Stephanie Schaefer Email & Phone Number

Ensure product success and business value delivery, while improving flow of work from ideation to adoption.• Shepherd projects (~3-4 product portfolios at a time) through corporate processes and milestones while retaining focus on product goals across organization levels and roles• Improve flow to customers by coordinating dependencies and providing transparency of progress through smaller deliverables and frequent communications• Build collaborative relationships amongst… Show more Ensure product success and business value delivery, while improving flow of work from ideation to adoption.• Shepherd projects (~3-4 product portfolios at a time) through corporate processes and milestones while retaining focus on product goals across organization levels and roles• Improve flow to customers by coordinating dependencies and providing transparency of progress through smaller deliverables and frequent communications• Build collaborative relationships amongst cross-functional roles to successful execute on product/project efforts, including Marketing, Sales, Legal, and Customer Support functions• Lead Change Management practices and coach on the agile mindset to incorporate Build-Measure-Learn practices at each level, resulting in several portfolio launch plans being reduced by 25-50% while retaining key capabilities• Remove program-level impediments to improve the delivery of value; including tracking down sticky points that may not be obvious, that go across “lanes”, or that may be people-focused• Empower individuals in their roles and decentralize management• Coach and facilitate agile practices at scale• Facilitate large scale, cross-functional working sessions to drive decision making and mediate conflict resolution Show less

Lead Change Management of Agile Transformation in 3 departments; improving the agile culture and flow of 14 teams. Coached staff members across the organization in the Agile responsibilities & practices to improve skillsets and teaming. • Advised on policy, process and structural changes at the organization level to support Agile ways of working.Assessed health and agile maturity of teams and departments to determine root causes of problems, derive insights, and generate action plans. Led… Show more Lead Change Management of Agile Transformation in 3 departments; improving the agile culture and flow of 14 teams. Coached staff members across the organization in the Agile responsibilities & practices to improve skillsets and teaming. • Advised on policy, process and structural changes at the organization level to support Agile ways of working.Assessed health and agile maturity of teams and departments to determine root causes of problems, derive insights, and generate action plans. Led the identification and execution of interactive training sessions to assist in the adoption of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc), Refinement techniques (story mapping, slicing, etc) and advanced skillsets for improve teaming (psychological safety, feedback, etc.) Show less

Northbrook, Il

My focus is on the professional and personal development of our team members through mentoring and feedback. I advocated for and assisted the transition of our department into an Agile/Scrum structure. I continue to coach the teams as they become more accustomed to self-organization and discovery.I organize and contribute to several communities of practice in order to build, train and support our department's processes in Agile, Development and Quality.