Women in Agile: Recent Episodes
Women in Agile Org sponsored by Scrum.org
The Women in Agile podcast is a platform to champion new voices in the business world, because we believe everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
During this episode you get a chance to learn from Natali Betancur, a member of the Women in Agile Board who serves as the Executive Sponsor for our Scholarship Program. As you listen, you’ll get a chance to hear about Natali's Agile journey, which began in local government and evolved through various roles including work at Queens University of Charlotte's Center for Digital Equity. This episode explores themes of gender discrimination in the workplace and strategies for women in leadership positions, including building confidence and setting boundaries. The conversation concluded with Natali sharing her team's implementation of agile practices and digital equity initiatives, including their work to make Mecklenburg County more digitally accessible through strategic planning and community-focused projects.
About the Featured Guest
Natali Betancur is a dynamic and results-driven professional with a passion for creating positive change. With a diverse background in business management, finance, and strategic planning, she brings a unique perspective to her work. All Natali does is grounded in her core values of community, family and service. She currently works as the Deputy Director in the Center for Digital Equity at Queens University of Charlotte and serves as a board member for Women in Agile Org.
- Follow Natali Betancur on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/natali-betancur/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Leslie Porter is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Anne Monterio about her move from her home country of Brazil to Germany. Anne shares practical advice and tips on what to do to prepare for a move and how to settle into a new country and environment.
About the Featured Guest
Anne is an expert in Agile methodologies, project management, and product development. As a Product and Agile Coach at HelloFresh with over ten years at IBM, Anne has led agile transformations to boost team performance and customer satisfaction. Anne advocates for diversity, openness, and empathy believing these values are key to overcoming challenges and is passionate about creating tech products that simplify life.
- Follow Anne on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/anne-bravieira)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode, Emily is joined by guest Chad Engstrom to unpack how agile role expectations have shifted over the last few years and where the industry is heading. They discuss how to understand the hiring organisation in interviews and what candidates can do to improve their chances of securing their dream job.
About the Featured Guest
Chad Engstrom is an Account Manager at TEKsystems. Across his almost 3 years with TEKsystems, Chad has held both recruiting and customer facing roles. As a recruiter, Chad specialized in the Agile space and he now helps his customers navigate their Agile Maturity and help them achieve their Agile goals and journeys.
- Follow Chad Engstrom on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-engstrom/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Johanna Ferrer about her experiences of working with different cultures and across different timezones. Hear some of Johanna’s tips for establishing connections with your team members.
About the Featured Guest
With over 10 years of experience in the technology field, Johanna has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams in leading companies in the beauty, cosmetics, and retail sectors. In recent years, Johanna has focused on fostering agility and maximizing the talent of teams and areas within the organization through self-organization, empowerment, and generating value propositions with a systemic approach.
- Follow Johanna on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-ferrer-41183784/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Vinnie Gill about her experience of living in different countries and how her agile career has grown because of that.
About the Featured Guest
Vinnie Gill puts people and culture first. She enjoys connecting with people and companies to find their purpose, walking alongside them in their organisational growth journey. Her passion is influencing change at the Enterprise level.
She is deeply involved in the Agile community, speaks at international conferences and has a special interest in educating and education being the tool that empowers people.
- Follow Vinnie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinniegill/)
- Her website: https://outcomeoveroutput.com
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily Lint chats with Alena Keck about the realities of leading international teams across the U.S., Europe, and beyond.
About the Featured Guest:
Alena Keck is an experienced Transformation Leader who has led complex, enterprise-wide change initiatives across Europe and the U.S.—from building an omnichannel Digital Solution Center at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA, driving engineering transformation at Aptiv, and aligning digital strategy and ways of working at Porsche, to heading the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence at Vodafone/VOIS. Her passion: driving purposeful transformation that delivers sustainable value—with people always at the core.
Follow her on linked in at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-keck/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host:
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive. Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Nidhya Palaniappan explore Nidhya’s journey from South Asia to Canada, including how she found her agile role in her new location.
About the Featured Guest
Nidhya Palaniappan is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Agile practices. With a strong background in software engineering, Nidhya has dedicated over 9 years in various agile roles across geographies. Currently as an RTE at TD Bank Canada, Nidhya is at the forefront of driving Agile transformations and delivering successful products.
- Follow Nidhya on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhyapalaniappan/)
Reference(s)
- The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Karyn Smith explore Karyn’s journey from a high school graduate to her current role as a COO. Karyn shares her reflection on how far she has come and the things she has learnt about herself along the way.
About the Featured Guest
Karyn is a seasoned executive with over three decades of international and cross industry experience. Karyn has a proven ability to inspire, empower and motivate teams towards high performance and delivery of sustainable results, making her a dynamic leader.
Karyn is deeply committed to making a difference and ensuring meaningful engagement and outcomes for all.
- Follow Karyn on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karyn-smith-14b4353/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Tricia Broderick explore the topic of speaking at agile conferences including tips on submissions, preparing for your talk and how to be a keynote speaker.
About the Featured Guest
Tricia is a leadership and organizational advisor. Tricia has over 25 years of experience, igniting growth in leaders and teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia is an experienced speaker at agile conferences, has organized conferences and also been a reviewer for agile conference submissions.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven explores how guest Sibila Bijedic has helped non-tech teams understand and apply the agile mindset and principles.
About the Featured Guest
Sibila is a passionate coach that strives for agility while cultivating a strong desire for lifelong learning and evolving through collaboration.
- Follow Sibila on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sibilabijedic/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 15 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
Ever been confused by the amount of certifications available and what will actually help you advance your career? Look no further than this conversation between Stephanie Ockerman and Emily Lint as they dive into the Agile certification landscape and their experiences in finding the right certifications for the next step in your career.
About the Featured Guest
Stephanie Ockerman is a Business Agility & Leadership Coach and Consultant, Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), author, and entrepreneur. She helps teams and leaders use evidence-based approaches to unlock customer value, create space for innovation, and harness the power of collaborative teamwork. Stephanie is co-author of the book Mastering Professional Scrum. You can sign up for her newsletter for musings about business agility, teamwork, leadership, and life at AgileSocks.com.
If you're ready for a different type of learning experience, Stephanie is the creator of Agile Leadership Surf Camp, a transformational leadership development program for people who want to learn to ride the waves instead of trying to control the ocean - literally and in all aspects of life.
- Follow Stephanie Ockerman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieockerman/)
Reference(s)
- AgileSocks.com
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Emily Lint about her journey into entrepreneurship. Emily shares her insights into how she made the decision to work for herself and how she prepared herself for that. Emily talks about how she finds clients and wins work and what she has learnt about herself and entrepreneurship along the way.
About the Featured Guest
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more.
- Follow Emily on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint//)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve In Your Career video podcast series, we dive into the art of making your coaching stick and what it means to be truly effective in your Agile role. We'll explore how to show your value as an Agilist, maintain your confidence, and keep evolving in a world where Agile can become status quo. Join us as we unpack strategies for staying relevant, pushing the envelope, and sustaining not just teams, but your own career.
About the Featured Guest
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The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
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- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
On this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Emily Lint sits down with Paula Susman to discuss people managers and agile transformations; what is and is not necessary as an Agilist to help managers transform and how do you set yourself and managers or leaders up for success in the long run to let go of command-and-control.
About the Featured Guest
Paula Susman is an accomplished and solutions-driven Agile Coach with 8 years of multifaceted experience in Agile transformations, process improvement and team management. Proven track record of success in blending and building highly evolved teams with Agile approaches within the SDLC.
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The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Aspire and Achieve In Your Agile Career podcast series, Emily Lint speaks with Anne Monteiro about her global transitions in coaching and product management. Together they explore how to navigate uncertainty in your Agile career and identify business areas that align with your skills as well as how to identify emerging trends to stay on the top of your game in the product management and coaching space.
About the Featured Guest
Anne Bravieira Monteiro is an expert in Agile methodologies, project management, and product development. As a Product and Agile Coach at HelloFresh with over ten years at IBM, Anne led agile transformations to boost team performance and customer satisfaction. Anne advocates for diversity, openness, and empathy believing these values are key to overcoming challenges and is passionate about creating tech products that simplify life.
- Follow Anne Bravieira Monteiro on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/anne-bravieira)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode, we discussed what sustainability truly means and why agilists are uniquely positioned to lead impactful sustainability initiatives. Joined by Joanne and Ann Marie, we explored their journeys into agility and sustainability, as well as two key World Work initiatives: The Week and the Sustainability Incubator Project.
About the Featured Guests
Ann-Marie Kong:
Ann-Marie Kong is a facilitator, coach, practitioner, change agent, avid learner, and community grower. She serves as WIA World Work Awareness into Action Program Director facilitating The Week and inviting Agilists to join us to get to a tipping point soon. She is living her life’s purpose, shifting from a life of success to a life of service, and making a difference by sharing enduring love.
- Follow Ann-Marie Kong on LinkedIn
Joanne Stone:
Joanne is in their third year leading the Agilists for Sustainability movement. She founded Sustainability Incubator Projects, We Hope Magazine, and the Agilists4Planet Conference, which showcases the inspiring stories of Agilists in sustainability. Other facts: she practices laughing meditation and loves being with her two dogs and four daughters.
- Follow Joanne Stone on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- World Work on Women in Agile: https://womeninagile.org/world-work/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Shena Goorawa explore the importance of adapting to tough situations and embracing new challenges to grow your career. We discuss the importance of resilience and how leaning on your support crew can help you through the toughest challenges.
About the Featured Guest
Shena, an Agile Delivery Team Lead, began her career in 2006 in the call center industry. After a retrenchment in 2011, she transitioned to IT, starting in testing. Since 2012, Shena has excelled in agile roles, including agile trainer & Head of Agile Test Competency Centre, SA. Despite a layoff in 2020, she now leads Agile Delivery Managers in the FinTech industry, driving innovation and growth.
- Follow Shena on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shenagoorawa/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode, Emily chats with Lyssa Adkins and her newest venture with the Women in Agile community: World Work. We dive into what this program is, why it matters, and how it can mobilize the agile community to serve the world beyond the workplace. Let’s uncover why agilists are uniquely positioned to be a force for good and create a ripple effect of positive impact.
About the Featured Guest
Lyssa Adkins is an internationally-recognized thought leader and the author of Coaching Agile Teams which has sold over 75,000 copies. Lyssa's focus is inspiring the worldwide network of agilists to see the devastating planetary challenges we are already experiencing as an opportunity to express their agile superpowers to make a massively positive impact.
- Follow Lyssa Adkins on LinkedIn
- Follow Lyssa on Instagram (@lyssaadkins)
Reference(s)
- Women in Agile World Work: https://womeninagile.org/world-work/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven unpacks guest Rebecca Murphy’s career journey and how she found herself in Tech after completing her Literature degree.
About the Featured Guest
Rebecca fell into tech after realising that not everyone who graduates with a Literature degree gets a column at the Guardian. She has worked in roles spanning Product Management, agile coaching and leadership across the mobility, ecommerce, and publishing industries, building everything from user-facing products to backend, internal services. All while supporting agility, with a little a.
Follow Rebecca on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccaamir/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily List and guest Katie Rose Kaufman share advice on how to find the next step in your career journey as an early career individual including understanding what you like, what you can bring to a role and how you can transfer your skills into new roles.
About the Featured Guest
Katie Rose Kaufman has 7 years of experience as an artist and as an agilist. Katie Rose went to college thinking she would be a photographer. But after running a business, going back to school to get her MBA, 2 internships, 1 conversion, and 2 more full time jobs later, Katie Rose found her calling as the glue that holds teams together. She leads teams and trains in continuous improvement and learning!
- Follow Katie Rose Kaufman on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katierosek/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this podcast conversation, we discussed vision journey mapping, what it is and how it can help your team, organization, or yourself to vision for the future…whatever that future may be. From setting yourself and your teams up with the emotional capacity to have the conversation, to working through negative manifestations, to creating a self-paced plan, this episode will leave you jumping to craft your vision board.
About the Featured Guest
Temi has 15+ years of industry experience in product, project & change management and business analysis across the United Kingdom & North America. She has worked in start-ups, scale-ups and matured enterprises within B2B, B2C. She is a Maxwell certified leadership coach, a behavioral consultant and an executive coach. She works with technology organizations on team transformation.
- Follow Temi Bolaji-Jegede on LinkedIn
References:
- Value List Template | Miroverse (To identify your values)
- Visioning Journey Map Template | Miroverse
- https://tinyurl.com/energyemotionsmc: A masterclass on building your emotional capacity masterclass (understanding the emotion & energy connection)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host:
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Natalia Juszkiewicz about how she became a Scrum Master, how she learnt about the role, and how it fits into an organization.
About the Featured Guest
Natalia is a Scrum Master and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience, including 3 years managing other Scrum Masters. Natalia values partnership and openness, specializing in team building and gaining new perspectives from working with top-level management. As a mentor in the Women in Agile program, Natalia met three wonderful women. In her free time, Natalia enjoys reading crime novels.
Follow Natalia on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-juszkiewicz-949b6aa5)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily Lint and guest Theresa Given talk about their experiences with job layoffs and what they have learned about themselves through those times.
About the Featured Guest
Theresa Given discovered Scrum and Agile ten years ago. She has been exploring and experimenting since. Tere enjoys the world of possibilities; she's tried each Scrum accountability, tested multiple Agile practices, worked in varied industries across public, private and non-profit sectors. Currently, she coaches new Scrum Masters to explore their role and achieve greater efficacy with their teams.
