Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leader® 1
A live, two-day leadership experience for people ready to create the conditions where teams, ideas, and change can thrive.
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Agility starts with leadership
Agile transformation rarely stalls because people have not heard the right vocabulary. It stalls when leaders keep rewarding certainty, control, local optimization, and risk avoidance while asking teams to adapt.
CAL 1 helps you examine that tension honestly. You will explore how your own choices shape culture, how to lead through complexity, and how to make change more participatory, resilient, and humane.
This is not a leadership lecture dressed in agile language. It is a facilitated space to compare perspectives, work with real situations, and translate principles into choices you can make immediately.
The leadership shift
Hover or focus each tension to see the shift.
How do you lead when the path isn’t fully knowable?
The shift
Create meaningful direction without pretending the path is fully knowable. Learn to invite evidence, learning, and adaptation into how work is led.
Where do you hold the line—and where do you let go?
The shift
Set clear boundaries and outcomes while giving capable people room to decide, experiment, and own how value is created.
Can high standards and psychological safety coexist?
The shift
Build environments where high standards, psychological safety, candid feedback, and sustainable performance reinforce one another.
What you will explore
We connect personal leadership, team systems, organizational culture, and change so you can see the whole landscape—not isolated techniques.
Notice how leadership behavior and organizational systems shape agility.
Question assumptions about authority, predictability, performance, and change.
Practice leadership approaches that grow ownership, learning, and collaboration.
Choose concrete next moves for your team, culture, and transformation context.
Who this is for
You do not need an agile title or prior certification. You do need curiosity about how leadership can enable better outcomes in complex environments.
Two perspectives. One learning partnership.
CST · CEC · CTC · LMC · ICF-PCC · ORSCC · SPC
Erkan is one of the rare practitioners certified by Scrum Alliance as both a Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Enterprise Coach. After more than 20 years teaching, coaching, and leading change, he brings unusual depth across Scrum, systems coaching, leadership maturity, and organizational transformation.
His energetic, relationship-first style makes complex ideas practical, memorable, and immediately usable.
CST · CEC · CTC · ICF-PCC · ORSC · ICP-ACC · SPC · VeDA · TBR Practitioner · TBR Certified Trainer
Brock brings more than two decades of experience in software development, leadership, facilitation, training, and organizational coaching. He has supported agile journeys at organizations including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, WestJet, ADP, Suncor Energy, Benevity, and the Calgary Public Library.
His style is warm, direct, and deeply practical—helping people notice what is happening, tell the truth skillfully, and make one better choice at a time.
Our story
Superheroes Academy was founded in 2016 to level up agile professionals worldwide.
We have trained students in more than 100 countries and worked across technology, energy, finance, aviation, education, government, and social impact. We design learning around conversation, experience, reflection, and application—because leadership cannot be developed by memorizing slides.
Once a Superhero, Always a Superhero!® Our relationship does not end when the course does. You join a worldwide learning community with ongoing access to people, ideas, and support.
“Hands down this has been my most memorable and impactful training experience. Every session was incredibly easy to put straight into practice. I love the Superheroes approach!”
Our trainers and alumni create impact at leading organizations
Learn with confidence
If the experience does not deliver the value you expected, contact us before your credential is issued. We will make it right or refund your course purchase.
Good questions
No. CAL 1 has no prerequisites. The course is useful for experienced agile leaders and people taking their first serious step into agile leadership.
Yes. Complete the full approved course and participation requirements to earn the Scrum Alliance Certified Agile Leader® 1 credential.
No final certification exam is required for CAL 1. Your credential is awarded after successful completion of the approved live course.
The course runs live online over two days, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Mountain Time. Expect active participation, dialogue, small-group work, reflection, and application to real leadership situations.
Erkan Kadir is the Scrum Alliance-authorized CAL educator, and he co-delivers the learning experience with Brock Argue. Both are Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers, Certified Enterprise Coaches, Certified Team Coaches, and ICF Professional Certified Coaches.
Your registration includes 16 live course hours, course materials, the CAL 1 credential, a two-year Scrum Alliance membership, and ongoing access to the Superheroes Academy community.
Yes. Contact info@superheroes.academy to discuss a private course tailored to your leadership context.
Ready to lead the conditions for agility?
Choose a course date, reserve your place, and join a leadership conversation designed to change what you notice—and what you do next.
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