Ellen Grove is a Enterprise Agile Coach, Organizational Change Agent at Shared Services Canada | Services partagés Canada. Colleagues describe her as "I owe a world of gratitude to Ellen for mentoring me for 9 months. She is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced Senior Agile Coach I have met. She took time to help me, share her knowledge and practices with me so that I could grow in my role and help my department. Ellen is too humble to admit this, she has a perfect balance of teaching, mentoring and coaching and brings those abilities to help women be successful in agility. Anyone who welcomes Ellen to their team is already in a position to grow and improve in a short period of time if they are willing to do so. While people throw around words like psychological safety, Ellen embodies it with her approach to any conversation or interaction. What this brings is a space to ask any question, ask for any help without feeling foolish. While these may be unimportant to others, they were powerful for me: Ellen has a sense of humour and can bring levity when it is needed, can bring focus in chaos and calm in stress by cutting through things to the heart of the situation. Being able to do that and still maintain a good sense of humour is what is lacking in most leaders. Ellen can lead without arrogance and pomposity, Ellen paves the way for people to grow and for that, I am grateful." and "I had the pleasure to collaborate with Ellen for the past year at RBC - Capital Markets. During this time, she was instrumental in our success of adopting Safe Agile Methodology. The key characteristics she displayed was her ability to be hands on and not theoretical. On numerous occasions, she provided; on hand queries to gather data in order to support the SM's, Mural boards to capture PI Planning, executed Retrospectives and most of all provided one on one training that led to real results. She clearly demonstrated her knowledge & assessment skills, open mindset and leadership. In addition to this, her workshops and training facilitations were so refreshing, as she was able to captivate the audience attention and drawn them into the exercises. Furthermore, Ellen was key in dealing with conflicts from all levels but especially at the Senior Level. She was the first to step in for the teams and support them where necessary. Her goal was to ensure everyone was on the same page no matter what reports were being created and distributed. I would wholeheartedly recommend Ellen as an Agile Coach on any development team."