer coaching practice session and feedback
- Wrap up the learning
Following the Bootcamp, we will meet for an hour monthly for three months to measure our progress, mastermind challenges, and lock in the learning.
Overall, participants receive:
- Eight hours of interactive workshop
- Access to evidence-based models in Human Needs, Communication, Engagement and Coaching
- A one-hour 1:1 with Andy Scantland
- Three one-hour follow up sessions over three months to lock in the learning
Cohort size: we will limit the program to just 12 participants
Investment: $579 with a 15% discount for past clients and multiple participants from the same organization.
Become the inspiring leader you were born to be.
ABOUT ANDY
Andy has a passion for helping executives lead authentically and
effectively, in support of their teams and organization. He uses a
co-creative, Socratic method combined with evidenced-based
practices to drive increased authenticity, clarity, engagement, and
performance. As founder of Upside Leadership, he helps people
step into confident and inspiring leadership.
His focus is on supporting leaders through rapid change and has
worked with executives in start-ups, Fortune 500 enterprises,
government, and non-profits in North America, EMEA and Asia.
With more than 5,000 hours of professional executive coaching
experience, Andy has worked with leaders in the technology,
healthcare, life sciences, biotech, retail, government, nonprofit,
education, financial, and education sectors.
Andy is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), trained through the
ICF-accredited Co-Active Training Institute as well as a certified
Strengths Coach and Mentor Coach through The Marcus
Buckingham Company and a Premier Fellow Coach with the
BetterUp organization. He is certified in Brain-based Coaching
through the Neuroleadership Institute and in Fred Kofman’s
Conscious Business Coaching model. He also holds certifications in
James Garrett’s Brain-by-Design model for habit formation as well
as the StandOut Strengths assessment and TILT365 Leadership
Predictor suite of assessments.
During his corporate career, Andy gained direct experience in
strategy, sales, marketing, communications, research, and financial
analysis. He has founded two companies: Ready2Lead and his
current business, Upside Leadership.
Andy is currently President of the Colorado chapter of the
International Coach Federation. He holds an MBA in Marketing
from Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business and a BS in
Management from Clemson University. He is a graduate of Harvard
University’s ‘Strategic Planning: Formulation to Implementation’
program, run seven marathons and loves to hike and ski near
his home in Colorado.