with Aurelien Beraud.
We promote continuous improvement and self-reflection, yet as agile practitioners, we often stop short of the most difficult growth: confronting our own unconscious biases, fears, and reactions—our shadow. This is the essential yet confronting inner work that true leadership evolution demands.
In this raw, personal, and bullet-point-free talk, I will share my journey through Shadow Work. I’ll reveal how the parts of yourself you’ve disowned—the shame, the anger, the unresolved conflicts—are actively sabotaging your team’s success and preventing you from having a lasting effect.
Get ready to meet this “dark side,” integrate it, and become the whole, authentic, and resilient leader your teams need.
Learning outcomes
- Explain why Shadow Work is the essential missing step in an Agile leader’s journey toward true continuous improvement and personal mastery.
- Leverage our “triggers” (e.g., frustration, judgment) as powerful data points for self-development
- Apply simple, practical reflection tools to start identifying unconscious “shadow” and start to integrate them
- An example of an authentic personal journey (mine) of someone whose leadership was impaired due to his anger