- Follow Tere on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresagiven/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily Lint and guest Allison Pollard introduce the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve video podcast series. Allison shares the background of the Women in Agile Mentorship program and how the program is helping those involved with their Agile careers.
About the Featured Guest
Allison helps engineering managers, team leads, Scrum Masters, and technology leaders have more productive interactions with their bosses, their peers, and their team members. Allison is an experienced coach and consultant who understands juggling delivery, change, and people.
Allison is the Program Director for the Women in Agile Mentoring series.
- Follow Allison on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonpollard/)
Reference(s)
- Women in Agile Mentorship program: https://womeninagile.org/mentorship/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In 2023 the US saw an all-time high workforce participation rate for mothers with young children, as well as the narrowest gender gap for workforce participation in history. However, women remain underrepresented in leadership roles, but why? In this episode Emily and Anne discuss the part that existing job structures and parental expectations present that continues to create barriers for career growth.
They talk about the current statistics around this continuing conversation and what we can do as female leaders to balance this always tipping scale between being a leader, being a mother, and being a wholly fulfilled individual, first and foremost.
About the Featured Guest
Anne Shoemaker is a career strategist and executive coach, leveraging her 20+ years of experience to guide executive and aspiring executive women to leadership roles across various industries. Through personalized coaching, dynamic speaking engagements, and interactive workshops, Anne equips women with the tools they need to unlock their potential and achieve new levels of impact and fulfilment.
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- Follow Anne Shoemaker on Instagram @careeradvisoranne
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode I chat with Becky Kuzma, a fast friend I made while at the Agile 2023 conference. Her talk on “How to Foster Neurodivergent Teams” inspired me and many others at the conference to look at the landscape of neurodiversity in the workplace with a different lens. Lots has been learned recently about neurodiversity and how it contributes to a more diverse and inclusive workplace as well as providing a lot of opportunities for individuals to consider their strengths in this traditional world, more than their weaknesses.
As Emily and Becky, both diagnosed with ADHD later in life, discuss this topic we invite you to arrive with an open heart and an open mind as we dive deep in this hot business topic.
About the Featured Guests
Becky Kuzma is a "people-first" Agile Coach, she believes that the key to business agility starts with supporting and empowering employees. She pairs her background in biology with her experience as an Agile Coach to create a customized approach for organizations to achieve their desired business outcomes. She has worked with organizations in the education tech space in addition to non-profit biomedical research.
- Follow Becky Kuzma on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-kuzma/)
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
How can AI and coaching work together? We know its impact on our world and large enterprises, but can it simplify your day-to-day and enhance your Agile coaching? Join Emily Lint and Alysia Silberg as Alysia guides you on leveraging AI for your business and daily routines, helping you reclaim your time and boost effectiveness with tools that might seem out of reach.
About the Featured Guest
Alysia Silberg is the Founder and CEO of UnemployableAI harnessing AI to drive growth, scalability and profits for companies. She is the Founder & General Partner of Street Global, a leading venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. Alysia’s award winning book, Unemployable: How AI Transformed my Work and Life, details her inspiring life story and is a guide to infinite success.
- Follow Alysia Silberg on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alysiasilberg/ )
- Follow Alysia Silberg on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AlysiaSilberg )
- Follow Alysia Silberg on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/Alysiasilberg/ )
Reference(s)
- Forbes Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2023/05/30/unemployable-its-not-what-you-may-think/?sh=3dc95f0a28ad
- CEO Magizine: https://www.theceomagazine.com/business/innovation-technology/alysia-silberg-ai-investor/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode host Renae Craven chats all things Professional Development with guest Theresa Given, exploring different ways to assess growth opportunities and then how to plan for those opportunities.
About the Featured Guest
Theresa Given discovered Scrum and Agile ten years ago. She has been exploring and experimenting since. Theresa enjoys the world of possibilities; she's tried each Scrum accountability, tested multiple Agile practices, worked in varied industries across public, private and non-profit sectors. Currently, she coaches new Scrum Masters to explore their role and achieve greater efficacy with their teams.
- Follow Theresa on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresagiven/)
Reference(s)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode Renae and Sally talk about the inspiration behind her #stopbadagile bird aviary and how they reflect what Sally has learnt along the way.
About the Featured Guest
Sally Sloley is an agile coach who specializes in visual solutions. She started her career as a web developer at Microsoft HQ. She loves being part of the agile community, helps organize conferences, and speaks about lean and agile around the world. She started #stopbadagile on LinkedIn in 2023 to help shine a light on the things being sold as agile but aren't.
- Follow Sally on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallysloley/)
- https://sallysloley.com/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
For this podcast discussion, Emily Lint and Kate Arms combined their two favorite loves: Psychology and Agile by discussing the Theory of Positive Disintegration and how it impacts the way we transform. Could hard transformations and struggles help us to actually grow better?
About the Featured Guest
Jessica Katz is a trainer, mentor and coach through Liberated Elephant. Jessica is passionate about working with individuals, teams, leaders, and organizations to help people discover and nurture their authentic selves. With this knowledge, Jessica helps them uncover solutions that move them forward on their journey. Her methodology is informed by Agile values, principles, and practices.
- Follow Jessica Katz on LinkedIn
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this podcast conversation, our host Emily Lint and Nita Ambedkar do not shy away from the controversial topic of failure in the Agile world. They discuss what failure might mean or look like for you and how it may be different from your peers, how you best find your center, and recover to continue to bring your best for the transformation to come.
About the Featured Guest
Nita is an outgoing, confident , leader led by curiosity, and a let’s do it attitude. She has 22+ yrs of experience in IT (tech and process). She has worked with MNC's, started her own IT consulting business, and is the board of director for DSAW. She teaches Zumba and yoga in her free time.
- Follow Nita Ambedkar on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this podcast conversation, we discuss navigating imposter syndrome and its relationship to knowing your own value. Having a strong supportive network and tapping into your own bravery is critical as you’re pursuing success in your career.
About the Featured Guest
Carrie Driscoll, Agile coach and president of Reef Consulting, leverages 20+ years in project and operations management to drive growth and innovation. Her firm specializes in business agility coaching and digital transformations for Fortune 500 companies. She is a Scrum@Scaled Trainer, SAFe Program Consultant, Certified ScrumMaster, ICAgile Certified Professional, and is a dedicated speaker and mentor.
- Follow Carrie Driscoll on LinkedIn
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host:
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
For this podcast discussion, Emily Lint and Kate Arms combined their two favorite loves: Psychology and Agile by discussing the Theory of Positive Disintegration and how it impacts the way we transform. Could hard transformations and struggles help us to actually grow better?
About the Featured Guest
Kate Arms is an Agile Coach once described as “our team’s equivalent of Yoda.” She gave up programming as an act of teenage rebellion, but keeps coming back to tech, previously as a tech transactions lawyer. She holds a BA in Theatre and Biopsychology from Cornell University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is an international coach federation PCC and an ICAgile Expert in Enterprise Coaching.
- Follow Kate Arms on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katearmscoach/)
References:
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode Renae and Sarah talk about the art of asking a dumb question and how modelling that helps others to feel more confident to ask their own ‘dumb’ questions.
About the Featured Guest
Having spent most of her career in Human Resources and Learning and Development, Sarah came across Agile as a philosophy and way of working, and LOVED IT! She jumped ship and moved into a customer experience team working in agile philosophy, and has now become a Scrum Master.
- Follow Sarah on LinkedIn
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this podcast conversation, we discuss what it truly means to “choose your own career” in the product management field as well as how to stay on that path as your most authentic self. Gabrielle has a drive for helping others see themselves to the roles that most align to their life and we hope this discussion will open new eyes to what it means to be in the product management field for new and developing Agilists.
About the Featured Guest
Gabrielle Hayes is a pioneer who transforms the product development industry by unlocking the untapped potential of professionals through empowerment and teaching how to harness a growth mindset. Her mission is to guide product professionals towards unlocking their full potential, fostering unshakable confidence, and achieving the lives they aspire to lead - in the career they love.
- Follow Gabrielle Hayes on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielleahayes/ )
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host:
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In the final episode of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching series, guests Renee Troughton and Craig Smith discuss the Code of Ethics and how to put the Code into practice.
About the Featured Guests
Renee Troughton is one of the most experienced Enterprise Agile Transformation Coaches in the southern hemisphere, with extensive experience working in small to large organisations across many sectors including finance, insurance, superannuation, government and telecommunications.
Craig Smith has been an Agile Practitioner, Coach and one of Australia’s premier Agile Trainers for over twenty years. As the Business Agility Product Lead for SoftEd, co-organiser of the Agile Brisbane Meetup Group, co-chair of the Agile Coaching Ethics initiative, co-host The Agile Revolution podcast and an Agile Editor for InfoQ, Craig is a long time contributor to the Agile community.
- Follow Renee on LinkedIn
- Follow Craig on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel https://www.youtube.com/@cravepilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn
In this episode, our host Leslie Morse explores topics related to mentorship with our guest Dominika Bula. This episode was originally inspired by Dominika’s participation as a mentor in the Women in Agile Mentorship program, sponsored by ICAgile. In addition to sharing tips and tricks for success in mentorship relationships, Dominika also shares details about a method of speed mentorship that can help you uplift the skills and capabilities of those around you.
About the Featured Guest
Dominika Bula is a Senior Consultant working for SAP Signavio, she is also a Mentor with the Women in Agile Mentorship Program and one of the Women in Agile Europe Conference organizers. Dominika’s daily job focuses on enterprise Agile Coaching. She is Certified Scrum Master, PMI Agile Practitioner, SAFe Consultant and ProKanban trainer.
- Follow Dominika on LinkedIn
- Follow Dominika on Twitter @DomiBula
References & Resources
- Women in Agile Mentorship program, sponsored by ICAgile. (https://womeninagile.org/mentorship/)
- X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed by Deborah Ancona & Henrik Bresman
- AnitaB.org Mentorship Circles
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talented women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack section 9 of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Responsibility to the Profession. We uncover the thinking behind the section, its inclusion in the Code of Ethic and its application in coaching.
Important Note: This podcast episode was filmed at the Agile 2024 conference so please excuse the background noise that occurred during the recording.
About the Featured Guests
Kerri Sutey's coaching approach is anchored in co-creating pathways to success, where clients are empowered to lead with confidence, grow in their roles, and thrive in their professional and personal lives. Her integrity-driven practices ensure an experience that is not just transformative but also deeply respectful and aligned with ethical standards. Her unique blend of thought leadership, strategic facilitation, and organizational agility ensures that every engagement with her clients is impactful and respectful of their individual needs.
- Follow Kerri on LinkedIn
John Barratt is passionate about helping organizations reach their full potential. He has developed a unique coaching style that combines the principles of business agility with other coaching approaches. John specializes in helping organizations simplify and become more resilient. He uses various methods, including outcome-based coaching and systemic modeling, to help clients achieve measurable results.
- Follow John on LinkedIn
- Follow John on Twitter @coachjohnuk
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talented women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this podcast conversation we discuss with TD Bank executive leaders how Unconscious bias may be shaping your workplace and the products being built today. We tackle some hard truths as to how unconscious bias shows up in all different spaces in our lives while we take our experiences with unconscious bias and use them as fuel to make a better workspace for others.
About the Featured Guest
Lina is a VP and executive product owner for TD Bank Group, Lina’s focus is driving better outcomes for her clients, while supporting her colleagues in achieving their goals. As a woman, and visible minority in the financial industry, supporting her colleagues and clients has been anchored in diversity and inclusion and she set up a diversity network, later becoming the executive sponsor of TD’s Visible Minority Group.
Lina holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Western Ontario, a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Carleton University, and an MBA from McGill Executive Institute.
Shibani is a global executive with extensive experience working across multiple disciplines and geographies, holding several roles around the globe.
In her current role as Vice President, Executive Product Owner, she leads a team of technology professionals responsible for setting the strategic vision and agile implementation of innovative capabilities supporting end to end Customer shopping engagement journeys across the enterprise.
In 2022 and 2023, Shibani received international recognition as one of the
top Outstanding LGBT+ Emerging leaders globally.
- Follow Lina Abdelhussein on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/linahanna/)
- Follow Shibani Ahuja on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shibaniahujatd/)
Reference(s)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Emily Lint is an industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack the eighth commitment of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching: Managing differences in status and power. We uncover the thinking behind the section, its inclusion in the Code of Ethic and its application in coaching.
About the Featured Guest
Georgina has an expansive 20+ global IT career having worked in Australia, London and the US in IT, telecommunications, banking, sales and marketing. She specializes in designing agile enterprise organizations by bringing together design, development and go-to-market teams to operate seamlessly. She also enjoys being an executive strategic advisor and coach.
- Follow Georgina on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginapuli/)
Mishkin Berteig is an Agile pioneer and Certified Scrum Trainer. He co-founded BERTEIG, transforming work environments. Now as CEO of MaxGood.work, he merges human potential and AI. Advocating love as the change driver and truth as progress's base, he infuses these values into his work.
- Follow Mishkin on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishkinberteig/)
- Follow Mishkin on Twitter @mberteig (https://twitter.com/mberteig)
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Paper Constellations, a tool from Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel https://www.youtube.com/@renaecraven.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation Renae and Vinnie explore their common love of Pilates and the alignment between Agile and Pilates.
