Sannette Coetzee

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Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Proud Supporter of other Women.Motivational Speaker, Community Creator, Business Agility Specialist. @ Acolar Inc
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San Jose, California, United States, United States
About Sannette Coetzee

I drive sustainable business growth through strategic leadership, cultural transformation, and operational excellence. With over 23 years of experience leading transformative initiatives, I enable organizations to scale efficiently by optimizing processes and creating resilient, high-performing cultures. Specializing in Agile transformations, I help companies navigate complex growth challenges, delivering measurable outcomes.My expertise includes Product Management, Organizational Design, Agile, GenAI, and Teal Organizational change, with a focus on bespoke operating models tailored to the unique needs of growing businesses. I’ve led large-scale transformation programs at Visa and PayPal, impacting thousands of employees and driving change from discovery through to scalable execution and continuous improvement.I work closely with C-level executives and teams, ensuring business goals align with operational realities. My ability to design strategic frameworks and optimize systems helps organizations tackle scaling challenges with confidence. I also build sustainable cultures rooted in accountability, empowerment, and innovation, driving both individual and organizational success.As a leader within the Transformation Office, I’m passionate about unlocking organizational potential through cultural shifts and operational excellence. I believe that people are the heart of every organization, and creating environments where teams feel empowered is crucial for long-term success. Every transformation I lead accelerates progress, empowers teams, and aligns business outcomes with the company’s strategic vision.𝐇𝐒𝐠𝐑π₯𝐒𝐠𝐑𝐭𝐬:Saved a financial giant 20% in meeting time by improving culture and group dynamics.Designed and implemented a bespoke scaled agile operating model for 10,000 employees, reducing waste by 15% through clarity of capacity allocation.Increased employee satisfaction by 33% by instilling design thinking in a bespoke product management framework for an internal IT department.Activated a responsibility-based culture, breaking the cycle of repeated transformations and saving clients millions.Speaker on corporate gas lighting and healthy cultures.𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐬:I am passionate about women owned business and the women that built them. I am passionate about restoring balance in the world, giving equal voice to all, in business and where it matters.I am a wild woman that sing and ride motorcycles, camp in the forest and dance under the stars by the fire.

