The Agile Heroes Summit

Rob Myers

Rob started his profession as a software developer in 1986, and has enjoyed working on, and with, talented Agile teams since 1998.

His mission at Agile Institute is to help teams create worthwhile software while sustaining a sane workplace.

Look for Rob’s upcoming book, Essential Test-Driven Development, due out December 2023 from Addison-Wesley.

Annette Yucha

Annette Yucha is a purpose-driven growth catalyst who has a decorated track of team leadership, project management, client relations, operational infrastructure, strategic partnerships and sales training. Although she has become a prolific hospitality executive in the southeast, she has recently expanded her expertise to facilitate enterprise partnerships between progressive companies within Champa Bay's innovation ecosystem. As a lifelong learning, Annette truly embodies a "well-rounded executive" by exceeding corporate milestones, while bolstering her business acumen through her rigorous certification course regimen.

Cory Michael Sanchez

Cory Michael Sanchez is in the top 1% of influencers on LinkedIn.

He is a Master B2B Lead Generation Expert and is also the author of the books: "Got Mojo? 6 Award Winning Secrets for Explosive Business Growth" and "Zero to Hero in 60 days or less".

Cory and his team apply Agile throughout their business and to create breakthrough results for their clients.

Rosie Hauck

Dr. Rosie Hauck currently serves as the Executive Director of the Office of Advanced Technology Support for Faculty, a unit under the Office of Technology Solutions at Illinois State University. Her focus in this role is to support faculty and students by implementing technology initiatives for teaching and research.

In addition, Dr. Hauck is an Associate Professor in Business Information Systems at ISU, where she continues to teach the BIS Capstone course. As a Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner, she incorporates and teaches Agile concepts and values in her BIS Capstone course.

Tom Mellor

Tom Mellor has been a Certified Scrum Trainer since 2008 and was mentored in teaching and using Scrum by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber. At Ken's invitation, Tom served on the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance from 2008 to 2010, including Chair of the Board from 2009 to 2010. As a 22 year employee of a Fortune 50 US business, Tom introduced Scrum into the company in 2004 and helped incubate and grow agility there until retiring from the company in 2013. During those 10 years, he was involved in over dozens of product development efforts. Tom has trained over 450 CSM and CSPO workshops over 14 years as a Certified Scrum Trainer with over 6,000 people attending and will retire as a CST at the end of 2022.

Aino Vonge Corry

Aino Corry is a teacher, a technical conference editor and retrospectives facilitator. She holds a masters degree and a ph.d. in computer science.

She has 12 years of experience with Patterns in Software Development, and 20 years of experience with agile processes in academia and industry (in other words; she is old).

She also teaches how to teach Computer Science to teachers, and thus lives up to the name of her company; Metadeveloper.

In her spare time, she runs and sings (but not at the same time).

Robert Ellerman

Robert Ellerman is the CEO of Mirku Group and Disputesuite. He also sits as an active board member for SAS Financial, Medfiniti, and Occam Alliance.

His involvement in the strategic management of a myriad of interrelated assets and dedication to addressing the complexities of small business development has been noteworthy. It has led to his emergence as an industry thought leader in marketing, tech innovation, and fintech solutions.

Rob is known for his expertise in consumer and business credit throughout the years and the rehabilitation of distressed business assets.

In this manner, Disputesuite was conceived and founded in 2006, eventually leading to the birth of Mirku as a formidable SaaS enterprise and a business development solutions company. Rob is a new trainer with the Agile Marketing Academy.

Megan Baerg

Megan Baerg was born to explore and train both breath and brain to heal the body. Over the past two decades she has worked as a massage therapist in a variety of settings including corporate, healthcare, private clinic and sport.

A few of her career highlights include Barclays Churchill Cup Rugby, Professional BMX, Royal Military College of Canada Varsity Men’s Hockey and Professional Ballroom Dancing. Megan is a certified Breath Mastery practitioner.

She has been mentored by and is currently working with Breath Artist Sage Rader and grew her online chops in 2021 leading a free weekly global breath community called Breath Church with Rader. With Systema breathing a particular area of interest, she has studied online and attended a number of classes with Russian Master Vladimir Visilliev. Meg began learning NeuroAcrobatics™ in March, 2020 and has dedicated hundreds of hours of personal practice to honing and perfecting her skill.

Nagesh Sharma

Nagesh Sharma is very passionate about causing change and improving business results. He has been engaged with many Large Enterprise transformations to a Lean and Agile approach, organizational dynamics, and the creation of high-performing teams.

His Agile knowledge & experience, along with his coaching and training abilities, offers him the perspective needed to guide people, teams & organizations to harness Agile as a competitive advantage.

Nagesh is an experienced Flight Levels Guide, SAFe Trainer, Scrum.org Trainer, ProKanban Trainer, eduScrum Trainer. He has trained more than 6000 people across the globe.

Apart from being a Professional Trainer, Nagesh is an Enterprise Agile Coach, Certified IL Master Executive Coach by John Mattone. ACE Certified Coach by David Peterson & David Goldsmith and Forbes Coaches Council Member.

Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill is co-host of The Agile Heroes Summit and CEO of Alchemy Enterprises. Daryl is an NLP Master Practitioner and the creator of Magnet Meditations, which has allowed his clients to break through the $100K to $500K per year income levels, simply by retuning their brain waves. He's commonly referred to by his clients as a mind ninja, secret to the A-Listers, secret weapon, and as Les Brown said "Daryl Hill is the The Mindset Master, that's my story and I'm sticking to it." He's helped coaches, consultants, authors and speakers all over the world let go of financial limitations and limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from reaching their peak potential. Daryl is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and does Agile coaching for companies beginning their Agile journey.

Phillip Lanos

Phillip Lanos, previous host of Entrepreneur and Inc Magazine podcast an author of a personal development book named Pushing Past The Norm available on Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

Currently on a mission to help Entrepreneurs craft their narrative for maximum impact through Own The Rhythm and hosting the Strategic Advisor Board War Room Podcast which currently boasts a loyal community of business owners with a combined net worth of over a billion dollars.

Chris Diller

Chris is a Leadership Coach and Agilist with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He began his career developing software in 2006, and held various roles including as an embedded software developer, project leader and ScrumMaster, but has jumped head-first into coaching since 2018.

Chris has a passion for helping individuals and teams “unleash their awesome” to increase their performance and deliver exceptional results. As an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach, he has focused much of his practice on teams and emerging leaders – those in the early stages of transitioning to a full-time management position – but has had a range of clients from vice presidents and directors, to educators and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Jim Schiel

Jim Schiel has more than 35 years of experience in software development, management, leadership, and Agile Development in highly regulated industries including healthcare and telecommunications.

Jim has been a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) since 2005 and has taught more than 1300 classes in 24 countries to over 23,000 students. Jim combines a strong leadership focus with a healthful dose of common sense in all of his work.

His goal is to help IT workers around the world create high-quality, high-value products without the stress of building products with unclear expectations, changing priorities, and unrealistic deadlines.

Jim has written two books on Enterprise-Scale Agile Software Development and how to be an excellent Scrum Master. He is currently working on his third book dedicated to helping businesses manage economic downturns by getting more done with the staffing they already have. This latest book will be available later this year.

Jill Stott

Jill Stott is a Sr. Agile Coach and VP of Innovation at NextUp Solutions.

Jill and her team train courses in Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, DevOps, DevSecOps, User Stories, Agile Testing, Agile Facilitation, Scrum, and Product Ownership and also provide tailored Agile coaching to individuals and organizations that enables enhanced productivity, greater customer and employee satisfaction.

Jill has 25 years experience in IT working as a contributing team member and more than 7 years experience as an Agile Coach.

Jill has trained and coached numerous teams (and teams of teams) on transforming from traditional engineering processes and mindsets to agile methodologies as well as assisted established agile teams to improve agile practices to increase throughput.

Jill is on a mission to discover and share better ways to make work and work outcomes better, faster, and more joyful. And hopefully, make some lasting friendships along the way.

Jim Benson

A pioneer in applying Lean and Kanban to knowledge work, Jim is the creator of Personal Kanban and co-author of Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life, winner of the Shingo Research and Publication Award. His other books include Why Plans Fail, Why Limit WIP, and Beyond Agile. He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi, and co-founder of Modus Institute. For the past two decades Jim has worked at uncovering ways for individuals and groups to communicate, collaborate, and find clarity in unpredictable and amorphous environments. At Modus Cooperandi they use Lean, systems thinking, agile management and brain science to help clients communicate and manage their work. They specialize in creating coherent and enjoyable working systems for knowledge workers. This includes understanding work, thoughtful work selection, understanding variation, and creating environments free of political or interpersonal stress. They build collaborative management systems with a client list that includes Comcast, the World Bank, J.P Morgan, State Farm, the United Nations, government agencies and companies from startups to the Fortune 10.

Alan Cyment

Alan Cyment became the first Spanish-speaking CST worldwide back in 2008. This helped him jumpstart the first agile communities in Spanish-speaking Latin America, including the long-standing Ágiles conference. Before that he was a Computer Science major and software developer with a passion for craftsmanship, elegance in code and closeness to customers. When becoming a trainer he blended his love for code with a passion for psychoanalysis and acting to come up with a unique facilitation style that combines energetic delivery, deep theoretical insights, group self-organization and learning with the body. He considers Tobias Mayer to be his mentor to this day.

Alan has presented sessions in Global Gatherings, the Agile conference, most editions of the Ágiles conferences, in innumerable local meetups throughout the Spanish speaking world among others. He has also facilitated numerous Open Spaces in Global Gatherings and an interactive wrap-up for the Global Gathering in Amsterdam.

Michael Costanza

Michael Costanza is a US Navy veteran with over a decade of high-level project management, operations/process improvement, planning and execution of large scale events, and team leadership success within extreme environments demanding innovation, teamwork, decisiveness, and adaptability. Michael has experience in managing remote teams and structuring company wide processes and communication. During his 10 years in the Navy, Michael became the Chief Medical Instructor for Special Operations Training Group then coordinated Tactical Combat Casualty Care for Naval Medical Center San Diego. Michael is currently a Direct Response Marketing Director and Project Manager for fast-growing, high-volume direct to consumer supplement products in the most competitive niches online. Michael manages multiple clients and companies within the Marketing industry regarding Project Management, product formulation, talent acquisition, marketing strategy, direct response copywriting, funnel architecture, affiliate management, refund mitigation, to ongoing conversion rate optimization.

