It Started With a Broken Promise
In 2009, David Hawks watched another enterprise transformation fail. Not because the ideas were wrong, but because the consultants left before anything stuck.
He'd seen it a dozen times. Big consulting firms would roll in with frameworks and certifications, run a few training sessions, declare victory, and disappear. Six months later, organizations were back to old habits, leaders were disillusioned, and millions of dollars had evaporated.
David knew there had to be a better way. What if consultants actually stayed until the transformation worked? What if success was measured in business outcomes, not workshops delivered? What if the goal was to build internal capability so clients didn't need consultants forever?
He founded Agile Velocity on a radical premise: work yourself out of a job. Help organizations build the internal muscles to improve themselves. Don't rent them a solution. Teach them to own it.
Today, David serves as an advisor, while the leadership team he built continues to carry that mission forward, proving every day that transformation done right creates lasting change.