Andrea Provaglio

Agile Executive Coach

Andrea Provaglio is an independent professional in the field of Information Technology, with over twenty years of working experience in three different continents. Andrea aids executives, managers, leaders, and teams in large organizations, as well as in small companies, to move de facto into the 21st century and improve their business capability, by adopting modern approaches to value generation and to teamwork.

He is assisting executives, leaders, and managers, who appreciate the business advantage of effective knowledge work, to evolve their company and teams into healthier, more modern organizational and cultural models.

Andrea’s clients come from many different domains, which can range from large organizations such as the European Commission in Brussels, or large multinational banks, to small and dynamic IT companies.

One of his main areas of interest and expertise is business agility and adaptive organizations. As part of Andrea’s regular activities, he enjoys sharing what he knows by speaking at major international conferences.

People, Leadership and Adaptability: Bringing Business Agility into your Organization’s DNA

Oct 14, 2020

Business Agility is an organization’s ability to act, react, and adapt quickly based on external and internal new conditions and/or information. It’s a process of constant discovery and learning that has to go together with some kind of nimbleness in the organization’s structure, information flow, and decisional processes.

But true Business Agility is also inherently holistic and strictly coupled with the organizational culture. It can not be confined to a specific function (i.e. production) and it spans multiple aspects of the organization, including leadership style, HR practices, finance, and so on — all of which are interconnected in one way or another.

In this session I’d like to draw on some real-life experiences with my clients and touch on some of the most delicate traits of business agility, namely leadership and culture. I’m going to reflect on what leadership means in a highly uncertain and volatile context and how the “traditional” approaches we have to deal with people in the organization can actually work against your ability to adapt and innovate.