V. Lee Henson

V. Lee Henson has been recognized worldwide for his Inclusive, Pragmatic, Humanized, Psychology based approach used to help organizations achieve true business agility.

What the book advises is no longer enough to help Agile teams and leaders get the proven tools they need to establish and scale their business in what many are calling the new normal.

He is the host of the Award Winning Daily Standup Podcast and the inventor of Rapid Release Planning, The Team John Concept, The POBAFATA, and Objective Stack Ranking Technique.

He has published many white papers including The Seven Deadly Sins of Technical Debt, The Agile 12 Step Program, Nine Powerful Ways to Keep Agile Teams Motivated, and The ART of Agile Estimating & Forecasting.

V. Lee Henson is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Path to CSP Educator with the Scrum Alliance.

Brad Swanson

Brad Swanson is a Leadership and Organizational Coach at Agility 11 who guides organizations to achieve sustainably better results using Lean & Agile principles.

He has been a trusted advisor for executives and organizations across the globe.

He honed his own leadership skills as a Vice President in the consulting and software industries.

Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Agile Leadership® (CAL) Educator®, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® - CEC), Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), and Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large Scale Scrum).

He is a member of the Agile Leadership Journey, a global federation of Leadership coaches.

Suzette Johnson

Dr. Suzette Johnson works for Northrop Grumman Corporation near Baltimore, Maryland. As an NG Fellow for Lean-Agile, she works for Space Systems supporting program success and achieving business outcomes. Her experience with Lean-Agile began over twenty years ago in IT solutions, software, and cyber-physical systems. She has led the adoption of Lean-Agile across the organization and supported over 100 internal projects and government programs.

She is the co-author of several papers defining Industrial DevOps and holds certifications including Certified Enterprise Coach, Scaled Agile Program Consultant Trainer, CSM, PMP, and PMI-ACP. She received a Doctorate of Management and Technology at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the Impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and agile environments.

Sage Rader

Sage Rader is a Breath Artist, Biohacking pioneer, violinist, poet and the creator of Neuroacrobatics (TM). Over the past two decades, his creative work has been featured in W Magazine, Global Wellness Institute’s 2021 Trend Report on Breathwork, The New York Times, on BBC, PBS, ITV (UK), Sirius/XM, and in competition for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Sage’s passion is working with some of the world’s most elite performers and pioneering conscious human evolution using known science and the cutting edge of applied creative thought. After recovering from a series of near fatal medical conditions and rebuilding his brain and body from scratch more than once, Sage now has the privilege of sharing his secrets with super-celebrities, doctors, scientists and CEOs as well as extreme trauma, cancer and chronic pain warriors. Neuroacrobatics (TM) is designed to take the same secrets used by elite performers under the most demanding circumstances and make them accessible to anyone.

Robin Yeman

Robin Yeman is the Chief Technical Officer at Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation.

Robin is a Results-focused Enterprise Lean Agile leader with the ability to merge extensive technical skills and management capabilities in order to successfully lead technical projects in a fast-paced environment.

Robin has a proven ability to identify and evaluate market needs, build opportunities, and provide solutions leveraging best practices from Lean, Agile, and DevOps Managed projects across the full life-cycle driving multi-million dollar revenues for the corporation both domestically and internationally while providing extensive cost savings to customers.

Todd Miller

Todd is the co-author of the book Fixing Your Scrum - Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems and a Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org. He has practical experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software Developer, and Agile coach on a variety of technical and creative projects across a multitude of industries.

He presently coaches and trains enterprises and teams across the United States on the Scrum framework, enterprise Agile transformation, and professional software development.

On the technical side, he has development experience mostly in the Microsoft .NET technology stack but considers himself a tinkerer with Java and Python.

Regina Martins

Regina Martins aims for continuous improvement in both her personal and professional life and her daily mantra is to be a better version of herself each and every day. Regina is an Agile coach, trainer and facilitator, and she gets energized when she’s involved in facilitating teams steer for better outcomes. As a Radical Collaborator, Regina also coaches people to get rid of defensiveness to collaborate better. Regina has been an evaluator for the Africa Innovation Summit, and was involved with bringing the Agile Africa conference to the market. Regina enjoys developing new conference speakers to help keep the Agile community in South Africa fresh and regularly speaks at conferences locally and internationally. Regina relaxes by reading, family time, meditating and enjoying her garden.

Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill is co-host of The Agile Heroes Summit and CEO of Alchemy Enterprises. Daryl is an NLP Master Practitioner and the creator of Magnet Meditations, which has allowed his clients to break through the $100K to $500K per year income levels, simply by retuning their brain waves.

He's commonly referred to by his clients as a mind ninja, secret to the A-Listers, secret weapon, and as Les Brown said "Daryl Hill is the The Mindset Master, that's my story and I'm sticking to it."

He's helped coaches, consultants, authors and speakers all over the world let go of financial limitations and limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from reaching their peak potential.

Daryl is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and does Agile coaching for companies beginning their Agile journey.

Snehal Talati

Snehal Talati is a data-driven, process and outcome focused, experiential coach with expertise in transforming complex business processes and driving measurable organizational change.

Snehal is the Founder and CEO of Boostaro as well as an Enterprise Coach and Organizational Change Agent helping clients with Value Stream Workshops, Design Thinking, Data Analytics, Organizational Change Coaching, DevOps and technical coaching, digital tool adoption and more.

Snehal is a passionate leader with an experienced track-record of establishing high performing cultures within the federal government, biotech, and financial services space.
As a key strategy and change expert, he creates strategies that are aligned with business objectives and develop game-changing approaches to transform cultures, teams, workflows and processes.

Ron Perry

Ron Perry is an expert in the field of sales and marketing technology with 20+ years experience in running digital marketing agencies and helping businesses of all sizes maximize their revenue potential through enhanced brand development, multi-faceted marketing strategies, and high level consulting and coaching. With the emergence of transformative new AI technologies over the last 3-5 years, Ron has recognized the power of A.I. to be the decisive tool required, combining cutting-edge business technologies with common sense and proven sales strategies he has successfully helped countless businesses scale up with many seeing as much as 10x growth in revenue resulting from implementation of these tools/strategies. Ron now works with the Agile Marketing Academy and helps businesses leverage Artificial Intelligence technology specifically designed to solve the areas where businesses have the most opportunity for expansion and revenue.

Pete Behrens

Pete Behrens is a leadership coach and the founder of the Agile Leadership Journey, an organization, curriculum, and community devoted to improving leaders and their organizations. As an engineer by profession, Pete now guides leaders and organizations to be more focused, responsive and resilient to change. Pete is the creator and host of the (Re)Learning Leadership podcast. Along with expert guides and his guests, Pete explores leadership challenges, discussing paths for new awareness and growth for leaders to improve their leadership in highly complex and rapidly changing environments. As a systemic coach and leader himself, Pete led the development of the Certified Enterprise Coaching (CEC) and Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) programs for the Scrum Alliance. Furthermore, he served on their Board of Directors from 2016-2018. Pete also provides leadership and organizational coaching through his company Trail Ridge.

Elena Vassilieva

Elena is an executive leadership coach who uses virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate sustainable and immersive feedback for conscious leadership development. Elena integrates principles of Conversational and Emotional IQ and Systemic Team coaching with an Agile/Lean empirical approach to create a personalized holistic coaching experience. Drawing on her years of training, mentoring, and coaching executives and teams in business agility, she now serves as a trusted advisor for thought leaders who engage in digital transformation. Elena is an experienced people development leader known for her ability to creatively align business strategy to people's practices while keeping a passionate focus on workplace culture and values. Elena is an ICF Certified Coach, ORSC, and AoEC Certified Systemic Team Coach, Certified Visionary Leadership Coach.

Dan Greening

Agile management consultant, software executive and architect. Host of the Mindful Agility podcast. Led agile transformations and ongoing activities in several companies, focusing on organizational productivity, quality, scalability, and innovation. I've often led product, software engineering, operations, and user experience departments. I have helped employees and friends develop their effectiveness and careers (and I'm grateful that many former employees remain good friends). Of course, this promotes company success. I co-founded three startups, bringing two to financial liquidity in executive roles. I have published peer-reviewed computer science research on agile management, machine learning, parallelism and hardware architecture. I am fluent in Java (through 13), Python, C++ SQL, MongoDB, and many other languages. I hold a computer science PhD from UCLA (statistics, parallelism, optimization).

Jason Tanner

As CEO, Jason leads the company’s consulting practice and teaches many of Applied Frameworks’ training programs. Jason has led Agile transformations at several Fortune 500 organizations, including recent engagements with MassMutual, Capital One, and CoStar Group. In addition to large-scale transformations, Jason regularly leads projects focused on product innovation and portfolio management. As a Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Scrum@Scale Trainer, Jason has coached thousands of Agile practitioners around the world.

Robert Argento

I believe there is a better way to achieve results. A better way to plan work, manage people, innovate and delight customers. Companies from all over the world, of all sizes and across all industries are embracing Business Agility and getting relevant results across the various dimensions of their business. Born, raised and lived all my life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but I love to travel for work and pleasure. Just in the last 10 years I made 324 trips, adding 1464 days on the road, visiting 160 cities in 23 countries - more than 1 million miles. And I did not start to travel in 2010!

Nic Sementa

As a serial entrepreneur, Nic Sementa has co-founded a series of companies including nationally distributed college magazine Boosh, a community based artist incubator RGB Lounge, and crowdfunding consulting company Minion Werks. With a strong background in advertising and sales, Nic has helped many companies turn small marketing budgets into breakthrough results. While exploring the application of Agile serving as Director of Business Development for Formula Ink, Nic began studying how the same project management techniques that make Agile effective for software development can be applied to the creation of online marketing systems. After launching a case study program to solidify best practices, Nic Sementa and Maria Matarelli began to standardize a knowledge base that would later become the platform for the Agile Marketing Academy. Nic Sementa is the Director of Academics for the Agile Marketing Academy and a Certified Agile Marketing Trainer (CAMT).

Chris Sims

Chris Sims is a certified scrum trainer, agile coach, and recovering C++ developer who helps organizations improve their productivity and happiness.

Chris is the founder of Agile Learning Labsand the co-author of two best-selling scrum books: The Elements of Scrum and Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction.

