Esther Derby is a President at Esther Derby Associates. She possess expertise in designing organizations for success, management, agile, coaching, scrum and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I initially discovered Esther through the book she co-authored: “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.” That material was incredibly helpful in jump-starting the retrospective process at the company I was with. A year or two later, I picked up another title she co-authored: “Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management.” It was just as helpful to me as Agile Retrospectives, and I remember kicking myself for not reading it when I was first promoted to a Manager position.… Show more" and "Esther has been my coach since 2011. In this time, I’ve been impressed by Esther’s skill at listening and asking questions to help me identify problems on my own. For some sessions, she’s prepared thought-provoking homework that helped me get a new insight into my current situation. She’s suggested several books that have been relevant for the problems I was facing, and I found it helpful to speak about how the lessons in the books related to my situation at the time. I’m impressed… Show more"