In this episode of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich Leonard bring you back into the "Agile Garage" to discuss the art of getting feedback from your team and your project's stakeholders. They explore the importance of working product over contract negotiation. Learn how to invite candid, meaningful feedback about whatever type of work product your team is creating. Evolving your work, accelerating your impact

In this episode of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich Leonard bring you back into the "Agile Garage" to discuss the art of getting feedback from your team and your project's stakeholders. They explore the importance of working product over contract negotiation. Learn how to invite candid, meaningful feedback about whatever type of work product your team is creating. Evolving your work, accelerating your impact

Drawing on their experience from building a race car and their professional careers, hosts Diane and Erich Leonard bring you into the "Agile Garage" for a focused pit stop on team dynamics. They discuss how to determine optimal team size and composition, emphasizing the value of having a diverse range of skills. Learn how to foster structured interactions and healthy debate to build a resilient, high-performing team that can drive a project to success. Evolving your work, accelerating your im...

In this episode of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich Leonard introduce the agile mindset as the core operating system for change-makers. Moving beyond buzzwords, they use relatable analogies from the racetrack to demystify principles like adapting to change and valuing collaboration over rigid plans. The hosts share how their Formula SAE advisor’s "enabling constraints" taught them to build resilience and trust the process. You'll learn how to adopt a "pit stop" mentality, viewing se...

In Episode 1 of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich Leonard take you back to where it all began: the intense world of college Formula SAE racing. 🏎️ They share their unique origin story, revealing how they developed a powerful, collaborative, and resilient mindset, building a race car under pressure—all without ever hearing the term "agile." This episode sets the stage for the entire series, connecting their firsthand experience of "unlabeled agile" to Diane's success in nonprofit gran...