More of his writing can be found on the Agile Learning Labs blog. Before starting Agile Learning Labs in 2007, Chris made a living in roles such as: scrum master, product owner, engineering manager, project manager, software engineer, musician, and auto mechanic.

Carla Krieger

Carla Krieger is passionate about people and learning, always ready to explore new ways of working that encourage a collaborative environment, with diversities, delivering value and results according to a purpose.

Enterprise Agile Coach at Globo's Digital Hub, Head of Culture, Business and the Pod Cast of the” Jornada Colaborativa” agile community, Agile World Portuguese Co-host, DA Trainer, Professor, Speaker and curator & co-author of several books.

Olaf Lewitz

As Trust Artist and Certified Enterprise Coach with the Scrum Alliance, Olaf is a veteran and leader in the international agile community. In 20 years, he has visited and helped hundreds of organizations to transform. In that work, exploring culture and making sense of leadership have become his speciality.

His strategy: increasing trust and responsibility through invitation and clarity. Olaf doesn’t hesitate to show up as kind and blunt - discomfort grows his capacity to love what he dislikes. Olaf invites us to trust ourselves and others. He believes: You deserve to love what you do.

Olaf is one of the founders of TrustTemenos Leadership Academy. We work with leaders increasing their clarity of identity and intention, and help growing organizations where safe spaces are available for people to show up and grow.

Antoinette Coetzee

Antoinette Coetzee is an ex-software developer that took a detour through academia to end up in the world of professional coaching.

A veteran of Agile transitions, her focus currently is on developing leaders to grow agility in themselves and their organizations. Her mission is to train and coach leaders to create organizational environments that are deliberately developmental, for themselves as well as others.

Before the pandemic she practically lived at 33,000 ft, but since the start of the pandemic she has been happily home in beautiful Cape Town, with her 3 snoring pugs at her feet!

James Shore

James Shore has been leading teams in practicing Agile development since 1999. He combines a deep understanding of Agile ideas with decades of in-the-trenches practical development experience.

He uses this experience to help people understand how all aspects of Agile fit together to create outstanding results.

James is the author of The Art of Agile Development, a recipient of the Agile Alliance's Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice, and co-creator of the Agile Fluency Model. He may be found online at JamesShore.com.

Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill is co-host of The Agile Heroes Summit and CEO of Alchemy Enterprises. Daryl is an NLP Master Practitioner and the creator of Magnet Meditations, which has allowed his clients to break through the $100K to $500K per year income levels, simply by retuning their brain waves.

He's commonly referred to by his clients as a mind ninja, secret to the A-Listers, secret weapon, and as Les Brown said "Daryl Hill is the The Mindset Master, that's my story and I'm sticking to it."

He's helped coaches, consultants, authors and speakers all over the world let go of financial limitations and limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from reaching their peak potential.

Daryl is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and does Agile coaching for companies beginning their Agile journey.

Paisely Demby

In 2000, Paisley Demby walked the streets of New York City in the dead of winter homeless, mentally ill and sick with the flu. Fast forward to today, Mr. Demby is a highly respected Speaker, Consultant, and CEO trainer that has personally trained over 13,000 small business owners in New York City.

He works with startup founders to CEO’s of multimillion dollar corporations often identifying and removing blocks and inspiring leaders to envision and achieve goals they never imagined.

Mr. Demby often shares his 5 principles to position leaders to achieve amazing results in their lives and business as he is a practitioner of “intentional giving.” He often shares his knowledge and experience as he believes he will be provided with more resources to share.

Mr. Demby is a proud father of 3 and husband to the love of his life.

Tom Kavanaugh

Tom Kavanaugh, of Ventura, California, has four decades of business experience with a rich background in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Mind Mapping and Accelerated Learning. He earned a master’s degree in Psychology and numerous training certifications in NLP, Mind Mapping, PhotoReading and Genius Code.

Tom is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, and originator of The R.E.L.E.A.S.E. Method, a protocol for releasing the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in War Veterans, First Responders, and Trauma Survivors.

His company, New Coaching Strategies.com is a business development company assisting clients in discovering new techniques for generating higher gross profit, reducing expenses and building sustainable recurring revenue

Henrique Mariano

Henrique Mariano is a Business Development Executive of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with 25 years’ experience in Consulting companies, Banks, Asset Management and Brokerage Firms. He leads high performance leadership teams in highly complex extensive projects in many continents.

Henrique has a strong academic background with an MBA in Business Management and is certified in Agile as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), PMP, CPA-20 and DT. He is also a certified expert in Transformation Mgt, Design Sprint and LEAN facilitator as well as leading face-to-face training sessions in Brazil, US, France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Singapore.

Katrina Snow

Katrina Snow is a seasoned Project Manager with a Masters in Digital Marketing.

Her professional attributes include Product Management and Business Development in several industries, including fortune 500 brands and startups, implementing software solutions and marketing infrastructure to launch and sustain scalability.

Katrina is a Personal Agility Recognized Ambassador and actively works in an agile environment, leading agile projects, while co-facilitating courses for Certified Agile Marketing Specialists (CAMS) through the Agile Marketing Academy.

Zohar Mann

Zohar is an Agile Coach at Salesforce and is passionate about optimizing team health and fostering tightly knit groups that make delivery of complex portfolios look easy. Zohar has a vast array of SAN technical skills that allow him to be successful in any project environment.

Zohar’s background includes Scrum Master and Product Owner experience as well as positions as an IT Architect and IT specialist designing mass storage solutions for IBM customers utilizing IBM, EMC, NetApp, Brocade, Cisco, and F5 technologies as well as being a Sr Technical Analyst for The Walt Disney Company. Zohar graduated from The University of Georgia with a Bachelors in Biology.

Michael Mrochen

Professor Michael Mrochen, PhD is fully dedicated to improving the diagnostics and treatments with ophthalmic medical devices from a scientific, technological and business perspective. He developed multiple technologies in the field of ophthalmologic medical devices that lead to new applications and products to the market.

Prof. Mrochens scientific achievements are represented by more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and proceedings in the field of ophthalmic devices. He further generated more than 25 national and international patents and patent applications.

Prof. Mrochen is a co-founder of the International Congress of Wavefront Sensing and the International Congress of Corneal Cross-Linking.

Consuello Hodges

Lieutenant Colonel Consuello A. Hodges (Ret.) is the founder of Hodges Leadership Consulting Group as well the author of the new book Purpose in The Pain and a co-author of the book Survived Life’s Challenges. His consulting group follows a belief and behavior based system that addresses both skillset and mindset.

Approaching obstacles from “inside out,” Consuello’s work entails emotional release combined with practical “outside in” strategies aligned with each client's value system. Retiring as Communications Officer with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, LTC Hodges served as the Director of Information Technology, G6 for the Army Reserve Medical Command. He is also the founder of Life Giving Christian Ministry, a Global Outreach Foundation in Atlanta GA.

Rijon Erickson

Rijon Erickson lives to serve talented, driven people and help them deliver valuable products and experiences to the people and causes they care about. In his coaching, Rijon seeks to help those same talented and driven people solve wicked, complex and interesting problems in their lives and work.

Rijon believes in and teaches the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Scrum and Human-Centered Design.

He also specializes in facilitating the discovery, analysis, design and delivery of complex enterprise application integration projects and has extensive experience leading global application development and maintenance teams.

Eric Willeke

Eric Willeke is cofounder and Principal of Elevate.to.

Eric partners with leaders at all levels in applying Lean-Agile techniques to get better results through improved change management, better steering and alignment, and a deeper focus on the outcomes that matter.

Eric engages across many industries in some of the world’s largest and most complex companies, as well as the smallest, high-growth startups.

He helps by instilling Agile business management techniques, accelerating the deployment of critical initiatives, and mentoring executives leading large-scale Agile transformation efforts.

Eric is a principal contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), a SAFe Fellow, and a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer.

Dr. Gail Ferreira

Dr. Gail Ferreira is an agile transformation expert who has led multiple digital agile transformations for large Fortune 50 clients. A natural leader, Gail has initiatives across ~11 departments, ~225 teams and ~5500 people around the world. Gail has worked for consulting firms such as the Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte, and Oracle Corporation leading complex technology transformation efforts for financial firms. An accomplished thought leader, Dr. Gail has written two books on enterprise agile transformation, along with multiple papers on quantitative research and analysis for leaders. As a recognized agile technology thought leader, Dr. Gail has presented at multiple international conferences for the IEEE, Agile Alliance, and the Project Management Institute. Dr. Gail has spoken in well-known conferences with the Agile Alliance, Project Management Institute, IEEE and several academic institutions in virtual, hybrid, and in person modalities with over 500 participants.

Dave Prior

Dave Prior, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, CSP, CST, has been leading technology projects and helping individuals and teams find better ways to manage their work for over 20 years. He has managed projects, programs, PMOs, and portfolios and has focused on Agile since 1999.

Dave’s journey from waterfall to Agile was not an easy one, and this influences every aspect of his work and how he shows up every day with a simple goal: “...make the journey from waterfall to Agile less painful for others than it was for me." Dave has been podcasting about Agile and Project Management since 2008. He currently produces LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes and drunkenPM Radio’s Reluctant Agilist.

Dave works for LeadingAgile and leads Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner classes throughout the United States and online. He is also a member of the Scrum Alliance TAC.

Carissa Gallardo

Carissa Gallardo helps high performance leaders tap into Emotional Intelligence to truly optimize both their performance and wellbeing.

Carissa also guides teams to expand their creativity and innovation while showing them how to enhance their collaboration to achieve greater outcomes.

Carissa teaches techniques to help people identify conflict triggers and shares strategies for increasing communication and reducing conflict.

Carissa provides powerful insights through executive coaching while bringing healthful and natural solutions to life's many complex experiences while exploring healing modalities that lead to a whole, balanced, and joyful life.

Carissa is the CEO of Soul Healing Solutions and is also a certified Kemetic Reiki practitioner.

Robby D'Angelo

Robby D’Angelo is a Human Optimization Expert and Best-Selling Author who loves developing motivated individuals to consistently perform in a peak state by biohacking their mind, body, and soul. After spending the majority of his life fighting obesity and poor mental health while struggling with weight, countless injuries, and a negative self-image, Robby overcame these battles to become an All-American college football player. He attended The University of Southern Mississippi with a double undergraduate in Business Administration and Marketing and an MBA with an emphasis in finance. After college, he realized he had to prioritize his health and lost over 115 lbs. After publishing his best-selling book called "The Struggle Is Real" on the psychology of personal transformation, he quit his job to chase his dreams of changing lives. He does all this for his main passion which is a nonprofit called RISE UP where he works in schools to create a positive change in the mental health of our youth.

