Raju K Email & Phone Number

As a Enterprise Agile Coach, I love to setup the stage and platform for the teams to embrace agile, become better, deliver products and solutions aligned with Corporate Strategy. I love my teams to be in limelight (not me - with me holding the limelight towards the teams).In my current role, I handle Alliances and partnership management, supporting pre-sales and Sales teams in Agile related information, help internal capability building in Business Agility and resource management.For your convenience - top 5 high lights in my timeline so far is as follows:* Enterprise Agile Coach with a leading US Airlines - working with top and middle management helping Business Units to embrace agile ways of working, Product Development Coaching* Product Development Coach for a leading Bank - Mobile Platform development with 8 Teams* SAFe Portfolio implementation for a global leader in Electronics* Hybrid application of SAFe and Spotify for a global Financial Organization* Agile ways of working - for Production Support and Maintenance for a Fortune 500 HR Services clientAs a community servant -* I host events and provide a platform for others to elevate, connect and share their ideas (https://www.meetup.com/atlanta-agile-community/)* I speak at various conferences (latest Global Scrum Gathering Portland 2023)I am a Professional Scrum Trainer, SAFe SPC 6.0, Certified Leadership Coach (limiting to three to save your time).I have trained over 2000+ professionals with average training ratings around 4.7 in a scale of 5. The examples I quote and use in my classes will linger longer with my participants - reverberating the concepts in such a way that they may never forget them and stay connected with what they are learning.I am based at Atlanta, GA. I am a Level 9 Google Local Guide and in World's top 10% reviewers of Coffee Shops, Restaurants.I am a fun loving person, driven to my day to day work by relentless passion to help organizations do better with agile.

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  Associate Vice President

  Xebia

  Aug 2023 - Present - Atlanta, Georgia, United States

  * Account Management of our key accounts on Agile Transformation, SAFe implementation* Explore Partnerships to mutually beneficial long term Business growth* Front ending Xebia's Agile Consulting and Transformation Practice in America's geography.* Helping our Xebia pre-sales and sales teams in support of Agile Ways of working, transformation, consulting engagements* Hosting Agile America's conference backed by Xebia's 13+ year legacy of AgileNCR conference* Grow and mentor our existing Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Project Managers in United States* Work with recruitment team to source right talent for US openings* Plan, Architect, Launch and deliver Agile trainings in Scrum, Scaled Agile and other frameworks/methods

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  Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi

  Project Management