Decades of Expertise
Brad Swanson is a Leadership and Organizational Coach who guides organizations to achieve sustainably better results using Lean & Agile principles. He has been a trusted advisor for executives and organizations across the globe. He honed his own leadership skills as an Executive in the consulting and software industries.
Brad is a Certified Leadership Agility® 360 Coach, Certified Agile Leadership® (CAL) Educator®, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® - CEC), Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), and Certified LeSS Practitioner (Large Scale Scrum). He is a member of the Agile Leadership Journey, a global federation of Leadership coaches. Brad has been an Agile practitioner since 1999, is former President of Agile Denver and co-founder of the Mile High Agile conference, and a speaker at international conferences including numerous Global Scrum Gatherings in the USA and Asia (8 times), Agile 20xx (4 times), Mile High Agile (7 times), Agile Tour Toronto, AgilePalooza, Agile Development Conference East & West, PMI Mile Hi Symposium, and many Meetups in the USA, South America and Asia.
Brad Swanson
Founder, Principal Coach & Trainer
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Our World-Class Associates
Randy Hale
Enterprise agile coach & trainer
Randy is an empathetic change leader who will enable you to see your challenges more clearly and your possibilities with great enthusiasm. He is deeply experienced in Product Operating Model Transformation, Business and Product Strategy; Product Leadership; Organizational and Strategic Portfolio Transformation; and Executive Coaching. Randy has helped companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to drive strategic organizational, cultural and process change in support of improved employee engagement, faster product time-to-market, increased customer satisfaction, and accelerated revenue recognition.
Randy’s Expertise: Product Operating Model Transformation; Enterprise Agile Transformation; Lean-Agile Delivery Leadership; Leadership Agility; Executive Coaching; System & Team Coaching; Organizational Agility; Lean Portfolio Management; Product Leadership
Katharine Bodan
Enterprise agile coach
Katharine has over 15 years of experience in lean manufacturing, consulting and software leadership -- including CTO and VP roles -- and brings a practical approach to organizational agility. The people-first coaching she provides for team members and executives helps businesses sustain their growth by elevating the company’s collective intelligence. Her engagements include various industries such as consumer retail, health insurance, professional certification, manufacturing, travel, and automotive.
Daniel Lynn
Enterprise agile coach & trainer
Daniel is an experienced Agile Coach, Trainer, and practitioner with a passion for uncovering better ways of working by doing it and helping others do it. He is a Certified Team Coach (CTC) with expertise in Scrum and Kanban as well as development, testing, and operational practices. He began his Agile experience working on teams building industry-leading hardware and software platforms before turning his focus to coaching and training teams. Over years of coaching, he has helped clients in multiple industries including finance and banking, insurance, marketing, and education successfully adopt not only Agile team practices, but also make the organizational and cultural shifts that help build resilience and adaptability that support true Agility.
Dhaval Panchal
Enterprise agile coach & trainer
Dhaval Panchal is Experienced Executive, Agile Coach, and Organization Design consultant. He is ScrumAlliance Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC), Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Agile Leadership-Educator (CAL-E). Dhaval has led large scale Agile transformations for companies in Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, and Medical business domains, coaching CTOs, heads of software development, engineering, DevOps, data & project management professionals. He has more than 17 years of Agile implementation, coaching, and transformation experience, and is actively involved in the Houston Agile community.
Manoj Vadakkan
Enterprise Agile Trainer & Coach
Manoj Vadakkan, (also known as Man-OJ) is an Expert in Scrum. He has been practicing Scrum for more than a decade. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer® and a Certified LeSS Practitioner. He has been working with clients large and small for nearly 25 years. His work experience includes various industries such as Telecommunications, Insurance, Bank, and Media. In addition, he has worked with various government agencies including The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Census Bureau, The US Navy, The Veterans Affairs, and The US Postal Services.
Manoj now lives in Denver, Colorado. He previously lived in the Washington DC Metro area and engaged in the local agile community by leading Agile Leadership Network DC chapter. He also co-founded Agile DC, the premier DC-area Agile conference.
Tom Perry
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tom has been working as a transformation agent in software development for over 20 years. He has worked on teams at startup companies, large corporations in the Fortune 100 and the State and Federal Government. His background includes testing, development, project/program management, agile coaching/mentoring and training. As part of his involvement in the greater agile community, he led the Seattle eastside chapter of the APLN as well as recently creating the Open Agile Management conference in Seattle. He is a speaker and author on Agile topics in local and international forums. He wrote "The Little Book of Impediments" which can be found on www.leanpub.com. Check out Tom’s blog for more information about his writing, presentations and current projects, or follow him on twitter @tlperry
Partners
Agile Velocity
Agile Velocity helps organizations accelerate agility. AV is a full-service transformation partner offering organizational coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching, and Agile training. By leveraging their Path to Agility™ framework, AV advises clients on the best way to avoid common pitfalls and reach success as quickly as possible. Learn more.