ABOUT PIVOTAGILITY
Better organizations don’t happen by accident.
PivotAgility grew from a simple observation: organizations rarely struggle because people aren’t working hard enough. More often, the systems around them make it unnecessarily difficult to focus, make good decisions, collaborate, and adapt when conditions change.
A different way of thinking about change
For years, organizations have responded to change by introducing new processes, structures, methodologies, and transformation programs. Some help. Many add another layer of complexity.
Over time, one thing became increasingly clear: lasting improvement rarely comes from adopting another framework. It comes from changing the conditions in which people make decisions, collaborate, learn, and deliver.
That idea sits at the heart of PivotAgility: designing organizations that are better able to adapt.
About Roy Schilling
I’ve spent more than three decades working inside and alongside organizations trying to change how they work. I’ve been a developer, manager, product leader, coach, consultant, and transformation leader, working across industries and with organizations around the world.
That experience has given me the opportunity to see the same patterns from very different perspectives. Strategies that never quite reach the teams doing the work. Too many priorities competing for limited capacity. Decisions pushed upward because people lack context or authority. Transformation programs that create activity without changing the underlying system.
Those experiences gradually changed the way I approach the work. Today, I’m less interested in implementing a prescribed model and more interested in understanding what is actually happening, why it is happening, and what conditions need to change.
Founder
How we work
Listen first
Look at the system
Make things visible
Find a practical way forward
Start with what people are actually experiencing rather than arriving with a predetermined answer.
Explore the interactions between strategy, decisions, structures, incentives, culture, and the way work actually happens.
Use simple models, conversations, and evidence to help people see patterns that are often difficult to recognize from inside the organization.
Make changes that fit the organization and create meaningful movement rather than implementing change for its own sake.
Experience across complex organizations
PivotAgility’s work has spanned technology, banking, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, transportation, professional services, private equity, government, telecommunications, retail, and many other complex enterprise environments.