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Agile Kitchen recap: How to decide when you don’t know
How do you decide when the future is unpredictable? Former iLeaners Stijn Decneut and Geert De Cang returned with humor and pragmatism for our first Agile Kitchen in Kontich.
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Beyond assistants: how Agentic AI is reshaping teamwork
AI is turning from a personal productivity tool into a teammate. Frederik Vannieuwenhuyse on leading a team of autonomous agents, and the BMAD method for orchestrating them.
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Agile Kitchen recap: Behind the mask of a changemaker
Coaches, consultants and team leads named a shared frustration: the gap between the role they hold and the impact they want. An intervision session on what sits behind the mask.
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2025 at iLean
Where 2024 was about connection, 2025 was about going deeper: growing in our roles, sharpening our tools, and learning together through trainings, events and experiments.
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From strategy to shared focus with Obeya
We closed the Agile Kitchen year with a session on leading with Obeya, and how making strategy visible in one room turns it into shared, daily focus.
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When AI meets agility: Building human-centred intelligence in your teams
AI adoption tends to optimize for efficiency and quietly cost you trust, collaboration and psychological safety. How to bring it in without hollowing out your team.
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Agile Kitchen Summer BBQ recap: All things feedback & storytelling
Two parallel sessions, a summer BBQ, and over 40 people. A recap of the special edition Agile Kitchen on feedback and storytelling, where we ran the evening in reverse.
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Agile Kitchen recap: Negotiation for Product Owners
Product Owners spend their days between competing priorities and hard conversations. Jan Van Der Burgt shared practical techniques for handling those moments with confidence.
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How to set goals that actually work: the power of OKRs
Everyone sets goals, and most never turn into results. Grow the business is a wish, not a plan. How OKRs give ambition a structure you can actually track.
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Agile Kitchen recap: Team Dynamics
Mieke Tweepenninckx and Katy Willems from AmeXio dug into client and consultant collaboration: where it goes wrong, and what to do when it does.
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Agile Kitchen recap: OKR Game Night
A special edition co-hosted with This is Performance, where we played our way through turning high-level business goals into shared ambitions teams can actually chase.
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Adding another level to Business Agility through OKRs
iLean and This is Performance have joined forces, combining agile methods with OKRs so team effort lines up with organizational goals and produces measurable results.
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Understanding Business Agility
Most organizations were designed for reliability, not speed. The Business Agility Heartbeat Model maps what has to shift, and the obstacles you will meet on the way.
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Agile Kitchen recap: Agile Beyond Code
Agile did not stay inside software, and neither did the problems it solves. A recap of our session on what agility looks like beyond development teams.
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