Lonnie is a collaborative, energetic coach and Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) who excels in the areas of facilitation and developing others. She enjoys educating, motivating, and encouraging others to drive change in both individuals and organizations. Her years of experience of “on-the-ground” coaching is reflected upon in her classrooms and her coaching engagements so the students can learn from her many varied experiences. Having been involved in coaching organizations from 20 to 90,000 employees, she has experience in many environments and has seen both success and failure with agile and Scrum. She knows what works and encourages an environment of transparency and collaboration to achieve positive results.Lonnie brings over 25 years of experience in Management, Training, Agile Coaching, and Business Analysis to her consulting work and Scrum training classes. She persuades individuals and teams to grow by using her supportive and candid feedback style. She is an exceptional facilitator, and her classes are high energy and interactive, fostering a healthy learning environment. She's worked with organizations who mandated Scrum with strict roll out dates and others who allowed teams to choose whether they wanted to use Agile practices or not. She's experienced with leaders who fully understood and supported Agile and leaders who are brand new in their journey.Specialties: The Strength Finder's book indicates Lonnie's strengths as Communication, Woo, Developer (of Others), Empathy, & Positivity. This suits her well in her role where she coaches leaders, teams, and individuals; she motivates others through learning and change; and she fosters an environment of open communication. She builds relationships with a variety of people at all levels of an organization, which gains their trust and helps them move forward with their agile and leadership practices.