About the Featured Guest
Vinnie Gill puts people and culture first. She enjoys connecting with people and companies to find their purpose, walking alongside them in their organizational growth journey. Her passion is influencing change at the Enterprise level.
She is deeply involved in the Agile community, speaks at international conferences and has a special interest in educating and education being the tool that empowers people.
- Follow Vinnie on LinkedIn
References
- Pilates for the Office Worker series
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode Chithra and Steve unpack commitment 7 of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Agreeing on Boundaries and the challenges that Coaches can have when establishing boundaries with their clients.
About the Featured Guests
Chithra Ramachandran is a technologist at heart, offering over 19 years of software product development experience, leading global technology teams and delivery of impact oriented high
value programs. As a lead Coach in her role, Chithra loves designing coaching interventions, workshops for Lean-Agile DevOps Transformations & Code Craftsmanship.
Steve Hoyler serves non-profit organisations, NGOs, companies, and teams on a mission. He's an agile coach, facilitator, speaker & penguins' friend helping organisations hone collaboration & agile practice. He's helped environmental activists, conservationists, late-stage pharmaceutical drug developers, product teams & computer system developers. Based in Switzerland, he works in Europe and Africa.
- Follow Chithra on LinkedIn
- Follow Steve on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack the 6th commitment in the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Upholding Social responsibility, Diversity and Inclusion. We uncover the thinking behind the section, its inclusion in the Code of Ethics and its application in coaching.
About the Featured Guest
Deepti Jain crafts innovative learning & networking experiences for her clients & community, help them achieve sustainable transformation and 360-degree growth. She brings a background of agile software & product development, operational excellence, enterprise architecture. In 2015 she founded "AgileVirgin", in then 2018 she joined Agile Alliance as Initiative Director for India Agile Community Dev.
- Follow Deepti on LinkedIn
Geof Elligham is a coach, facilitator, consultant, therapist and international speaker on business agility with 30 years experience in strategy, leadership, management, delivery and education in the public and private sectors.
- Follow Geof on LinkedIn
- Follow Geof on Twitter @geofellingham
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack the fifth commitment from the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Ensuring value in the relationship. We uncover the thinking behind the section, its inclusion in the Code of Ethics and its application in coaching.
About the Featured Guests
Vinnie Gill puts people and culture first. She enjoys connecting with people and companies to find their purpose, walking alongside them in their organisational growth journey. Her passion is influencing change at the Enterprise level.
She is deeply involved in the Agile community, speaks at international conferences and has a special interest in educating and education being the tool that empowers people.
- Follow Vinnie Gill on LinkedIn
Tom Cagley is a consultant, speaker, podcaster, author, coach, and agile guide who leads organizations and teams to unlock their inherent greatness. He has developed estimation models and has supported organizations developing classic and agile estimates. Tom helps teams and organizations improve cycle time, productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction, and then prove it.
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- Follow @tcagley on Twitter
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation, Bhoomika and I dived deep into international agile themes and how to transition green field project teams into agile product teams. We discussed how the Netherlands may just be the best place for your Agile implementation and how to start off new product initiatives in the right direction using her techniques for team formation, MVP launch, getting buy-in from your organization using a servant leadership model.
About the Featured Guest
Bhoomika has over 17 years of experience in various roles in the IT industry, including 7 years as an RTE, agile coach and consultant for large, complex, and global projects and programs. She holds certifications in Scrum, Change Management, and SAFe, LeSS and has expertise in multiple agile frameworks, such as Kanban, BDD, Lean, and Spotify.
- Follow Bhoomika Diwan on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhoomika-diwan-a4321a1a/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack the fourth commitment of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Navigating Conflicts of Interest. Join host Leslie Morse as she explores Navigating Conflicts of Interest with Natascha Speets and Femi Odelusi.
About the Featured Guests
Natascha Speets is an experienced Agile Team and Enterprise coach. Natascha helps her clients reach maturity in Agile by curating focused Agile coaching programs. In 2020, Natascha started an Agile community project to draft an Ethical Code for Agile Coaches, and It only made sense to join forces with the Agile Alliance and create a Code of Ethics that truly reflects the needs of the coaches and their clients.
Femi Odelusi is a Professional Coach accredited by ICF and EMCC. He has excelled in organizational change and enabling innovative, digitally enabled business solutions. He has guided a variety of organizations as they transform in today's world of digitisation.
- Follow Femi on LinkedIn
- Follow Natascha on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
- International Coaching Federation: https://coachingfederation.org/
- European Mentorship & Coaching Council: https://www.emccglobal.org/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation Karen shares her story of how she went from ‘Fancy Karen’ to Karen who is now living her best life, one that she never imagined she could. Karen shares how she quit her full time employment and the life she now leads.
About the Featured Guest
After working in a few companies doing Scrum, in 2012 Karen Greaves started Growing Agile with Sam Laing to fulfill their dream of helping more companies become agile. In 2018, Karen moved to New Zealand and started a new chapter working internally in organizations. In 2022 Karen quit working full time, sold nearly everything she owned and started living fulltime in a van.
- Follow Karen on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karengreaves/)
- Follow Karen on Twitter (@karen_greaves)
- Follow Karen’s van life on Instagram (@nakedtruth_vanlife)
References
- Conscious Business. How to Build Value Through Values by Fred Kofman https://www.fredkofman.org/lec-ing.php
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy/dp/0525536515
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack section 3 of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Introspection and Continuing Professional Development. Together we explore the importance of remaining curious about our abilities as coaches and how the community can help with that.
About the Featured Guests
Theresa Given discovered Scrum and Agile ten years ago. She has been exploring and experimenting since. Tere enjoys the world of possibilities; she's tried each Scrum accountability, tested multiple Agile practices, worked in varied industries across public, private and non-profit sectors. Currently, she coaches new Scrum Masters to explore their role and achieve greater efficacy with their teams.
Dave Prior has been leading technology projects for over 20 years. His journey from waterfall to Agile was not an easy one and he shows up every day with one simple goal: “...make the journey from waterfall to Agile suck less for others than it did for me."
Dave has been podcasting since 2008 and produces LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes and drunkenPM Radio’s Reluctant Agilist.
- Follow Tere on LinkedIn
- Follow Dave on LinkedIn
- Follow Dave on Twitter (@mrsungo)
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
- Drunken pm radio Podcast https://soundcloud.com/drunkenpmradio
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack commitment 2 of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Acting within my Ability. We explore the inclusion of this commitment in the Code and what it means for Agile Coaches.
About the Featured Guests
Sarah Skold has spent most of her career in Human Resources and Learning and Development. She came across Agile as a philosophy and way of working, and LOVED IT! Sarah jumped ship and moved into a customer experience team working in agile philosophy, and is now a Scrum Master.
Alex Sloley is an avid member of the agile community and published his book “The Agile Community” in 2022. He speaks regularly on the global stage and is an organizer of conference organizers. He specializes in agile training, coaching, and transformations. Alex is the Shepherd of the global Agile Coaching Retreat Advisor Team and the Co-Chair of the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative Team.
- Follow Sarah on LinkedIn
- Follow Alex on LinkedIn
- Follow Alex on Twitter (@alex_sloley)
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation, our host Emily Lint sits down with Sylvie Makhzoum and Licenia Rojas about their experiences designing Agile transformations in the complex world of enterprise data and infrastructure while also diving deep into the complex nature of being a technical female leader in the world today. They provided some great perspectives not only as female leaders, but as those of non-white heritage, with their own cultural hurdles to overcome. Tune in to learn about how to navigate AI in data-driven design in Agile digital transformations and how to navigate your future as a technical leader.
About the Featured Guest
Licenia Rojas, is Senior Vice President, Chief Engineer and Chief Architect at TD Bank Group. She is responsible for the Technology Strategy at TD and as head of four Practices (Architecture, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Analyst practices), Licenia is focused on attracting and developing top talent and building best practices and standards to deliver capabilities faster, better, and simpler for customers at TD. Prior to her role at TD, Licenia dedicated 23 years at American Express, driving significant contributions to innovation, and expansion of digital capabilities as the Senior Vice President and Unit CIO. Licenia is a proud advocate of women in technology and frequently participates in various events to inspire and share insights on how to be your authentic self in the workplace.
Sylvie Makhzoum is the Executive Product Owner and Vice President of Data as a Service (DaaS), under the Platforms &Technology organization at TD. She is focused on TD’s enterprise data transformation, enabling the shift to a data-driven organization. DaaS was the first Platform deployed under the Next Evolution of Work (NEW) organizational initiative at TD. Sylvie is team-first people leader with a history of maximizing business value through strategic data streams, assets, and products. Notably, she formed the data strategy for TD Insurance from 2015 to 2021, which was the largest data project across the Bank and the first to be delivered through Agile methodology.
- Follow Licenia Rojas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/licenia-rojas-1a2b0544/
- Follow Sylvie Makhzoum on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvie-makhzoum/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilylint/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we unpack section 1 of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching; Protecting Confidentiality, Intellectual Property and Information Security. We uncover the thinking behind the section, its inclusion in the Code of Ethics and its application in coaching.
About the Featured Guests
Daniela Gomes dos Santos is an agile coach at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is also a writer at IniciaGP blog, a mentor and a speaker. Daniela graduated in Business Administration and has a postgraduate certificate in Project Management. Daniela has more than 8 years working with project management and agile.
Damián Buonamico is Agile Coach and Consultant, working remotely from Buenos Aires, Argentina (he speaks spanish). He's a systems engineer with 20 years of experience in IT and the last 10 in agile.
- Follow Daniela on LinkedIn
- Follow Damian on LinkedIn
- Follow Damian on Twitter (@dbuo)
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation, our host Leslie Morse talks with Dr. Lynn Kelley, PhD about creating an environment ripe for change. During the episode they explore different techniques for being best prepared to lead and engage people during change efforts through the lens of questions that help uncover the different dimensions that need to be considered when working with teams and organizations.
About the Featured Guest
Dr. Lynn Kelley, PhD is the author of the book, Change Questions. She has spent her career implementing large-scale change at two Fortune 200 companies (Union Pacific Railroad and Textron), has been a key-note speaker at various international conferences, and has taught the hands-on, one-day Change Questions course to individuals and on-site at companies where organizational change initiatives are addressed.
- Follow Lynn on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnkelleychange/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talented women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In the first episode of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching series, guests Leslie Morse and Shane Hastie unpack the origins and purpose of the Code and we introduce each section of the Code.
About the Featured Guest
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas.
Shane Hastie is co-chair of the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics initiative, working to produce a code of ethical conduct for agile coaching. He is the Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd/Skills.
He leads the Culture and Methods editorial team for InfoQ.com where he hosts the weekly InfoQ Culture Podcast. Shane is an ICF registered Professional Coach.
- Follow Leslie on LinkedIn
- Follow Shane on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-coaching-ethics/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation, our host Leslie Morse talks with Andy Golding about the human element of navigating complexity and what we need to be thinking about in order to create more amazing experiences for people in the workplace.
About the Featured Guest
Andy Golding believes that the headspace and the heart-space of human beings is the most untapped natural asset on the planet. As a leadership development & people practices specialist she helps companies design work environments and employee experiences that tap into the innate brilliance of human beings. She is a published author 'We are Still Human (and work shouldn't suck)' and a TEDx speaker.
- Follow Andy on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-golding/)
- Follow Andy on Twitter @dreagolding (https://www.twitter.com/dreagolding)
- Follow Andy on Instagram @dreagolding (https://www.instagram.com/dreagolding)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talented women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
Stephanie Cully is the founder of Scrum Life. Her mission is to provide Scrum Masters with the support they need to build unshakeable confidence & successfully land their dream job. In 2021, she created the Immersion Program, to provide Scrum Masters with hands-on experience, enhance their confidence, and help them security their desired job.
- Follow Stephanie Cully on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation Josey Simpson and Renae Craven explore Josey’s health journey and how her own personal learnings have influenced the way she leads her teams.
About the Featured Guest
Josey's career spans 20 years, from business facing Government and Utilities roles through to agility and project delivery. Josey has dabbled as Product Owner, Scrum Master & Coach, honing skills in leadership, coaching, mentoring & change management. Her current role oversees end-to-end delivery teams ($20m pa) supporting $2b revenue.
Josey holds ICAgile Professional, Agile Coaching; ExecGradCert–Leadership Coaching & Mentoring, BBus–Marketing. Josey is active in WIA Brisbane QLD, connecting the community and elevating voices.
Outside of work, Josey cheers on her fiancé and 10 year old child in their mixed martial arts pursuits, often helping with fundraising, and has a special interests including cooking for family & friends, connecting over board games, Lego and running Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, rocking out at any live concert possible, and swimming or walking around northern Brisbane or Sunny Coast beaches.
- Follow Josey on LinkedIn
References
- EFire Coaching Model - Dr Geoffrey Abbot (https://www.intercoach.net/e-fire)
- Brene Brown - Dare to Lead (https://brenebrown.com/hubs/dare-to-lead/)
- Daniel Coyle - The Culture Code (https://danielcoyle.com/the-culture-code/)
- Josh Kerievsky - Joy of Agility (https://joyofagility.com/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode we discuss the complex and diverse nature of Agile in the Finance industry. High-compliance industries are near and dear to my heart and it was a great opportunity to learn from those in the thick of change in an industry not so classic to Agile. Continue on listening to hear their stories, inspirations, and advice as they scale Agile at large and within finance. I hope you will grab some nuggets of knowledge around how to scale your own transformations in a high-compliance world.
