Nigel Thurlow is currently the Chief Executive Officer at The Flow Consortium, a collection of highly regarded companies in the Lean and Agile world and the scientific and academic communities at large.
The Flow Consortium strives to expand the boundaries of current Lean and Agile thinking through the understanding of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science by tapping into the minds of top thought leaders from these concentrations.
He previously served as the first-ever Chief of Agile at Toyota, where he created the World Agility Forum award-winning “Scrum the Toyota Way” and co-created The Flow System™, a holistic FLOW-based approach to delivering customer-first value built on a foundation of The Toyota Production System.
He is a Forbes Top 10 Author, is recognized by Who's Who as a Distinguished Leader, and was featured in The Wall Street Journal in 2024.
We don't have a methodology problem; we have a behavior problem. "Experts" constantly tell us to "get the right mindset" and other related pseudoscience, driven by the Agile industrial complex, nothing more than a burned out certification business. We are constantly bombarded by retelling and reimagining of the same old methodologies and approaches, and yet none seem to be sticking. If they are al...
Join Nigel Thurlow, a leading voice in systems and complexity thinking and the former Chief of Agile at Toyota, as he hosts what is likely to be a hot debate between two leading thinkers in this space. Dave Snowden the preeminent expert in complexity thinking, and Diana Montalion who comes from a systems architecture background and applies systems thinking to manage in complex environments. W...