Agile was born small, and it still does its best work on small teams. My guests Eric Wu and Andrew Don of Catalyst Impact Studio take Agile into small teams and nonprofits that are truly running lean. Hear all about how they do it.

If you're waiting for someone to invent a new role or title that will revive Agile Coach Jobs..don't. It had to burn down to build back up anew. Here's what will never fall out of demand.

Why AI isn't making companies faster: everybody bought the tools, nothing sped up. The money wasn't wasted — AI is an amplifier, and what it amplified is a problem we had ten years ago and never fixed. It's the practical maximum you hit when people are handed a goal and denied the authority to reach it.

My guest Dave Borzillo, a graduate of The Forge Genesis, teaches us how to avoid putting our faith in hero/firefighters and make our teams perform more evenly in his new book "Sanity at Scale"

Angela Dugan posted a job she wasn't hiring for. Dozens replied in days, most just relieved to talk to a human. She also stopped searching for her old title — and got a VP role because of it. If your job disappeared, the work didn't. Go find what it's called now.

The market is ALWAYS ready for disruption. Yet we're waiting for someone to go first. That's exactly what Curry Barker has been doing for years.

There's a sameness that seeps into corporate thinking. It's easy and comfortable, and most of it is nonsense. It's time for the rise of the authentic Agile leader.

The current moment feels like 'the end'. If you're truly Agile, the opportunities are everywhere. Tech feels like mayhem right now, but that creates MORE opportunity to envision the future, and place a bet on an experiment that could change everything. Isn't that what we're supposed to be good at?

If your Agile career feels like a dead end, The Forge is the pivot you need. You can't wait for the market to save you. Whether through the leadership focus of The Forge/Forge Lightning, or the entrepreneurial grit of The Forge Genesis, it is time to build a value proposition that no employer or economic shift can ignore.

The AI Agile promise of easy work traps leaders in robotic sameness—content and pitches that flop. Real leaders grind uncomfortable outreach, own hard truths, link overlooked ideas. AI Agile owns averages; you own vision.

Of all the wonderful things that agile coaches do, there's one thing that we don't do, or at least don't do enough of...spend time talking with the business.

The Four Pillars of Leadership that I teach in The Forge will ensure you still prosper with Agile in 2026. Vision, Focus and Disciplined Work, Resilience and Continuous Learning toward Mastery.