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

Farah is a Digital Project Manager & Agile change lead with 10 years of experience. She developed strong skills in project & product management, communication and teams empowerment in complex, fast-paced and multicultural environments. Knowledge sharing and training is Farah's passion. 

Since 2015, Farah has provided trainings in Project Management (Waterfall / Agile), I&T Governance and Design Thinking in France, Canada and Switzerland for people coming from different sectors: bank & insurance companies, NGOs, energy, consulting and IT companies, public services, railways, aviation, telecoms

Farah's proudest accomplishment is being confident enough to create her own company specialized in consulting and training (Project management, I&T Governance and Design Thinking) for young and senior professionals, along with being able to expand it to the North African region. 

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.

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.