These are talks I have given or plan to give on doctrine, organizational learning, military history, and Agile techniques. If you’re interested in having me speak to your team or organization, please contact me.

• “Complexity in Action: Organizational Learning in the U.S. Navy” – Lean Agile Kansas City, November 2018
• Evening remarks on Learning War – Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, November 2018
• “Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945” – New Flag and Senior Executive Training Symposium (NFLEX), October 2018
• “The U.S. Navy as a Learning Organization” – The Strategy Bridge Podcast, October 2018
• “Kanban in Action: Thoughtfully Creating and Discussing Flow” – AgileDC, October 2018
• “Lessons from Learning War: Fostering Innovative Technologies in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945” – U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Maritime Systems, PMS 406, October 2018
• “The Guadalcanal Campaign: Turning Point of the Pacific War” – Dr. Harold C. Deutsch World War II History Round Table, September 2018
• “Adapting Agile for MERL” – MERL Tech DC, September 2018
• “Complexity in Action: Organizational Learning in the U.S. Navy” – GEICO Agile Summit, August 2018
• “Kanban in Action: Helping Leaders Improve Flow” – Agile 2018, August 2018
• “Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898–1945” – Johns Hopkins APL Colloquium, June 2018
• “Kanban in Action: Observing Flow” – Lean Kanban North America, April 2018
• “Exploring the Options: The Development of U.S. Navy Tactical Doctrine, 1913-1923” – Society of Military History Annual Meeting, April 2018
• “Complexity in Action: Organizational Learning in the U.S. Navy” – LeanAgileUS, February 2018
• “Kanban in Action – Thoughtfully Observing Flow” – DC Scrum User’s Group, December 2017
• “Kanban in Action – Thoughtfully Observing Flow” – AgileDC, October 2017
• “Thwarting Your Agile Despondence” – AgileDC, October 2017
• “Strategic Agility through Learning Doctrine” – Lean Agile Scotland, October 2017
• “Accelerating Good Decisions: Using Kanban for Distributed Cognition” – Agile 2017, August 2017
• “Accelerating Good Decisions: Using Kanban for Distributed Cognition” – Lean Kanban North America, May 2017
• “Kanban and the Power of Distributed Cognition” – DC Scrum User’s Group, February 2017
• “DevOps Darwinism: Advancing our Art through Safe-to-Fail Experimentation” – AgileDC, October 2016
• “Organizational Learning in the U.S. Navy” – Lean Agile Scotland, October 2016
• “DevOps Darwinism: Evolving our Art through Safe-to-Fail Experimentation” – DevOpsDays DC, June 2016
• “Kanban: Platform of Success or Oubliette of Management?” – Lean Kanban North America 2015, June 2015