Past Events: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022
Upcoming Event: December 2025
Thursday, December 11th at 12:00pm PT / 2:00pm CT / 3:00pm ET
Guest Speaker: Kristian Ruggieri
Topic: “Listen, Build, Adapt: Improv Practices for Agile Teams“
Click HERE to Register.
Most Recent Event: November 20
Summary:
What if the next frontier of leadership isn’t about becoming more like machines but about becoming more human, with machines as our trusted partners in leadership & team effectiveness? AI is not here to replace us—it’s here to augment us! But—only if we can effectively partner with the AI tools powerfully & positively.
It’s been proven that individuals and teams that include AI outperform those without an AI component. This is NOT about learning a new app or AI chatbot tricks. It’s about becoming the kind of human leader that can leverage AI to make the “impossible” inevitable. In this highly engaging and interactive session, we’ll explore what it means to lead from the inside out—with help from AI—through five interconnected levels of leadership:
- Self-Leadership
- 1:1 Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Organizational Leadership
- Global Leadership
This isn’t about becoming a machine! It’s about becoming the kind of bold, self-aware, globally conscious, and effective leader that our world needs with AI as your “coach in your pocket”. Whether you lead a team of 3 or 30,000, this session will challenge, empower, and equip you to lead more effectively, from the inside out.
If you’re ready to leverage AI to be an “AI-augmented Leader” who uses AI as a “coach in your pocket” to help your team make the extraordinary, or even “impossible”, inevitable—this session is for you!
Takeaways:
- A future-ready mindset about AI: beyond fear & hype, toward practical partnership where you become an “AI-augmented” leader.
- A clear map of the five levels of leadership (Self→1:1→Team→Organization→Global) and how AI can support each.
- Specific examples of AI tools that augment—not replace—your leadership capacities.
- Real-world use cases from global organizations that are getting this right.
- Provocative questions that will expand how you think about being human in a world where AI is integrated into our work and our lives.
- Inspiration to lead not just more efficiently, but more effectively — with the help of AI tools — to become a BETTER version of YOURSELF.
About the Speaker:
Kimberly Wiefling is a physicist turned leadership expert, known for helping teams achieve what seems impossible. She’s the author of the global bestseller “Scrappy Project Management”, the founder of Wiefling Consulting, and cofounder of Silicon Valley Alliances. Her latest book, “Turning Ideas Into Impact”, is an anthology with 15 Silicon Valley consultants.
With a decade at HP and years in startups leading complex product development, Kimberly has worked with over 50+ globalizing Japanese companies and professionals from 50+ countries to solve global challenges profitably. Kimberly lives and works in Silicon Valley. She’s helped to start, run, and grow many small businesses, including several that are still alive and profitable. One of these successful businesses even grew to millions in revenue with only seed funding from her and the other founders. Kimberly’s superpower is transforming managers into leaders and groups into high-performing teams who can achieve “Impossible” together. She is a passionate advocate for planetary sustainability and has been supporting it through hervolunteer efforts for several years. This includes facilitating a course called “Engineering Climate Management & Entrepreneurship” at Stanford’s Doerr School every year. She is shifting her focus more towards facilitating breakthroughs in corporate sustainability that benefit Our World.
Described as a “force of nature,” Kimberly is harnessing that energy—alongside today’s powerful AI tools—to drive meaningful, impactful changes and build a sustainable futurefor planet Earth.
Click to learn more about Kimberly Wiefling
Past Events: October 16
Summary:
Some perspectives imply that Agile Coaching is for a small set of specialized agilists who serve to improve everyone else, or that it’s a unique role that others, including managers and leaders, shouldn’t do or will find difficult to master. This talk intends to debunk those notions. Everyone has leadership potential and can rise to be a leader. Leaders must learn to coach if they are to be effective.
In this workshop, Bob Galen will explore the nuances associated with Agile Coaching to demystify it and encourage you to find your inner Agile Coach in whatever leadership role you currently hold. He’ll share and explore the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as a competency model for agile coaching. Next, he’ll explore the critical characteristics of an agile coaching mindset. Finally, he’ll give you a chance to practice having a coaching conversation or two.
In this engaging and interactive workshop, Bob hopes to inspire you, so your inner Agile Coach emerges, grows, and shines.
Takeaways:
- Introduction to the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel.
- Critical aspects and characteristics for your agile coaching mindset.
- Exploration of a coaching conversation metaphor & guidance that will help frame your coaching sessions
About the Speaker:
Bob Galen is an Agile Practitioner, Trainer, and Coach based in Cary, North Carolina. He helps organizations and teams adopt agile practices pragmatically and guides their transformation toward agile ways of working. With experience dating back to the late 1990s, Bob brings deep expertise to every engagement. He currently serves as the Director of Agile Practice at Zenergy Technologies, a leading firm in business agility transformation. He is also the President and Head Coach at Agile Moose, a boutique agile consulting company.
Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach Emeritus (CECem) with the Scrum Alliance, an authorized trainer with iCAgile, and an active member of the Agile Alliance. He has authored and published four agile-focused books, most recently Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching (2022). In addition to his books, Bob is a prolific writer, blogger, and podcaster.
Bob Galen’s Websites – www.rgalen.com, www.agile-moose.com
Additional learning resources will be shared with the participants during the meetup session.
Click to learn more about Bob Galen
Past Events: September 18
Summary:
In this session, we explore the potential of AI-assisted video creation using Google’s new tool, Google Vids. We take a look at its features and understand how it can streamline the video creation process and enhance our storytelling.
During the session, we create a video using Google Vids and talk about options for sharing a video created this way.
While the session will use Google Vids as the main tool, you will be able to apply the learnings from the session to other tools you might consider as well.
Takeaways:
- Why create videos?
- Types of video creation tools
- How video creation works with Google Vids
About the Speaker:
Gabriella Laszlo is passionate about making IT simple and easy. She worked for Google for over 10 years in localization and operations, at the intersection of languages and technology. She founded KloudGem LLC to help companies minimize overhead and maximize efficiency, productivity, and agility using Google Workspace business tools. KloudGem specializes in digital transformation training and workflows for Google Workspace. KloudGem also helps craft document management and communication strategies within a company and for outside partners and vendors. Gabriella holds two Master’s degrees from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, and she teaches about Google Workspace to small businesses for SCORE.
