Agile Socks® Training
Professional Agile Leadership™
Evidence-Based Management™ (PAL-EBM)
March 26-27, 2026 (half days)
Live Virtual Class
7:00 - 11:00am Pacific / 10:00am - 2:00pm Eastern
Leverage goals, evidence, and empiricism to increase business agility
Take the leadership class that aligns strategy & execution for $795.
Register by March 18 for bonus 60-minute consult after class.
Looking for financial assistance?
Check out my DEI Scholarship Program.
With markets and customer needs constantly changing, organizations need information and evidence that helps them adapt quickly to new challenges and opportunities so that they can deliver greater value and achieve true business agility.
Yet often, organizations that use Agile product development techniques use traditional management approaches, expecting leaders to set firm long-term goals and manage progress toward them with dashboards of static metrics.
That is why Scrum.org created the Evidence-Based Management™ (EBM) framework, which is an agile approach to help leaders guide their teams toward continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results.
EBM focuses on customer value and intentional experimentation to systematically improve an organization’s performance and achieve their strategic goals.
In the Professional Agile Leadership – Evidence-Based Management™ (PAL-EBM) 1-day training, participants learn what EBM is and how to apply it through hands-on, activity-based learning. Through a series of exercises, participants learn techniques that support a more agile mindset.
Stephanie Ockerman is a Professional Scrum Trainer™, founder of Agile Socks LLC, and co-author of the book Mastering Professional Scrum, published by Pearson Addison-Wesley as part of Scrum.org Professional Scrum® educational series. Learn more about Stephanie. Any questions about class? Reach out to training@agilesocks.com.
By the end of class, you will:
Practice using empiricism to set strategic goals, managing the unknown and complexity through experimentation and by adapting goals along the way.
Understand the essential aspects of goals and measures and how they influence behaviors and an organization’s culture and values.
Learn to create a cultural environment using clear goals, appropriate measures and trust to enable self- management and autonomy.
Experience empiricism as a leadership approach, using experimentation to incrementally steer towards an organization’s goals.
Learn approaches to shift the conversation away from measuring progress purely through team performance metrics, toward a focus on customer-centricity and improving customer outcomes.
Drive operational improvements by using four Key Value Areas (Unrealized Value, Current Value, Time-to- Market, and the Ability to Innovate) as lenses for evidence-based decision-making.
Post-training support includes:
Access to all of the learning materials used during class.
Two free attempts to earn your PAL-EBM certification (assessment is taken online after the course). I offer tips and email support for questions that arise as you study for the assessment.
Links to additional online resources I curate for each class based on the questions and needs that arise during class.
Bonus 60-minute consult with Stephanie if you register by March 12.
Your Investment: $795
Register by March 18 for bonus 60-minute consult after class.
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Are you ready to create better alignment, gain more confidence in decision-making and improve your ability to deliver value in an uncertain world ?
Your Investment: $795
Register by March 18 for bonus 60-minute consult after class.
Looking for financial assistance?
Check out my DEI Scholarship Program.
FAQs
Life happens. And who knows what 2026 has in store for us. If you have a scheduling conflict, you will be able to transfer your registration to a future class or to another service offering.
If you prefer a refund, we are happy to accommodate that as well, minus a $150 administrative fee.
This training is not focused on the Scrum framework nor does it require knowledge or experience with Scrum.
EBM can certainly be used in organizations where Scrum is used for product delivery. However, EBM can be used no matter an organization's delivery process.
The focus of EBM is on continuously improving customer outcomes, organizational capabilities, and business results under conditions of uncertainty. It provides a framework for organizations to improve their ability to deliver value in an uncertain world, seeking a path toward strategic goals. If that sounds relevant to you, you will likely get a lot out of this training.
Yes! When you take this course, you will get a free attempt at the Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management™ (PAL-EBM) assessment. If you achieve an 85% on the assessment, you earn your PAL-EBM credential.
Yep! There is a scholarship program because diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential for growing a thriving world. The scholarship program uses a pay-what-you-can model, and you can read the requirements and apply here.
Meet Your Trainer
Hi! I'm Stephanie Ockerman.
I’ve lived both sides of leadership: the “successful on paper but drowning inside” when I first started my career as a Technology Project Manager, and the adaptive leader who found a new path through agile ways of working and then by learning to surf (literally) in Costa Rica.
That journey taught me this: leadership is about sensing conditions, adapting in real time, and riding the waves instead of trying to control the ocean.
I bring together clear strategy, an understanding of how people and systems really work, and a grounded, human approach to leadership.
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Agile Socks LLC supports individuals and organizations in shifting from reactive patterns to intentional leadership. Whether it’s building self-managing teams, cultivating business agility, or growing leadership capacity at all levels of an organization, I bring a grounded, human-centered approach that empowers people to lead with more clarity, alignment, and impact.
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