Deborah Harris

Deborah Harris graduated with her Masters in Data Science from Elmhurst University.

She enjoys solving business problems with machine learning, addressing gender parity in the field of data science, and is currently working with Woosender, a software startup in AI conversational marketing.

Deb has most recently been exploring how Machine Learning can help U.S. Veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through increased accuracy of rhetorical role prediction, building deep learning models with small datasets, and comparing the performance of different embeddings on legal documents.

Deb is a Certified Agile Marketing Specialist (CAMS), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and Certified Agile Leadership (CAL).

Maria Matarelli

Maria Matarelli is a serial entrepreneur, consultant to the Fortune 100, an international best selling author, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).

Maria consults businesses to reach breakthrough results by applying Agile methodologies from startups reaching $35 Million dollar valuations to streamlining Millions in cost savings for Billion dollar organizations.

Maria travels to consult Fortune 100 companies and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia.

Maria is the founder and President of Formula Ink, co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy & Personal Agility Institute, and is a highly sought after international DJ who most recently DJed the Super Bowl and NHL Playoffs.

Karl Smith

Karl A L Smith is the CFO of Agile World Incorporated and a Co-Founder with Sabrina C E Bruce. He is polymath and has a wide skill set that he has developed over the years. His educational background includes a Social Sciences including Psychology and Social Anthropology, Industrial and Craft Design, Education and Enterprise Computer Science. He has been recognised for his eminence in Human Centered Design and Business Leadership by the British Computer Society with a Fellowship (FBCS). Karl is dedicated to finding solutions to everyday human problems and would not describe himself as a technologist. Karl A L Smith is a technology key opinion leader (KOL) with a focus on ecosystems run by various infrastructure technologies and has been involved in the 5G Forum since 2016. His blog has been going since 2001 and averages 4,800,000 to 5,100,000 views a year, he has over 58,000 followers on LinkedIn, 43,000 on Twitter.

Sabrina Bruce

Sabrina C E Bruce is the CEO of Agile World and a Co-Founder with Karl A L Smith. She is an agile coach in business transformation who works with leadership and teams. She has a passion for uncovering their behaviors that allows them to be the very best they can be within their career, home and workplace. By day she is a consultant with a track record for training and enhancing Agile Teams and Leadership in agile principles. She enables them to select methodologies to work more efficiently and continue to set expectations, but by night she follows her dream of giving back to the community with so many amazing people through Agile World. She started the original Agile World talk show with Karl A L Smith in January 2021. Sabrina has recently started a new talk show with her co host Steve Moubray call Agile World Wellness to help support the community when it comes to health using Agility.

Mark Anthony Bates

Mark has been described as the connector of dots that others can't see, the connector of people from Sea to Sea. An Influencer of Influencers that listen to me, Leveraging Relationships is the ultimate key.

A Change Agent disrupting the status quo. A Trust Agent that others desire to know. Master of Languaging to Persuade Hearts and Minds, Creator of Stories that travel through time.

For those of you who have worked with him you already know, how much he can help people's businesses grow.

Kate McGaw

Kate is the Founder and CEO of ARCLight Agile where she specializes in working with organizations on their #JourneytoAgility. She helps teams on their journey to empowerment and collaboration, to achieve faster decision making and therefore a focus on customers and their rapidly changing needs. Kate works with leaders throughout the organization to create a more agile approach to leadership that encourages innovation, flexibility, and empowered teams, allowing organizations to achieve their purpose. Kate is a dynamic Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Team Coach (CTC), with over 20 years working in Education, Operations, Project Management, IT, and Consulting.

Nigel Baker

Nigel hates writing bios. He has been around forever and done everything in the Agile space with everyone. He has been into Agile from almost the start as a developer (unlike a lot), A scrum master and Agile Coach for nearly twenty years.

He has been a Certified Scrum Trainer for 15 years. Nigel avoided giving a waist up bio pic as he has got really fat during COVID and is embarrassed about it. Not so embarrassed that he isn’t going to mention that in his bio. Darn it.

Dorian Nolen

Dorian L. Nolen is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Quantum Evolution and co creator of an oxygen recovery protocol designed to Improve and address health problems caused by poor oxygen delivery. Without surgery, Chemical, drugs, or invasive techniques. Providing a natural way to increase oxygen levels resulting in anti-aging, Mental clarity, cellular recovery and most importantly improvement with neurological damages caused by “TBI” traumatic brain injuries. Previous to working in the the professional athlete and sports performance arena Dorian had a career in the tech field working for Apple for 7 years and fulfilled a contract with one of the largest defense contracting agencies in the quantum computing / deep machine learning space. Dorian has maintained a professional business career while being an athlete competing in the sport of “MMA” mixed martial arts and bodybuilding. Dorian also has a strong background in the health and wellness industry as personal training and coaching has been a passion for more than a decade.

Jason Myers

Jason is a pilot, entrepreneur, international professional speaker, multi-time best-selling author, legendary marketer, and perpetual sponge for knowledge. He has been founder, leader, turn-around architect and chief growth agent for many companies. He is this generation's steward of the global 36 year-old brand of Guerrilla Marketing, a marketing training and publishing powerhouse with over 60 book titles, translated into over 62 languages and more that 22 million copies sold. Jason began Blockchain and crypto-currency exploration in 2010 by building his own bitcoin mining rig. He regularly consults for and is involved in multiple blockchain and crypto-currency projects across the globe leveraging best-in-class structures for tokenomics and ICO process. He has launched, invested in, operated, taken over and exited multiple businesses. In parallel to his entrepreneurial and consulting experience, Jason served 11 years with US Cellular/BellSouth/Cingular/AT&T in various regional and national roles. He served on the merger/integration team of the largest merger in history, at the time - $43Billion.

Kyle Mabin

Kyle Mabin is a technically-minded program director, Agile Framework evangelist, continuous process improvement thought leader and highly-disciplined managing facilitator/coach/mentor/speaker with over 25 years of experience. Leader in multi-industry, enterprise-wide, global adoption of the Agile Foundation, Kaizen manufacturing process redesign, Kanban-based Lean Six Sigma efficiency solution deployment and Global Culture educational course training. He has built and operated innovative program management offices and factories spanning 9 countries with annual budgets nearing a half a billion dollars. A recognized thought leader who enjoys unraveling complexities and identifying innovative solutions, One of Kyle’s key passions is driving global adoption of the Agile Foundation, Lean/Six-Sigma/Kaizen, Kanban and cutting edge business process automation policies. Kyle is also an associate/business member of the NFL Alumni Association’s Tampa Bay Chapter.

Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl is the President and CEO of LeanDog, a company that is focused on Lean-Agile coaching and training. Jon has been practicing and upholding the values of the Agile Manifesto and Lean Management for over 20 years.

He teaches and coaches companies at all levels across IT and the business, and is known for his coaching around topics such as Executive Agility, Kanban, Design Thinking, Continual Improvement, and other process improvement practices.

He is also the leading author of the LeanDog Agile Discussion guide which is designed to structure team conversations on over 80 of the best Agile practices.

Tariq EQ Amawi

Tariq EQ Amawi is a professional coach, trainer, and facilitator with a distinct ability to translate complex ideas and concepts into effective learning for teams and leaders alike. Tariq believes language creates landscapes, and through relevant analogies his training sessions are both memorable and methodical as well as innovative and inspiring. Tariq has presented on stages around the world from Budapest to Bali and St. Petersburg to Australia in front of 1000’s of people. Tariq is a TEDx speaker and has won first place in national writing competitions and international poetry slams and is on a mission to accelerate productivity and create immediately actionable strategies through enhanced communication throughout the organization.

Diana Larsen

A visionary pragmatist, Diana Larsen is Chief Connector at the Agile Fluency® Project, where we hold a vision of an inspiring future: “Every agile software teams practices Agile Software Development at a level of fluent proficiency that specifically fits their businesses’ needs.” Devoted to the success of all Agile coaches and teams, Diana co-authored books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; Five Rules for Accelerated Learning; and co-originated the Agile Fluency™ Model. Diana co-wrote the seminal “Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile” article with James Shore, co-founder of the Agile Fluency Project. She collaborates closely with an extended network of consultants and other colleagues.

Suresh Konduru

Suresh Konduru has more than 23 years of experience in the IT industry extensively in Agile Transformation, Agile Consulting, Agile Coaching & Scrum Training, Delivery Management, Program Management, Project Management, for Global Fortune 500 customers. Suresh is certified in CST, CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-ACP as well as being certified in ‘Sharon Bowman’s ‘Training from the Back of the Room (TBR)’ – how to make trainings more effective and sticky to the learners. Suresh uses real-world examples, group learning activities to make workshops learning as well as fun. He delivered workshops in global locations including the USA, India, Sweden, China, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, France, Thailand, UAE, etc. Coaching at all levels (team, and leadership) and partnering with world-wide customers for enterprise transformation, coaching, and new-age leadership nurturing, Suresh has delivered large and critical programs for multiple business domains.

Melissa Boggs

Melissa Boggs is an executive with a background in leadership, business, and product development. A Certified Enterprise Coach with an MBA, she helps leaders and employees bridge the generational, cultural, and societal gaps that exist between them, increase their engagement, and introduce joy into the workplace.

Melissa is a former nonprofit executive and board member, having served on the Board of Directors for both Scrum Alliance and Agile Denver.

In addition to countless agile and HR conferences worldwide, Melissa was privileged to speak at the 2020 World Business and Executive Coach Summit and the 2021 WomenTech Conference and has been featured in Business Coaching, BAI Emergence, and Authority magazines.

David Dame

In his role as Director of Accessibility, Dave is leading the accessibility portfolio for Surface Products aligning with Windows and product innovation roadmaps to empower users of all abilities. Dave is a leadership coach, enterprise agile leader and trainer with over 20 years of product management and leadership experience, which he leverages to drive large-scale transformation in complex organizations. Dave’s practice focuses on scaling change by building up high-performing teams through training & empowering workforces – over the course of his career he has trained over 600 professionals in product management, leadership and agile delivery practices. He has worked with technology companies such as OpenText, PTC, and MCAP; in many cases improving delivery times by over 150%. Dave also spends a significant portion of his time coaching well-seasoned executives, and is very proud that he has played a role in the development of nearly 20 SVP-level and C-level executives.

