Accelerating Agility at a Global Energy Company

A leading global energy company with operations in over 60 countries launched a bold reinvention initiative aimed at reducing waste, increasing efficiency, and embedding safety as a core value. With a goal to transition from a traditional oil company to a forward-looking energy leader by 2025 and 2030, the organization sought a partner to enable enterprise-wide agility.

Challenge

To meet aggressive transformation milestones, the organization needed to shift how work was delivered across diverse business entities – ranging from refining to finance and innovation. The effort required deep cultural change, alignment across global teams, and adoption of new agile ways of working to support faster decision-making and improved collaboration.

Solution

Trissential provided nearly 35 agility coaches as part of a 300+ global coaching network. These coaches supported the company’s Agility Center of Excellence (now the Business Agility Team) and were embedded across all eight major business units. Services included:

• Agile training across global teams, covering Scrum, Kanban, and agile fundamentals
• Development of team artifacts like working agreements, OKRs, KPIs, and mission/vision statements
• Coaching leadership on new roles and responsibilities in agile environments
• Strategic roadmap development and mentoring for senior leaders
• Process mapping and facilitation of workshops to streamline workflows and enable automation

Results

• 80% reduction in process steps (from 76 to 16), optimizing interfaces across teams and vendors
• 25% cycle time reduction through system analysis and a new digital solution—boosting data accuracy and regulatory compliance
• Successfully led a 1,500+ person reorganization, launching a $3.1B business division two months early
• Established strong executive alignment, created agile champions, and drove transformation through OKRs and leadership coaching