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Agile Leadership: Introduction to Change

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SkillsAgile leadershipChange managementAgile mindsetLeadership principlesOrganisational change

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Oxana Trotsenko's opening course in a University of Colorado agile-leadership specialisation — the conceptual on-ramp, not the toolkit.

Good for: A first, conceptual introduction to agile leadership and change.

Skip if: You want hands-on agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban) or an advanced leadership course.

It introduces the mindset and principles of agile leadership and why organisations move to agile ways of working, staying at the level of ideas rather than mechanics. That makes it a gentle first step if you want to understand the philosophy before committing, and the wrong course if you came for hands-on Scrum or Kanban delivery, or an advanced leadership treatment — both of which live elsewhere.

Audit it free on Coursera; the certificate sits behind a subscription (about $49/month) or Coursera Plus, with financial aid available, and documents your effort rather than a qualification. Agile's underlying principles have stayed stable (as of 2026).

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About this course

Agile Leadership: Introduction to Change is the entry course of an agile-leadership specialization. From the University of Colorado and instructor Oxana Trotsenko, it introduces the core concepts of agile leadership, helps you assess your team's readiness for change, and starts building a toolkit for evaluating how agile an organisation really is.

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Oxana Trotsenko
Coursera instructor

Oxana Trotsenko is a lecturer at the University of Colorado Denver specialising in agile leadership and change management. The course reflects a structured, toolkit-building approach that learners praise for clarity.

Frequently asked questions

Neither specifically — it is about agile leadership and leading change, not a framework tutorial. From the University of Colorado, it focuses on the leadership mindset and approach behind agility: guiding teams and organisations through change, fostering agile ways of working, and the human side of transformation. If you want Scrum or Kanban mechanics, take a framework course; this is the leadership and change perspective.

Not much. It introduces agile leadership and change concepts, so some awareness of agile ways of working helps the material land, but it does not assume deep experience with specific frameworks. It suits leaders and aspiring leaders wanting to understand how to lead agile change, whether or not they have hands-on agile delivery experience, since its focus is leadership rather than practice mechanics.

Yes, typically — it sits within a University of Colorado agile-leadership specialization on Coursera, as an introduction to leading change in agile contexts. You can take it standalone for that grounding, but it is designed as part of a sequence, so the wider specialization builds around it if you continue toward a fuller treatment of agile leadership.

Yes, you can audit it on Coursera and watch the lectures at no cost. The graded elements and the certificate require a subscription, with financial aid available if you apply. Since much of the value is the agile-leadership and change concepts, auditing gives you the substance if you want the ideas rather than the credential.

As a course within a specialization, it typically runs a few weeks at a modest weekly pace. It is concept- and reflection-driven rather than a hands-on build, so the time goes into engaging with the agile-leadership and change material and how it applies to leading teams and organisations through change.
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