Simon Powers is the AWA CEO and Founder and the author of the book Change. Simon has over 20 years’ experience working with very large organisations to thrive in the market and to be a better place to work. He works with the board of directors or senior managers to transform the way that they see themselves, each other, and their organisations. The results are better organisational design, better processes, more engaged staff, and an organisation that is customer-focused and more successful.

Simon is an ICAgile Authorised Trainer and a member of the ICAgile Expert – Enterprise Agile Coaching certification committee, and was one of the first people in the world to hold the ICAgile Expert in Enterprise Coaching certificate. He takes what he learns from his practice and work with others to create the best coaching training materials possible. The mission is to upgrade humanity and make better places to work and live.

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David is a coach and trainer whose approach is underpinned by the belief that everyone has the right to improve their work and personal lives. He spends his time between coaching and training people, teams and organisations, and has worked with a range of different companies across a number of sectors. When he is not training or coaching, David is researching a doctoral in coaching at Oxford Brookes University. He also holds a post-graduate certificate in Business & Personal Coaching from the University of Chester as well as being certified professional coach and a certified agile coaching expert (ICF-PCC, ICE-AC, ICP-ACC and ICP-ATF).

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Kevin is a leader with over two decades’ experience creating value and stewarding change toward desired results. He works to realise the mutual benefits to people, organisations, society, and the world that become possible when we work together under a positive unifying purpose.

Kevin’s work puts people as the foundation of organisational effectiveness in the face of accelerating change and growing complexity. He holds a Masters Degree in Positive Organisational Development and Change, along with certificates in Appreciative Inquiry and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership and Coaching. He is also an authorised trainer for ICAgile and a member of the ICAgile Expert – Enterprise Agile Coaching certification committee.

Rafa is an Agile and Professional Coach, who helps his clients discover and become aware of their goals, reflect on their behaviours, and support their growth. He has extensive experience working with co-located, distributed, and fully remote teams, and enjoys helping software teams in connecting logic reasoning with creative thinking and human-centered design. He has more than 15 years of experience working with clients from Telecom (Altice Portugal, NOS, Celfinet), Sports (Adidas), Banking (BPI). Public Contracting (Vortal), Software Consultancies (Indra, Novabase), Non-Profit (MIES), to name but a few.

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For the past 25 years, Louria has empowered and co-created “People First Environments”, where talents are celebrated and voices matter.  As an international Executive Agile & Leadership Coach she utilizes her mastery of coaching, emotional intelligence, facilitation, teaching and mentoring to breathe life into ‘just surviving’ organizations to thriving. She is known to say, “It’s not if you will fall down, but when you do fall down; then How YOU Recovery?!”  Therefore, we love who we are, what we do and do what we love!

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Antoinette is a Team, Leadership and Enterprise Agile coach, who focuses on growing inner agility in leaders at all levels of the organisation. Her forte is growing agility in EVERYONE, and putting her own experience in practice by showing others how to do bring about greater agility in their organisations themselves. She is a coach of coaches and teaches and develops transformation, coaching and facilitation skills at both the Team and Enterprise level. She is certified in Organisational and Relationship Systems Coaching, a Certified Enterprise Coach, an ICF PCC, ICE-AC, and an ICAgile Authorised Trainer for AWA Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp, and loves working with systems in conflict.

Over the past 18 years, Georg has developed a passion and proficiency in Digital Product Development while working predominantly in the banking and engineering spaces. His experience transitioned to Agile in 2010. Having practised as Product Owner and also as Scrum Master provides him with an intriguing blend of complementing perspectives. Georg now improves the flow and happiness for people, and products, through coaching and training.

Georg is a mentor and servant to the community, proof of his vicarious quest to help others achieve their goals. His dedication to continual learning has made him extremely effective as an Agile Coach in accomplishing huge wins for his clients, which include major finance and tech corporations. As a qualified Personal and Business Coach, he also enables individuals become even better versions of themselves. Georg holds the ICF-PCC, CEC and is an ICAgile Authorised Trainer for the AWA Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp.

Michael Sahota, Thought Leader, Enterprise Coach, Author and Trainer, guides executive leaders to create high-performance organizations. He has a proven practical playbook for leading change. His model for Consciously Approaching Agile™ explores the creation of a cultural and leadership context where Agile creates lasting organizational results.

