Prioritization is often treated as a process or framework, yet many organizations continue to struggle with competing demands, conflicting priorities and decision bottlenecks.

In this fireside chat, we explore what sits beneath healthy prioritization. Starting with organizational mission, purpose and value, we examine how strategic intent translates into meaningful decisions for teams, departments and value streams. We discuss the role leaders and project sponsors play in creating clarity, enabling decision-making and helping teams understand not just what matters most, but why.

Through practical examples and discussion, we explore how organizations can build the confidence, alignment and psychological safety needed for people at every level to make good decisions, collaborate effectively and know when saying “no” is the right thing to do.

Key learnings include:

  • Understanding the relationship between organizational purpose, value and prioritization.
  • Exploring how strategic intent translates into day-to-day decisions.
  • Learning how leaders and sponsors create clarity around priorities.
  • Discovering why decision-making structures and collaboration matter as much as prioritization frameworks.
  • Understanding how psychological safety supports healthy challenge and better decisions.
  • Taking away practical ideas for creating healthier prioritization conversations within your organization.

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Panel and Steering Group

  • A black and white headshot photograph of Dawn Newman
    Communities Engagement, Agile Business Consortium

    Dawn is dedicated to fostering collaboration and connection within the agile community and, within her role at the consortium, she supports members by curating resources, facilitating knowledge sharing, and encouraging networking, ensuring that the right tools and guidance are available to help individuals and teams thrive in their pursuit of business agility.  Outside of her work at the Agile Business Consortium, Dawn maintains a professional interest in marketing and strategic insight, customer support and events organisation and, outside of work, has fun volunteering as a conservation farmer, working with a local farming charity to help conserve rare and endangered breeds of pigs, chickens, sheep and goats.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnconnien/
  • Headshot image of Elizabeth Venter-Botha

    Elizabeth works with leaders and organizations on the part of transformation that most consultants leave unaddressed: the human reality inside the system. Her thinking about change was forged across a decade of Agile Transformations, and it shows up today in how she approaches leadership, systems, and the human side of AI adoption.

    After nearly two decades leading large-scale change across global, US, and South African markets, she brings systems thinking, human-centered change design, and AI adoption expertise to organizations navigating rapid, continuous change.

  • Image of Alize Hofmeester
    Change and Transformation Leader

    After leading re-organizations and merging different company cultures into one, Alize’s first agile transformation started in 2014. Since then she has supported executives and transformation teams and scaled the agile mindset and way of working globally.

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/alizehofmeester/
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