Erika Lenz Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

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If we acknowledge that change is kinetic in nature, we realize that we can’t know everything in advance. That doesn’t mean we can’t plan. We need a fluid and dynamic plan, one that creates a structure around the flow of change. Around that river, we can build banks, docks, wind socks, observation stations, and even cameras and flow meters. We can explore.

• Agile & Lean leadership coaching and consulting, with a focus on preparing management teams for successful adoption / transformation.Key Accomplishments:
• Guide transformation for a custom agile framework called R2 /D2 (Rapid Realization, Dynamic Delivery), which impacts over 10k people across and outside IT
• Actively pair with technical practitioners and coaches leveraging mobbing and the Samman method
• Facilitate blame-free lean mapping as part of a multi-team improvement effort
• Develop and deliver custom training for Director+, Portfolio and Product Ownership, OCM practitioners and coaches

Reading, MA, US

• Accomplishments:
• Enterprise and leadership coach for an agile transformation impacting multiple lines of business, including one solution train and 11 agile release trains
• Shaped and guided transformation strategy, coached senior and mid-level leadership (groups and 1-on-1), portfolio management, assessments, and role-based training
• Coached multiple virtual and in-person PI Planning events, including prepping key agile roles, leaders, and product stakeholders
• Led and facilitated certification courses, framework-agnostic learning groups, custom leadership training, ideation workshops, value stream mapping, root cause analysis, STATIK (Kanban) sessions, facilitated.

Austin, Texas, US

• Principal coach for marketing division of approximately 250 people, including two Agile Leadership Teams. Part of an extensive transformation covering multiple development organizations and agile release trains.
• Spun up cross-functional Design Sprint teams conducting live, large-scale user testing on a weekly cadence

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Key Accomplishments:
• Pivoted a floundering SAFe transformation in a healthcare organization, primarily through focusing on first principles, coaching leadership engagement, and training key roles in core agile values
• Facilitated senior leadership workshops to develop a healthcare digital identity and strategic roadmap that successfully secured funding from the review board
• Reduced churn and increased delivery speed and quality of consumer grocery applications used by tens of thousands of customers and employees
• Assessed quality practices across a credit union development organization, which led to a multi-year agile transformation engagement
• Coached eXtreme Programming (XP) teams and stakeholders in engagement management, kanban, visual management, effective client communication, requirements writing, conflict resolution, and more

Irvine, California, US

• Coached multiple delivery teams and leaders during an agile transformation, including an internationally distributed project (Prague)
• Developed and facilitated workshops in conflict dynamics, root cause analysis, quarterly team off-sites, and workflow definition / improvement
• Co-facilitated organization-wide WIP visualization exercise (imagine huge walls covered in sticky notes) that resulted in greater shared understanding of flow, bottlenecks, dependencies, and more

Hartford, Connecticut, US

Boulder, CO, US

New Mexico, Santa Fe, US

Boulder, CO (2008 - 2011) and Santa Fe, NM (2006-2007)Individual and group tutoring, supplemental instruction, and adjunct faculty.

Ba, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Mfa, Creative Writing

B.A., English Literature