Sannette Coetzee's Current Company Details
Acolar Inc

Acolar Inc

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Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Proud Supporter of other Women.Motivational Speaker, Community Creator, Business Agility Specialist.
Sannette Coetzee Work Experience Details
  • Acolar Inc
    Founder
    Acolar Inc Mar 2024 - Present
    United States
    Empowering Enterprises with Agile Transformation & XR Innovations | 12+ Years of Corporate Agility Coaching Experience | Launching a New Era in Business Agility Consulting
  • Product Marketing Alliance
    Member
    Product Marketing Alliance Feb 2024 - Present
    The Product Marketing Alliance exists to create a space to help individuals and organizations drive company-wide alignment around product marketing as the scalable, sustainable source of business growth.
  • Product-Led Alliance
    Member
    Product-Led Alliance Feb 2024 - Present
    The Product-Led Alliance exists to create a space to help individuals and organizations drive company-wide alignment around the product as the scalable, sustainable source of business growth.
  • Visa
    Head Of Agile Coach
    Visa Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
    Change Lead for GenAI Adoption Strategy at Visa. Creator of community strategy to accelerate and sustain adoption. Creator of Train the Trainer program to amplify reach of learning and drum up excitement. Drove community creation and communication strategy across portfolios. Designer and implementation lead for organizational wide self sustaining, hub and spoke community network that champions continuous improvement.Creator of 4D( DISCOVER, DEFINE, DEVELOPER AND DELIVER ) Agile Product Management Framework for business operations and functions. Adopted by the People Systems and Solutions within HR and Customer Services.
  • Visa
    Head Of Agility Center For Excellence
    Visa Dec 2019 - Dec 2023
    Global lead within, Transformation Office, for the adoption of Agility best practices across Visa, Product lead and designer for the Visa Agility Framework - Visa's Bespoke Scaled Agile Operating Model.Designed, established and currently run the Visa Agility Hub that champions Visa’s agile transformation and executes the adoption of best practices across portfolios.Designed, established and currently run the Visa coach academy that enables the sustaining of agility within portfolios.Strategic leader for global coaching body, team size varied from from 10 to 35 depending on transformation wave.Creator of just-in-time learning journey for portfolios that introduces best practices in bite sized training & coaching to increase the adoption of best practices and includes governance controls as it relates to the day to day activities, the usage of agile metrics and the work management tool.Implementor of 'white glove' basecamp and journey map approach to allow for tailored journeys and an improved transformation experience.Creator of a toolkit for coaches and the β€˜Visa Agility Guidebook’ to ensure and maintain consistency.Strategic partner to C-level executives as it relates to the company’s agility transformational goals.Influencer and relationship builder across all functions as it relates to the customer value stream and management of portfolios.
  • Visa
    Enterprise Agility Coach
    Visa Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
    Foster City, Ca
    Lead transformation efforts representing the technology organization. Design and implement a coaching strategy to seed and accelerate agility within portfolios.Design mechanisms to sustain the change. Create an engagement model to ensure top-down consistency and bottom-up support and learnings.Champion of new governance model for agile teams in a traditional system.Collaborate in the creation of learning architecture to enable and scale training.Educate and coach leaders in enabling principles and mindsets. Work VP and SVP level to create and roll out a holistic strategy across the end to end delivery life cycle
  • Paypal
    Executive Agility Coach Lead
    Paypal Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
    San Jose, Ca
    Lead agent: PYPL Consumer BU TransformationArchitected and championed a unique scaled agile model for the enterprise. Lead change management initiative to socialize and increase adoption of above-mentioned model by enabling open and transparent cross functional relationships among leaders and business functions. Championed education and adoption of the OKR framework. Evolved a decision making framework employing customer & business value and measuring success to align and focus roadmaps.Inspired and coached a data quality improvement movement that gathered change agents and opinion leaders from several functions (product, engineering, planning, PMO, agile coaches) to create a common language and understanding across the enterprise. Agility, customer mindset and experimentation practicesPioneered the roll out of an assessment tool to help identify and communicate the state of agility for portfolios. Results were turned into practical plans for improvement and implemented with regular inspect and adapt sessions. Persuaded a vendor to provide free access to the above mentioned tool, for a quarterly enterprise license, saving the company $15000. Trained teams on β€˜new’ practices such as crafting mission statements, customer focused problem discovery, solution discovery and embracing experimentation frameworks by conducting immersive workshops.Leadership coachingCreated and conducted hands-on coaching to teams, programs, portfolio leaders, directors and VPs. Co-designed improvement curriculum with cross-functional leadership.Offered mentoring to all functions. Influenced through formal and informal sessions for varied audiences to adopt best practices. Pioneered a portfolio wide face-to-face planning sessions by persuading leadership to increase travel budgets. Results included a highly motivated workforce, better collaboration, focused and timely delivery. Co-designed regular events where product, marketing, finance, launch and sales were assessed and aligned.
  • Elekta
    Enterprise Agility Coach
    Elekta Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
    Sunnyvale, California
    Agile coach part of global agile office working on scaled agile transformation.Implementing SAFe framework on all levels; team, program, and portfolio.Coaching teams, product owners, scrum masters, executives.Implemented a communication framework to educate and raise awareness of CI/CD. Aligned the engineering, product management and coaching groups with this initiative resulting in a clear and well-defined delivery strategy that encapsulated quality as part of the deliverable. Fostering effective and productive collaboration by mapping ecosystems thus visualizing and enabling information flow. Working with affected parties to create channels for this information. Focused on instilling a culture of quality by enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery efforts. Passionate about culture and working hard to spread that joy.
