Society for Adaptive Organisations
The Society for Adaptive Organisations (Verband für Adaptive Organisationen e.V.), is a European initiative founded in 2025 to unite the best trainers, coaches, and consultants in the field of modern organisational development under one roof. The Society for Adaptive Organisations is dedicated to helping companies become more customer-oriented, more effective, and more resilient. Throughout the various training, coaching and consulting activities, the Society is promoting values like sustainable development, technological progress and social well-being as well as cultural diversity.
In alignment with the Society values and mission, organisational evolution is the art of integrating new ideas, leveraging the latest insights and innovations. Society members offer a wide palette of approaches for organisational development like modern product management, organisational design, lean and organisational dynamics, adapted and integrated with the ideas of agile and Scrum. When choosing a Society member for support, you can rely on cutting-edge, tailor-made and sustainable consulting approaches.
The Society offers an educational certification programme that reflects European professional standards, with a strong focus on top quality in line with the society’s general commitment to excellence. All educators are selected based on the highest market requirements, including not only outstanding knowledge and experience but also proven educational competences. Their quality is constantly monitored through a process of feedback and mentoring.
Course offers that are eligible for SfAO certification must meet the respective learning requirements referenced in the related course description on the Society’s website. To be Society for Adaptive Organisations certified, a respective online-test needs to be passed after having successfully attended a course with one of the Society educators.
Society for Adaptive Organisations certifications are designed to complement and enhance existing international certifications related to Scrum and Agile. There are several ways to have the certificates you obtained with other certification bodies be converted, please refer to the respective webpage for more information.