Maria Matarelli

Maria Matarelli is a serial entrepreneur, consultant to the Fortune 100, an international best selling author, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).

Maria consults businesses to reach breakthrough results by applying Agile methodologies from startups reaching $35 Million dollar valuations to streamlining Millions in cost savings for Billion dollar organizations.

Maria travels to consult Fortune 100 companies and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia.

Maria is the founder and President of Formula Ink, co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy & Personal Agility Institute, and is a highly sought after international DJ who most recently DJed the Super Bowl and NHL Playoffs.

Judy Neher

Judy Neher is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and agile coach, author and international speaker. Judy is passionate about transforming teams and organization through the application of agile principles and values, and has positively impacted the culture, values and productivity of hundreds of teams and organizations, large and small.

Judy’s long history with the Federal Government, as mathematician, computer scientist, and traditional software manager, has provided her with a keen perspective on how agility works in regulated industries. She has been able to leverage that expertise in private sector organizations as well and has had the privilege of helping shape major agile transformations in both the public and private sector. Judy is President/CEO of Celerity Consulting, a small woman-owned agile training and coaching firm based in Indiana.

Ravi Verma

Ravi Verma is a Public Speaker, Agile Coach, Professional Scrum Trainer, Evidence Based Management Consultant and Blogger with a passion for helping teams recapture the magic of making I.T. As the Founder and Org Whisperer at SmoothApps, Ravi blends ideas from the world of Technology, Entrepreneurship and Organizational Development to develop strong teams and inspiring leaders at all levels of an organization. Ravi recently co-founded his second startup – Al Dente, a platform that helps Agile Coach’s and organizations empirically improve business outcomes in tandem with Agile delivery frameworks like Scrum.

Ravi has 20+ year of Software Delivery and Consulting Experience including Agile Enablement for companies ranging from 10 people to 10,000 people.

Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann is the Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, Inc. whose mission is to create the next generation of impact investors with a unique go-to-market strategy that supports all stakeholders as youth use participatory budgeting to invest real money in their schools.

Luke is the author of four books, numerous articles and cited as an inventor on more than a dozen patents, Luke is an internationally recognized expert in Agile Software Development.

Luke co-organized the first Agile conference in 2003, has served on the Board of the Agile Alliance and in partnership with the Scrum Alliance produced the "Collaboration at Scale", the world's largest monthly webinar devoted to helping organizations with 10 or more Scrum teams in 2 or more locations scale agility.

Angel Diaz-Maroto

Angel is a very energetic, proficient and forward-thinking Coach who specialises in coaching organisations throughout their Agile journeys. His pragmatism and experience in Organisational Coaching and Business Agility are the driving forces behind his perceptive methods of action. As a coach, trainer, and mentor, he’s helped to nurture Agility in a diverse set of companies, from small startups to fortune 500 multinational organisations.  Throughout his 12+ years of hands-on experience in Agile coaching, Angel has provided expert guiding to achieve remarkable growth for organisations and agile professionals from more than 30 countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. He holds the three highest level certifications in the field from the Scrum Alliance: CST (Certified Scrum Trainer), CEC (Certified Enterprise Coach) and CAL Educator (Certified Agile Leadership Educator). Additionally, Angel is a certified professional coach by the International Coaching Federation (PCC) a certified co-active coach, specialist in team coaching and systemic leadership.

Daria Bagina

Daria helps teams succeed while creating an encouraging motivating organizational culture. She has extensive experience working with a variety of teams and individuals always looking for the best way to approach new problems.

As a passionate Agile advocate, Daria believes old ways of working can no longer support emerging businesses and the only way to build products that will elevate the economy is through a new mindset of work.

Daria helps companies by providing a theoretical baseline while also giving real-life examples for solving real problems.

As a coach, her purpose is to create self-sustainable agile environments to help companies grow by providing customized coaching and consulting services tailored to the needs of the organization, meeting companies where they are on their agile journey and helping them build the necessary capabilities to continuously improve.

Guy Fraker

Guy Fraker is a Chief Innovation Officer; Advisor to Risk Managers, Insurers, Insurtech, Futurist, Innovation Strategy Consultant, Public Policy Advisor, Deal Maker, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Speaker Optimist, Husband, Father, Brother, Son, Fisherman. Working with organizations who believe in the possible then act on the aspirational. Experiences include a total of 15 launches and/or turn-arounds across private, not-for-profits, and government sectors, creation of 2 markets, 13 insurance product inventions, and over $400M in capital created. Clients span the U.S., UK, Central & South Africa, India, Canada, Germany, and UAE. Insurtechs are creating new opportunities re managing the risk we know from within, while exponential technology domains (risktechs) are redefining risks from outside the industry moving inward. When organizations combine a fearless capacity for learning with a disciplined innovation strategy, unparalleled opportunities result.

Sriram Rajagopalan

Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan’ s research interests include leadership through project management, virtual teams, emotional intelligence, process improvement, and individual career development. Calling himself the Strategic Productivity Expert, he has researched and published both scholarly articles and practitioner columns. Experienced in teaching in India, United States, and Vietnam, and exposed to online, in-person, and blended models, Dr. Rajagopalan also mentors college students besides having started his own initiative of projecting leaders of tomorrow (PLOT) teaching project management to high school students. Dr. Rajagopalan also holds many professional certifications in project management methodologies (PgMP, PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, CSP, CSPO, CSD, CSM, ACC, SCM, SCPO, SCD, SAMC, SCT, CSOXP, Six Sigma Black Belt, and IT Project+) and volunteers as a board member with PMI Mass Bay besides volunteering to support large events at Agile Alliance and student initiatives at NAAAP.

Peter Green

Peter Green helps leaders take full advantage of their gifts to thrive in complex times. He combines individual leadership development with research in next-generation organizational models to help executives lead engaged, world-class organizations.

As the Agile Transformation Leader at Adobe Systems, Peter has helped companies make the critical business transition from perpetual desktop products to the subscription-based Creative Cloud.

After five years of consulting and coaching a wide spectrum of organizations on all things agile, Peter co-founded the Humanizing Work Company to help organizations make work more fit for humans, and humans more capable of doing great work.

Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill is co-host of The Agile Heroes Summit and CEO of Alchemy Enterprises. Daryl is an NLP Master Practitioner and the creator of Magnet Meditations, which has allowed his clients to break through the $100K to $500K per year income levels, simply by retuning their brain waves.

He's helped coaches, consultants, authors and speakers all over the world let go of financial limitations and limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from reaching their peak potential.

Daryl is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and does Agile coaching for companies beginning their Agile journey.

Mary Iqbal

Mary Iqbal is the Agile Transformation Manager at WPS Health Insurance , one of the largest health benefits providers in the state of Wisconsin with more than 4,000 employees.

From doubling the size of a line of business for a data processing organization to moving to a new technology for a consumer products company’s main business platform, Mary has successfully led teams to apply Scrum to solve difficult, time sensitive efforts while delivering value to the organization by helping teams work better together.

Aakash Srinivasan

Aakash Srinivasan is a seasoned corporate trainer and organization design coach. With an academic background in hardware engineering, professional experience in various aspects of technology development (solutioning, management consulting, coaching and training) and a passion for problem domain analysis, Aakash spends his time between training organizations on all things agile and coaching executive and senior leaders around the globe on business efficiency, strategic process improvements and organizational structure changes needed to support large scale agile transformations. As a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a Training from the Back of the Room Certified Trainer (TBR-CT), Aakash regularly conducts a variety of Scrum, Kanban, Training from the Back of the Room and agile certification workshops around the world.

Evan Leybourn

Evan is the Founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute; an international membership body to both champion and support the next-generation of organisations.

Companies that are agile, innovative and dynamic - perfectly designed to thrive in today’s unpredictable markets.

His experience while holding senior leadership and board positions in both private industry and government has driven his work in business agility and he regularly speaks on these topics at local and international industry conferences.

As well as leading the Business Agility Institute, Evan is also the author of Directing the Agile Organisation (2012) and #noprojects; a culture of continuous value (2018).

Evan is passionate about helping organizations uncover how to apply Business Agility as is a set of organizational capabilities, behaviors, and ways of working that affords your business the freedom, flexibility, and resilience to achieve its purpose. No matter what the future brings.

Christopher Avery

When Christopher Avery was a management consultant, this was his driving question: Why are so many smart people unhappy at work? 25 years ago, Christopher realized that the most useful skills he was teaching his smart, ambitious, professional clients were coping skills. They needed coping skills because they were stuck in a suffocating culture that systematically disempowered and controlled them. An insidious control cycle kept well-meaning, high-performing leaders and key contributors at all levels from doing their best, taking risks, learning, and operating with freedom, power and choice for the organizations’ best interests.

His own career trajectory changed forever when Christopher began working with an emerging behavioral science framework — The Responsibility Process. This powerful framework is the world’s first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. It helps us apply our innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge. Operating in freedom, power, and choice, we encourage and support those we lead to do likewise.

Hugo Lourenco

Hugo Lourenço is the founder of Experience Agile® and DevOps Forum, Agile Human Factors ®, World Agility Forum ®, Agile21® - Improving through people, and Agile Thinkers Academy ®. Hugo is an Entrepreneur in several businesses and its main focus is to understand how companies are dealing with better ways of working and how to improve their business outcomes for their employees and customers.

Hugo is an experienced Executive and C-Suite consultant with a presence in North American and European markets. He has worked closely with leaders at major companies and has observed many brands experience in embracing Enterprise Agility.

The experience of working closely with the leaders of many of the brands that have already started this "Enterprise Agility” process outside Portugal, has made it clear that the company's to get ready for an "unpredictable future" should seek to rationalize the portfolio of legacy products, create high-performance teaming, understand why they do what they do, and their impact on the new operating model.

