About Us
Enablers, in every sense of the word
What Is Our Purpose?
- To help teams be outcome-driven, self-sufficient, and continuously learning.
- To provide change agents the intelligence they need to make a case for change and better ways of working.
- To help organization leaders engage those closest to the work, accelerate feedback, and make data-driven improvement decisions.
How Are We Different?
- Lean Agile Intelligence’s Outcome Improvement Model enables organizations, teams, and individuals to assess, improve, and measure the practices that matter most, given their context and goals.
- Agile, Product, and AI assessment capability and template customization make assessments a value-added exercise.
- Our Self-Assessment Poker facilitation capability makes assessments fun and engaging for participants.
- Comprehensive capability criteria drive meaningful conversation and provide concrete actions for improvement.
- Aggregate results every which way using our organization setup and tagging features.
A Little History...
The origins of Lean Agile Intelligence are attributed to a collaboration effort between Agile Uprising board members. What started as an assessment sharing exercise (lots of Excel sheets!) quickly escalated into a passionate debate about the use of assessments, or should we say “misuse” in the process excellence industry.
We concluded that assessments could be a powerful change initiative tool given the shortage of coaches in most organizations, the need for feedback from those closest to the work, and the necessity for senior leaders to make data-driven improvement decisions and investments.
However, in traditional environments, the concept of an “assessment” comes with baggage and is often seen as a non-value-added exercise by teams.
The light bulbs went off; this was an opportunity to solve an interesting problem. How do we change the perspective of assessments from an audit to a fun, learning, and feedback exercise so data-driven improvement decisions can be made at all levels of the organization? The rest is history. Lean Agile Intelligence was born six months later, and we have been committed to making assessments a fun, learning, and feedback exercise ever since.
Our Founder
Michael S. McCalla is an industry-respected transformation strategist who has executed multiple enterprise-level transformations with Fortune 1000 companies. Michael brings a pragmatic and adaptable approach to Agile, Product, and AI transformations, helping clients establish new ways of working fit for their purpose and aligned to tangible outcomes.
At the core of this approach are employee engagement, feedback loops, and data intelligence. He has found that these three elements are essential to sustaining transformational change.
Michael has traveled the world, sharing his philosophy and success stories as a conference speaker since 2014. In 2016, Michael created Lean Agile Intelligence to help organizations translate feedback from multiple levels of the organization to actionable insights, accelerating transformation outcomes.
