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What Is ADAPT©?

The ADAPT© program is an immersive, outcome-based learning program that, through the use of cohort groups, allows organizations to take ownership of their own transformation. ADAPT© is unique because it is the only program on the market that takes a systemic view of transformation and focuses on outcomes, not frameworks.

Most learning programs hand practitioners a framework and a certification, then leave them to figure out how it actually applies to their organization. ADAPT© works differently. Practitioners learn alongside a cohort of peers — working through real organizational problems together, applying concepts in real time, and building the shared language and judgment that no framework certification can teach on its own.

Eighteen learning paths, organized into six clusters, give practitioners and organizations a structured way to close the specific capability gaps that matter most — without losing the systemic, outcome-based thinking that makes ADAPT© different from anything else available.

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Cohort-Based

Practitioners learn together, not alone. Shared cohorts create the peer accountability and collective problem-solving that individual e-learning cannot replicate.

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Immersive

Not lecture-based, not slide-based. Practitioners apply concepts to real organizational problems as they learn, not after a certification exam.

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Outcome-Based

Success is measured by what changes in how your organization actually works — not by completion certificates or framework recall.

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Systemic View

ADAPT© is the only program that treats transformation as one interconnected system — not a collection of isolated frameworks and tools.

Why Enterprise Capability Matters Now

AI acceleration without readiness. Strategy-to-execution gaps. Leadership strain in complexity. Transformation fatigue. Enterprises need integrated capability systems — not performative transformation programs.

AI Acceleration Without Readiness Strategy-to-Execution Gaps Leadership Strain in Complexity Transformation Fatigue

The Eighteen ADAPT Learning Paths

Organized into six clusters. Every path is delivered through the same cohort-based, immersive, outcome-focused ADAPT© model — the content changes, the method does not.

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Leadership 5 paths

Helping leaders unlearn ingrained habits and lead transformation, not just sponsor it.

Path 1

Leadership

Most transformations fail leadership in two ways: the wrong training, and no plan to unlearn ingrained behaviors. This path starts with Active Inertia — helping leaders understand why traditional ways of working will not succeed in a rapidly changing environment — before tackling what leaders actually need: organizational alignment, not Epics and OKRs in isolation.

Key Themes

Active Inertia Organizational Alignment Unlearning
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Path 2

Coaching

Coaching is not a support mechanism for transformation — it is a strategic resource that bridges the need for change with the successful execution of new behaviors. This path addresses a common gap: 21st-century managers must be coaches first. It is no longer possible to be a good manager without being a good coach.

Key Themes

Manager-as-Coach Strategic Resource Behavioral Bridge
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Path 3

Evolving Coaching Skills

For practitioners who already coach, this path goes further — building the advanced coaching capability required to guide organizations through increasingly complex, AI-accelerated transformation, where yesterday's coaching playbook is no longer sufficient.

Key Themes

Advanced Coaching Complexity Capability Evolution
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Adaptive Leadership in Complexity

Every enterprise transformation is fundamentally an adaptive challenge — yet most leadership teams are trained exclusively to solve technical problems. This path teaches the precise distinction, and builds the five capabilities that distinguish adaptive leaders: leading without authority, building psychological safety as architecture, and regulating organizational stress to produce learning rather than defensive routines.

Key Themes

Adaptive vs. Technical Leading Without Authority Psychological Safety as Architecture
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Path 16

Transformation Fatigue

Transformation fatigue is not a morale problem — it is an organizational design problem. This path addresses the conditions that create it, the signals that reveal it, and the design decisions that prevent it: diagnosing change saturation vs. change resistance, treating pace and sequencing as deliberate design decisions, and building the recovery cycles that make sustained transformation possible.

Key Themes

Change Saturation Diagnostic Pace & Sequencing Design Change Absorption Capacity
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Agile & DevOps 3 paths

Moving beyond framework adoption into real organizational agility and technical capability.

Path 4

Agility Activation

Corrects the misconception that you can only become Agile through Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe. Scrum surfaces impediments but provides no tools for root cause analysis. This path borrows from value stream mapping and the theory of constraints to actually resolve the impediments that frameworks leave lingering.

Key Themes

Value Stream Mapping Theory of Constraints Root Cause Analysis
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Path 5

Business Agility

Agile and Agility are not the same thing. Agility is an embedded organizational trait — durability, resilience, speed, flexibility, attunement — lived daily, not practiced occasionally. This path explores the Business Agility Manifesto and building a core concept model for your organization.

Key Themes

Business Agility Manifesto Core Concept Modeling Organizational DNA
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Path 6

Lean Agile & DevOps

Lean, Agile, and DevOps converge on shared objectives: process optimization, teamwork, and continuous progress. This path shows how integrating all three — rather than adopting them as separate initiatives — cultivates a cohesive, cooperative culture capable of swift, superior delivery.

Key Themes

Lean Principles Process Integration Cultural Cohesion
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Strategy & Change 3 paths

Connecting strategic intent to execution, and managing the human side of transformation.

Path 7

Strategy

A comprehensive approach to transformation requires a strategy map — promoting transparency, gradual progression, inclusivity, and ongoing experimentation. This path pairs strategy mapping with a balanced scorecard to visualize the cause-and-effect dynamics that support your transformation.