Jon Kern

Jon, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is passionate about helping clients succeed in delivering business value through software. He works with teams to articulate, design, architect, and deliver software that solves challenging business problems. Jon has a significant impact on the projects he works on. Projects routinely see high-quality solutions in less time, and leave the local team mentored on object-oriented and agile techniques, and excited. Jon has a knack for taking the long view, seeing the big picture—yet knowing the details, and driving business success at every turn. His varied career has spanned jet engine R&D, flight simulators, to being an object-oriented and lightweight process evangelist through the 90s, authoring books with Peter Coad, helping to form TogetherSoft, and his work co-authoring the Agile Manifesto for Software Development in 2001. Colleagues & clients alike credit Jon with much of the stellar success that TogetherSoft enjoyed with the UML modeling/IDE product and with the professional mentor group he formed.

Kim Brainard

Kim is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Facilitator, Speaker, and Agile Coach, who is passionate about growing people and skilled in teaching positive change. Kim has over 14 years of experience transforming public and private sectors from traditional practices to being agile.

Kim has extensive experience within the Federal and State government space. Her ultimate purpose is to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of individuals so that they can increase their performance.

In addition to training and coaching, she is a skilled large event facilitator and possesses situational awareness and conflict resolution skills. Kim served as Scrum Alliance’s Co-Chair for the Global Scrum Gathering.

She brings an open and adaptable mindset, with a strong ability to drive sustainable results through training, persistence, and teamwork.

George Schlitz

George Schlitz is a digital transformation advisor, focusing on large-scale agile adoptions in diverse industries. Bringing knowledge of agile, lean, systems thinking, and theory of constraints to his clients.

His passion is helping clients overcome the challenges of enterprise change using a wide array of techniques. George's leadership experience in business and as a military officer help him excel at coaching and mentoring of leaders and teams.

George connects the dots between product management in Agile organizations and product innovation, a capability necessary for business agility and provides actionable ways you can assess how your organization’s existing product management is hindering or helping your business agility. George is a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan

Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan has been teaching classes and coaching teams on agile and lean techniques since early 2004. Most of his work has focused on the engineering practices used by developers and testers.

For the past few years, he has experienced great success and recognition for his work in the area of Continuous Delivery.

He is based out of Toronto and focused on bringing Industrial Logic’s passion for technical excellence, modern agile, and lean product management to the Canadian market.

He is the author of Cucumber and Cheese, A Testers Workshop. You can meet him at most of the conferences around North America during the year or follow him on Twitter @chzy.

Jorgen Hesselberg

Jorgen Hesselberg is the author of Unlocking Agility and co-founder of Comparative Agility, a leading agile assessment and continuous improvement platform. A proven thought leader of numerous successful enterprise transformation efforts since 2009, Jorgen provides strategic guidance, executive counsel, and coaching to some of the world’s most respected companies both as an internal change agent and an external consultant. He has trained thousands of people on agile and Scrum, disruptive innovation, and enterprise transformation strategy. Passionate about making the world a better place to work, Jorgen is the former director and an active member of Supporting Agile Adoption, an Agile Alliance program dedicated to supporting those who apply agile principles and practices for agile transformation. He completed postgraduate coursework in finance and disruptive innovation at Harvard Business School.

Aakash Srinivasan

Aakash Srinivasan is a seasoned corporate trainer and organization design coach. With an academic background in hardware engineering, professional experience in various aspects of technology development (solutioning, management consulting, coaching and training) and a passion for problem domain analysis, Aakash spends his time between training organizations on all things agile and coaching executive and senior leaders around the globe on business efficiency, strategic process improvements and organizational structure changes needed to support large scale agile transformations.

As a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a Training from the Back of the Room Certified Trainer (TBR-CT), Aakash regularly conducts a variety of Scrum, Kanban, Training from the Back of the Room and agile certification workshops around the world.

Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill is co-host of The Agile Heroes Summit and CEO of Alchemy Enterprises. Daryl is an NLP Master Practitioner and the creator of Magnet Meditations, which has allowed his clients to break through the $100K to $500K per year income levels, simply by retuning their brain waves.

He's helped coaches, consultants, authors and speakers all over the world let go of financial limitations and limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from reaching their peak potential.

Daryl is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and does Agile coaching for companies beginning their Agile journey.

Maria Matarelli

Maria Matarelli is a serial entrepreneur, consultant to the Fortune 100, an international best selling author, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). Maria consults businesses to reach breakthrough results by applying Agile methodologies from startups reaching $35 Million dollar valuations to streamlining Millions in cost savings for Billion dollar organizations.

Maria travels to consult Fortune 100 companies and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia. Maria is the founder and President of Formula Ink, co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy & Personal Agility Institute, and is a highly sought after international DJ who most recently DJed the Super Bowl and NHL Playoffs.

Brian J. Esposito

Ranked among the world’s Top 10 CEOs for 2020 in The World CEO Rankings Awards by Adria Management, LLC, Brian J. Esposito is the founder and CEO of Esposito Intellectual Enterprises, LLC, (EIE). An award-winning serial entrepreneur and business leader, he is recently renowned for being a core part of an innovative team to build Nodle—the world’s largest wireless network and ecosystem of connected devices—and for one of his early businesses, which ranked among The Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for six consecutive years. With over 20 years of experience in high-profile executive roles involving complex business challenges and high-stakes decisions, EIE currently has over 65 entities within it and over 150 joint ventures that have been accumulated around the world over the last 20 years.

Sanjiv Augustine

Sanjiv Augustine is the Founder and CEO of LitheSpeed, LLC and the Agile Leadership Academy. Sanjiv is an entrepreneur, industry-leading Agile and Lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant, and trainer.

Sanjiv has trained over 10,000 people in Scrum & other Agile methods worldwide, with an exceptional pass percentage on the Scrum certification exam.

With nearly 30 years of practical hands-on experience, Sanjiv has served as a trusted advisor to executives, teams and management at leading firms, including Capital One, The Capital Group, CNBC, Comcast, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, General Dynamics, HCA Healthcare, The Motley Fool, National Geographic, Nationwide Insurance, Royal Bank of Canada, Samsung, and Walmart.

Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Her transformational leadership, at all levels of an organization, ignites the growth of leaders and high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes.

Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. As a result, she is a highly-rated trainer, coach, facilitator, and motivational keynote speaker.

In addition to her extensive knowledge and skills, her biggest offering is inspiring people to believe anything is possible.

Her aim is to create connections and environments that challenge and support people in an authentic, vulnerable, engaging, and fun way. In 2020, she founded Ignite Insight + Innovation.

Steve Garbesi

Steve Garbesi has managed as much as 1.5 million dollars in daily ad spend and has worked in the health and wellness space for the last 10 years deploying data-driven solutions with companies such as Pfizer, BTG, and GSK.

He’s the owner of goaion.com a data-driven marketing analytics company and is the co-founder of WooSender.com an all in one communication platform.

In his spare time, Steve works with agencies around the world teaching them how to utilize the power of big data and AI.

Aion and the Agile Marketing Academy have been working together to combine Agile Marketing with artificial intelligence and data driven marketing for incredible results.

Anu Smalley

Anu Smalley is the President and Founder of Capala Consulting Group, LLC where she specializes in Executive coaching and Agile Transformations. She is an Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer® - providing education and coaching, consulting services to clients across the United States.

Anu has extensive experience with large scale agile transformations, integral to the success of the likes of Capital One through her training and coaching expertise. She has specialized in leadership coaching and large group facilitation.

Anu has established internal agile coaching Centers of Excellence for several clients to allow self-sustained coaching of their agile transformations. She has developed a coaching program specifically designed for evolving organizational leaders.

Pete Blum

Pete Blum is a Business Operations and Business Continuity consultant with fields of expertise in Information Technology, Global Operations and Logistics. Pete is a Certified Business Continuity Professional, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and a Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner and Ambassador through the Personal Agility Institute.

Pete has a passion for Personal Agility and enabling U.S. transitioning military, Veterans, and their families to be successful after the military. He trains Veterans on LinkedIn, networking, career readiness, job searching, and entrepreneurship and actively supports the nonprofits Project Transition USA and Veterans For Worship. As a proud US Navy and US Marine Veteran, Pete is dedicated to helping people and businesses in America and around the world grow and succeed.

Chet Hendrickson

Chet Hendrickson has been involved with Agile Software Development since 1996, when as a member of Chrysler's C3 project he helped develop Extreme Programming.

In 2000, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet wrote Extreme Programming Installed. It detailed XP's core practices, how to do them, and how they work together to help teams be successful.

Since 2002, Chet has been an independent consultant, coach, and trainer.

In 2009, Chet was asked by the Scrum Alliance to help develop the Certified Scrum Developer program.

Chet and Ron Jeffries taught the first CSD course and Chet continues to offer them in the United States and Europe. He has been a Certified Scrum Trainer since 2009.

Richard Cheng

Richard Cheng is the Vice President of Training and Chief Product Owner at NextUp Solutions. NextUp Solutions provides transformative training programs in Agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban, as well as in concepts such as Agile Testing and Automation, SAFe, Coaching, Facilitation, and managing User Stories. A graduate of Virginia Tech and renowned Agile expert, Richard has presented keynote talks at conferences and events around the globe, authored publications on Agile and product management, and is a member of Mensa. Richard has extensive experience working with the federal government, large companies, small startups, non-profits organizations, and associations. Richard is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified LeSS Practitioner, Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).

Jesse Fewell

Jesse Fewell is an author, coach, and trainer who helps senior leaders from Boston to Bangalore transform their organizations world-wide.
As a project management pioneer, he founded and grew the original PMI Agile Community of Practice to 18,000 members and 40 volunteers leaders, co-created the PMI-ACP® agile certification, and co-authored the Agile Practice Guide®, translated into eleven languages.

As a global entrepreneur, he has distilled his remote leadership experiences in the handbook “Can You Hear Me Now: Working with Global, Distributed, Virtual Teams”. As a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is a dual-certified coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® and Leadership Circle Profile®) and an accredited instructor with four distinct agile certification bodies (Scrum Alliance, SAFe, ICAgile, Conteneo).

Gabrielle Benefield

Gabrielle Benefield is the founder of Mobius (mobiusloop.com), an open innovation model and strategic design toolkit to solve wicked problems. Gabrielle is an advocate for purposeful innovation and believes the relentless pursuit of ‘more, more, more’ gets in the way of success. Since developing the earliest inception of Mobius in 2009 she has helped individuals and organizations all over the globe, including Google and Red Hat solve complex problems in a transformational way. She used Agile and Lean techniques in the 90’s dotcom boom in Silicon Valley to successfully lead teams, including taking a startup to a robust Initial Public Offering, and spearheading one of the largest Agile enterprise transformations - scaling up to 250+ teams across three continents. She founded the Scrum Foundation in 2009 together with key Agile thought leaders, including Jeff Sutherland (the inventor of Scrum), and is an author of the Scrum Primer, The Scrum Patterns book, and The Little Book of Scrum.

