Organizational Transformation Coach (For independent contractors)

As an Organizational Transformation Coach, you will lead the execution of the agile transformation roadmap for a specific department. You will directly coach and mentor senior leadership on behavioral shifts and mindset changes, while simultaneously upskilling Agile Coaches to ensure long-term operational maturity and capability building.

Responsibility:

• Take ownership of the centrally defined Agile transformation roadmap and drive its end-to-end implementation within a specific business unit, ensuring all must-haves are met within the time given.

• Executes the established training curriculum for the ELT, delivering high-impact modules focused on enterprise agility and strategic leadership behaviors.

• Facilitates these targeted sessions to align executive decision-making with agile principles, ensuring a consistent leadership approach across the entire organization.

• Upskill and mentor the department’s Agile Coaches, taking accountability for the high performance and output of the transformation team while providing the advanced guidance necessary to build long-term operational maturity and self-sufficiency.

• Provides strategic coaching and just-in-time training to C-level and ELT members on agile mindsets and leadership behaviors.

• Focuses on shifting executive decision-making and system-level thinking to eliminate organizational bottlenecks.

• Enables enterprise-level agility by partnering with top leadership to model an adaptive, empowered culture.

• Partner with the Change Manager to resolve departmental blockers and ensure the local Agile Way of Working remains fully aligned with the central program.

• Enables portfolio-level agility by guiding senior leadership in agile quarterly and annual planning, OKR alignment, prioritization, and cross-functional coordination.

• Facilitates leadership offsites, workshops, and systemic design activities (e.g., team topology design, governance model evolution) that reinforce agile principles and adaptive structures.

• Advises senior stakeholders on new governance, funding, and operating models that support lean delivery, fast feedback, and autonomous decision-making.

• Partners with Agile Coaches and ELT to bridge strategic intent with execution, helping teams align around shared outcomes and scalable practices.

• Establishes metrics and feedback loops at the executive level to measure transformation progress and surface organizational impediments.

• Builds psychological safety and trust with leadership through empathy, strong facilitation, and emotionally intelligent communication that challenges and supports growth.

• Brings thought leadership and real-world experience from multiple large-scale transformations to guide systemic change across the enterprise.

Requirements of special knowledge/skills:

• 12+ years of experience

• Demonstrated expertise in coaching executive leadership in agile values, lean portfolio management, and cultural transformation.

• Deep understanding of agile and lean principles, complexity thinking, and systems design.

• Skilled in applying frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or Flight Levels at scale, while remaining pragmatic and context-driven.

• Experience in portfolio planning, value stream mapping, organizational design (e.g., Team Topologies), and OKR facilitation.

• Exceptional facilitation, consulting, and stakeholder engagement skills, particularly at the executive level.

• Background in Product, Engineering, or Organizational Design is highly advantageous.