In our fast-changing world, our ability to learn from emergent conditions holds the greatest potential for positive impact. It can lead to new thinking, new products, and new awareness. Or, to put it another way, our inability to learn keeps us stagnant or, even worse, falling behind. Learning has power. Team learning brings power and resilience. In her newest books, Agile Retrospective 2nd edition: A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement (2024) and Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams (2022), Diana Larsen explores leading edge paths to teamlearning. In this talk, Diana Larsen examines ideas about retrospectives that you can use now, in real time.
About Diana Larsen
As a Leadership Agility Advisor, Diana Larsen, wears many hats. To serve her professional communities, Diana delivers inspiring conference keynotes, talks, and workshops around the world. She shares the wisdom she’s gained in more than three decades of working with leaders, teams, and organizations. Her talks add value through her pragmatic, yet visionary, approach.
As a trusted advisor and coach of coaches, the continuing thread in her career has been a focus on team learning and leaders who “learn out loud” to support their teams and organizations. Familiar with leadership challenges, she has co-founded and led six small businesses. She serves as an advisor to Retrium, Inc., on the advisory board of the Organization Design Forum, and as former chair of Agile Alliance board of directors.
A prolific contributor to readers who seek to improve leadership and team development, Diana has co-authored and contributed to pivotal books, including:
- Agile Retrospectives 2nd ed.: A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning & Improvement (2024)
- Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams (2022)
- The Art of Agile Development (2022)
- The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile, an ebook.(2019)
- Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams (2016, 2nd ed.)
- Five Rules for Accelerated Learning (2014)
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (2006, 1st ed.)
A model maker, she co-originated the Agile Fluency® model as well as other models covering aspects of leadership, learning, and teams.