Daryl Hill

Daryl Hill is co-host of The Agile Heroes Summit and CEO of Alchemy Enterprises.

Daryl is an NLP Master Practitioner and the creator of Magnet Meditations, which has allowed his clients to break through the $100K to $500K per year income levels, simply by retuning their brain waves.

He's helped coaches, consultants, authors and speakers all over the world let go of financial limitations and limiting beliefs that have been holding them back from reaching their peak potential.

Daryl is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and does Agile coaching for companies beginning their Agile journey.

Maria Matarelli

Maria Matarelli is a serial entrepreneur, consultant to the Fortune 100, an international best selling author, and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). Maria consults businesses to reach breakthrough results by applying Agile methodologies from startups reaching $35 Million dollar valuations to streamlining Millions in cost savings for Billion dollar organizations.

Maria travels to consult Fortune 100 companies and speak at industry conferences with locations from Shanghai to Singapore and Thailand to Nova Scotia. Maria is the founder and President of Formula Ink, co-founder of the Agile Marketing Academy & Personal Agility Institute, and is a highly sought after international DJ who most recently DJed the Super Bowl and NHL Playoffs.

Dhaval Panchal

Dhaval Panchal is Experienced Executive, Agile Coach, and Organization Design consultant. Dhaval Panchal is founder of Evolve Agility, a Texas based coaching and training consultancy.

Dhaval is ScrumAlliance Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC), Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Leadership-Educator (CAL-E).

He is actively involved in local Houston Agile community. Dhaval has led large scale Agile transformations for companies in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical business domains.

Dhaval has more than 17 years of Agile implementation, coaching, and transformation experience.

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Sohrab Salimi

Sohrab is the Founder & CEO of Scrum Academy in Cologne, Germany. He has taught close to 10,000 students in Scrum and Agile Leadership over the past decade. His work and experience in the agile space have been recognized by the world’s most respected agile certification organizations. He is an accomplished Certified Scrum Trainer® and Approved Certified Agile Leadership® Educator by the Scrum Alliance, where he also served the past 3 years as a member of the Board of Directors. He is the only Certified Scrum Trainer® with a medical degree and also the only one who has been accredited as a Strategyzer Coach by Alexander Osterwalder and his company. Over the past 15 years, Sohrab has worked with large and small organizations all over the world and in various industries primarily in Pharma, Medtech, Automotive, IT, Telco, and Financial Services.

Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. Through Rothman Consulting Group, Inc., she guides managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to issues of hiring, project management, risk management, and people management.

Johanna has written over 200 articles, which have been published in such places as IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, Computerworld, and Cutter IT Journal.

People often describe Johanna as the “Pragmatic Manager” because she helps organizational leaders identify problems and risks in their product development and to and then seize opportunities and remove impediments. She is an internationally acclaimed speaker and consultant.

Christopher Stubbs

Christopher John Stubbs is a highly sought after coach, certified through the Hendricks Institute, and is a world class business consultant who runs several successful businesses and a nonprofit.

For the last 10 years Christopher has and continues to advise high performing leaders and organizations committed to creating true success in their personal and business lives.

His genius is creating the highest level of inner transformation and empowerment for people to go to the deepest depths and highest heights, collapsing time around creating their deepest desires and removing their subconscious blocks to shift lifelong challenges in minutes. He helps you to truly love life, experiencing true success in all areas of life, especially the ones that matter most!

Linda Rising

Linda Rising is an independent consultant who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has authored four books and numerous articles and is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process.

With a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the field of object-based design metrics, Linda's background includes university teaching and software development in a number of different domains.

Linda works with organizations to facilitate change management, support teams getting started with agile development and retrospectives, and to introduce technical and managerial staff to influence strategies and patterns.

Peter Stevens

Peter started his career as a software developer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington (USA). He is co-founder of the Personal Agility Institute and the World Agility Forum. He recently completed his first book, Ten Agile Contracts: Getting Beyond Fixed-Price, Fixed-Scope (based on his frequently cited article published on AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com in 2009). Together with CST, Maria Matarelli, he is writing his second book Personal Agility: Six Questions to Change Your Life. Peter has been active in the Swiss IT community for over 20 years.

He was a board member of the Swiss Open System User Group, co-founder of the SwissICT Lean Agile Scrum (“LAS”) Group, initiated the Agile Breakfast format and organized the first LAS conferences in Zurich.

John Miles

As a Navy Combat Veteran, Multi-Industry CEO, Fortune 50 CIO & CISO, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Storyteller, and Human Performance Coach, John R. Miles is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and human performance expert guiding growth-minded individuals to ignite and cultivate a passion struck life.

With successful leadership roles at Dell, Lowe’s, Andersen Consulting, Booz Allen, and more to his name, John R. Miles is often called a serial human builder, servant leader, and visionary. Among his many awards, he is a recipient of the ComputerWorld Premier 100 Technology Leaders Award, CIO Magazine CIO 100, Runner-up CISO of the year, Tampa Bay runner-up technology company of the year, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, and the Network World User Excellence Award.

Tony LaForgia

Tony brings over two decades of executive management and leadership skills to business and community teams. His message focuses on identifying and overcoming challenges to create effective workgroups in a humorous and engaging way. He teaches how to hone communication and leadership abilities to improve both personal and organizational outcomes.

He has a proven history of identifying, cultivating and closing philanthropic gifts and business contracts, including those at the seven-figure level. He is certified in Lean Six Sigma , is a certified scrum master, is a personal agility practitioner and has served on numerous non-profit Boards and Committees. He speaks regularly and has been a keynote to healthcare and business groups throughout the Southeast. "

John Badgley

John is a 5-year Business Agility Coach and has 10-years of experience doing Enterprise and Portfolio Agile Coaching.

Over the last 20 years, John has been a Leader, Coach, Trainer, Facilitator, and Mentor at Landmark Worldwide and has built a Portfolio of Web 3.0, Mobile, Social, and eCommerce Solution Delivery. John has been an Asst Professor and Guest Speaker at the New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.

John is an Author and Speaker on G5 for Enabling Real Change for People and Companies, is the Founder and Creator of Genesis, a Lean Agile Customer Generated Startup, is Founder and Creator and Game show host of Agile Fight Club, and has been involved with Meetup Groups for NYC Scrum Users, LeSS, and XP.

Susannah Chambers

Susannah Chambers is an Agile Coach at the London Stock Exchange Group. Susannah is laser focused on empowering teams - and the individuals that make up those teams - to recognise and articulate the value they create. Susannah is the UK's only Personal Agility Recognized Ambassador as certified by the Personal Agility Institute. She has 20 years practical experience serving individuals and teams on projects through from local to an international scale across a wide range of sectors including tech, retail, construction and education sectors. Widely renowned as a "walking/talking/singing/dancing career portfolio", Susannah has been described as modelling the mindset and behaviours one would wish to see in agile teams through her own actions and strategies she equips teams with through her coaching.

Jim Hannon

Over the past 15 years, James Hannon has used his expert project management and agile skills to lead a multitude of large, complex, and successful multi-organization projects. He developed the “pro-active PMO model” through the use of Business Intelligence (BI) and leveraging various risk management and project forecasting resources. Using Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and Lean, James led seven Agile transformations that transformed 500+ teams, impacted 100+ products, and saved companies an estimated $25-$50 million in quicker times to market and reduced quality issues. With 15 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching experience, James is an adjunct faculty member for two major universities. He created a groundbreaking Agile Project Management course at a leading university and is the lead founder of the BU Agile Innovation Lab at the Boston University Metropolitan College. James is currently an EdD student at Northeastern University, where he studies the use of teams and Agile methodologies to enhance learning. He also volunteers at St. Jude New England, the Jimmy Fund, and various town initiatives.

Adelina Stefan

Adelina is a passionate Professional Certified Coach with 10+ years experience across cultures and focus on Career, Executive, Life, and Agile coaching.

Adelina specializes in working with mid- to senior-level executives dealing with challenging work environments that can affect both their performance and well-being.

She uses psychometric assessments and agile coaching helping organisations to build a corporate coaching culture by bringing out individuals’ maximum potential and engagement so that they become dedicated and highly successful employees.

Adelina helps companies focus on creating a high performing corporate coaching culture, maximizing employees’ potential, and effective cross-cultural communication while reducing conflict and encouraging higher employee engagement level and improved team delivery commitments - Reduced work-related stress and turnover

Siraj Sirajuddin

Siraj has provided excellent change management coaching and leadership to large and medium sized organizations like Capital One, Extended Stay America, Ft. Huachuca AZ, DKB Household Brands, Railinc, Media Temple, EDF, Springfield TN Middle School, Ultimate Software, LabCorp, Elemica, Inc., ShoreTel, Winn Dixie Stores, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, NIH, CMS and Compaq Computers. He has 20 years of experience with people and process improvement consulting and coaching. He has deep and varied domain (Social Media, SAAS, IT, Software, Healthcare, Retail, Transport, Education, Finance) and functional knowledge and process improvement experience using Lean, Kanban, Agile, CMMI, Six Sigma, PMBOK, SOX, BASEL and HIPAA. He is also an expert / student of Systems Thinking / Learning Organizations, People Dynamics, Transactional Analysis, MBTI, FIRO(B), Element B, Leadership & Motivation and Team Building. He invented several unique techniques under the Temenos umbrella (Influence Maps, Supplication, Exit & Re-entry, Language of Elegance, The Interview, Clean Slate, Cereal Box, Intensive Collaboration & Discovery) that are now used for managing strategic plans and scaling operations / projects at various client locations.

Mark Lombardi-Nelson

Mark Lombardi-Nelson is the Chief Automation Officer and principal at Lombardi XP; an organization dedicated to advancing humans and technology.

He empowers organizations and teams by leveraging access to new technologies and best practices in software implementation to scale organizational effectiveness and impact.

His collective knowledge of IpaaS, SaaS, Agile Transformation, and Enterprise Design Thinking provides a foundation for teams to accelerate their ability to collaborate and deliver on their shared objectives and key results.