About the Featured Guests
Tina Robinet is a results-driven Technology and Business leader with over 30 years of proven experience in driving transformational change and operational improvements. She thrives on delivering business value and efficiencies, building high-performing teams, and driving cultural growth.
As Senior Vice President of Next Evolution of Work (NEW) Transformation at TD, Tina leads an organizational change to deliver increased speed to market at lower complexity and provide an improved customer and colleague experience. As a part of this transformation, Tina is leading the operationalization of the Product-Based Operating Model that addresses current business challenges and keeps the bank competitive within the market.
Tina joined TD in March 2017 in Technology and has held increasing mandates across technology and enterprise functions, having previously spent nearly 15 years in Financial Services.
Bana Anvari is a versatile Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience within digital marketing and financial services Ind. She moved to Canada in 2004, she's been working at a Digital Marketing Agency in TO providing software solutions for large global clients for 7 years, joined TD in 2011, and since then she's been driving delivery strategy and Agile transformation across multiple teams at TD.
- Follow Bana Anvari on LinkedIn
- Follow Tina Robinet on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this conversation Renae and Sharon explore what the future may look like in our workplaces and how we prepare our schools today so they can be happy in those future workplaces.
About the Featured Guest
Sharon is the Founder and Director of Enterprising Agility, a consultancy that works closely with clients to mobilise their passions for embracing modern working practices.
- Follow Sharon on LinkedIn
- Follow Sharon on Twitter (@smrobson)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel https://www.youtube.com/@renaecraven.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode Hayley Rodd and Renae Craven explore the topic of imposter syndrome and some strategies for overcoming it when you feel it bubbling to the surface.
About the Featured Guest
Hayley is an accomplished Marketing professional who works for Easy Agile, an Australian software company. Their products, which plug into Atlassian's Jira, are sold across the world, used by 150,000 users and help teams be agile.
- Follow Hayley on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-rodd/)
Reference(s)
Easy Agile: https://www.easyagile.com/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel https://www.youtube.com/@renaecraven.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode explores the topic of what agile is today and what we have noticed in how it has shifted in organizations over the last 15 years.
About the Featured Guest
Sam Liang is an agile coach and her personal motto is ‘be brave’. Sam embodies this by taking on challenges one small step at a time.
- Follow Sam on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samlaing/)
- Follow Sam on Twitter (@samoffgridnz)
Reference(s)
Research paper, Connecting coach to business need: https://businessagility.institute/learn/connecting-coach-to-business-need/725
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel https://www.youtube.com/@renaecraven.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
During our 2022 discussion, new mom Shikha Duggal takes a break from her busy mom and coach life to bring us back to the basics of why SAFe is one of the premiere scaling agile frameworks in the industry. We discuss the good, the bad, and the misunderstood elements of this framework in terms of implementation and coaching strategy using examples from our real-life clients. Join us as we dive deep into SAFe for your Transformation!
About the Featured Guest
Shikha has led several Agile transformations across various industries. Throughout her career, she's had the opportunity to wear multiple hats- a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Agile Coach & Mentor. She is a certified SAFe Program Consultant who firmly believes in continuous learning, leading by example & defines her success with the success of the people she works with.
- Follow Shikha Duggal on LinkedIn
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
During our 2022 discussion, Hannah Howard Bink and Emily Lint discuss Scaled Agile’s most recent transformative effort in their Marketing division. Yes, even Scaled Agile inspects, adapts, and evolves their strategy when they find their current business model lacking in efficiency. Learn from their lessons learned and take your Marketing or non-traditional Agile department flow to the next level!
About the Featured Guest
Hannah Bink heads digital marketing at Scaled Agile, supporting global expansion and account-based marketing efforts. She has 15 years of B2B marketing experience and studied business at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to Scaled Agile, Hannah spent the majority of her career in telecommunications and healthcare sectors, running global marketing divisions.
- Follow Hannah Bink on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-howard-bink/)
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this 2021 conversation with Laura Re Turner, our host Leslie Morse explores the realm of Systemic Coaching and how agilists can bring systems thinking and an overall systemic view into the ways they work with people, teams and organizations.
About the Featured Guest
Laura Re Turner is an accredited coach, trainer, and facilitator who works with leaders and teams to develop an Agile mindset, behaviours, and the skills to thrive through change. Before becoming a coach, Laura delivered enterprise software projects as a project and programme manager, technology consultant, and software developer. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Future Focus Coaching.
- Follow Laura Re Turner on LinkedIn
- Follow Laura Re Turner on Twitter @FutureFocusCD
Reference(s)
- Book: Becoming Agile: Coaching Behavioural Change for Business Results by Laura Re Turner
- Book: Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual by Peter Hawkins and Eve Turner
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode of the Women in Agile podcast explores the topic of presence; what it means, how to build your own presence and what impedes it. We explore the importance of presence in agile teams and how to create that safe space for teams to explore their presence.
About the Featured Guest
Antoinette is an ex-software developer that took a detour through academia to end up in the world of professional coaching. A veteran of Agile transitions, her focus currently is on developing leaders to grow agility in themselves and their organisations. Before the pandemic she practically lived at 33,000 ft, but since the start of the pandemic she has been happily home in beautiful Cape Town.
- Follow Antoinette on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/antoinettecoetzee)
- Follow Antoinette on Twitter (@antoinetteCoet)
- Follow Antoinette on Instagram (antoinetteAquarian)
Reference(s)
- Doug Silsbee: https://presencebasedcoaching.com/doug-silsbee-legacy/doug-silsbee
- Nancy Kline: https://www.nancykline.com
- Coaches Rising: https://www.coachesrising.com/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Renae began her agile journey in 2010 when she found herself in the ‘pilot’ team to help discover and path the way for future Scrum teams. A certified Team Coach and Scrum Professional with Scrum Alliance, Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. Renae also thoroughly enjoys facilitating all kinds of workshops and training teams to support them in their own agile journeys. Renae’s career highlight to date was being accepted to speak at the Global Scrum Gathering in Vienna in October 2019 with her topic “Embrace the Storm: Unlocking Your Organization’s Agility by Harnessing the Turbulence and Chaos of Agile Transformations”.
Renae started the first Australian Women in Agile meetup community in Brisbane, Queensland in early 2018 and continues to build that community through regular events.
Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and operates her own Pilates studio.
You can connect with Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renae-craven-9b4a29/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse discusses gender equitable recovery and the dynamics of how COVID-19 has impacted women in the corporate workforce with Denise Purtzer. Together they explore a variety of gender dynamics in the workplace including authenticity, the pay gap and the importance of mentorship. Denise also shares many recommendations to consider for people reentering the workforce which are important not only for those going through transitions, but also for those of us who are supporting our friends and colleagues who had to step away from the workforce.
We considered not releasing this episode since it has been so long since it was recorded, however after we revisited this conversation the insights and take-aways still seem incredibly relevant in 2023.
About the Featured Guest
Denise Purtzer loves to connect the right people to make things happen. At the time this episode was recorded she served as the VP of Partnerships and Alliances. During that time she oversaw the partner network at ClearSale, a global fraud prevention system. Denise’s 20 years of experience in ecommerce has taken her around the globe, speaking and working in different areas to gain a greater understanding of locales including APAC, EMEA and AMER regions.
- Follow Denise Purtzer on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisepurtzer/
Reference(s)
- AmericanProgress.org - October 2020 - “How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward” https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/10/30/492582/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/
- Forbes - February 2021 - “COVID-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce. Here’s how to help them come back” https://fortune.com/2021/02/13/covid-19-women-workforce-unemployment-gender-gap-recovery/
- The Washington Post - July 2020, - “Coronavirus child-care crisis will set women back a generation” https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/29/childcare-remote-learning-women-employment/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode, learn about how Jill Stott, a passionate agilist, navigated her career to becoming the VP of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. In her conversation with our host, Leslie Morse, she shares key learning moments from her career that have allowed her to reach a place where she is fulfilled and feels unstoppable.
For those of us considering a career change, feeling a little stalled, or still wondering who we want to be when you grow up - this episode will have several prompts and inquiries to help get you thinking! We hope you enjoy Jill’s career story as she introduces her current motto “Do More Stuff Better”.
About the Featured Guest
Jill is the Vice President of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. She works to develop better ways to assist
people in improving business outcomes and employee and customer happiness. Her current motto: Agile is
simple; people are complicated. Jill knows that culture can make or break and Agile transformation. She
focuses equally on developing Agile mindsets and applying stellar mechanics.
- Follow Jill Stott on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillstott/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
During our 2022 conversation, SAFe Fellow Kathy Marshak and Emily Lint sat down to discuss Middle Management in the agile space. Where do they belong? How do you bring them on the Agile journey with you? And, most importantly, how do we as Agilists help them thrive in these new ways of working. Take a listen to learn more!
About the Featured Guest
Kathy Marshak is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Fellow, Business Agility Transformation Coach, and instructor with Icon Agility Services, Inc. She is passionate about guiding people through the cultural, organizational, and process changes required to increase business agility. Kathy has been applying SAFe since 2013 and working incrementally and iteratively since the mid-1990s.
- Follow Kathy Marshak on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-marshak-agility/)
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode features a new member of the Women in Agile Podcast team, Renae Craven. Get to know her through a conversation with our host Leslie Morse. Together they discuss authenticity and its importance in building our own leadership as well as building successful teams and organizations.
About the Featured Guest
Renae Craven is a certified Coach and Scrum Professional, with over 12 years of experience coaching organisations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. She enjoys building delivery teams that can self-organise to achieve commitments and hold themselves accountable for all outcomes. Renae balances hercoaching work with her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia.
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Reference(s)
- Podcast: The Leader’s Playlist
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
During this 2022 conversation, Jess Brock and Emily Lint dive deep into dojos. What does it mean to run a great dojo and how do you measure a dojo's success? Have we been doing dojos all wrong? Find out more!
About the Featured GuestAt the brink of burn out, Jess Brock’s discovery of Dojo coaching renewed her faith in the possibility of providing meaningful and lasting Agile and technical coaching. Jess has led over 17 Dojos engagements, spanning 3 countries and in physical and virtual settings. She is currently working on publishing a book called The Dojo Coach’s Pocket Guide: Maximizing Immersive Learning for Agile Teams.
- Follow Jess Brock on LinkedIn
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to helps spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostEmily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this 2021 conversation, Marjorie Anderson joins our host Leslie Morse to explore how community building serves our teams and organizations. The episode is aptly named after a quote Marjorie drops early in the episode, “Agile is Community, Community is Agile.” As you listen you’ll realize how true this is. During the discussion they touch on the multi-facted nature of nurturing communities and all the ways it has a possibility of serving the work agilists do.
About the Featured GuestMarjorie Anderson is an online community strategist who specializes in building community in the association space, seamlessly connecting community strategy to organization goals to drive sustainable value. She is the founder of Community by Association and the Product Manager for Community at Project Management Institute.
- Follow Marjorie Anderson on LinkedIn
- Follow @MarjorieAyyeee on Twitter
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode you hear from Queirra Fenderson, the keynote speaker for the WiA 2022 event in Nashville, TN as part of the Agile2022 conference. In her discussion with our host, Leslie Morse, she explores her wisdom in ambition and intuition.
Queirra shares her story of discovering her hidden inner-agilist, how she came to study the interplay of ambition and intuition and offers multiple tips and tricks for honing your “intuitive ambition.” While listening you’ll learn about blind ambition as well as different ways to get in touch with your intuitive hits. We also believe you’ll discover this is more than a “woo woo” conversation. Leslie and Queirra explore real-life challenges around privilege, bias, and the complexity of being a modern-day knowledge worker. Throughout the episode you’ll also hear a throughline that brings forward Agile values and principles. We hope you enjoy listening.
About the Featured GuestQueirra Fenderson is the CEO of The Ambition Studio, a professional coaching firm on a mission to end the burnout epidemic among leaders and entrepreneurs. As a Certified Coach, Professional Speaker, and Leadership Trainer, Queirra has supported the transformation of leaders across multiple industries that include Emmy-Award-winning entrepreneurs, C-Suite Executives, and U.S. Military Officers.
- Follow Queirra Fenderson on LinkedIn
- Follow The Ambition Studio on Instagram @the.ambition.studio
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
During this 2022 conversation, Alena Keck and Emily Lint peel back the curtain on successful Transformation teams: how they look and what makes them successful. Whether you are using the Scaled Agile Framework and creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) or just want to start a successful transformation team across your organization, find out from this industry leader how to create one that sticks!
About the Featured Guest
Alena is a Lean-Agile Transformation Leader helping large global organizations to overcome challenges for their Agile Transformation & become successful on their transformation journey. Currently Senior Manager at MHP – A Porsche Company she is growing a team of agile coaches, leading a Training Chapter, and supporting global Transformation at a premium automotive company as Enterprise Lean-Agile Coach. Being a strong change agent and powering up Digital Transformation, her motto is "Transformation is a Team Sport".
- Follow Alena Keck on LinkedIn
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to helps spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostEmily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this episode you get to meet Emily Lint, a new host joining the Women in Agile Podcast team. During the conversation Emily and our host, Leslie Morse, discuss the story of Emily’s career journey as she began embracing agile leadership after starting off as a ITIL process expert.
