In Adaptable Anna HedlundJimmy Janlén and Martin Wasielewski share our experience on how leaders and managers can and should build organisations that are able to quickly and sustainably adapt to unprecedented change, complexity and ambiguity.

Our perspectives are both influenced by our individual and shared experiences working with organisations to achieve challenging business goals and improvements as well as other people’s experience and research.

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Presentations of the hosts


13. What emerges from embracing uncertainty?

Companies are fixated on providing certainty

12. Strategy eats Roadmaps for breakfast 😜

Roadmaps are frequently used to remove uncertainty

11. Making Sense of Complexity

Working in complex situations creates lots of ambiguity and room for

10. Traits that distinguish “Great Leaders”

Complex situations makes it challenging to become a leader that’s appreciated

9. Trivialisation of Complexity

When people struggle with collaboration they tend to share some typical

8. Mind Your Language!

What does the vocabulary we use have to do with our ability to manage


Hosts

Martin Wasielewski

Martin has over 18 years of experience working with a multitude of teams and organisations in various business contexts. For the past 7+ years he’s worked as an organisational and team coach, teacher and speaker. He currently is an independent consultant and has considerably helped to improve team performance at Spotify, King, Lifesum and Fishbrain among others

Anna Hedlund

Anna has a 10+ years background from different roles in tech with her main expertise in coaching and leadership. She is a Spotify alumni and currently works as an engineering manager at a startup in Stockholm. Her passion is building healthy and inclusive organisations where people can do their best work and deliver value to customers. And she’s found that a lot of that goes into leadership and creating the foundation where people can thrive.

Jimmy Janlén

Jimmy Janlén is an agile coach and teacher. He’s a freelance consultant located in Stockholm. In addition to coaching, Jimmy holds courses, writes books and blogs on all things agile and lean such as agile leadership, agile adaptations, large scale agile, team dynamics and facilitation. He also hosts and produces a YouTube channel called Agile with Jimmy. He sometimes refers to himself as a bureaucracy therapist, cultural acupuncture, cross company pollinator and visualization magician. Jimmy is the author of the book Visualization Example and creator of the Jimmy Cards.