Business Agility Coach
Current• Led Agile coaching initiatives for transformative organizational change, leveraging expertise in change management, transformation models, and various agile frameworks. • Conducted comprehensive organizational agility assessments, recommending targeted improvements for leaders, products, and teams. • Facilitated workshops guiding organizations to discover their core purpose and establish optimizing goals for business objectives and key results.• Facilitated Value Stream Identification workshops, guiding organizations in defining product boundaries to minimize dependencies and optimize the flow of value to customers.• Spearheaded team design workshops to strategically organize cross-functional Agile teams and shared services around value streams. • Dedicated product training, coaching, mentoring for Product Managers and Product Owners, fostering engagement in product success. • Led workshops for strategy, roadmap, story mapping, enhancing collaboration and focus around shared goals. Recognized for boosting team productivity and morale.• Guided leaders in establishing streamlined structures, fostering knowledge sharing, and enhancing collaboration, contributing to agile success.• Led comprehensive Agile team liftoffs, initiating successful team formation and establishing a robust foundation for new ways of working. • Guided numerous Agile teams through the stages of forming, storming, and norming, achieving high performance as follows: 50-60% increased productivity, 3-4x faster value delivery, 40-50% reduced cycle times, and 50% increases in team morale scores.• Created and Led engaging multi-day Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Leadership training sessions.• Developed and implemented on-demand learning courses for Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Product Management, tailoring educational resources to meet specific organizational needs.Clients: CNO Financial Group, Argonne National Laboratory, Cook Medical, Indiana Wesleyan University, Humana, Deckers Brands, Siemens