About the Featured GuestEmily Lint is a Business Agility Coach and founder of Lint Agility Services located in Albuquerque NM. She has 4 of years experience coaching Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe implementations, but with nearly 10 years of experience in Information Technology, Agile coaching is just one of many talents Emily brings to her clients and teams.
- Follow Emily Lint on LinkedIn
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode is a re-release of a 2019 conversation our host, Leslie Morse, had with Billie Schuttpelz about imposter syndrome and authenticity. This was the 11th episode of our series and it's fascinating how important many of these topics still are.
As you listen, we hope these words of wisdom from Billie stick out to you as much as they did for us. “What if instead of finding my purpose, I find myself... It leads me to fulfilling my purpose?”
“People are the most innovative when they’re operating in their authentic voice... We shouldn’t focus so much on innovation. We should focus on getting our people to their authentic selves, and the innovation will come out naturally.”
About the Featured GuestBillie Schuttpelz is an Agile coach at Accenture who is known for her work on conquering Imposter Syndrome, something she has struggled with. A stage actor and advocate for therapy and visualization, Schuttpelz invented an alternate reality called “Oops Land” where people have the safety and permission to fail and also to be their authentic selves. This is in stark contrast to where she often feels she lives: in Perfect Island.
Schuttpelz's personal development journey has helped her take back power over her own life, which has sometimes felt lacking purpose. She shares stories of her Imposter Syndrome workshops, as well as her process going through the Shine program fromTenWomenStrong, and the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) program.
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The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode is a re-release of a 2020 conversation our host, Leslie Morse, had with Brandi Olson about burnout. We revived this episode because of its original popularity as well as because the content is incredibly relevant.
Listen in as Brandi and Leslie explore how to recognize burnout in ourselves as well as in our organization, how it’s all about prioritization (whether proactive or reactive), and whether having grace within our team can prevent burnout in the first place. Join the conversation online with #WomenInAgile #SmallGoodThings
About the Featured Guest
Brandi Olson works at the intersection between learning, organizational agility, and human-centered design. She says: “We put people in a position of having to choose between doing good work and their humanity, and in most cases that’s a false choice.”
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The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
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Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostsLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse geeks out with friend and colleague Summer Lawrence as they dance through a variety of topics related to professional development, learning, experimentation and personal empiricism.
About the Featured GuestSummer Lawrence is an Agile Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer. Her passion is helping agilists with powerful ways to grow their skills and maturity. You can usually find her building something in the shop with Science Friday on the radio.
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The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
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- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
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- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
Pragmatic Talk about Community, Agility, Teams and Organizations - Georgina Donahue | 2201During this 2021 conversation, Georgina Donahue and Leslie Morse explore what community means, how community and Agile intersect, and the adjacency of Pragmatic Marketing, Product Management and agility.
About the Featured GuestGeorgina Donahue is an experienced community builder who has worked with companies like PWC, ESRI, and American Express. She currently runs the Pragmatic Alumni Community—A Community of Practice for Product Managers at Pragmatic Institute—and spends a lot of time thinking about how businesses can deliver human authenticity to their customers online.
- Follow Georgina Donahue on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginacannie/)
Reference(s)
- The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
- The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to helps spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
About our SponsorScrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is the final installment of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Lyssa Adkins and host, Leslie Morse, explore the opportunity agile practitioners and agile coaches have to impact society on a global level. The episode has a balance of serious reflection and inquiry sprinkled with laughter, appreciation, and deep dreaming for the future.
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
Nada Buhendi, former management consultant turned career coach, joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse for a discussion where she shares her story and perspectives on career agility and what she sees impacting both job seekers and those looking to hire agile professionals. Nada does an exceptional job of being vulnerable about how she experienced the workplace and the factors that led her to embark as an entrepreneur focused on aiding others on their career journey.
Leslie and Nada use personal relationships as a reference point for exploring career transitions and evaluating potential employers. It’s interesting how many parallels they create! The episode ends with Nada referencing the “Doctor’s frame” as a way for approaching interviews and she shares stories of working with her dietician as a way to illustrate ways to be successful meeting a prospective employer where they are even if they don’t seem ready to embrace agility.
About the Featured Guest
Nada Buhendi’s professional background is anchored in 15 years of IT Consulting experience focused on agile and product management. She coached technology professionals at Deloitte, Accenture, and Slalom Consulting towards building their confidence and ensuring job success. She transitioned to being a career coach after discovering her North Star is to help clients take their career to the next level. Over the past 6 months she has helped more than 16 professionals land new offers.
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- Follow Nada on YouTube
Reference(s)
- Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
- STAR Interview Response Technique (Learn more on Indeed)
- “Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career” by Tim Clark
- Personal Business Model Canvas
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
This episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is another from the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Our Host, Leslie Morse is joined by Lyssa Adkins and special guest Molood Ceccarelli as they explore the dynamics of remote working and serving agile teams while not physically co-located.
Featured Guest Molood Ceccarelli is a Remote work strategist & remote agile coach often referred to as the queen of remote work in agile. She is the founder and CEO of Remote Forever and host of the fully online Remote Forever Summit. Her work has been published in places such as Forbes, Huffington Post and Inc.com.
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
During this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, host Leslie Morse is joined by Lisa Bradburn as they discuss the interplay of agile coaching and Gestalt Psychotherapy. Lisa shares her agile origin story and what led her to study Gestalt Psychotherapy. Then they proceed to unpack the difference in coaching and psychotherapy, what Gestalt Psychotherapy is, and how underlying skills and tenets of the study can aid in the work of agile coaching.
About the Featured Guest
Lisa Bradburn is a Toronto based agilist that serves as a Scrum Master and agile coach. She is in her fourth year of study on Gestalt Psychotherapy and leverages the principles of of “here and now” as she works with agile teams. She is also pursuing Enneagram and Co-Active Coach training and certification.
- Follow Lisa on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisabradburn/)
- Follow Lisa on Medium (https://lisabradburnpsychotherapy.medium.com/)
- Follow Lisa on Twitter @lisabtherapy (http://www.twitter.com/lisabtherapy)
- Follow Lisa on Instagram @lisabtherapy (http://www.instagrame.com/lisabtherapy)
- Connect with Lisa on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/lisabradburnpsychotherapy)
Reference(s)
- Gestalt Psychotherapy (https://medium.com/beingwell/what-is-gestalt-psychotherapy-part-1-6dab07f317f7)
- Toronto Gestalt Psychotherapy Institute (https://gestalt.on.ca/)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
This Episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is another from the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Our Host, Leslie Morse is joined by Lyssa Adkins and her mentor, Mike Vizdos. It is a special conversation filled with lightness, vulnerability, and true wisdom.
Leslie guides Lyssa and Mike through a series of stories and anecdotes that not only tell aspects of Lyssa’s origin story and evolution, but also showcase wisdom on the difference in coaching and mentoring, how to create meaningful connections, mentor and mentee matching, and how to create success and value in mentoring relationships. This quote from Lyssa is a perfect illustration, “One of the things I appreciate about Mike is that he does not tell a story for his own enjoyment. If he is telling me a story, I trust that he knows exactly why he’s doing it, and that it’s for my benefit.”
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our Sponsor Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
This episode of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series on the Women in Agile Podcast brings you Part 2 of a discussion on the art and science of team coaching and group facilitation. During this episode, Lyssa Adkins and our host, Leslie Morse, focus on the topic of group facilitation before wrapping the overall discussion by circling back to team coaching as they touch on co-leadership and co-facilitation. One of the most important reminders in this episode might be the guidance around the 2:1 ratio for facilitator preparation, and the reinforcement of how important preparation is when creating a container where large groups collaborate.
Reference(s):
- ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation Learning Outcomes
- “Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders” by Jean Tabaka
- “The Art & Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams” by Marsha Acker
- Liberating Structures
- International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
- IAF Code of Ethics
- Alchemy: The Art and Science of Co-Facilitation course from CRR Global (Find Right, Reaffirm, Redirect)
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
In this special release episode, Women in Agile Org is thrilled to feature our new sponsor for the Women in Agile Podcast, Scrum.org.
Listen in as Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org and Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions at Scrum.org, join our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on diversity, complexity, and social responsibility. They touch on some of the origins of Scrum, what complexity means, and how team and organizational diversity are key for solving complex problems.
About the Featured Guests
Dave West is the CEO at Scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. Then as VP, research director Forrester research where he ran the software development and delivery practice. Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture
- Follow Dave on LinkedIn
- Follow Dave on Twitter @DavidJWest
Patricia Kong is the Product Owner of the Scrum.org enterprise solutions program which includes the Nexus Framework, Evidence-Based Management, Scrum Studio and Scrum Development Kit. She also created and launched the Scrum.org Partners in Principle Program. Patricia is a people advocate and fascinated by organizational behavior and misbehaviors. She emerged through the financial services industry and has led product development, product management and marketing for several early stage companies in the US and Europe. At Forrester Research, Patricia worked with their largest clients focusing on business development and delivery engagements. Patricia lived in France and now lives in her hometown of Boston. Patricia is fluent in 4 languages.
- Follow Patricia on LinkedIn
- Follow Patricia on Twitter @pmoonk88
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
The “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series is more than half-way over, and during this episode, Women In Agile Podcast host, Leslie Morse, leads Lyssa Adkins through the first part of a discussion on the art and science of team coaching and group facilitation. During part one of this conversation, Lyssa and Leslie focus exclusively on the team coaching topic. During part 2 you’ll get the chance to hear them discuss group facilitation.
Leslie and Lyssa play with an operating systems metaphor during the conversation as they explore how expanding your way of thinking is a critical element for working at a systemic level when coaching teams. They touch on topics like defining the coaching client, one-on-One versus team coaching, and what coaching skills are and how they are foundational to unlocking a coaching mindset.
Reference(s):
- Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) from CRR Global (https://crrglobal.com/)
- Clean Language & Clean Language Systemic Modelling (https://cleanlearning.co.uk/)
- “From Contempt to Curiosity: Creating the Conditions for Groups to Collaborate Using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling” by Caitlin Walker
- Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSITM)
- “Creating Intelligent Teams: Leading with Relationship Systems Intelligence” by Anne Rød and Marita Fridjhon
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
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About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
The seventh topic of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series on the Women in Agile Podcast brings you a content-heavy discussion with Lyssa Adkins and our host, Leslie Morse. During this episode they explore five categories of models useful when working with agile teams.
- Detecting and Seeing Problems
- Navigating Conflict
- High Performing Teams
- Team Development
- Product Management and Product Ownership
You’ll learn how models enable you to see the world differently, can serve when you are emotionally charged, and how they can be a gateway for building a team’s systems intelligence so that they are better equipped to self-organize in different ways.
References on Detecting and Seeing Problems:
- “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” Chapter 8: Coach as Problem Solver
- Team Dynamics Survey
- BART Analysis
- Integral Theory / The Integral Model (Ken Wilber)
References on Navigating Conflict:
- The Gottman Institute: The Four Horseman (aka Team Toxins)
- Five Levels of Conflict
- Designed Alliances (Co-Active Coaching)
- Designed Alliances (InfoQ Article with Michael Spayd
- Conflict Dynamics Profile
- The Gottman Institute: The Magic Ratio (5:1)
- Brene Brown: Marble Jar Metaphor
References on High Performing Teams:
- “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Dan Pink (Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose)
- The Team Diagnostic Survey (TDSTM)
- “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable” by Patrick Lencioni
- The High Performance Tree (in “Coaching Agile Teams”)
References on Team Development:
- Shu, Ha, Ri
- “The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization” by Jon R Katzenbach and Douglas K Smith
- Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model
- “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams” by Heidi Helfand
- Women in Agile Podcast featuring Heidi Helfand: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams - Heidi Helfand | 2007
- Panarchy Cycle
- Spiral Dynamics
- “Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness” by Frederic Laloux
- “Spiral Dynamics in Action: Humanity's Master Code” by Don Beck and Teddy Larsen
- “Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change” by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan
References on Product Management and Product Ownership:
- Ecocycle Planning, Liberating Structures
- “User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product” by Jeff Patton
- “Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation” by Alexander Osterwalder and David J. Bland
- “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries
- “Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value” by Melissa Perri
- “Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning” by Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman
- “Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play” by Luke Hohmann
Other References:
- The Dunning Kruger Effect
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
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About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
President of Ascendle, Diana Bourns, joins our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on how Ascendle has leveraged discipline & empowerment as the underpinnings for creating a thriving agile organization. During this discussion Diana reveals that supporting organizational memory through co-created documentation as well as halving a relentless strive to improve are other keys for their success. One of the most interesting concepts in their goal to get everyone into their “genius zone.”
About the Featured Guest
Diana Bourns has more than 30 years of experience leading cross-functional teams, in both startup and non-profit organizations. A skilled agile practitioner, Diana has held the roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Agile Coach and is the current President at Ascendle, a contract software engineering firm in Portsmouth, NH.
- Follow Diana on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianabourns/)
- Follow Ascendle on Twitter @Ascendle (http://www.twitter.com/ascendle)
Reference(s)
- “The Epic Guide to Agile: More Business Value on a Predictable Schedule with Scrum” by Dave Todaro (Founder & CEO of Ascendle)
- “Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business” by Gino Wickman (Source for Entrepreneurial Operating System)
- “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It” by Michael E. Gerber
- Forbes Women’s Forum
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
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About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
The seventh episode of The Women in Agile Podcast’s Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series brings you the second part of the conversation where Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse explore the pathway to Agile Coaching.
