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About Leadership Summits



Our past leadership summits in Minneapolis, London, Richmond, and Dallas have been huge successes!

In response to this interest, the APLN Board has agreed to partner with our APLN Local Chapters to hold more Leadership Summits each year!

We are currently requestion proposals from the APLN Local Chapters to consider partnering with the APLN Board to hold future summits.

Contact Pollyanna Pixton or Barbara Wilders.


Summit Objectives

The APLN Leadership Summit include the exploration of agile leadership of projects and enterprises. Under the guidance of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), the summit objectives are to connect, develop, and support great project and enterprise leaders.


Summits offer you a unique opportunity to start or to continue your journey towards being a great Agile Leader. Each summit targets both new and seasoned Agile leaders – and it targets both organizational leaders and project leaders. This is your chance to spend a whole day with some of the world’s leading experts in the area of Agile Leadership, to network with them and to share your experiences and concerns with them and other leaders, who are in the same situation as yourself.


Summit Contents

The program, for novice to expert agile leaders who are interested in learning more, educates through a tutorial and experience track in parallel with discovery in think tank breakout sessions that build on each other as the day progresses. The APLN Leadership Summits provide:

  • Networking opportunities throughout the day
  • A suite of intensive seminars and experience reports on How to Be an Agile Leader.
  • "Think Tank" discussion sessions on Agile Leadership with topics addressing advanced leadership tools, experiences, lessons learned, and issues yet to be resolved, decided by the group.
  • A panel discussion over lunch where practicing agile leaders will discuss the Value of Agile Leadership in the Enterprise. Panelists include Steven Ambrose, Director IT, DTE Energy, Bud Phillips, Vice President of Capital One's Decisioning Services, Peter George, Senior VP, Kronos, Inc., and Israel Gat, BMC.

In an open forum, participants move from venue to venue as the day progresses.


Outcomes and Results

Topics and conclusions from the summits will be used for subjects at future summits, research, and community conversations in the APLN network tools.