Evelyn is one of the few Certified Scrum Trainers that are Scrum Alliance certified enterprise coach, certified team coach, certified agile leadership educator and path to CSP educator. She is a Lean and Agile Coach and Trainer, and a speaker of international conferences with over 20 years of product development experience.

Evelyn’s focus is on organisation transformational strategy, continuous improvement and enhancing the art and science of crafting products and service delivery. Evelyn has built a lengthy track record and gathered deep insights in coaching organisation transformation, agile leadership, and teams to unleash their potential. She was previously the head of Ericsson Global Transformation Support Center, and supported the telecom giant’s transformation initiatives.

She specialises in growing agile coaching capabilities, and has helped passionate agile practitioners from over 60 different countries.

Tobias Mayer has a background in software development, publishing, theatre arts, and community service work. Since 2004 he has worked as a change agent, trainer and facilitator, providing coaching and consulting services to teams and organisations wishing to make a transition to more agile, trustful and team-centred ways of working.

Tobias is a regular speaker and keynoter at Agile conferences, and the author of the highly acclaimed, and somewhat controversial book, The People’s Scrum. He blogs regularly on LinkedIn, Medium and Business Craftsmanship, and is known as the creator and curator of AgileLib.Net, the world’s foremost collection of Agile resources.

John Inge Hervik is a PCC certified coach from ICF with more than 15 years experience in agile ways of working. He has a technical background from software development, and has also studied psychology and coaching.He now teaches six of AWA’s training courses, and gets feedback that his enthusiasm really engages the participants and makes complicated topics available for everyone.His approach to agility is value-based, and focuses on contributing to improvements in the organisations he works for. This approach emphasises increased trust, good communication, continuous learning and a defined agile mindset. The result is better anchored organisational and process changes where value creation is at the center. He works systemically with all his clients to help them realise their own potential through coaching, mentoring and leadership development.John Inge is a dedicated life-long learner, and in addition to his PCC in professional coaching he holds a Post Graduate degree in Business and Personal Coaching from the University of Chester. He is currently undertaking ORSC-training.

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Michaela is a spirited Agile/Lean coach and Scrum Master and Agile trainer, gifted with a natural flair for interpersonal and intercultural communication, and with an extensive track record in a great variety of industries in Europe, India, the Middle East and the Gulf.

The certificates she gathered reflect her broad Agile interests: ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, ICP-TAL, CSM, PSPO, LeanIT, SAFe4Agilist, as well as an ICAgile authorisation for giving the certified ICP-TAL training.

Michaela has a zest for enthusiastic Agile/Scrum transformation tracks, HR Project management & Organisational change programs, outstanding L&D trajectories, solid cooperative learning facilitation and result & performance-driven leadership with a smile.

Tanja has spent more than 25 years working with major multinationals as corporate coach, facilitator and communications specialist. Her passion is elevating individual and group performance to extraordinary levels, triggering and enabling lasting change across an extensive range of disciplines and industries.

The neuroscience behind Conversational Intelligence® (C-IQ) permeates every aspect of her work and interaction with others. Blended seamlessly with agile concepts at enterprise level, she supports translation of aspirations to actionable steps, leading to transformative cultural shifts within organisations.

Tanja is the founder and chair of the European C-IQ Collective of international coaches, a dynamic conference speaker and contributing author to the recent publication ‘Changing Conversations for a Changing World’. She holds a range of coaching and agile qualifications.

Author, speaker, consultant, trainer and coach based in London, UK. Leading on distributed diversity and communication clarity in complex contexts.

I’m a facilitator, coach and trainer – mostly working over the internet. Not long ago I facilitated what was probably the world’s first “video un-conference” in which 150 people self-organised to talk about the things that mattered to them.

I’m the co-author of a bestselling book, “Clean Language”, which describes a precision inquiry toolkit which works especially well in complex systems. I coach using this methodology, and I also teach Clean Language to Agile coaches and others, mostly online. I’m the co-founder of the Rees McCann Partnership.

William enjoys unleashing the higher potential of people, teams and organisations through coaching. As a Co-Active and ORSC Certified Coach, William focusses on leadership development and agile coaching. He also enjoys assisting organisations and teams with their transition to agility through gaining an agile mindset and the accompanying practices.

William is an ICF Certified Professional Coach (ACC), ICAgile Authorised Trainer and a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC). He holds various agile certifications from ICAgile, Scrum Alliance, Scaled Academy, and the Project Management Institute, to name a few.

Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and since 2005 has worked with clients to apply the LeSS framework for scaling Scrum, lean thinking, and agile development to big product groups. Much of his work is organizational-design consulting with senior-management teams of product groups adopting LeSS.

Craig has served as the lead coach of large-scale lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS at Ericsson, JP Morgan, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alcatel-Lucent, UBS, bwin.party, Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, and Ion Trading, among many other clients.

For most of the past 25 years, I have committed myself to the possibility that the workplace is a site for personal, professional and social transformation. Trained early on in coaching and large group facilitation with Werner Erhard and Associates, I went on to train in systems thinking, facilitation, organization development, and leadership development with Peter Senge, Peter Block, Thomas Leonard, Otto Laske, Marvin Weisbord, and with the Leadership Circle. For 12 years I developed software, and coached and trained software teams in the beauty of design and teamwork.

Ian is a Lean/Agile Coach working for AWA with many years’ experience of applying and coaching Agile and Lean principles. Since leaving the UK product company, BM solutions that he co-founded in 2002, he has coached on large scale Agile transformation programmes at Aviva, American Express and RBS. He is a certified TBR trainer (Training from the Back of the Room) and has delivered 1000+ hours training in the UK and Europe on Leadership, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and many more for clients including Aviva, JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, American Express, Deloitte and Epicor.

Scott W. Ambler is the Senior Consulting Partner of Scott Ambler + Associates, working with organizations around the world to help them to improve their software processes.  He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organizational level.

In the field of organisational change and scaling agile he hardly needs introducing. Don has worked with leading product development organizations for over 35 years and taught executive courses at Caltech for 14 years.

• The scaled agile framework’s 1st, 6th, 7th and 9th principles are based on his work with quotes on most of the SAFe web pages taken directly from Don’s work.
• Large Scale Scrum’s Queuing Theory is based on Don’s work; he is quoted numerous times on the LeSS website.

In a word, my professional work is about transformation. I have found that I am wired to help people–and systems–change. I am drawn to cutting edge ‘technologies’ for coaching and developing organizations, leaders and teams.

As an organizational change coach and consultant for 20 plus years, I have worked with Fortune 1000, small businesses and non-profits. For 13 years I have specialized in large-scale Agile transformation, working with numerous organizations, leaders, and scores of teams.

Since 2004, Lyssa has taught Scrum and Agile Coaching to well over a thousand students coached many agile teams and served as master coach to scores of apprentice coaches. In both one-on-one settings and small groups, she enjoys a front-row seat as remarkable agile coaches emerge and go on to entice the very best from the teams and organizations they coach.

With ACI, Lyssa has trained over 2,000 people in the skills and mindsets of great agile coaching. Prior to agile, she had more than fifteen years of expertise leading project teams and groups of project managers. Lyssa believes that agile is more than an alternate project management methodology and I am passionate about deepening the roles in agile – specifically agile coach and agile manager – to help agile move into its fullest expression.

Sharon Bowman is the president of Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc. She has been a professional speaker, author, teacher, and trainer for over forty years. She works with businesses and educational institutions that want to offer exceptional in-house training and professional development programs.

Sharon is the author of seven popular training books, including the best-selling Pfeiffer/Wiley books titled The Ten-Minute Trainer and Training from the BACK of the Room. Her newest book is Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick. Log onto Sharon’s website at www.Bowperson.com for free excerpts of her books and downloadable training tips, articles, and slide presentations.

An author of the Agile Manifesto. In “The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes”.

Internationally renowned strategist, author of the Jolt award-winning Agile Software Development and Writing Effective Use Cases, he co-created the Agile Manifesto, the Declaration of Interdependence, the Agile Project Leadership Network and the International Consortium for Agile. Dr Cockburn is an expert on agile development, project management, process design, use cases, and object-oriented development. Find his articles, talks, poems and other writings at http://alistair.cockburn.us

Ahmad Fahmy is a certified LeSS Trainer and organisational change consultant with over 15 years experience. He has helped some of the world’s largest organisations, including investment banks and not-for-profit charities, adopt agile, and LeSS principles and values through his “energetic, eye-opening and impressive” training courses.

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.

With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Dan has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs here.

Bas Vodde is the co-creator of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), is a coach, consultant, programmer, trainer, and author related to modern agile and lean product development.

When he coaches organizations, he works on three levels: organizational, team, individual/technical practices. He has trained thousands of people in software development, Scrum, and modern agile practises for over a decade.