Part 1 of this discussion left off as Lyssa & Leslie were opening a discussion on coaching ethics and the intersection of agile coaching and professional coaching. There is specific focus on how agile coaching is not professional coaching, but that professional coaching is a part of agile coaching.
Highlights from this episode include tips for how to select a good agile coaching mentor or trainer, ways to identify blindspots on early points of the professional coaching journey, guidance on how to know your boundaries as an agile coach, and how Lyssa frames agile coaches as a 21st century leadership position.
Reference(s):
- ICAgile Learning Roadmap Agile Coaching Track
- ICAgile Learning Roadmap Enterprise Coaching for Agility Track
- International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics
- International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Competencies
- International Association of Facilitators
- European Mentoring & Coaching Council
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
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- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
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Join us for reflections and appreciations as Natalie Warnert and Leslie Morse celebrate International Women’s Day 2021. During this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, you’ll get insight on the accomplishments and impacts of Women in Agile Org from the President and Executive Director, Natalie Warnert.
The 2021 International Women’s Day theme #ChooseToChallenge is a key aspect of the discussion. You’ll hear Natalie share her aspirations for the future of the Women in Agile non-profit organization as well as offer an invitation to the global WiA community for how they can help fulfill the mission of the organization. Leslie and Natalie also navigate the challenging topic of social injustice, privilege, and the courage it takes to lean into the conversations needed to create space for things to change.
About the Featured Guest
Natalie Warnert is a passionate agile coach and consultant that focuses on enabling product organizations to transform their customer engagement models. She is also the founder of Women in Agile Org and currently serves as the President and Executive Director of the non-profit organization.
- Follow Natalie on LinkedIn
- Follow Natalie on Twitter @nataliewarnert
- Follow Natalie on Instagram @nwarnert
Reference(s)
- If you’re interested in getting involved with Women in Agile contact: impact@womeninagile.org
- Google Calendar of Women in Agile Local Group Events
- “Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework” by Mik Kersten
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.
The sixth episode of the Women in Agile Podcast Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series brings you the first part of a deep discussion between Lyssa Adkins and our host Leslie Morse where they unpack multiple dimensions of the pathway to becoming an Agile Coach.
During this discussion you’ll start collecting tips, tricks, and pointers for reflection as you consider forming your own agile coach journey. There are things in here for those new to agile coaching as well as those tackling more advanced topics.
Some of the topics covered in this episode include:
- Agile coaching as a discipline or profession versus agile coach as a role or title.
- Potential implications of hierarchy within agile coaching roles.
- The importance of inner-work and vertical development.
- Challenges evaluating the capabilities of those practicing agile coaching.
This episode concludes with Lyssa and Leslie opening a discussion on the intersection of professional coaching and agile coaching. They specifically start looking at the topic of ethics. Be sure to tune in to next week’s episode to hear the conclusion of this discussion.
Reference(s):
- ICAgile Learning Roadmap Agile Coaching Track
- ICAgile Learning Roadmap Enterprise Coaching for Agility Track
- Personal Agility System
- William R. Tobert’s work on Action Logics - Best described in this Harvard Business Review article: Seven Transformations of Leadership
- Scrum Alliance Path to Coaching program and free resources
- Agile Alliance Coaching Ethics Initiative
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org: www.womeninagile.org
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- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
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The fifth episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series features special guest Kory Stamper. The conversation with Lyssa Adkins, Kory Stamper and Leslie Morse twists and turns through a variety of topics all inspired by the ah-ha moment Lyssa had when listening to Kory’s Women in Agile 2020 keynote. It caused her to take a step back and really look at the words she used in the “Coaching Agile Teams” book. Lyssa had already taken note of how militaristic language showed up in her 2010 descriptions of what it took to successfully deliver value, and Kory’s session opened her eyes to an entirely new set of considerations. Spoiler alert, nothing really changed in the book.
Enjoy the dance between moments of lightness and serious inquiry within this episode. You’ll learn more about parts of speech, be exposed to new vocabulary, and be challenged to get curious about how you use language.
About the Featured Guest
Kory Stamper is a Philadelphia based Lexicographer, Author, Speaker, and Speechwriter. She was the keynote for the 2020 annual Women In Agile conference, has been a prior guest on the Women in Agile podcast series, and is globally recognized as an expert on language and the way it evolves.
- Follow Kory on LinkedIn
- Follow Kory on Twitter @KoryStamper
- Follow Kory on Instagram @harmless_drudge
Reference(s)
- “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries” by Kory Stamper
- Watch Kory’s Keynote from the 2020 Women In Agile Conference (begins at 22:30)
- Listen to Kory on the Women in Agile Podcast Series: Why Changing Language is an Agile Process
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
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The fourth episode of the Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series wrap-ups the foundation setting context of the series. During this conversation Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse do more than share information about the supplements for the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook that are available when you purchase from Audible. Hear them discuss tips and tricks for making book clubs successful as well as get a mini-masterclass on aphorisms. As you’ll learn from Lyssa, aphorisms are an entry point for changing what you believe at the cellular level.
Reference(s):
- Buy Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition on Audible
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
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Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
In this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Jessica Katz joins Leslie Morse for a conversation about how to best accept accountability when you’ve done harm to someone. They dance through a variety of examples, point to blindspots, and provide tips for how you can become more aware of when you’re doing harm and how best to repair relationships where you’ve caused harm. She also shares parts of her story for how she cultivated her skills to be able to do this work well. You can learn more about the Women in Agile podcast by visiting www.womeninagile.org/podcast
About our Guest
Jessica Katz is a trainer, mentor and coach through Liberated Elephant. She is passionate about working with individuals, teams, leaders, and organizations to help people discover and nurture their authentic selves. With this knowledge, Jessica helps them uncover solutions that move them forward on their journey. Her methodology is informed by Agile values, principles, and practices.
- Follow Jessica on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeskatz/
- Follow Jessica on Twitter: @ElephantTaming
Reference(s)
- Book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenburg
- Book: The Art & Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams by Marsha Acker
- Book: Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
The third episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series unpacks a side of Lyssa Adkins you may have never seen before. You hear Leslie Morse comment on the laughter and lightness of the discussion during her opening comments and that comes alive in a real way through the use of metaphors inspired by playground equipment.
During this episode, Leslie and Lyssa unpack not only aspects of Lyssa’s journey to produce the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook but also compare and contrast how she is different from what she was 10 years ago when the book was originally released. Enjoy the story of how Mike Cohn invited her to consider writing a book, how the apprentice coaches she was working with reminded her of things to write down, and how theater inspired her take on the way collaboration shows up in her work.
The grounding theme in their conversation seems to be the center point of a merry-go-round and how it doesn’t actually move. They offer several inquiries and moments of reflection within the metaphor and use it to illustrate many concepts. One of which is Lyssa’s story about how she calls on the wisdom of her body as an early signaling system, and the four step process she uses when she feels tension rise and seeks to remind herself she is in a human body that has lots of wisdom.
Some of our favorite quotes from Lyssa include:
- When referencing something her coach said to her, “Who are you to question whether or not you’re the person to write this? Get over yourself and get back to writing!”
- “It is as important to repel things as it is to attract them. We all have limited time in the world. Time is the one thing we can’t make more of.”
- “This doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be useful.”
- When referencing her absolute belief and come-from place, “At any moment there's a lot going right. What is going right? What is flowing? Do I have anything to add to it?
- “I am still learning the same lessons I wrote about 10 years ago, but just in a different octave.”
Reference(s):
- Book: Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work by Robert Austin and Lee Devin
- Behind the Scenes with Lyssa, the Coaching Agile Teams Audiobook Journey - The Perfection Monster: https://youtu.be/ZhyWx7NnNxA
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
- Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
- Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
The second episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series was recorded by Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse in August of 2020. During this conversation they explore the inspiration and mission for the mini-series. It is very much an exploratory conversation with moments of laughter counterbalanced with deep and at times vulnerable discussion.
Leslie and Lyssa open their hearts and minds in an invitation to listeners as they call on their desire to normalize what it means to be on the journey to becoming an Agile coach. There is quite a bit of range in their conversation. You’ll have the opportunity to hear them to share fun stories such as one Lyssa recalls about Ron Jeffries at the 10-year anniversary of the Agile Manifesto as well as dig into deeper topics that feel more like coaching sessions between the two of them.
Two of our favorite quotes from Lyssa include:
“So much of what is in [Coaching Agile Teams] is not being done and I believe that if more of it was being done today we would have far less of the problems I continue to hear about - like on repeat. [They encounter] the same problem over and over and over again, and people are expecting Agile to solve it. It is only actually Agile’s job to reveal.”
“Whoa! Hang On! If I’m not solving problems for the team, then what am I doing? And [Coaching Agile Teams] says, here’s what you’re doing.”
Reference(s):
- Book: An Everybody Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
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Lyssa Adkins, a predominant stalwart in the Agile community and author of the 2010 book “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse to kick-off the Coaching Agile Teams mini-series. This is the first in a series of episodes where Lyssa and Leslie explore ten topics related to the topic of Agile coaching as well as Lyssa’s journey to create and release the audiobook version of the “Coaching Agile Teams” content. You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
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- Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
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Brandi Olson works at the intersection between learning, organizational agility, and human-centered design. She says: “We put people in a position of having to choose between doing good work and their humanity, and in most cases that’s a false choice.”
Listen in as we explore how to recognize burnout in ourselves as well as in our organization, how it’s all about prioritization (whether proactive or reactive), and whether having grace within our team can prevent burnout in the first place.
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Whether coaching, facilitating or value-stream mapping, Lizzy Morris introduces innovative and pragmatic techniques for promoting team engagement and accountability. She believes it is women who will catalyze change in society.
We are living in another Civil Rights movement. During the 60’s, people who supported the movement saw their businesses burnt down and they lost customers. Although the environment is different now and you might not see flaming crosses, there is still a risk today. What will happen to you today when you become an ally?
“We have to realize our united power to make real change, the kind of change we want...is going to come from sisterhood.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Erin Kaohelaulii-Brett wakes up every day ready to motivate others to be a catalyst for change. An agile coach in the healthcare insurance industry, she shares her unique story of going from super skeptical to change champion – all while finding ways to integrate lessons from Hawaiian language and culture into her daily work.
The agile transformation initiative at her employer started strong then fizzled after the external consultants rolled off. Kaohelaulii-Brett invokes the Hawaiian concept of an ahupuaʻa (a communal land division stretching from the mountain to the ocean where natural resources were cultivated and exchanged) that thrived for years because of strong teamwork.
“You needed that teamwork to survive back then… Just looking back at my ancestors and how they were able to survive and thrive, I’m like, ‘I can do this.’”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Dana James-Edwards is an agilist through-and-through. She is leveraging her talent in this area as she transitions her career focus solely towards enabling companies to come to grips with what it takes to truly enable diversity and inclusion.
This kind of conversation is the reason we launched this podcast, to give voice to the stories of women who are still discriminated against in our agile community. James-Edwards, herself a black woman with years of experience working in technology, shares a heart-wrenching example of an organization she encountered just this year where women working as agile coaches “were being put in the corner, were being put in the backseat, were being disrespected, were being overlooked for promotions.”
She also gives advice for how to catalyze change in your own organization.
“There was a period where being black took a backseat to being female.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Maaike Klasen is a scrum master as well as a certified professional coach with the International Coaching Federation, where she also holds a board position. She joins us virtually from the Netherlands to speak about how to fully occupy the duality in the role of a scrum master or agile coach, a balance many in the industry must learn to strike. We touch on coaching vs. consulting, confidentiality in performance reviews, and how coaching ethics play a part.
“Sometimes it’s difficult to recognize a conflict of interest and that’s where the code of ethics helps.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Melissa Reeve is the Vice President of Marketing at Scaled Agile and has a talent for creating growth wherever she is, may that be in people, business, or in her own garden. Reeve shares her agile journey (so far!) and how she has changed her style from leading as a conductor - orchestrating and controlling her teams - to an emerging Agile leader, supporting and growing her teams, one moment at a time.
She has learned to have empathy for those who learned traditional management theories, which is a lot of years of learning and mental models to unwind. And in the case of the Global 2000, many of the leaders fall into that category.
“I didn’t realize I’d become agile until I encountered others in marketing environments who are not.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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How do we release the potential in each human? Allia DeAngelis wonders just that in her role as a Value Stream Architect and Organizational Transformation Coach. She unpacks for us how to use “sharp elbows” as a woman in the workplace and life in general, not in a way that undermines others, rather by creating room for yourself and others.
“If we have the same voices speaking up in the room, we will solve these things in the same way… I need you to create space for your voice so I can solve the problems with you in a different way.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Cheryl Hammond has self-proclaimed obsession with Lean and Agile. She serves on the larger Women in Agile organization operations team and chaired the 2019 and 2020 annual Women in Agile conference sessions. In this episode, we dive deep into the discussion on professionalism and the not-always-positive significance of certifications in the agile world.
“I have learned that roles that have agile in their title are not roles that I want anymore.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Laura DiBenedetto retired at age 37, accomplished and wealthy by societal norms. However, personally she was tired and burnt out. She went on a radical journey of self-discovery, research, and testing, determined to find energy and lasting, fulfilling happiness in all areas of life.
After discovering and applying the formula of the Six Habits, DiBenedetto has been devoted to sharing the universally applicable and deeply liberating truths so that others may find their own path out of misery and into lasting, fulfilling happiness and limitless possibility.
