Cliff Hazell, Keynote Speaker

Founder of Cognician Group | Coach | Speaker | Author

Over the course of two decades, Cliff Hazell has made a career out of breaking down the obstacles that stand in the way of great work. He challenges the status quo in his quest to develop the right culture and systems for creation of excellent companies and products.

After a tour of addresses across South Africa, Cliff moved to Sweden where he led a team of coaches at Spotify for 4 years as the company grew from 700 to 5000 people. Having co-founded the Flight Levels Academy in 2019, he now coaches private clients who are scaling up rapidly and guides them to create focus, find leverage, and build habits.

Presentation Title: Beyond Copy Paste Agile – How effective organizations create focus, find leverage and build habits

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Today it’s common for company leaders to express a desire to be more agile, and many embark on expensive change journeys, to make their teams more agile. After years on this journey fraught with “resistance” and lots of change, and yet seldom able to show results that are meaningful to customers or the business.

Part of the problem is the core assumption that the problems, and therefore solutions exist at the team level.
My experience is that to delight customers, collaboration is required between teams and departments. This focusing on the parts (individuals and teams) rarely improves the whole, in ways customers will appreciate or pay for.
We’ll explore this through three lenses: Systems, Science and Sapiens.