As a TEDx speaker, Mark has highlighted a variety of topics from the importance of altruism to continuous improvement while leveraging iterative processes to maximize results.

Maria Matarelli

As an international business consultant, professional speaker and trainer with more than 10 years experience, Maria Matarelli consults Fortune 100 and start-up companies, Maria travels to consult businesses and speak at conferences from Vancouver to Morocco, Sweden, New York, Hawaii, Istanbul and many other locations. While looking for ways to continue to expand Agile outside IT, Maria and her team have been applying Agile to the Marketing realm with incredible results, which led to Maria co-founding the Agile Marketing Academy. Maria also co-founded the Personal Agility Institute, helping people use Agile to do more of what matters in their lives and shift the culture of organizations. Maria is also the Founder and President of Formula Ink, an international consulting company and is passionate about working with people and organizations to increase speed to market, increase efficiency, and get greater results in business.

Dr Alistair Cockburn

Dr Alistair Cockburn is one of the founders of the agile movement. He co-created the Agile Manifesto, and wrote the original book Agile Software Development and created the Heart of Agile. Alistair was voted one of the “The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes” in 2007 for his pioneering work in understanding use cases and for co-creating the agile software development movement.

He is an internationally renowned IT strategist, expert on agile development, use cases, process design, project management, and object-oriented design, author of the Crystal agile methodologies, three Jolt-awarded books on software development, and the project management Declaration of Interdependence.

Alistair is known for his lively presentations, interactive workshops, and zest for living life to its fullest.

Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn is a Certified Scrum Trainer who was a co-founder of the Scrum Alliance and served as it's Chairman of the Board. He is the president of Mountain Goat Software and specializes in helping organizations develop high performing agile and Scrum teams. Mike has over twenty years of experience in a variety of environments and specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance development organizations. He has previously served as a technology executive in organizations of various sizes, from start ups to Fortune 40 companies.

Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since. He has helped with the adoption of such processes at numerous companies, including Bioware, Capital One, Electronic Arts, Google, High Moon Studios, Intuit, JDA Software, Lexis Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Nielsen Media Research, Pearson, Phillips Electronics, Sabre, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Turner Broadcasting, Ultimate Software, and Yahoo.

Lyssa Adkins

Lyssa is an internationally recognized agile thought leader and speaker. Her book, Coaching Agile Teams, is still a top ranked book years after publication. She co-founded Agile Coaching Institute (ACI) which has equipped over 10,000 people in the must-have skills and mindset shifts of excellent agile coaching.

Lyssa’s current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, helping leaders take up the “Agile transformation” that is theirs to make…this is where I thrive and help thrive. As a certified organization systems coach and integral facilitator, Lyssa helps organizations move through the difficult problems to benefit from the full promise of agile.

Joe Justice

Joe Justice works globally as an interim executive for agile organizations, bringing multinational companies increased return on capital. His teams have held 4 world records. He is a TEDx speaker, guest lecturer at both MIT and Oxford University in England, featured in Forbes 5 times to date including as owner of a “Company to watch” by Forbes Billionaire Club, cited in more than 6 business paperbacks and hardcovers, the subject of a Discovery Channel mini-documentary for his work creating the disciplines Extreme Manufacturing and Scrum@Hardware. Joe has worked with all of the top 3 military and defense contractors, autonomous and smart road technologies, ultra-lightweight structures, guest lectured at UC Berkeley, MIT, on behalf of Carnegie Melon, CU Denver, The University of Washington. Joe’s work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, CNN Money, the Discovery Channel, and others.

Dr Alistair Cockburn

Dr Alistair Cockburn is one of the founders of the agile movement. He co-created the Agile Manifesto, and wrote the original book Agile Software Development and created the Heart of Agile. Alistair was voted one of the “The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes” in 2007 for his pioneering work in understanding use cases and for co-creating the agile software development movement.

He is an internationally renowned IT strategist, expert on agile development, use cases, process design, project management, and object-oriented design, author of the Crystal agile methodologies, three Jolt-awarded books on software development, and the project management Declaration of Interdependence.

Alistair is known for his lively presentations, interactive workshops, and zest for living life to its fullest.

Brian Levy

Brian Levy's goal is to enhance business and IT operations by mentoring people and enhancing organizational processes through mentoring, training and consulting.

Brian is a Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Quality Auditor, Certified IBM Rational Engineer, Certified Business Analysis Profession, Certified Microsoft Office Professional, and PMI Certified Project Management Professional mentor with 18 years of experience in finance, banking, insurance, and telecommunications.

Brian’s ability to rapidly learn an organization’s culture and utilize his experience (i.e. as a developer, tester, analyst, project manager, configuration manager) to deliver practical mentoring and training enables quick adoption of best practices and results to client organizations.

Mark Lombardi-Nelson

Mark Lombardi-Nelson is the Chief Automation Officer and principal at Lombardi XP; an organization dedicated to advancing humans and technology.

He empowers organizations and teams by leveraging access to new technologies and best practices in software implementation to scale organizational effectiveness and impact.

His collective knowledge of IpaaS, SaaS, Agile Transformation, and Enterprise Design Thinking provides a foundation for teams to accelerate their ability to collaborate and deliver on their shared objectives and key results.

As a TEDx speaker, Mark has highlighted a variety of topics from the importance of altruism to continuous improvement while leveraging iterative processes to maximize results.

Karim Harbott

Karim is a business agility and innovation coach, entrepreneur, author, and international keynote speaker. He has over a decade of experience helping organisations with agile transformations working on some of the most complex anywhere in the world. He is a founding partner of Agile Centre, a global Agile consulting and training firm, and the Business Agility Academy, the leading international business agility certification body.

He is the creator of the Business Agility Canvas, a widely-used strategic tool for driving agile transformations, and is the author of the up-coming book “The Six Enablers of Business Agility; How to Thrive in an Uncertain World”.

His work involves advising organisations on agility at scale, business agility, leadership coaching and culture change. He has held a number of senior roles in the Agile space including building and leading the development of the ’Scaled Agile’ practice at global strategy consultancy McKinsey & Co. Karim also serves as a non-executive director with the Scrum Alliance.

Michael Sahota, CEC

Michael K Sahota, CEC, is a Thought Leader, Author and Speaker in the Agile Industry. Michael is the co-founder and CEO of SHIFT314 Inc. He has developed a unique IP to unlock success with Agile, Digital, Lean, and other new ways of working. Michael is professionally trained as an Engineer, has published papers on Artificial Intelligence, and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He has always been curious about how to make things work and has shifted this focus over his career from computers and software systems to people and organizational systems. Michael’s life’s work is a system to enable evolutionary capabilities in people and organizations to create high performance through Business Agility.

As a thought leader in the Agile Industry, he published the ground-breaking book An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture. In 2018, he published Emotional Science: The Key to High Performance. Michael's vision is to support the development of evolutionary capabilities in people and organizations to create change and impact on a global scale.

Audree Tara Sahota, B.Msc

Audree Tara Sahota, B.Msc, Chief Metaphysics Officer and co-founder of SHIFT314 Inc. She has mastery over many practices and techniques for rapidly shifting consciousness.

Since 1994 she has held advanced professional certifications in energetic healing, meditation and yoga, including 5 years as the lead Energetic Healer on the medical team of WomanCare Inc (Chicago area).

Audree holds professional designations from: University of Metaphysics (B.Msc), Brennan Healing Science, EnergyTouch Practitioner, Kundalini Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master/Teacher, Theta Healer, OT Advanced Coaching, Enwaken Coaching & Leadership, Breatharian Pranic Healer and Oneness University Advance Trainer, India.

Audree has been a radio host, with her acclaimed “Grounding Meditations for the Shift in Consciousness”. In 2014, Audree published “The Authorities, Evolution of Consciousness of the Entrepreneur”, 2018, she published “Emotional Science: The Key to High Performance”.

Howard Sublett

Howard Sublett is Chief Product Owner at Scrum Alliance, an innovative position that supports the organization’s continued evolution toward sustainable agility. Howard brings a wealth of experience to this role, including serving as an agile coach and leader at several agile consultancies.

Before joining Scrum Alliance in 2018, Howard championed the SolutionsIQ culture as director of community development. As the face of SolutionsIQ, Howard could regularly be found building relationships at industry events and hosting the popular Agile Amped podcast series.

Internally, Howard advocated for the individual and nurtured the company’s teams. Howard is focused on people, who they are and what they need, and lives according to the mantra that strangers are only friends he hasn’t met. He is passionate about making workplaces joyful, sustainable, and prosperous with agile principles, practices, and values—and about sharing this message with the world.

Nic Sementa

As a serial entrepreneur, Nic Sementa has co-founded a series of companies including nationally distributed college magazine Boosh, a community based artist incubator RGB Lounge, and crowdfunding consulting company Minion Werks.

With a strong background in advertising and sales, Nic has helped many companies turn small marketing budgets into breakthrough results. While exploring the application of Agile serving as Director of Business Development for Formula Ink, Nic began studying how the same project management techniques that make Agile effective for software development can be applied to the creation of online marketing systems.

After launching a case study program to solidify best practices, Nic Sementa and Maria Matarelli began to standardize a knowledge base that would later become the platform for the Agile Marketing Academy. Nic Sementa is the Director of Academics for the Agile Marketing Academy and a Certified Agile Marketing Trainer (CAMT).

Sharon Guerin

Sharon Guerin is a Billionaire Estate Executive Chef who used Personal Agility to transform both her personal and business life. Sharon went from working 5 jobs and barely getting by to bringing in over 6 figures in her first year launching The Culinary Queen, a high end catering company located in the Tampa Bay, FL area and she now works with 6 figure clients.

Sharon caters events for the Disabled American Veterans Association, cancer benefits hosted by Advent Health, The Dali Museum, and other prominent venues. Sharon has continued to use Agile to transform her life including losing more than 55 lbs and has inspired many others to start their health journey through her YouTube cooking show “Healthy Cooking with The Culinary Queen” where she specializes in cooking healthy, gluten-free, and keto-friendly dishes. Sharon has cooked for events with Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank and HSN TV personality Forbes Riley. As Sharon continues to help others do more of “What Really Matters” as a Personal Agility Recognized Ambassador for the Personal Agility Institute, she guides people around the world through using the Personal Agility System to transform their lives.

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