AGILE RISING - TEAM TOPOLOGIES Solution PARTNER
Agile Rising is a leading consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations transform the way they operate to drive adaptability and sustainable growth. At the core of our practice is a fundamentally human-centered philosophy - we don't just advise; we collaborate deeply with our clients, co-creating strategies and solutions tailored to their unique challenges. With more than 20 years of industry leadership experience and more than 10 years of enterprise agility coaching experience, our seasoned experts bring together deep capabilities across enterprise transformation, AI adoption and automation, operating model design, strategic portfolio management, and FinOps. As a long-standing Team Topologies Solution Partner, we help organizations get the foundational work right first - ensuring team design and organizational agility are optimized before deploying AI at scale. We provide dedicated, knowledgeable guidance to leaders and teams at every step of your journey.
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Agile Rising - Business Transformation for Modern Enterprises
Agile Rising is a leading consulting firm on a mission to transform businesses by fostering adaptability and embracing a truly dynamic approach to problem-solving. We deliver world-class enterprise transformation services and solutions that help clients achieve better business outcomes - and we do it through genuine collaboration, co-creating strategies tailored to each organization's unique challenges and desired outcomes.
Our team of seasoned experts brings decades of experience and deep domain knowledge to every engagement. Drawing on more than 20 years of industry leadership experience and more than 10 years of enterprise Agile coaching experience, our consultants and coaches meet you where you are. We take the time to understand the nuances of your situation, design a strategy built around your goals, provide the consulting and coaching to successfully implement it, and help your organization sustain the transformation independently.
As a long-standing Team Topologies Solution Partner, Agile Rising has entered a new phase of partnership focused on an accelerated approach to AI adoption and the operating model transformation required to support it. A core belief drives our approach: bolting AI onto a broken system will not transform an enterprise - it will simply amplify existing problems. Foundational inefficiencies and a lack of true organizational agility must be addressed first. We help organizations get their team design and operating model right before deploying AI at scale, ensuring every investment in AI translates to real, measurable ROI.
We leverage the Team Topologies framework as the foundational "infrastructure for agency" - establishing clear rules, trust boundaries, and guardrails that allow both human teams and AI agents to operate effectively without creating tangled dependencies. To accelerate this work, we deploy the Team Topologies Enterprise Transformation Package (ETP), equipping transformation leaders with proven playbooks, expert guidance, and upskilling materials that rapidly move organizations to a fast-flow product operating model.
We combine expertise in software and product development with experience in senior operational and business leadership, portfolio management, sales, marketing, and finance - along with deep fluency in today's leading operating models, enterprise agility practices, and emerging AI capabilities. Our AI and Automation practice helps organizations navigate the shift from AI-assisted to AI-first operations, including strategy and roadmap development, process and workflow automation, and AI governance. Our FinOps practice brings financial accountability to cloud spending - helping organizations reduce cloud unit costs, increase commitment coverage, and allocate spend with precision.
This partnership is particularly well-suited to four sectors uniquely positioned to benefit from AI-aware transformation: financial services, manufacturing, government, and higher education.
Areas of Expertise
Strategic Planning, Enterprise Transformation Strategy and Execution, Outcome-Based Organizational Design, AI Adoption Strategy and Operating Model Transformation, Change Management, Strategic Portfolio Alignment and Management, AI Strategy and Governance, Process and Workflow Automation, FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization, Product Management, Application Development, Outcome-Based Coaching and Training
Offerings
Strategy Consulting, Executive Coaching, Enterprise Transformation Consulting and Coaching, Operating Model and Organization Design, AI and Automation Strategy and Execution, FinOps, Strategic Portfolio Management, Custom Business Solutions, Software Development, Training (SAFe, PMI, Team Topologies), Enterprise Transformation Package (ETP) Delivery
Geo Areas
Americas: with business units in the US and Canada and consultants and trainers who are native English and Spanish speakers.
Sectors / Industries
All sectors, with particular focus on Financial Services, Manufacturing and Higher Education. Extensive additional experience in Insurance, Automotive/Self-Driving Vehicle Automation, Aerospace & Defense, Energy, and Medical Devices - across US Federal Government, large enterprise, small business, and PE-funded startups.
Select Clients
Apptio, Elsevier, Gore, Moog, Emerson, Federated Hermes, Matthews International, University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, Medica, NASA, FAA, VA, FBI
