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I help leaders and teams work with more clarity, courage and adaptability when things get complex.

I’m Geoff Watts: workshop facilitator, speaker, author and coach. My work sits where leadership, agility, product thinking and organisational change meet.

For over two decades I’ve helped leaders and teams respond more skilfully to change and uncertainty, without losing their judgement, or themselves, in the process. I was one of the world’s first Certified Scrum Trainers and I’m co-creator of ORGANIC agility.

I’ve written six books, including Scrum Mastery, Product Mastery, Team Mastery and The Coach’s Casebook. My latest, Calm REBEL Leadership, is about how capable people can push back on systems that make them play small… calmly, with integrity, and to real effect.

I’ve spoken at TEDx and at conferences around the world, and I’ve worked with organisations across many sectors to change how they approach leadership and agility.

Workshops and talks

Most of my work here is with groups: workshops for leadership teams, product teams and agile teams, and talks for conferences and leadership events. Every workshop is tailored to your context and built to be practical, engaging and challenging.

For 1:1 leadership coaching see my other site.

How I Work

My approach is practical, reflective and grounded in real organisational life

I’m not coming in with the assumption that people are broken, lazy or resistant. More often, they’re responding as best they can to the conditions around them. That means good work starts with understanding context properly rather than rushing to judgement.

When I work with clients, I try to bring a mix of challenge and care. I’ll ask difficult questions when they need asking, but I’m not interested in performance, ego or trying to look clever. I want the work to be useful. That usually means helping people see what they’ve been normalising, name what matters, and take steps that are honest enough to count.

A lot of what I do is about helping people find a better response to complexity: not by becoming more controlling, louder or more polished, but by becoming more aware, more adaptable and more deliberate.

My Beliefs

We are a constant work in progress

I believe leadership is not about certainty but constantly learning through discovery and reflection
I believe coaching should help people think and act more effectively, not make them dependent.
I believe agility has always been more about learning, adaptation and humanity than process compliance.
I believe people do better work when they are trusted and trust themselves to be themselves.
I believe many of the people doing the most valuable work in organisations are quietly carrying more than others realise.

Interested in working together?

Let's Chat

If you’re planning a workshop or a leadership event, or leading a change that needs your people to adapt, get in touch and we’ll work out whether I can help.