“The organization is a sum of individuals, and when you nurture, heal and grow the individual, you nurture, heal and grow the organization.”
Get The Six Habits Book free! www.thesixhabits.com/wia
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Kory Stamper is an author and lexicographer who has been writing on language and change for over 15 years. She also delivered a timely and fascinating keynote at the Women in Agile 2020 online conference.
What might seem like an insignificant and innocuous word to one person can be triggering and offensive to another.
Stamper discusses the common greeting “hey guys” and its significance to women in the workplace, as well as a recent petition to change “ScrumMaster” to another term not associated with a historical reference to the master-slave dynamic. She emphasizes the need for agility in our interactions and the process of changing these terms and language at large.
“The process of collaboration is the thing that will change language permanently and will make language change meaningful to people.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Hanna Gnann is the brand strategist behind Accenture | SolutionsIQ, and the producer of both this and the Agile Amped podcast. In a time of shaky economy and layoffs, standing out from the crowd in the job market is top of mind for many of us. Gnann shares some of her expertise on how to apply branding into your professional life, and especially how to apply it to social media.
“At the end of the day, it’s really your interactions with people, whether it’s online or in person, that matter.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
Link to the PDF mentioned: https://www.solutionsiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Personal-Branding-Worksheet.pdf
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Sarah Olivieri is a nonprofit business strategist, author, and founder of PivotGround where they leverage her Impact Method to help nonprofits simplify their operations, build aligned teams, and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. Olivieri has learned from her many experiences to speak up when things don’t look right, something many women might not be comfortable doing.
"I go about my life assuming we misunderstand each other,” she says. “It’s only by intention that people all get on same page and understand each other.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Ontario-based Agile coach Jennifer Willems was a featured speaker in the Launching New Voices program at the 2020 Business Agility Conference in New York City. She believes that a growth mindset is essential and the key to unblocking the path for achieving agility.
Willems takes us through her journey to becoming an agile coach and the lessons she learned along the way. Servant leadership is near and dear to her heart and you’ll hear real-life examples of what it does and doesn’t look like. She says servant leadership is something you are, not something you do.
Finally, Jen advises us to take time for introspection, picking apart the work we’ve done to understand what happened. This helps you see what you’ve gained from the experience and discover patterns that will help build your own awareness of your values and principles. To her, “The principles are a lot more important than the process and the practice.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Marsha Shenk works with leaders, integrating business anthropology, social neuroscience, and ecosystem thinking to build business environments that can morph with change. She says, “Change can be described as behavioral plasticity.” Her advice to agilists is that you do not have to be looking for a job that has the title Agile Coach or Scrum Master, instead look more broadly to find opportunities to help companies get back on their feet in a more flexible, fluid manner.
Shenk discusses how to claim authority as a woman and as a coach: “You want to take authority to say what are the things you need to accomplish the goal.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Yvonne Marcus’s passion centers around bringing agile values and principles into home and family life. She regales us with her family’s foray into using agile practices in their household using two-week sprints, daily standups, and retrospectives. She has found that practicing agile at home not only results in a happier, more cohesive family unit because everyone is being heard and participating, but also as a woman, you’re able to get more time for yourself instead of doing #allthethings.
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Carmen Guerra Jurado is an agile coach based in the Netherlands. She was a Launching New Voices speaker at the Women in Agile session at the 2020 Business Agility Conference in New York.
Jurado recounts a colorful story of her experience as a scrum master on a team with a long-term employee who was very resistant to change and also negatively affected the rest of the team. Jurado shares the fantastic tips she used and discovered for turning this skeptic into a fan.
The three steps Carmen suggests taking are:
- Deposits into an emotional bank account
- Monk-like patience
- Walk down your garden path (i.e. small steps)
Leslie Morse hosts.
Read Carmen’s blog post here: https://www.organizeagile.com/update/how-to-turn-your-biggest-agile-skeptics-into-fans/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Vivian Acquah is a workplace wellness advocate who helps companies keep their team members engaged, healthy & safe. Overall career and personal well-being are things that she has passion in, noting that women, who are natural caretakers, must take care of themselves as well. “There is only one you,” she says. “The company will exist – but there’s only one you.”
She shares stories of overcoming adversity in the workplace, finding her own voice at a WIA event in Amsterdam, and also ways that people can energize their work environments.
Vivian Acquah’s words of wisdom: “I want to challenge you to do two minutes of meditation, maybe two or three days a week.”
Hosted by Leslie Morse.
Connect with Vivian Acquah on LinkedIn (vivianacquah) or Twitter (@VivalaViveNL)
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Agile consultant, international keynote speaker, and author Samantha Laing is passionate about self-care – going so far as to chair one of the tracks at Agile2020 on the topic. The crazy thing about it is that agile coaches often don’t find time to give themselves the same level of care and attention that they give to others. As Laing puts it, “we’re really bad at having our own coaches. I know very few … who actually have coaches.”
Self-care isn’t necessarily about yoga retreats or a spa day (despite what Instagramers will have you believe): instead, at the root of self-care self-discovery. Laing’s journey in life and in agile has led to some lasting discoveries: “My wife and I have drastically cut down on how we live and how we tread on the earth… I’m focused on being my best self, which for me means having a lighter footprint on the earth.”
Samantha Laing’s words of wisdom are: “We’re all amazing, kind, generous human beings – every single one of us.”
Accenture SolutionsIQ’s Emilia Breton hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Christina Hartikainen recently joined ICAgile as Director of Agile Learning, and she has been on her own agile learning journey ever since, as a business analyst, she was “voluntold” to be a product owner at a former employer.
Last year, she was the chair for Agile2019, an “amazing and intense” experience with high highs and low lows: “We had over 2000 submissions … and only 280 speaking slots. I sent out almost 1800 nos.”
“Not everybody learns the same way…” Hartikainen acknowledges, expressing her hope to help people embrace their “yet.” “There’s a drive behind yet,” she says. “There’s this idea of someday… Someday, I’m gonna hit that goal because I’m embracing it in myself that I can’t do it yet.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
Check out these other episodes mentioned in this one:
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“Ish and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough” with Lynne Cazaly
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“Five Characteristics of a Playful Leader” with Portia Tung
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: womeninagile.org/
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Allison Pollard is part of the next generation of agile thought leaders. Through her stories, we learn she loves changing up her glasses and that she loves co-presenting with people who “catch her brain.”
She shares a story about a seemingly chaotic organization-wide coaching initiative – a story which seeded a memorable Agile2019 presentation she co-presented with Skylar Watson, a fellow agile coach.
Favorite quote (on the topic of her changing glasses):
“I usually pick out a pair that kind of scares me initially when I look in the mirror – like, I’m not sure who that is, [but] I can take a year and find out.”
Pollard’s words of wisdom: “As much as you think you know, there’s so much more out there…”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Megan Windle is an Agile coach and the president of the Agile 757 Meetup in Hampton Roads, Virginia. She specializes in the people side of change and wholeheartedly believes that happy teams sparkle with creativity and productivity.
Windle recounts her journey from local talks to the national level at Agile2019. She tells all from the intense preparation and top-of-the-mountain highs, to overcoming critical adversity and how she copes with it all with intentional self-care.
Words of Wisdom: “If you want to try speaking, you should go for it. The key is find someone who is there in your corner to support you.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Emilia Breton hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Colleen Kirtland is passionate about expanding agility beyond the boundaries of technology. She’s currently Assistant Vice President of Emerging Technology for Pacific Life.
Kirtland fosters the idea of “the coalition of the willing” saying, “It’s amazing what you can do when you see willingness and desire in people.” She has applied her own passion to understanding complex, adaptive systems as the place she experienced the most growth. Colleen’s contributions to the community extend outside the agile community and into enhancing the lives and education of underserved high schoolers.
Kirtland’s words of wisdom: “Find who you really are and roar.”
Accenture |SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Book Recommendations:
– Complex Adaptive Systems – Scott Page
– Thinking in Systems: A Primer – Donella Meadows
– A Practice of Peace – Harrison Owens
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Heidi Helfand is a veteran of several high-growth startups and the author of “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams”.
According to Helfand, we shouldn’t fight to keep teams from changing in a company that is growing rapidly. Rather, focus on how to successfully reteam. Hear the different patterns she has identified for changing teams and learn the benefits of reteaming, such as sharing new information and diversity of thought.
Accenture |SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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“The presence of women – or lack thereof – led to a huge difference in the direction the organization or the leadership were heading to.” For Padmini Nidumolu, this was the catalyst for founding Lean In Agile, “a movement for, by, and of women designed to amplify the voices, talents, and experiences of women in the Lean and Agile communities across the globe.”
Nidumolu says, “When there are fewer women on decision-making tables or creative sessions… there is an energy shift.” Lean In Agile has facilitated the formation of groups of women called “spirals” in Nepal, India, and the US, and they have launched two new programs – LIA 100 and LIA Next Generation – which our guest shares her passion and dreams for in this episode.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Emilia Breton hosts.
Learn more:
- Search for “LIA100 interviews” on YouTube
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Christy Clement is the cofounder of the agile coaching and training company Velocity Made Good. She shares with us how she first got started with agile, and the concept and work of her company – especially since “velocity” often gets a bad rap. But the company name is actually sailing term, where you need balance speed with direction. This is the approach she brings to her coaching and consulting work.
Clement also shares stories of personal agility building her house with her husband using a Kanban board, user stories, and an incremental move-in strategy. Her words of wisdom:
Rather than focusing only on being fast and efficient, “really think about, are we heading in the right direction, what are those business metrics that we’re really trying to affect - are we measuring them and are we having an effect?”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Also mentioned in this podcast: https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/agile-amped-podcast/practicing-leadership-skills-with-david-marquet/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Andrea Goulet transforms software with communication and empathy. “Modernizing a legacy project is just as much about communication as it is about the code.”
Her mission is to remove the label of "non-technical" from the mindset of people who have been actively choosing not to attain technical skills. It is well within each person's ability to become more technical. On the flip side, when developers say, “I understand machines, but I don’t understand people,” her response is “That’s not true, you just haven’t practiced people skills.”
Goulet hopes to see not only more women in agile in the future, but also other minority groups, especially women of color. Her words of wisdom:
“We can’t get so wrapped up on the gender that we forget about all of the other intersectionalities of diversity and inclusion.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Sarah Harper studies both the psychology and metrics behind agile. She sat down with us to unpack her presentation from Agile2019 titled “Black Holes and Revelations.”
Harper believes obstacles to moving work through can become more than bottlenecks – they sometimes form “black holes” that suck in the work but nothing comes out. Tune in to learn how to apply UI design for Kanban and Scrum boards that make it easier to prevent, find and overcome black holes in your agile workflow.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile
Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Riddhi Gupta has a 12-year career in Agile under her belt, but she didn’t attend her first Women in Agile breakfast until a year ago at the Global SAFe Summit. She was so inspired that she launched a WIA local chapter in Charlotte, NC.
Under her lead, the Charlotte chapter has flourished, seeing 40-50 attendees at each monthly meeting. Gupta has even witnessed 5 different women gain career opportunities from networking at the events.
Riddhi Gupta’s words of wisdom: “We needed a platform, the women as well as our allies, where they could come in, feel protected, and feel candor, and have conversations about growth and opportunity.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts at the Global SAFe Summit 2019 in San Diego, CA.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile
Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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First time Agile Alliance conference attendees Mary Bobbitt and Sabine Khan share their experiences at Agile2019. If you’ve been on the fence about experiencing the largest annual Agile conference in the world, don’t miss this episode.
Bobbit and Khan give tips for navigating the conference, meeting others, and how to make yourself memorable in a crowd of nearly 2,000. They emphasize the sense of community and comradery among other agilist at the conference: “Going to Agile2019, our context may be different, but our problems are so similar, our opportunities and wins are so similar.”
The duo also attended the Women in Agile session and discuss how the movement has impacted the community at large: “It wasn’t just women talking about women’s issues, it was ‘how do we encourage honest dialogue about diversity, and specifically gender diversity, in an industry that has been historically dominated by men.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Em Campbell-Pretty is the Managing Director of Pretty Agile and the author of “Tribal Unity” and “The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck.” She was the keynote speaker at the Women in Agile breakfast event at the SAFe Summit where we caught up with her.
Campbell-Pretty chats about her non-negotiables, including “[if] you won’t train people, I won’t work with you”. She also gives advice to coaches who find themselves in a less-than-ideal work environment.
Finally, she calls out Agile thought leaders who judge others’ methods of coaching: “I thought this was a community. I thought this was built on people sharing ideas of what works, and what I’m looking at is thought leaders attacking each other.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts at the Global SAFe Summit 2019 in San Diego.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Since 2008, Kelly Geyer’s focus has been coaching organizations and teams by discovering new ways of working together and avoiding the common pitfalls that hinder their progress.
Geyer’s recently published book, Failing at Agile Transformation, discusses several areas where agile transformations get derailed. She talks with us about the origins of both the book and her own Agile journey, while also speaking on gender differences and her own professional growth.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
April Jefferson is a self-defined “experienced craftswoman and mindset harmonizer that nurtures the journey to nurture yourself”. She values connecting people and teams to ownership of their needs and goals.
