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Agile leadership: the missing link in AI adoption

Your technology is only as powerful as the people using it. Equip leaders with the agile behaviours proven to unlock ROI from AI transformation.

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Why agility is the missing link in AI ROI

Agility is the number one capability organisations need to unlock AI’s value. Yet when conditions shift, most teams stall. Leaders misdiagnose the issue. They see AI as a technical upgrade, when in truth it’s an adaptive test of leadership.

Why? Because AI magnifies tensions every leader already faces: deliver on BAU targets vs innovate, improve productivity fast vs reassure employees, take risks vs avoid mistakes, get results now vs collaborate widely.

Our High Performance Behaviour Model shows that just three leadership behaviours drive 60% of organisational agility. These aren’t “nice-to-haves.” They’re the deciding factor between AI investments driving growth or gathering dust.

If your leaders can master these behaviours, AI shifts from an expensive experiment to a lasting source of measurable business impact.

 

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Welcome change

Embrace the pace of AI. Stay steady as new tools and workflows appear and guide teams to adapt with confidence when transformation hits overnight.
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Make fast and big decisions

Move at the speed of AI. Cut through complexity, balance risks and act with confidence.

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Seize opportunities

Spot where AI gives you the edge. Act before rivals and scale what works so investment quickly turns into real business wins.
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Welcome change

Fast, without panic or confusion. Staying calm, focused, and ready to adapt – even when the plan shifts overnight.

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Make fast and big decisions

Quickly, when the pressure is on. Cutting through the noise, balancing risk and acting with confidence when it matters most.
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Seize opportunities

Before competitors even clock them. Spotting what others miss and moving first – not just faster.

How we develop agile leaders

At MindGym, agility isn’t a buzzword, it’s a behaviour. Our  EPA model – Engage, Participate, Activate – turns agility from talk into action, helping leaders lead differently when it matters most.

  • Engage - Start the journey with the Agility 360, our diagnostic that shows how leaders are experienced today, pinpoints growth areas and sets a clear path for change. Leaders can take it at the start or end of their journey to track agility shifts and prove ROI. This is the starting point for a laser-focused and data-led agility programme.
  • Participate – Leaders step into live, interactive experiences that build agility’s core behaviours: embracing change, making bold decisions fast and seizing opportunities.
  • Activate – Change sticks when new behaviours are reinforced throughout the learning journey. Nudges, bite-sized eLearning and always-on, scalable coaching tools like Lio and ScultureAI keep agility alive and measurable during the participate sessions and long after they end.
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Experience the Agility 360 in just 10 minutes

Our Agility 360 gives leaders a snapshot of how others experience them at work. It provides clarity on how they perform in the moments that matter and equips organisations with a roadmap to build agility, harness AI and deliver measurable impact.

  • Laser-focused on agility: Pinpoints the three leadership behaviours that drive 60% of organisational agility and measures leaders against them.
  • Fast and frictionless: Just 12 questions, 10 minutes, zero survey fatigue. 
  • Insight that drives action: Turns feedback into clear next steps leaders can apply immediately. 
  • Built for growth at scale: Works with individuals, teams or across the organisation to embed agility where it matters most.
  • Track progress over time: Use at the start and end of a MindGym learning journey to set a baseline and measure behaviour change.

Leading a transformation, rolling out AI or developing your next wave of leaders?

For a limited time, trial the Agility 360 to uncover growth opportunities and see what a leadership roadmap with MindGym could look like.

Agile behaviours look different at every level of leadership

Agility isn’t one-size-fits-all. The behaviours that drive agility look different at every level of leadership.

  • Senior leaders must set the story, remove roadblocks and make bold calls.
  • Managers must translate vision into action, keep belief alive and align teams.
  • Individual contributors must experiment, adapt quickly and embed new ways of working daily. 

Miss any group and AI adoption stalls.

That's why MindGym's programmes scale agility growth across every level of leadership, no cookie cutter content, just targeted learning experiences for the demands of each role. 

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See it in action

The journey below focuses on how we build the behaviours that drive agility at a senior leader level. Our approach scales across three levels of leadership: individual contributors, people managers and senior leaders.

MindGym's behaviour change framework

Engage

Sparks curiosity and motivation by making learning feel personal, relevant and immediately valuable.

Participate

Transforms passive learning into active discovery through interactive, bite-sized experiences and real-world practise.

Activate

Reinforces new behaviours with structured follow-ups, action planning and continuous feedback to ensure lasting change.

Lio conversation coach

Our AI-powered conversation partner helps leaders practise and master critical conversations around change – including delivering change messages, handling resistance to change and hosting a Q&A about a recent change. Leaders can practise these conversations in a realistic, private and bias-free space and benefit from instant behavioural feedback. 

Learn more about EPA
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Engage

Engagement campaign

A high-impact, internal marketing campaign that builds anticipation and motivation before the journey begins – showing participants how better habits around agility in the face of change can improve leadership performance. 

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Participate
Lio conversation coach

World café

A 60-minute, live and immersive experience where participants spark fresh thinking through peer exchange. Leaders kick off the journey together – sharing their agility-related challenges, spotting patterns and building shared intent.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Participate
Lio conversation coach

Leading change

A 60-minute live session where participants learn the psychology of change, why people resist change and how to lead effectively through varied reactions.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Activate
Lio conversation coach

Nudge

A timely reminder that reinforces the practical mindset shift from Leading change – helping participants pause, reflect and make more intentional choices with their time and energy.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Participate
Lio conversation coach

Voice your vision

A 90-minute live session built to show participants how to understand typical change reactions and enable clear communication of new visions. They'll learn how to use the 3Hs approach to motivate and engage their teams with new initiatives.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Activate
Lio conversation coach

Nudge

Keeps the momentum going from Voice your vision – reminding participants to apply one key technique for communicating vision in real time.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Participate
Lio conversation coach

See it to solve it

A 90-minute live session where participants identify and act on opportunities for improvement and make timely decisions for action, even when they don’t have all the answers.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Activate
Lio conversation coach

Nudge

A timely reminder for participants to activate learnings following the See it to solve it session – prompting them to experiment and turn insights into action. 

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Participate
Lio conversation coach

Experiment to innovate

A 120-minute live session where participants learn how to create a safe-to-fail, high-growth culture by encouraging experimentation, supporting intelligent risk-taking and turning failure into fuel for success.

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Activate
Lio conversation coach

Dialogue Group

A 60-minute, peer-led session where participants personalise their learnings and coach each other to overcome challenges. 

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

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Activate
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Pledge

In this 30-minute closing session, participants reflect on their learning, identify key behaviour shifts and commit to tangible actions they’ll take. It creates a personal sense of ownership and a powerful collective moment to end the journey. 

Continued access to Lio conversation coach underpins this step. 

Ready to take the first step toward better AI adoption? Try the Agility 360 now.

In just 10 minutes, the Agility 360 shows leaders where they stand today and gives a focused roadmap to build the behaviours that fuel agility, unlocking faster decisions, stronger teams and the confidence to make AI work.
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