Agentic Leadership · Glyn Burleigh-Sheard

Your leadership system was built
for a world that no longer exists.

AI didn’t create broken leadership systems. It just made them impossible to ignore.

Success is no longer measured by how many people you manage — but by how effectively you orchestrate humans and AI together. Welcome to Agentic Leadership.

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3
Continents
12+
Global Organisations
20+
Years at the Frontier
5
ALX™ Pillars
Organisations Glyn has led transformation for
Global Tech Leader Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Google Booking Holdings Agoda Kayak · OpenTable News Corp Groupon
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The Shift

From managing work
to orchestrating intelligence

We have entered a new era where the leaders who win are not the ones with the biggest teams. They are the ones who know how to deploy humans and AI together with precision, speed, and purpose.

Built from real-world transformation across three continents and twelve global organisations — including five years at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the front row of the most significant AI deployments of the last decade — this approach cuts through the theory and focuses on what actually changes behaviour.

“Agentic Leadership is the ability to intentionally orchestrate humans and AI to drive better decisions, faster execution, and greater impact at scale.”
Managing work→Orchestrating intelligence
Driving activity→Multiplying outcomes
Leading teams→Leading human + agent systems
Manager of people→Talent multiplier
Annual goal theatre→Living performance systems
Permission culture→Adult-to-Adult operating

The Framework

Five pillars of Agentic Leadership

Each pillar represents a capability that separates the leaders who define the next decade from the ones who are managed by it. Assessed individually in the ALX™ diagnostic.

01
AI Fluency
Not knowing how to use AI tools — knowing how to lead with them. The leaders who model AI-enabled thinking for their teams create a compounding capability advantage. Without this pillar, none of the others fully function.
The Foundation
02
Human + Agent Orchestration
The highest-leverage skill of the next decade. Designing work so AI handles the heavy lifting and humans do the thinking that actually matters. Most organisations are figuring this out by accident. Agentic Leaders design it on purpose.
The Leverage Point
03
Decision Velocity
The speed of your decisions is the speed of your organisation. Most organisations have a decision debt they’ve never measured. AI has changed the information equation — the constraint is no longer data. It’s judgment.
The Competitive Edge
04
Talent Multiplication
The best leaders in the next decade won’t manage the most people. They’ll multiply what people can achieve. From oversight to amplification. From managing performance to designing conditions for exceptional performance.
The Multiplier
05
Learning Agility
Non-negotiable. The only sustainable competitive advantage in the AI era is the ability to learn faster than the environment is changing. Everything else has a half-life. This is the foundation on which all other pillars are rebuilt as the world changes.
The Non-Negotiable
Glyn Burleigh-Sheard

About Glyn

Built from
twenty years inside the work

“Every framework in this work has been built and tested inside real organisations — not designed in a consultancy and sold in. The difference shows.”

From 2020 to 2025, Glyn worked at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — an organisation built to prevent, cure, and manage all disease by the end of the century. He led learning transformation through the pandemic, built AI capability programmes alongside some of the world’s best scientists, and experienced firsthand what happens when AI meets an organisation genuinely trying to change the world. That experience shapes everything here.

As Senior Director of Leadership Development at a global technology company, Glyn is at the epicentre of the agentic enterprise transformation. He now brings that lived experience to organisations navigating the same shift.

  • Global Technology Company
    Sr. Director, Leadership Development — Global
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
    Sr. Director, Learning and Development · 2020–2025
  • Kayak and OpenTable
    Global L&D and DEI Leader
  • Agoda
    Head of Learning and Development, APAC
  • Google
    Leadership and Development Programmes
  • Groupon · HP · News International
    Senior L&D and Talent Leadership roles
Also featured at  ·  CLO Exchange  ·  HR Tech Forums  ·  L&D Global Summits  ·  Executive Leadership Panels

What We Do

How we
work together

Five high-impact engagement types — from enterprise-scale transformation to intimate executive coaching and world-class keynotes.