Jefferson recounts her Agile experience and the challenges she’s had to overcome to become her full self as a woman and a leader in the Agile space. She shares that “the weaknesses that others perceived in me were actually my greatest strengths” and “as a woman in this space, sometimes we need that mental toughness to stay present.” Jefferson emphasizes the positive impact women helping women through sponsorship and mentoring relationships has on their success.
April Jefferson’s Words of Wisdom:
“Stay curious and invite others in.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Alize Hofmeester is an Agile leader, owner of TwinXter, and founder of the People Journey Circle. Hofmeester shares her Agile journey, and the importance of defining and staying aligned to her purpose. She emphasizes the need for teams to not only know the way they work together but also with whom they are working in order to establish trust.
Alize also recommends the following read to better understand how different cultures work together:
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Laura Powers is an Agile trainer and coach, conference speaker and the founder of Powered by Teams, but it wasn’t always that way. She shares her journey from mechanical engineer to release manager for eBay to a career in real estate and back into tech, this time as an agilist. Now she is committed to changing the world of work by creating high-performing teams.
Powers shares her experience as a mentor for the Women in Agile “Launching New Voices” Program and her passion for expanding the good work being done in the Agile community into other, adjacent industries like change management and business culture.
Laura Powers’ Words of Wisdom:
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Change is an opportunity.
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At the end of the day, when deciding whether it was a good day, ask yourself, “Who did you interact with… did you lift them up, did you give them a new idea, did you inspire them in some way. Because if we each do a small something in that way every day, we will transform the world.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Marsha Acker is the CEO of Team Catapult, a leadership development/organizational change firm and the author of “The Art and Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration in Agile Teams”. She shares stories of working in a huge corporation and a tiny startup and the learnings she’s had – including how to give up some control to let agility emerge naturally. Her passion for facilitation was her entry point into Agile, and the need for it is as strong as ever:
“To truly facilitate requires this unbiased, neutral perspective where you’re not taking sides... When the group gets stuck, you’re helping them get unstuck; you’re not solving something for them.”
Marsha Acker’s Words of Wisdom:
Find your own voice. “It’s not that I didn’t have it, it’s that I would have these moments of insights or thoughts, and I didn’t always share it.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Jeffrey Davidson is an executive and Enterprise Transformation Coach and Consultant. He has enabled personal development for thousands of individuals over the course of his career. We dive into the question of how to go about teaching leaders to cultivate diversity within their teams.
Davidson takes two approaches: Asking blunt questions and taking simple steps. For example, he may ask leadership, “How many women are on the teams and what kinds of roles do they have?” to get them thinking about their organization’s diversity. He also helps them realize that “in every meeting, every person there has a voice, every voice has value, and some people need a few extra seconds or few extra minutes to respond. Just because some people talk a lot doesn’t mean they should, and just because some people don’t want to talk doesn’t mean you should allow them to never talk.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: www.womeninagile.org
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Melissa Boggs is the Chief ScrumMaster at the Scrum Alliance where she co-leads the largest Agile constituency in the world. Hear how she’s had to learn to stand up for herself as a woman in leadership. Boggs says the best advice she received was that she’s not just standing up for herself, but for other women as well because she’s a role model for them.
You’ll also learn how she manages work-life balance. Melissa Boggs’ words of wisdom:
“Exhaustion is not a status symbol.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Aruna Chandrasekharan is a transformation strategist with more than a decade of experience in the Agile space and 25 years in information technology. She shares her experiences as a coach who is both female and Indian.
Chandrasekharan says as a woman, she can get away with humor a man can’t, and she can get to the softer side faster. But she says it’s a double-edged sword, because she also experiences bias and prejudice as a woman.
Being of Indian heritage also has advantages in working with all-Indian development teams. She shares tips for working with a team from a different culture:
- Show an interest in their language and culture. Show them that you have done your research in the culture, and that you’re willing to show them what you’re learned.
- If you have a peer coach from that culture, go and talk to them.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Agile coach Chris Murman is an active blogger, conference speaker, board member of the Agile Uprising Coalition and a recognized ally for women in the Agile community. But what is an ally? According to Murman, it’s someone who intentionally chooses to make room for people that society hasn’t always made room for. He shares his stories of awareness and becoming a coach that naturally led to him being a strong proponent for women, minorities and other voices that aren’t always well represented.
Murman rallies for others to get involved, to not stand idly by: “You can’t sit on the sidelines and call yourself an advocate: you have to do something – where am I giving my money, where am I giving my time, what do my words say?”
Chris Murman’s Words of Wisdom for allies
“Just show up – you don’t need to know anything or prepare anything. Be prepared to engage, be curious.”
“Men often don’t understand the privilege we’ve gotten, or maybe they don’t want to see it.” Ask yourself, “What have I received that I didn’t necessarily earn?”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse host.
Learn more:
Agile Uprising podcast – agileuprising.libsyn.com/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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People spend most of their working lives at work, and Philiy Lander thinks that “It really shouldn’t suck.” As an Agile coach, she dedicates her life energy to making the work place a better place. Two ways she does that are simple yet poorly practiced in today’s busy world: asking questions and actually listening to people.
Lander shares her growth through the TenWomenStrong program, in particular she has been striving to be clear about her boundaries. She shares a story of working with a very difficult leader that helped her stretch grow in terms of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
Philiy Lander’s Words of Wisdom:
- There is great strength in vulnerability.
- The true strength of a leader is being unapologetically “you.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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Billie Schuttpelz is an Agile coach at Accenture | SolutionsIQ who is known for her work on conquering Imposter Syndrome, something she has struggled with. A stage actor and advocate for therapy and visualization, Schuttpelz invented an alternate reality called “Oops Land” where people have the safety and permission to fail and also to be their authentic selves. This is in stark contrast where she often she feels she lives: in Perfect Island.
Schuttpelz personal development journey has helped her take back power over her own life, which has sometimes felt lacking purpose. She shares stories of her Imposter Syndrome workshops, as well as her process going through the Shine program fromTenWomenStrong, and the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) program.
Billie’s Words of Wisdom:
- “What if instead of finding my purpose, I find myself... It leads me to fulfilling my purpose?”
- “People are the most innovative when they’re operating in their authentic voice... We shouldn’t focus so much on innovation. We should focus on getting our people to their authentic selves, and the innovation will come out naturally.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
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In this special episode, we combine two conversations with a father-daughter duo Renny and Shayna Atkins. You’ll first hear from Shayna, a product management consultant and Agile coach who launched her own consultancy at a young age. Shayna believes in the importance of community support and has a team of women and a sisterhood around her. Her father taught her “not to play small”, a piece of advice Shayna has clearly taken to heart. Learn how she stays on top of the technology trends, brings woman leaders together, and how she unplugs to recharge.
We end the episode with Renny who dives into the parent-child relationship, his support for Shayna, and the Women in Agile community.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
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Ellen Gottesdiener, a product coach, author, and CEO of EBG Consulting, shares her wisdom about marrying product management with Agile principles and practices. She speculates a future where there will be a “blending of disciplines where you don’t necessarily have a business area and a technology area”, just one product team with interdisciplinary team members. Her piece of advice to product people: Have strategic awareness of your product in the marketplace or “big view”, and get rid of junk in the backlog.
Gottesdiener also takes us down the memory lane to the beginnings of the Agile Conference – she has attended every one of them since Salt Lake City. She reminds us of the women who have had a large impact on the Agile community from the very beginning.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
- Reach Ellen Gottesdiener: ellen@ebgconsulting.com
- Find out more about Women in Product: www.womenpm.org/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile website: www.womeninagile.org
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Emma McGuigan dreams of a world where there’s no need for women’s groups because society has changed to the point where equality is a real thing. “I realize it’s a little naïve of me to make a bold statement like that,” she says, “but if we don’t make the bold statements, we’re never going to get there.”
Today, as Senior Managing Director for Accenture Microsoft Business Group and a champion for human rights advocacy and female empowerment, McGuigan is bold in her work with the Stemettes and the Orchid Project, both organizations working to improve the lives of women and girls around the world. In this episode, she offers much advice to listeners on everything from how to show up for conversations and really make a contribution, to how body language impacts our efficacy.
Emma McGuigan’s Words of Wisdom:
“There’s a power in listening. Have the courage to have a conversation. Bring that human side of you to bear because that’s when we’re at our best.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
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Launching New Voices is a program from the non-profit Women in Agile. This program lowers the barrier of entry into conferences by providing new speakers with the mentoring and support needed for getting noticed and selected. The goal is to inject new ideas and diversity into the Agile conference circuit.
Jenny Tarwater, an agile collaboration coach and Director for the Launching New Voices program, tells us about what is involved in growing the next generation of conference speakers.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Become a mentor or protégé:
https://womeninagile.org/voices/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender. This podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
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When we think of “play,” we think of chaotic children running through the streets creating imaginary scenarios and making up ridiculous rules. However, play is not a frivolous activity that us grown adults need to abandon. Instead, Portia Tung says play is essential to the development and enrichment of both children and adults’ lives.
As an executive Agile coach and play researcher, Tung has been dedicated to promoting happier adulthood through lifelong play and founded the School of Play. After her research of thousands of children and adults at play, Tung has uncovered five characteristics of a playful leader, whom she calls “playmakers”:
Respectful
Resourceful
Responsible
Resilient
Real
Portia Tung’s words of wisdom: “We can’t give what we don’t have”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Learn more:
School of Play: theschoolofplay.wordpress.com/who-we-are/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Deatrice Gautreaux is an Agile coach at Accenture | SolutionsIQ and a champion for the Women in Agile movement. Being part of any women’s movement is a tremendous change for her. “As a young black girl raised in the south, segregation was a painful thing…” So Gautreaux made the intentional choice not to separate herself from the whole: “When it came to women movements, I took a step back.”
After an eye-opening experience at Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s annual employee gathering, Gautreaux was able to create for herself a new, empowering story about participating in the Women in Agile movement. She shares how the fabulous Lyssa Adkins gave her some advice for finding the confidence to lead life on purpose and the self-worth that she always had in herself since she was a child.
Deatrice Gautreaux’s words of wisdom:
- “Rather than sit on the outside and be a spectator to your own story, own it, lean into it, embrace it and enjoy it.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
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Lynne Cazaly is an international keynote speaker, author and master facilitator. Her recent book “Ish: The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough” is also the topic of her Agile2019 presentation. By “ish” Cazaly means something like “doing a good enough job to release and get feedback” – something that agilists might call “bias toward rapid feedback.”
Too often people practice perfectionism even when the result of putting more time and effort isn’t demonstrably better than without it. How to spot a perfectionist? Cazaly says to look for “anybody working late, repeatedly working through lunch, not taking a break, not taking care of themselves, or being hesitant to share or show their work.”
Lynne Cazaly’s words of wisdom: “A lot of our identity can be tied up in the role we have, or the title, or the experience, or the story of where we’ve worked. Don’t get too hung up on that. You are so much more than your current role. You’re so much more than that bad experience with that team where it didn’t work out.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Stephanie Thomas is a disability and fashion styling expert, and Founder and CEO of Cur8able, a B2B business dedicated to dressing with disabilities. Stephanie was also the keynote speaker at the Women in Agile session at Agile2019 in Washington D.C.
For more than two decades Thomas has researched clothing and retail trends exclusively for people with disabilities, and as a congenital amputee herself missing digits on her right hand and feet, this is more than her profession, it’s her lived experience.
Thomas says people with disabilities are not seen as fashion customers, despite the $6 trillion combined buying power of these individuals, their family and friends: “We personify pets more than we do fashion disability customers. We design for pets, we have jackets for pets...” With her Disability Fashion Styling System©, she provides safe and stylish options so that people with diverse needs can dress to feel great and be seen.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile podcast is a platform for inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, in an effort to empower the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Lyssa Adkins and Kat Conner chat with the Women in Agile podcast to share their journey with TENWOMENSTRONG. Lyssa Adkins is a coach and facilitator, teacher and inspirer whose book “Coaching Agile Teams” has had a lasting impact on the Agile industry and community. Kat Conner is a Business Agility Innovator with Accenture | SolutionsIQ who brings deep leadership, change management and organizational agility knowledge to her clients.
After more than two decades of being acquaintances and then friends, the two only realized they shared the same desire to further the representation, leadership and empowerment of women in the Agile space. Says Conner, “When I think about agility, so many of the things that we hold dear, such as transparency, communication and collaboration, are really strong feminine qualities and energies.”
As for Adkins, she says, “There’s a bunch of masculine shells that I’ve put onto my femininity to fit myself into the world as it is.” Now the two are collaborating with TENWOMENSTRONG to help bring more feminine energy into the business world and life in general, especially in leadership. Why? As Adkins puts it, women have “the ability to go into the unknown and mystery for a long time to see what emerges.”
Kat’s WiA Wisdom:
“If you feel called, if this speaks to you in any way, talk to one of us or give us a call. We’re very open to sharing our experiences and how this may serve you in this moment of your life.”
Lyssa’s WiA Wisdom:
“All I really want is women being themselves and leading in their way because I think the world needs us to do that.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Learn more: tenwomenstrong.net/agile
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: www.womeninagile.org
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Welcome to the Women in Agile podcast series! In this inaugural episode, we introduce you to Natalie Warnert, the founder of the Women in Agile (WiA) non-profit organization.
Hear how WiA, which began as an open space formed by 40 women at the 2013 Global Scrum Gathering in Las Vegas, developed into a movement with 1,000+ members. The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Become a member by reading and agreeing to the code of conduct on https://womeninagile.org/conduct.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
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