AI-First Agile & OKR Consulting

AI-First Agile Consulting & OKR Strategy Execution

Your strategy is sound. Your frameworks are proven. But execution keeps failing. We combine practical Agile consulting, AI-powered tools, and OKR methodology to transform how your organisation delivers results — faster, smarter, and measurably.

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20+
Years Experience
500+
Teams Transformed
50+
Organisations Served
Trusted by
4Com Technologies Numatic EMIS Health Piksel City of York Council JBA Risk Management Howells Associates NCC Group Totemic
The Problem

The Gap Between Strategy and Execution

Your strategic frameworks are impressive. Beautifully articulated OKRs. Well-designed Agile practices. Yet somewhere between planning and delivery, things fall apart. Frameworks gather dust. OKRs get abandoned mid-year. New AI tools get bolted on without changing how you work. The gap between what you plan and what you execute widens.

Frameworks Gather Dust

Agile transformations that looked perfect on paper collapse on contact with reality. Ceremonies become rituals with no outcomes. Frameworks become compliance exercises.

OKRs Get Abandoned Mid-Year

Goals set with great fanfare in January disappear by March. No tracking infrastructure. No early warning system. No course correction. Just another failed initiative.

AI Tools Bolted On, Not Built In

New AI tools get added to old workflows without changing how work is done. The result: more overhead, not less. Technology that doesn't stick because the process hasn't changed.

We've spent over twenty years watching this pattern. We fix it by embedding Agile principles and AI intelligence into the exact moment execution happens — not after.

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AI-First Services

Our three flagship offerings: each designed to solve a critical execution challenge, each powered by AI, each delivering working tools you can use today.

For Engineering & Delivery Leaders

AI-First Delivery Redesign

Your Agile practices were designed before AI existed. Adding AI tools to Agile ceremonies doesn't work — you need to redesign from first principles. We apply our Five Lenses framework (Ceremonies, Roles, Information Flow, Quality, Capacity) to rearchitect your delivery practice around AI. The result: working AI tools deployed in your environment that your teams actually use.

"What would your delivery process look like if designed from scratch knowing AI exists?"

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For Strategy & Operations Leaders

OKR Execution Engine

70–80% of OKR implementations fail. Not because the OKRs were poorly written. They fail because there's no execution infrastructure — no continuous visibility, no early warning system, no way to course-correct fast. We deploy six AI agents that live inside your OKR workflows. They monitor progress daily, flag risks before they become crises, and rebalance your team's capacity automatically.

"How do you make OKRs impossible to ignore with AI agents in the execution loop?"

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For C-Suite Driving Cultural Change

AI Transformation Programme

AI adoption fails when treated as a technology rollout instead of a cultural transformation. Your people need permission to think differently. We run a six-phase, 6–12 month Agile-led transformation that embeds an AI-first mindset throughout your organisation. We identify AI Champions in every team, redesign workflows around AI capability, and measure progress using OKRs.

"How do you embed an AI-first mindset using Agile transformation principles?"

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Consulting, Coaching & Training

Agile & OKR Services

McKenna Agile Consultants deliver comprehensive agile consultancy services and OKR solutions that develop agile leaders and increase the delivery of value across organisations. Our hands-on agile consultancy approach ensures that clients receive impactful solutions grounded in real-world experience rather than the same theoretical consultancy services commonly found elsewhere. We support clients in launching and managing agile transformations and OKR implementations through tailored consulting, coaching and training, helping to establish strong foundations and ensure faster value delivery. Whether you are beginning your agile adoption or looking to elevate your OKR execution, browse our range of agile solutions and collaborative workshops tailored to your organisation's needs.

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Agile Coaching

Our experienced agile practitioners provide practical and experienced agile leadership coaching to individuals, agile transformation coaching for programs, and agile team coaching to empower teams.

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Agile Consultancy

Unlike many consulting services that focus on theory, McKenna Agile Consultants provide you with hands-on agile consultancy that guides your organisation through every step of your agile implementation.

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Agile Training

Education is key to a successful agile transformation. We offer agile training for all levels within an organisation, from individual teams to senior leaders to support your agile adoption and empower your people.

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Agile Assessments

We provide agile assessments that evaluate an organisation's current agile capabilities and identify opportunities for improvement. These will help you to understand your agile maturity and develop actionable plans.

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OKR Experts

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are powerful tools for driving alignment and focus. We provide OKR Health Checks, OKR training, OKR coaching and OKR execution expertise to help you elevate your OKR practices and link them effectively to agile delivery.

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Certified OKR Training

Certified OKR training programmes from OKR experts. Master practical goal setting, strategic alignment, and measurable outcomes. Equip leaders, managers, and product teams to implement OKRs confidently.

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Industry-Leading Experts

What Sets
Us Apart

McKenna Agile Consultants are renowned, industry-leading Agile and OKR experts. We help leaders turn strategy into execution through pragmatic training, coaching and consulting. As experienced practitioners, we align strategy, OKRs, teams, portfolios and products, tailoring frameworks to your context and building lasting capability.

"We don't apply frameworks — we diagnose organisations, find the real bottlenecks, and build a bespoke path to execution. That's the difference."

— Aaron McKenna, Founder

Framework Agnostic

Framework Agnostic, Outcomes Focused

We deliver measurable results, faster flow and better customer value. We tailor frameworks to your context rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all approach, building lasting capability that adapts as you grow.

Practitioner-Led

Experienced Practitioners

Over twenty years in Agile delivery at scale. We align strategy, OKRs, teams, portfolios and products — bringing practitioner wisdom into every engagement, not theory from someone who's never delivered.

Execution System

An Execution System That Grows With You

We don't leave you with a report. We create an execution system that adapts as you grow — connecting strategy to delivery through pragmatic training, coaching and consulting that builds lasting internal capability.

Proven Impact

Real Results From
Real Clients

9%
Portfolio Uplift
Average delivery capacity improvement across client portfolios within 12 months of engagement.
22%
WIP Reduction
Typical reduction in work-in-progress through Agile process optimisation and AI-powered workflow clarity.
50+
Person OKR Squads Launched
Teams transformed from ad-hoc planning to structured, outcome-focused delivery.
21pts
Strategic Excellence Gain
Improvement on strategic execution assessment in one year — from 56% to 77% overall score for a US nonprofit.
Client Stories

Trusted by Leaders
Across Industries

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"McKenna Agile Consultants have been instrumental in giving us the knowledge, practice and confidence in rolling out the OKR framework across the business. This increased focus and goal setting skill means that we are already starting to see tangible progress after only 1 OKR cycle with Squads making huge strides towards their Sub Key Results."

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Simon Barry
Sales Director & OKR Champion, Numatic International

"McKenna Agile Consultants' approach is real, recognising that not all are created equal in the adoption of new methods. They were able to apply real world experiences where we needed them and direct guidance when it was most appropriate. While specific business subject matter can be a struggle to an outsider, McKenna Agile Consultants showed the ability to pick up and adapt to our complicated content and successfully apply expertise to our niche."

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Mark L
Senior Payments Leader, Fintech
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Insights on Agile, OKRs, and AI-first execution.

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The AI Champion Model
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The 9-Box Agile Implementation Template | Free Download

Download our free Agile Implementation Template used in real UK agile transformation workshops. 9 practical boxes to plan your agile journey, from vision to 90-day action. Built by experienced agile consultants.

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