About this episode:

Series 1: Episode 14

In this episode of The Agile Diaries, host Niamh Trundle speaks with Belinda Waldock about how agility extends far beyond technology. Belinda shares her journey into agility, discussing how its principles can support personal growth, education, and wellbeing. Together, they explore the intersection of mental health and Agile, reflecting on experiences with burnout, long COVID, and the importance of creating adaptive, compassionate workplaces.

The conversation highlights how Agile thinking can benefit neurodiverse individuals and foster resilience in an AI-driven world. This episode offers an inspiring look at agility as a mindset for both professional and personal transformation.

Key Discussion Points

02:24

Managing Long COVID and how Agile helped her to set and achieve personal goals.

08:18

How agile approaches can be integrated into education and teaching.

22:56

How a wealth of knowledge from applying agile methods to sectors other than IT and technology has provided insight.

“Agile is about taking small steps. So actually being able to introduce that method as a way to take action and move forward, I think is just so powerful.”

Belinda Waldock

Featured in this episode:

  • Learning Designer, Agile Business Consortium

    Niamh is an experienced learning designer and educator with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry, designing, developing and delivering training programmes for a variety of clients – both abroad and in the UK. Niamh is passionate about creating engaging and interactive learning experience using the latest technological innovations to facilitate learning.

  • Agile Business Coach/Found and Author, Being Agile in Business

    Belinda Waldock is an agile business coach, advisor, and author with over 25 years’ experience helping businesses, teams, and leaders unlock growth, productivity, and well-being through a more adaptive, responsive, and human approach to work. She is the founder of Being Agile in Business, a method that takes agile thinking beyond tech, now applied globally across sectors including marketing, education, health, heritage, and the arts.

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