01 — Flagship
Enterprise Transformation
Large-scale leadership and organisational transformation programmes built from the inside out.
  • Agentic Leadership strategy and design
  • Manager capability transformation
  • AI-enabled leadership operating models
  • Organisation-wide AI fluency programmes
02 — Programmes
Flagship Experiences
Signature learning experiences that create real behaviour change — not just awareness.
  • Agentic Leadership Accelerator (cohort)
  • Agentic Leaders Summit (executive)
  • Manager Certification Programme
  • Custom leadership intensives
03 — Advisory
Executive Coaching and Advisory
High-touch, high-impact work for senior leaders who want to build their own Agentic Leadership model.
  • 1:1 executive coaching engagements
  • Small cohort leadership advisory
  • Build Your Agentic Model intensives
  • Retained advisory relationships
04 — IP and Content
Frameworks, Diagnostics and IP
Battle-tested intellectual property that organisations license to accelerate their own capability build. ALX™ is available for enterprise licensing from £20,000 per year.
  • ALX™ — The Agentic Leadership Index
  • Leader playbooks and frameworks
  • Team-level diagnostics and assessments
  • Book licensing and bulk programmes
05 — Speaking
Keynotes and Executive Sessions
Glyn brings the reality of leading at the frontier of AI transformation to your stage — drawing from lived experience at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, across 12+ global organisations, and the front row of the most significant AI transformation of the last decade.
  • Keynote Presentations
  • Executive Roundtables
  • CLO and HR Conferences
  • Panel Facilitation
Glyn Burleigh-Sheard
Senior Director, Leadership Development
  • 01 AI Fluency — Leaders who model, challenge, and scale AI
  • 02 Human + Agent Orchestration
  • 03 Decision Velocity
  • 04 Talent Multiplication
  • 05 Learning Agility
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Coming Soon

The definitive playbook
for the new era of leadership

Built from real-world transformation inside the world’s most advanced AI enterprises, this book cuts through the theory and focuses on what actually works — not behaviours, but systems.

Opening Scene — Chapter 1

“I’m at 35,000 feet, somewhere over the Atlantic. The seat-back screen is showing BBC Newsnight. Lord Michael Gove is talking about AI. ‘Devastating to jobs,’ he says. ‘A threat to human dignity.’

Yesterday I was on a stage at the Chief Learning Officer Exchange, talking to four hundred of the most senior learning leaders in the world about how to drive business impact through AI. Not one person described AI as a threat to dignity. They described it as the most significant leadership opportunity of their careers.”

— Agentic Leadership: The Playbook for Leading Humans + AI at Scale

What’s inside: The Great Goal Hangover. The Calibration Con. The Permission Problem. Five real stories of Agentic Leadership in action. A 90-day sprint to transform how you lead. Every chapter includes a TLDR, a ready-to-use AI prompt, and a buildable Custom GPT skill you can deploy today.

ALX™ — The Agentic Leadership Index

Leadership has changed.
Most leaders have not.

The ALX™ is a practical, data-driven way to measure how effectively you lead in a world where success depends on orchestrating humans and AI together. It goes beyond traditional leadership assessments — focusing not on potential or personality, but on what actually drives performance today.

  • 01
    AI-Powered Thinking
    How leaders use AI to think, decide, and act — not just as a tool, but as a core leadership capability that multiplies across their team.
  • 02
    Human + Agent Work Design
    How leaders redesign work across humans and agents to unlock new levels of performance — on purpose, not by accident.
  • 03
    Decision and Team Velocity
    How leaders accelerate decision-making and remove the decision debt that’s quietly slowing their organisation down.
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ALX™ Maturity Model

Orchestrator
Leading humans + AI at the frontier. Designing systems others will spend years trying to replicate.
76–100
Integrator
Embedding AI into how your team actually works. Ahead of most leaders in your peer group.
51–75
Adopter
Using AI for individual productivity. Not yet leading with it at the team or system level.
26–50
Bystander
Aware that AI is changing leadership. Not yet acting. Every week of waiting is a compounding cost.
0–25

ALX™ is available for individual leaders (free), teams (£500–2,000), and enterprise licensing (£20,000+/year). Enquire about enterprise.

Testimonials

What leaders say
about working with Glyn

“Glyn is a guru in his field. His ability to break down complicated business challenges and isolate the root cause to produce a viable solution with grace and style is inspiring. He designs programs and initiatives with passion and implements them with great success.”

Director · Appsflyer

“Glyn has been superb to work with and learn from. Magic happens in any workshop — he knows how to help any group of managers with exactly what they need. He brings a wealth of experience in change management, and his insight makes sure that learning goes well beyond the classroom.”

Senior Director · Klook

“A fantastically enthusiastic L&D professional from whom I learned a great deal. Owing to his constant research, he has a treasure chest of training content and a wonderfully engaging way of delivering it. His passion for L&D cannot be questioned.”

Director · Google DeepMind

Your Agentic Leadership Score

Where do you sit on the maturity ladder?

30 questions · 5 pillars · Full personalised report across all five pillars · Takes 8 minutes · Free

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Let’s Build the Future of Leadership Together

Ready to lead
humans and AI at scale?

Whether you are looking to transform your organisation, develop your senior leaders, or bring a world-class keynote to your next event — let’s talk.

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Email directly  glyn@agentic-leaders.com

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