  • Sittercity
    Agile Project Manager / Coach
    Sittercity Jan 2013 - Jun 2015
    Greater Chicago Area
    Project manager for all technology teams and software initiatives.Sittercity is concerned with developing mobile and desktop applications in the care domain.Coaching all teams in agile methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban. Played pivotal role in delivering re-platform project of company's main website. Inherited project that was running a year past schedule and budget. Pulled all players together, derived realistic timeline and negotiated with business to deliver MVP successfully. Delivered 2 iOS applications and 1 Android applications currently available on time and budget. Teams consisted of in-house and 3rd party players totaling 3 teams and over 20 resources requiring a lot of dependency tracking, agile scheduling and roadmap review. What a great experience! Championed all processes within and between business and technology. Implemented work flow and process for the below divisions : - data architecture - devops - creative - all software delivery teams Continually evaluating process and work streams to ensure efficient and effective delivery and a supportive, collaborative working environment. Focus on individuals to facilitate growth.Extensive knowledge of Jira, Trello, Pivotal Tracker, Rally, Mavenlink, MS Project.
  • Datacenterdynamics
    It Project Manager / Scrum Master / Agile Coach
    Datacenterdynamics Feb 2012 - Sep 2012
    London, United Kingdom
    Contract to deliver new build of company website that evolved into several projects listed:Creating development product teamsAssessing current skill sets, procuring new resources and recommending redundancies where appropriate.Implementing a formal processEducating business on best practices, software development projects and all its facets, initiating Scrum, implementing a issue tracking system. Introducing project roadmaps, scoping techniques, testing strategies, brief templates and project plans.Delivery of enterprise wide system to support all business functions in a global organizationIdentified need for systems audit, system administrator and systems architect. The company IT strategy could not support the current infrastructure for any of the business functions. A new, very ambitious project is under way building a central CRM (SugarCRM), integrating this with the CMS (Drupal), a finance system (still to be be decided, between Sage and Iris exchequer) and an event management system for the operations team in phase 1. Team members for this project are located in London (UK), Manchester (UK), Delhi (India), Mumbai (India) composed of contractors, permanent staff and third party suppliers.Extending a learning management system and its supporting brochure websiteEnhancing existing Moodle product, building financial features and voucher system for supporting brochure website. Extending current platform to accommodate multi language requirement. Building development team and introducing best practices. Team members are located in Delhi (India) and New York (USA).
  • Comic Relief
    Technical Project Manager
    Comic Relief Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
    London, United Kingdom
    Managing development team within Future Media and Technology department.Gathering, specifying and analysing business requirements in terms of the Comic Relief donations platform.Procuring and initiating Quality Assurance element.Educating in agile good practises and activities.Liaising with third parties and stakeholders regarding Ipad and social media application development.Managing client relationships with partners such as British Airways and Paypal.
  • Inviqa
    Scrum Master / Agile Coach
    Inviqa Feb 2011 - Sep 2011
    London, United Kingdom
    Ibuildings is a software house employing a team off very high quality software engineers. During my time there I managed teams of different sizes depending on the needs of the project.Most exciting and challenging project was work done for the Open University.During this project my activities involved : Writing the backlog Managing and championing our workflow strategy Facilitating a collaborative, friendly and driven working environment with focus on personal strengths and goals A lot of face time with the client to ensure their vision is implemented Devising testing strategy with QA, agreeing QG with client Backlog grooming and defect prioritisation with client Creating and reviewing roadmap for strategic planning Educating agency and client on agile best practises
  • Qs
    Scrum Master / Agile Coach
    Qs Jan 2009 - Feb 2011
    Enforce rules and monitor execution of Agile framework called SCRUMTrain those involved in process on roles, actions, principles.Educate decision makers on new development methodology on organizational wide level.Educate and support business on relation between SCRUM and reaching the business goals.Initiate and manage creation and maintaining of business division portfolios and how these relate to strategic objectives with division heads.Introduced road map creation and long term planning activities for software projects.Manage client expectations with regular and useful feedback allowing for quick and effective decision making.Schedule and assign resources to projects.Procurement of team, everything from job spec creation to interviewing.Identify motivational factors and developing those for each team member.Improve work processes and collaboration between departments.Conduct inductions to the IT department for all new comers to company.Some development work.Liaise with 3rd parties on outsourced projects, some in Scrum master capacity, other in consultant role.
  • Qs
    Web Developer
    Qs Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
    Developing client facing and internal websites and services using open source.PHP, MySQL development on LAMP stack.Procedural mostly but gained good knowledge of OOP principles.Experienced in HTML, javascript, Ajax, JQuery.Experienced in database design and creation.
  • Cis Global
    Delphi Developer
    Cis Global Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
    Development of car dealer dashboard and proposal management system.

Sannette Coetzee Education Details

  • University Of Greenwich
    University Of Greenwich
    Computing

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