We are Agilar
We help organizations lead changes to improve adaptability, value delivery, and customer centricity. With close to 20 years of experience across a wide range of industries and functions, Agilar supports leaders with their strategic change initiatives through our deep understanding of how to simplify organizational structures and governance, develop mature team-level agility, and improve focus and alignment. Ensuring your change initiative delivers a tangible impact on the business. We want to improve your Mondays by building adaptive organizations that excel in value delivery, operational excellence, learning, and employee engagement.
Each successful transformation that we support is a step closer to achieve our mission of developing a more productive, humane and sustainable society.
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We improve your Mondays
In a world of fast paced change, organizations are struggling to adapt quickly enough and people are feeling stressed due to the pressure to deliver results. This creates the dreaded Mondays. What we have learned through experience though, is that it doesn't have to be like this. Modern organizations are creating workplaces capable of handling these challenges. Empowered, cross-functional teams can react more quickly to changes in the market. Clear priorities reduce multi-tasking and stress (and improves productivity). Collaboration and shared goals increases the ownership and engagement people feel in their jobs. Organizations that manage to change in these ways don't do so by chance. It's about creating the necessary environment - structure, processes, principles, and metrics - to enable these practices to flourish.
At Agilar we support our clients in this journey, helping them lead the change to create adaptive, high-performing organizations. Ultimately, we hope, improving people's Monday.
We are internationally recognized
We have 3 Certified Scrum Trainers® (CST®), the most rigorous and highest level certification of the Scrum Alliance® and the only one that allows to certify in Scrum (CSM® and CSPO®).
Some of our consultants are Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKT), a prestigious certification for professionals with deep expertise in Kanban.
Some of our consultants are Certified Enterprise Coaches (CEC), equipped with advanced coaching skills to drive high performance.
Some of our consultants are Professional Certified Coaches (PCC), equipped with advanced coaching skills to drive high performance.
Founded in 2007
In 2007, a small group of passionate agile coaches came together under one brand with a common goal: to spread the nascent concept of agility in companies around the world.
Early success stories
Our ability to impact positive change in organizations was validated early on by our work in helping transform key initiatives within the Belgian Post (bpost), Proximus, and BNP Paribas Fortis. The success we achieved in those initiatives, along with the insights this gave us on how to lead change and address real challenges business were facing, enabled us to gain a reputation and we kept getting recommended to help a variety of organizations improve.
Thought Leadership
Agilar's practice leads are thought leaders in their respective areas, with an extensive track record of putting their expertise into practice for our clients.
Xavier Quesada Allué (CEC, CST) founded Agilar in 2007 and leads Agilar's business agility, visual management, and change management practices. He is the co-creator of Vima, a business agility framework for teams, and a keynote speaker.
Tiago Garcez (CST) currently leads the scaling, organizational design, and learning & development practices within Agilar. He writes and speaks frequently about these topics.
Joke Vandemaelte (CST, PCC) leads Agilar's coaching, facilitation, and training practices. Co-creator of Vima, she is a frequent speaker at leading conferences.
Agilar Today
Agilar continues to help organizations improve. With a wide range of experts in our ranks, and the tools and practices we have refined over the past 20 years, we can support our clients through a wide range of change initiatives. From improving value delivery by adopting Agile practices within teams, to rolling out OKR initiatives to improve focus, to simplifying operating models to increase productivity… we continue to help our clients improve by bringing in our expertise on how to organize and manage the delivery of value. Across a wide range of industries (CPG, Telcos, Financial services, Logistics, …) and functions (Innovation, HR/People, Operations, Supply Chain, …).
We are commited
We are a diverse and multicultural team, with +7 nationalities and +10 languages. We come from very varying sectors and that allows us to bring different perspectives when co-creating solutions with and for our clients. Beyond our core team, we have an extensive global network of expert professionals that we collaborate in order to fulfill the needs of your agile transformation.
