Why work with us?
There is more value created with overall alignment than local excellence
Don Reinertsen, author of The Principles of Product Development Flow
Compared to hiring a big consultancy, you’ll save hundreds of thousands in consultancy fees alone, not to mention millions in business value created and business waste averted when alignment happens.
We help teams, managers and leaders to work more effectively together, to deliver more value for their organisations and customers, while generating engagement and enjoyment as a priority.
How we help
- interviewing individuals and groups to understand their challenges
- uncovering hidden impediments to the flow of value
- facilitating visioning, ideation & planning workshops
- supporting individuals and teams to communicate and collaborate
- facilitating ways of working workshops and trainings
- supporting managers and leaders to support their groups and teams
- structuring and forming value streams, teams, teams-of-teams, and working groups
- identifying and adapting roles and responsibilities for maximum clarity and alignment
- configuring and adapting team and multi-team processes and workflows so that work flows smoothly
- configuring and adapting team and multi-team meeting structures for maximising alignment
- organising and facilitating team development for maximising trust, psychological safety and alignment
Ryan Behrman – Founder
With a background as a software developer and senior project manager in multi-national consulting firms, Ryan turned to coaching and facilitation over a decade ago. He has coached, consulted and trained teams, managers and leaders in industries as far afield as retail, supply chain, publishing, government, travel, cloud software, education, investment banking, wealth management, telecommunications, energy and data analytics.
Ryan has trained over a thousand managers, coaches and facilitators in adaptive approaches to management, leadership, coaching and facilitation. In 2014 he ran the first Management 3.0 training in the UK which he continued running dozens of times worldwide for almost a decade. Since 2017 he has co-authored 4 industry-leading courses and programmes, all accredited by ICAgile, in Team Agility Coaching, Team Agility Facilitation, Enterprise Agility Foundations and Coaching Enterprise Agility and Transformation.
Ryan holds an MBA from Warwick Business School where his dissertation compared agile approaches with traditional approaches to management and workflow (“Agile vs Waterfall for Complex E-Commerce Projects”, 2011). He holds over a dozen certifications in coaching and facilitation and is trained in Professional Coaching (Coaching Development UK), Organisational Constellations (The Whole Partnership), Family Constellations (The Centre for Systemic Constellations), Action Learning Sets (Action Learning Centre), Lego Serious Play (Serious Work), Relational Mindfulness and Insight Dialogue (Optimal Living), Bohmian Dialogue (Dialogue Creates) and Systemic Team Coaching (Academy of Executive Coaching). He is the founder of Systemic Agility and the CEO of StrongSuits, the strengths-based approach to building stronger teams and leaders.