Simon Powers

Simon Powers has over 20 years’ experience helping very large organisations to thrive in the market and to be better places 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. He has been using Agile and Lean for the last 14 years, initially within IT, but in the last 5 years across the entire organisation.

Tobias Mayer

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 organizations wishing to make a transition to more agile, trustful and team-centered ways of working.

Philiy Lander

Philiy has been working with teams of people helping them deliver creative products and services for over a decade. Philiy’s tech career began as a QA on a waterfall project she quickly began searching for a better way of working and discovered Agile and Scrum. It was love at first sight and since then Philiy’s passion to make working lives better has driven her to continuously develop her Agile knowledge and skills in Professional Coaching, Training and Facilitation.

For Philiy, everything Agile coaches do is underpinned by Professional Coaching skills and the Neuroscience that underpins coaching skills. To truly facilitate large scale and lasting change we have to understand how human beings change on a personal level and work with that natural process.

Michael Sahota

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.

Georg Fasching

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 practiced as Product Owner and also as Scrum Master provides him an intriguing blend of complementing perspectives. Georg now improves the flow and happiness for people, and products, through coaching and training.

Ian Rees

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.

Zuzi Sochova

Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová is an independent Agile coach and trainer and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with more than fifteen years of experience in the IT industry. She started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, when she was implementing agile methods in the USA. From that time, she has been credited with agile transformation and implementation for many companies and teams around the world. By creating and sustaining agile leadership, Zuzi believes the worlds of work and life can be made happier and more successful.

Evelyn Tian

Evelyn Tian is a professional Lean and Agile Coach and Trainer. She has over 20 years of product development experience in telecom products, automotive industry, financial sectors and e-commerce products, with wide range of experience from product management, project management, system architect, software development, system integration to customer support.

Audree Tara Sahota

Audree Sahota is an expert in personal growth and transformation with a private practise since 1994. She has 10 years of professional training as an energetic healer, including working on a medical team ( WomanCare Inc.) with proven healing of stage 4 cancer and other “untreatable” health issues. She is formally trained in meditation, yoga and initiated in India to shift consciousness.

Craig Larman

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.

Scott Ambler

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.

Don Reinertsen

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.

Lyssa Adkins

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.

Michael Spayd

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.

Michael Hamman

For most of the past 25 years, I have committed myself to the possibility that the workplace be 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.

Ahmad Fahmy

Dr Alistair Cockburn

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 Interdepen-dence, 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

Bas Vodde

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 practices for over a decade.

John Barratt

John Barratt is a professional coach and trainer with a background in agile and lean practices. His work is underpinned by his blended coaching approach embedded with the agile mindset and seeing the people and organisations he works with become the best they can through exploring answers for themselves.

Over the last few years, His primary focus has been to support breaking out some of the frustrations when working in a heavily regulated and distributed environment. He has done this by focusing on building relationships and trust leading to empowered team-centric ways of working.

John is an active member of the agile community, and is often found sharing his ideas whilst looking for new ones to try and experiment with. John is an ICF certified coach and was the first person to pass the Scrum Alliance CTC application in the UK.

In his spare time he practices Martial Arts achieving a black belt in two different styles as well as looking after his children.

Dan North

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.

Sharon Bowman

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.

Sharon’s two-day train-the-trainer program, “Training from the BACK of the Room,” has received global acclaim from consulting and training companies worldwide. Sharon practices what she preaches by creating/presenting highly-interactive, informative, and unforgettable learning experiences that are based on Accelerated Learning processes and principles. Join us for this exciting train-the-trainer event and take your own training skills to a dramatically new level of excellence.

Dan Brown

Dan is Kanban and Agile Coach and Teacher. He has worked with clients such as Ministry of Justice, Barclays, Government Digital Service, ASOS, YouView TV, Pancentric Digital, Disney, BSkyB, Avantia, Satellite Applications Catapult, Mandara Captial, Macmillan Cancer Support, Miranda, RDT and the BBC. Dan presents at Kanban conferences around Europe, and helps run the Kanban Coaching Exchange in London – a free to attend monthly meetup to hear kanban related talks and talk to other practitioners and coaches.

Neal Horner

Neal has deep experience working in the IT and Agile space. As an Enterprise Agile Coach, his confident, get-involved, hands-on approach helps identify and navigate his client’s challenges. Neal is passionate to simplify complexity, build relationships, demonstrate progress and lead by example. By taking a pragmatic approach to many Agile practices and methods, his clients have been able to support their vision, measure their progress and better appreciate their trade-offs, resulting in clients who ‘do agile’, as well as enabling behaviours to ‘be agile’.

Richard Kasperowski

Richard Kasperowski is an author, speaker, teacher, and coach focused on high-performance teams. Richard is the author of the new book, High-Performance Teams: The Foundations, as well as The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness. He leads clients in building great teams that get great results using the Core Protocols, Agile, and Open Space Technology. Richard created and teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University. Learn more and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at www.kasperowski.com.