CAL 1 made the case for why leadership needs to change. Certified Agile Leader® 2 (CAL 2®) is where you actually rebuild the system. Across seven intensive modules you’ll move from personal mindset to organisational architecture, diagnosing exactly why decisions, dependencies, and conversations get stuck, then designing the specific structural moves that dismantle them for good.

This is not a refresher or a repeat of CAL 1 themes. You’ll work with Intent-Based Leadership, Situational Leadership II®, the RAPID® decision framework, the Six Sources of Influence, Team Topologies, Larman’s Laws, and Causal Loop Diagrams, each applied directly to a real decision, dependency, or metric from your own organisation. Every session ends with a concrete, dated commitment, not a reflection exercise.

You’ll leave with more than a certificate. You’ll leave with a personal Leadership Development Charter and a full set of structural canvases, tools you can put straight back to work on Monday morning, not slides you file away.

A Structural Toolkit You Won’t Find Elsewhere

Seven named leadership models, applied to your real decisions, not case studies. Most CAL 2 providers teach one or two frameworks in isolation. We’ve integrated Marquet’s Intent-Based Leadership, SL-II®, RAPID®, the Drama Triangle, Six Sources of Influence, Team Topologies, and Causal Loop Diagrams into a single connected toolkit, because your organisation’s dysfunctions don’t arrive in neatly separated categories either.

Your trainer is a Systemic Modelling Practitioner, a rare credential in this space. John Barratt combines a British Military background with senior enterprise coaching credentials, including a discipline most CAL 2 trainers don’t hold: Systemic Modelling. It shapes every diagnostic question in this course, keeping the focus on structural root cause rather than surface-level behaviour.

What Will You Receive?

	The CAL 2® Credential The Certified Agile Leader® 2 (CAL 2®) from the Scrum Alliance, plus 16 SEUs towards certification renewal. Completing CAL 2 also automatically renews your CAL 1 credential.
	Seven Proprietary Structural Canvases Original tools including the Clarity Move Canvas, the Dismantling Canvas, the Pre-Flight Conversation Canvas, and the Descaling Backlog Canvas, every one Creative Commons licensed for you to reuse with your own teams, indefinitely.
	Your Leadership Development Charter A personalised capstone document synthesising every module into a single, dated set of structural commitments, built to survive your absence, not just your good intentions.
	Free 1:1 Coaching Session A free 30-minute one-on-one session with your trainer after the course to work through your first structural move in detail.
	Free Udemy Course (Worth £34.99) Free access to our ‘Coaching Conversations for Agile Professionals’ Udemy course, included with every booking.

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Included: A Private Follow-Up Session with Your Trainer

After the course, you’ll sit down one-on-one with your trainer to pressure-test the structural move from your Leadership Development Charter before you act on it. This free 30-minute session is included with every booking. Stress-test your Charter against the real politics of your organisation. Refine your Deletion Test for the specific role, meeting, or approval step you intend to remove. Plan your first conversation using SBI or Clean Feedback, with your trainer as a sounding board.

How Does the Online CAL 2 Course Work?

Who Is This Course For?

CAL 2 is built for leaders who have already completed CAL 1 and are ready to move from personal mindset shift to organisational redesign.

C-suite executives and senior transformation leaders accountable for enterprise-level agility, structure, and culture change.

VPs, Directors, and Heads of Department who completed CAL 1 and are ready to apply structural, not just behavioural, change.

Enterprise Agile Coaches who need executive-level models to influence organisational design, not just team practice.

HR and People leaders shaping the reward systems, metrics, and structures that determine whether change survives.

Course Topics: Seven Modules, One Connected System

Each module ends with a structural commitment, not a reflection. You’ll leave with seven dated actions, not seven interesting ideas.

The Architecture of Intent: Marquet’s Intent-Based Leadership model, the IBL Ladder, and the Competence and Clarity Gaps that keep decisions stuck on your desk.

Developing People: Situational Leadership II® to diagnose development level, and the RAPID® framework to audit decision-making dysfunction across your team.

Conflict, Conversations & Influence: The Drama Triangle, Brain States, SBI and Clean Feedback, and the Six Sources of Influence applied to your hardest conversation.

Designing Change: Kotter, Bridges, and ADKAR evaluated honestly against their limits, then replaced with Agile Scoping and the Sahota Playbook for leadership alignment.

Strategy, Culture & Org Design: Larman’s Laws, Team Topologies, and Conway’s Law, used to map your organisation’s real dependencies and design a smaller, faster structure.

Value Flow, Metrics & Org Learning: OKRs, Goodhart’s Law, and Causal Loop Diagrams, used to identify and break the reinforcing loops that keep bad metrics alive.

Systemic Leadership Capstone: Synthesising all six preceding modules into your personal Leadership Development Charter and a public, dated commitment.

Your Trainer: John Barratt

CST · CEC · Systemic Modelling Practitioner · Military Background John started his career in the British Military as a Lance Corporal in the Royal Signals, building a practical foundation in leadership and communication under genuine VUCA conditions. He has since brought that discipline to organisations including IAG Loyalty, Maersk, Vodafone, and Virgin Red, combining ground-level leadership experience with senior coaching credentials. John is a Systemic Modelling Practitioner, a discipline that shapes the diagnostic questions running through this entire course. Rather than offering advice, he uses clean, unbiased questions to help you find your own structural answers, so the change is genuinely yours.

Co-authored with Rickard Jones (CST, CTC, ICE-AC, LeSS Trainer, ICAgile Expert, 20+ years). Some classes may be delivered by Rickard directly. All trainers at Agile Affinity are practising coaches with real-world credentials.

Benefits of Training with Agile Affinity

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Free Strategy Session Every booking includes a 30-minute one-on-one session with your trainer to pressure-test your Leadership Development Charter.

Agile Affinity is a UK-based boutique agile coaching and training consultancy, established in 2019. We certify over 750 practitioners per year across Scrum Alliance programmes and run some of the UK’s most active agile communities, including Scrum Event (the largest Scrum Alliance meetup in Europe), the Kanban Coaching Exchange, the Agile Coaching Exchange, and Agile Coach Camp UK. When you train with us, you’re joining a community of practitioners, not just attending a course.

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