Laura Powers

Vice President Operations @Business Agility Institute

Laura Powers is an acknowledged international leader for business transformation through Lean Agile ways of working, with extensive experience in agile training, coaching and consulting.

She’s specialized in supporting Agile organizations to assess current levels of agility, roadmap improvements and sustain measurable return on their Agile investment, as well as Agile change management, work culture evolution, and executive and leadership team coaching.

Her 25+ years of experience in product development range from Silicon Valley startups to large enterprises.

In addition to her professional status as a certified Agile practitioner, consultant and teacher, she has served in many non-profit roles advocating agile working and to mentor women to lead in the agile community of practice. These include Co-founding the Women in Agile Chapter in San Francisco and serving as co-chair of the Coaching and Mentoring track for the Agile 2019 Conference, the largest Agile conference in the world.

Laura Powers was recognized in the 2019 class of Women of Influence for her contributions in advancing Agile methods of working.

Changing the Future of Work – The Neurology of Leading Change

Oct 14, 2020

At any given time, our organizations are surfing multiple waves of change. Technology, business, people, and regulatory changes combine to create a seemingly endless tsunami of change engulfing our work. Instead of rowing against the tide of change – what if we embrace the opportunity within change? Organizations on the journey towards business agility are learning to adapt to change, responsively adjust course, and thrive in competitive market waters.

The question for leaders is how to catalyze and lead effective change. The odds for success can be daunting. 50 to 75% of all change initiatives fail. Some fail to launch. Others fail to scale. And others fail to sustain. What’s a leader to do?

In this session, we will explore the brain science behind change. How are our brains wired to resist change? How might we address change fatigue? How can we support our teams through their change journeys? This practical session will provide a bit of theory along with practical actions any leader can take to harness the power of change.