Talk LeSS 2025 | Ewa Koprowska | How to Remain Adaptable to Change Without Losing Clarity of Purpose

This talk was delivered during the Talk LeSS 2025 Conference held on November 17th in Warsaw. To learn more about the upcoming edition, visit https://talkless.pl

Most organizations face he same dilemma: they want to stay responsive and agile in the face of change, while also maintaining clear direction across teams. They also struggle with giving teams autonomy without losing organizational coherence. Govern Agility proposes five stanchions — conductive leadership, sensible transparency, patterns of work, data-driven reasoning, and humanity as a cornerstone — to help organizations design governance that supports both adaptability and clarity. In this session, I’ll show how each stanchion works as a practical design lens for shaping governance — not as abstract values, and certainly not as a framework. Through stories of transformations in banks, insurers, and scale-ups, you’ll see both the benefits and the traps of each stanchion.

You’ll also get a preview of a free governance maturity assessment — a tool designed to help teams reflect on their current practices and identify areas for improvement across all five stanchions.