Key Themes

Strategy Maps Balanced Scorecard Cause-and-Effect Logic
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Path 8

Change Management

Contrary to belief in the Agile and DevOps communities, change management is integral to transformation, not optional. This path addresses the most common gap we see: no clearly defined role for the executive sponsor — and the practical tools to surface resistance before it derails the work.

Key Themes

Executive Sponsorship Resistance Mapping Cultural Change Tools
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Path 9

Adaptive Organizations

Today's organizations must identify marketplace shifts and respond with speed. This path explores holacracy circles, adaptive leadership, dynamic re-teaming, blue ocean strategy, and collective intelligence — building the resilience and engagement that drive higher performance and retention.

Key Themes

Holacracy Dynamic Re-Teaming Blue Ocean Strategy
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Product & Tech 3 paths

Building real product operating models and modern technology capability — not just frameworks.

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Product

Putting a framework in place to manage products does not make you a product organization. This path goes beyond the product operating model to address architecture, business-technology synchronization, talent, and funding — and the value chain analysis required to determine what your products actually are.

Key Themes

Product Operating Model Value Chain Analysis Funding Models
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Path 11

Modern Technology

DevOps suffers the same fate as Agile: tools and process get conflated with the deeper cultural and strategic shift required. This path makes clear that modern technology adoption is first a cultural shift, then a process and organizational shift — and must be measured against your organization's actual goals.

Key Themes

Cultural Shift First DevOps Maturity Systemic Understanding
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Path 12

Org Culture & Behaviors

Did your last transformation start by baselining your organizational culture and behaviors? If not, you are likely one of the majority of organizations that failed or under-delivered. This path teaches how to baseline, define desired culture, and distinguish culture from behaviors — two things constantly confused.

Key Themes

Culture Baselining Behavioral Design Culture vs. Behavior
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Execution & Performance 2 paths

Building the systems that connect strategy to team-level behavior — and the measurement architecture that tells whether it worked.

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Execution Discipline

Most organizations have strategy. Most have capable teams. Almost none have a system that reliably connects the two. This path builds that system — using OKRs, KPIs, and flow thinking as integrated tools rather than isolated initiatives. Because OKRs without KPI design, and KPIs without flow thinking, produce the illusion of improvement with none of the outcome.

Key Themes

OKR Architecture Capability KPIs vs. Activity Metrics Flow Thinking at System Level
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Path 14

Measurement & Feedback Loops

Most transformations look successful while they are running. Six months after the program closes, the gains are gone. This path builds the measurement architecture that tells the truth — the four feedback loops that distinguish temporary compliance from lasting capability change, and the leading indicators that surface reversion before it becomes irreversible.

Key Themes

Behavioral Signal Loop Leading vs. Lagging Indicators The Six-Month Test
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AI & Tech 1 path

Closing the gap between AI deployment and AI capability — where most enterprise AI investments are currently leaking value.

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AI Decision-Making: From Deployment to Influence

Fewer than 20% of people using AI tools are influencing any actual decision with them. This path gives leaders the decision influence rate metric, the human-in-the-loop audit methodology, the workflow integration design, and the decision rights architecture to close that gap — specifically for leaders who make decisions, not data scientists who build systems.

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Decision Influence Rate Human-in-the-Loop Audit Decision Rights Architecture
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Meta-Path 1 path

The path for practitioners who design transformations — teaching system-level thinking across all six clusters.

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Enterprise Capability Architecture

Most transformation programs improve individual capabilities without understanding the system that produces organizational performance. This meta-path teaches practitioners to read an organization as a capability system using the Helix Capability Model™ — identifying compounding gaps, designing integrated interventions across all domains, and sequencing a transformation portfolio so capabilities compound rather than cancel each other.

Key Themes

Helix Capability Model™ Compounding vs. Cancelling Capabilities Portfolio Sequencing
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A Capability Builder — Not a Consulting Vendor

Every ADAPT© learning path is designed around this distinction. It shapes how we build, deliver, and measure every cohort.

We do not
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How an ADAPT© Cohort Works

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Cohorts form around a shared learning path

Practitioners from your organization — or across organizations — are grouped into a cohort working through the same ADAPT© learning path together, rather than learning in isolation.

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Learning is immersive, not lecture-based

Each session applies concepts directly to real organizational problems the cohort is facing. There is no passive content consumption — every session produces something the cohort can act on.

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Peer accountability drives application

Cohort members check in with each other between sessions, share what they tried, and learn from what worked and what did not — building the practitioner judgment that a solo certification course cannot teach.

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Outcomes are measured, not assumed

ADAPT© tracks what actually changes in how the cohort's organization operates — not completion rates or quiz scores. This is what makes ADAPT© outcome-based rather than content-based.

Who ADAPT© Learning Paths Are For

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Individual practitioners

Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, change leads, and product managers looking to close a specific capability gap.

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Intact teams

Teams that want to build shared capability and language together, rather than sending one person to a course.

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Organizations

Enterprises looking to build practitioner capability at scale ahead of — or alongside — a larger Capability Accelerator or Enterprise Program.

“I attended the ADAPT sessions while working as an Agile Transformation Coach at Wells Fargo Bank. The sessions were informative and are an eye opening on how to run a successful Agile Transformation.”

Inez Eldewek  ·  Wells Fargo
Cohort-Based · Immersive · Outcome-Focused

Eighteen paths. One method.
Capability that actually transfers.

Not sure which learning path fits your organization? A free 30-minute Capability Readiness Review will help identify the right starting point.

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