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PAST Speaking EVENTS & Appearances
Businesses without Bosses: Self-management with Holacracy
Tuesday, November 12 2019
As the world changes faster and faster, even large companies are realizing the need to "think like a startup" – or risk losing out to one. Managers in traditional companies make decisions with limited and often obsolete information, and employees can't leverage their deep experience with products and customers to maximum benefit. Instead of seeing our companies as machines, companies running Holacracy operate more like organisms, sensing and responding to their environment dynamically. Come see how decision-making can work in a distributed environment, without sacrificing the safety of hierarchy.
As a follow-up to the Agile Online Summit Interview, Jonathan answers questions asked by participants about Agile and Holacracy. Topics include how holacracy is particularly useful outside of software development, Holacracy’s use in government, Holacracy as a meta-system, and others.
Ask A Holacracy Coach
Agile Online Summit 2019
Tuesday, October 8 201
In this 20-minute interview Tom Henricksen, Moderator of the Agile Online Summit, asks Jonathan some informed questions about Holacracy; what it is and what it isn’t and how it’s different than other agile frameworks like Scrum or Kanban.
Interview not available publicly
Holacracy in Agile Interview
Agile Online Summit 2019
Tuesday, October 8 201
Jonathan talks to the CultureCon Community about how easily Holacracy can transform organizational culture by shifting how people work together. In this webinar he deconstructs the barriers that prevent people from taking action, addressing each barrier and showing how the principals of Holacracy can be applied.
Creating a culture of Action Takers with Holacracy
Tuesday, September 24 2019
ITA Mentor Swarm
Thursday, August 8 2019
Seven groups of high school seniors will have ten minutes each to pitch their startup presentation to one of seven mentors. The mentors will provide feedback on the concepts and presentations. The mentors are chosen based on their experience in various industries.
The Information Technology Academy (ITA) is a pre-college initiative with the goal of increasing enrollment rates of diverse students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ITA programs serve students in the communities of Madison, Lac du Flambeau and Oneida.
Through ITA, high school students build knowledge and skills with hands-on training, academic support, mentoring, leadership development, community service and internship opportunities. At the same time, the students’ communities benefit from greater access to technology and from the skills and experience gained by these future leaders.
Holacracy:
Structural Agility at all levels
Monday, June 3 2019
As the world gets more complex, organizations need to adapt to change faster now than ever before. Just as Agile is replacing outmoded systems of project management, Holacracy is poised to do the same for traditional systems of business management, the underlying structures of which date back thousands of years. In this talk, Jonathan Yankovich (former Partner at HolacracyOne) will provide an overview of Holacracy and some key concepts and processes that support the practice. You'll see how authority can be distributed safely without sacrificing organizational alignment and come away with some concrete practices that you can use to create an experience for your teams, and leave with more questions than you came in with.
Available Topics & Presentations
Jonathan is available to speak on a range of topics, some of which are listed here. To inquire about speaking engagements, send an email. Some examples possible topics are listed below:
Servant Leadership In Action: How to empower the people around you
Better Meetings, Better Leaders: Self-organization with Holacracy
Holacracy: Structural Agility at all levels
Mind like water: Getting Things Done with Projects & Action (GTD)
What comes after values? (Or, The value of organizational values)
Tactical Meetings: The last meeting format you’ll ever need
How to evolve your organization with Tension processing
Many Hats: You’re already using Dynamic Role Structure