Executive Interview Series: Enterprise Agility with Jeff Leach, Co-Founder & COO, Adaptivity
In this executive interview, Jeff Leach, co-founder and COO of Adaptivity and former leader at organizations including Accenture and SolutionsIQ, discusses enterprise agility as a holistic organizational capability centered on adaptability, continuous learning and operational responsiveness. He explains that enterprise agility is not simply about agile software practices, but about creating organizations that can pivot quickly, align around shared goals, reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and empower people to solve problems collaboratively. Leach also explores common barriers to agility, including executive misalignment and excessive governance, while highlighting the growing relationship between AI and enterprise agility as organizations seek to speed up the translation of insights into meaningful business outcomes.