Detailed Program Requirements

Essential Format & Logistics

• Virtual Intensive - for this our fourth cohort, we have decided to conduct the 5 day virtual intensive after the initial 3 cohort sessions (see below). The Intensive is split across two weeks. Full attendance for all sessions is essential.

• Leadership Circle debrief - during the intensive, you will receive the results of your Leadership Circle 360 assessment, which we will guide you in setting up to get invaluable feedback on your leadership. This becomes the basis of your personal leadership development plan, a core component of program effectiveness

• Cohort Sessions - Fifteen 2-hour sessions for the full Cohort will be scheduled on Fridays, approximately every other week. The program completes in May 2025. In order to preserve the quality of the developmental container that is at the heart of this program, you must attend all cohort sessions, and can miss no more than three sessions in total.

• Triad Praxis Pods - there will be 10-12 sessions required, self-scheduled by the triad, for skill practice, shadow work, accountability and support.

• Mentoring – You will have up to four 1-on-1 sessions with a mentor who has been through the ICE-EC process, who will guide you through the process of building your competencies and act as an advisor as you prepare the artifacts (recordings, documents, interviews, etc.) you will need for your final assessment.

• Competency Assessments – At the end of the program, you will be assessed by the two program leaders (Michael Spayd & Randolf Speigner) on your real enterprise coach work, against our program competencies (which meet and exceed ICAgile enterprise coach competencies). These assessments require that you have a "focal system" where you can work at an organizational level (not necessarily the CXO level, but also not just lots of teams with no real organizational scope).

The Competencies

The following are our Integral Sensemaking competencies (which also map to ICAgile’s Expert in Enterprise Coaching (ICE-EC) certification).

Coach holds their own Sense-making Complexity as their most important tool of transformation (inner stance).

• 1A.  Able to work with own emotions, triggers, biases and personal limitations.

• 1B.  Increases self-awareness & mastery through feedback and development.

• 1C.  Understands complexity, systems- and polarity-thinking.

• 1D.  Is fluent in Integral Sensemaking Theory & Practice.

• 1E. Holds their transformation work as “worldwork” 

Coach has multiple Organizational Coaching Stances available, fluidly shifting between them based on client need.

• 2A. Holds the organizational client as a system and coaches from that view.

• 2B.  Exhibits professional coaching skills and presence.

• 2C.  Fluidly shifts between different enterprise coaching stances based on client need.

• 2D.  Can coach and mentor senior leaders.

Coach holds Leadership Capability – at all levels – as key to the transformation process.

• 3A.  Is able to presence one’s personal leadership & authority.

• 3B.  Sees leadership potential in others.

• 3C.  Creates deliberately developmental environments.

Coach is a skilled Integral Practitioner of Complex Change

• 4A.  Holds change as a natural -- but essentially uncontrollable -- human & systemic process.

• 4B.  Conducts organizational systems entry.

• 4C.  Assesses organizational systems using an Integral perspective.

• 4D.  Co-designs a strategy for complex change.

• 4E.  Guides organizations in their emergent change journey.

• 4F.  Measures business outcomes, including from the change process.

Who Would Benefit from This Program?

1.     Current (or aspiring) Organizational Coaches wishing to extend their skills / competencies and embodied presence as transformational leaders, gaining a broader, more systemic picture of organizational agility, and seeing how their own sensemaking can be used to increase the possibility of transformation.

2.     Organizational Change Agents such as Transformation Leads who wish to gain deeper insight, and develop deep skillfulness, in helping create the leadership and organizational culture needed to fully succeed with catalyzing organizational agility.

3.     Transformational Leaders who wish to increase their capacity specifically leading organizational change initiatives requiring cutting edge approaches to leadership, culture and change.

Outcomes of Your Participation

By participating fully in this program, you can expect a significant upgrade in your actual competence in exercising the tasks of Organizational Coaching. This is not a program for novices; it is a mastery program. Passing the assessments will be challenging, but rewarding and deeply satisfying.

• You will learn and gain facility in key practices of organization development (e.g. systems entry, readiness assessment, change design, etc.) and how to bring about their application within an adaptive frame.

• You will have immersed yourself in — and have practical ways to integrate — the distinctions and practices of adaptive action (complex adaptive change) at the organizational level, as a way to equip organizations in which you lead with an expanded ability to perform in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

• You will increase your skillfulness in the arena of relationship, communication, and group dynamics, finding yourself more effective in your ability to facilitate groups and teams toward increased relationship intelligence and high performance.

• You will have gained a more expanded vocabulary, through immersion in Integral Theory and Sensemaking, for understanding and more effectively dealing with the kinds of challenges you face as you endeavor to expand agility capability across your organization.

