248. How to become an Agile Change Agent in 2024 Part 1

Malini is a highly experienced Business Relationship Manager who specialises in nurturing high-performing BRMs and teams. She is regularly invited to deliver keynotes and presentations at professional and academic forums in Australia, USA, UK and India. Her personal BRM story titled 'Walk Fast, Walk Far' has been described as "the most impactful presentation" at BRMConnect 2017, Sydney. In her spare time she writes about food, culture and relationships.

Malini facilitates APMG accredited Business Relationship Management certification courses through ITSM Hub.  

• Featured in the BRM Institute’s global list of Top Business Relationship Managers in 2019 and 2020
• 5 Global Excellence Awards, BRM Institute
• Service Excellence Award, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria Australia

Malini has written Begin the day with a tomato - Creating connection and belonging within a team and one of her proudest achievements in recent times has been supporting her team to achieve six Hall of Fame inductions in 2021! 

Sarah is the owner of Carpe Omnia Training and CUPE International, a company that specializes in providing project and change management training. She dedicates her time to both managing the business and delivering training, with a primary focus on change management. Additionally, Hills holds the position of chair at AsTre (Association for Training Excellence).

Awards and Nominations - 

• Business of the month Dorset.
• Created a lot of change management eLearning and distant learning content for several other accredited training providers.

Sarah's proudest achievement to date is having had the faith and courage to set out on her own and build a great team of people around her. She is proud that she has the privilege of supporting so many people in their individual learning and career journeys.

Although partly retired, Adrian is Head of Governance and Trustee of MyMelanoma, a new cancer research organisation. He is author of various works, notably the book Agile Beyond IT, adviser, coach, visiting lecturer and writer on organisational and project management agility.

Adrian is a 35 year project professional in 11 commercial industries and the public sector, in the UK and abroad.

Now a Fellow of the Association of Project Management, he has been an active member since the early ‘90s, especially in programme, portfolio and stakeholder management, governance, agility and a diversity champion.

• Fellow of the Association of Project Management
• Author of Agile Beyond IT and Agile Beyond IT LinkedIn newsletter
• Co-author of the Gower Handbook of programme management management (1st Edition)
• Co-author of APM Guides on Directing Agile Change and Agile assurance
• Lead author for programme management for APM BoK7
• Contributor to UK government standards for programme and portfolio management and PMOs. 

Adrian's proudest achievement is publishing Agile Beyond IT which brings together over a decade of research, 35 years of experience and learning by himself and others into the adaptation of agility to the project profession as a whole.

Richard is responsible for developing and delivering the Agile Business Consortium's portfolio of products that advance business agility. The Consortium's products help organisations respond more effectively to the complex and volatile world in which we operate. As the professional body for business agility, the Consortium's products help individuals grow their competence in the application of agile principles. Richard has spent his career working in the advanced technology sector, in a mix of commercial and product management roles in the communications, defence, finance, and transportation sectors.

Richard's proudest achievement includes being a passionate ecologist, technologist, and practical problem solver. He has designed and built two houses with strong ecological credentials.

Allan is a  coach and consultant who specialises in Agile with OKRs. Kelly's main focus is on workflow, strategies and products. Allan is also an author and has several books about agile, OKRs, and business strategy for technology companies. Many of Allan's clients are smaller, more innovative companies, but he also work with bigger, better-known, companies such as Reed-Elsevier, Virgin Atlantic, and the Swift payments network. 

Awards and Nominations - 

• Succeeding with OKRs in Agile (second edition, 2023) 
• Art of Agile Product Ownership (Apress, 2019) 
• Xanpan: Team Centric Agile Software Development (2015) 
• Business Patterns for Software Developers (Wiley, 2012) 

Allan's proudest achievement includes helping nearly two dozen established companies, creating over 100 jobs in the region (some at new companies), and founding the renown Agile on the Beach conference.

Since founding Explosive Learning Solutions with her husband in 2005, Cath has immersed herself in risk, change, and project management. Cath's career spans both public and private sectors, specializing more recently in Contract Management and Procurement Training, with over 30 years of invaluable experience. As a seasoned professional Cath, seamlessly navigates the intricacies of the Contract Management Lifecycle, providing expert advice and delivering comprehensive training—from business case development through sourcing to meticulous contract management. Committed to continual professional development, Cath is not only a practitioner but an avid reader, ensuring her knowledge is ever-evolving.

Cath Convey, founder of a successful Learning and Development company. Cath's proudest achievement, over 30 years of marriage to her husband, both military veterans. They have served globally, raised three children, and run their company for 20 years, impacting clients in both the public and private sectors worldwide. Remarkably, they haven't killed each other!