Giving up Control to Gain Agility - Marsha Acker | 1917

Marsha Acker is the CEO of Team Catapult, a leadership development/organizational change firm and the author of “The Art and Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration in Agile Teams”. She shares stories of working in a huge corporation and a tiny startup and the learnings she’s had – including how to give up some control to let agility emerge naturally. Her passion for facilitation was her entry point into Agile, and the need for it is as strong as ever: 

“To truly facilitate requires this unbiased, neutral perspective where you’re not taking sides... When the group gets stuck, you’re helping them get unstuck; you’re not solving something for them.” 

Marsha Acker’s Words of Wisdom: 

Find your own voice. “It’s not that I didn’t have it, it’s that I would have these moments of insights or thoughts, and I didn’t always share it.” 

Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts. 

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