• You will have established a deep community of shared learning, insight and connection from which you will be able to draw support and inspiration for months, if not years, to come.

• You will experience a significant upgrade in your own inner leadership, which you will be able to readily observe and even measure for yourself. Along the way, you will find yourself with an increasing level of confidence and manifested ability in your leadership,

• Assuming full participation in all sessions and "passing" of the required assessments, you will achieve the ICAgile "Expert" designation in Enterprise Coaching (ICE-EC).

• Assuming the above — plus basic mastery of our Integral Sensemaking approach — you will also receive The Collective Edge's Integral Sensemaking & Action Certified Practitioner (ISCP).

Expectations of the Program

Transformation Mastery is obviously a deep and demanding program. We want you to be clear about the expectations for entry into the program. Here’s what we expect:

• You have been granted the relevant ICAgile Enterprise Coaching credentials: ICP-ENT and ICP-CAT (exceptions can be made as to timing of these credentials, as long as they are completed).

•  You have some previous exposure to the Integral framework, preferably to the Integral Agile Transformation Framework as articulated in the book Agile Transformation (Spayd & Madore). It is also recommended that you have some exposure to ideas about sensemaking, individual and collective.

•  You have Agile Coach experience with multiple teams, and have done at least some work at the organizational level -- e.g., HR, Leadership Development, cross-organizational work practices and prioritization, coaching/advising senior management (in other words, beyond working solely with the first level manager of an Agile team).

•  You have reasonably significant exposure to professional coaching training, such as what you might have had in an ICE-AC program, or a professional coach training program. At minimum, some exposure to professional coaching, such as that which you may have encountered in the Coaching Agile Teams class or some similar program which integrates professional coaching in a non-trivial manner.

•  To start, you need to have a focal client where you can begin working at an organizational level. We also realize that you may change jobs/clients during the program. To become certified, you MUST have demonstrable evidence of competent work at an organizational level. In a worst-case scenario, you could provide this evidence after the program end when you get a new client (within six months of program ending). We will certainly work with you if this happens, and others have survived this transition. To certify you, we need clear evidence of competence as an Enterprise Coach.

Virtual Format

All Intensive and Cohort sessions will be held on Zoom. You will need good internet access and a reasonably quiet environment. Please plan to be available during all these times.

With a virtual offering of a transformational program such as this, there are certain basic protocols which will assure a safe container, such as each participant having their own video camera, staying fully present during sessions, and scheduling other work to not interrupt program hours.

Cost

$7,800 ($2,400 Initial Payment - paid in registration system (invoicing also possible), plus 8 monthly payments of $675, paid by monthly invoice). For students who have taken our Mastercamp, we offer a $1000 discount for a net total of $6,800. There will also be a fee if you wish the ICAgile competency certification (paid to them) of $750.

Cohort size is 10-16.

Cancellation Policy

Due to the nature of this program, if you cancel more than four calendar weeks prior to the start of the program, a full refund will be offered, minus an administrative fee. If you cancel within the four-week timeframe, refunds will be considered based on circumstances, assuming your spot can be filled. A cancellation can always be used as a credit for upcoming programs.

Entry into the Program

Entry into the Transformation Mastery Program is by application. You may reach out to program leader, Michael Spayd, to request a free 30-minute coaching session to explore if the program is a good fit for you.

Your Program Leaders

Michael Spayd has been a pioneer in the Agile and transformational learning world for over 20 years, bringing in thinking and methods from professional coaching, leadership development (LD), organization development (OD), and deep Integral and systemic methods relevant to the transformation of self, culture, and leadership in service of organizational agility. Michael is known as a transformational teacher and practitioner, with a deep ability to facilitate both compelling and transformational learning environments.

Michael is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute, Trans4mation, and most recently, The Collective Edge. He has taught, coached and mentored several thousand Agile coaches, managers and leaders in his 20 years in the field. He is the coauthor of a highly anticipated book, Agile Transformations: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework to Think and Lead Differently, which was published December 2020.

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Randolf Speigner - In his commitment to human transformation, Randolf co-founded cogrow.space, after two decades of working with leaders, teams and business units in global enterprises, to bring a different voice to enterprise transformation work. As a global citizen, he collaborates with thought leaders in human transformation. Randolf takes great satisfaction in offering his guidance to practitioners as they realize their full potential and capacity in regenerative transformation. He is committed to design and lead cohorts for teams of leaders and change agents to enable effective change in their organizations. Randolf was a participant in the first ICE-EC cohort, and is happy to be a member of The Collective Edge teaching team.