Esther draws on four decades of experience leading, observing, and living organizational change. She works with a broad array of organizations. Her clients include both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Based on experience and research, her approach blends attention to humans and deep knowledge of complex adaptive systems. Esther has been called one of the most influential voices within the agile communities when it comes to developing organizations, coaching teams, and transforming management. Her work over many years has influenced coaches and leaders across many companies. Esther started her career as a programmer. However, over the years she’s worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant, manager, and team leader. From all these perspectives, one thing was clear: individual, team, and even organizational success depends greatly on the work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, she’s spent the last twenty-five years helping companies shape their environment for optimum success. Her formal education includes an MA in Organizational Leadership and a certificate in Human Systems Dynamics.

Allison Pollard helps people discover their agile instincts and develop their coaching abilities. As an agile coach with Improving in Dallas, Allison enjoys enabling others to become trusted leaders for change in their organization. In her experience, applying agile methods improves delivery, strengthens relationships, and builds trust between business and IT. Allison is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, a foodie, and proud glasses wearer.

Chad works with all levels of the organization to optimize your business to respond to change. He is passionate about moving organizations and people closer to agility. His first experience with "agile", Scrum specifically, was in 2005 on a global transformation team responsible for software customizations driven by a global consolidation of accounting software. He ran into typical implementation challenges and organizational impediments. Around 2012, his passion for lean, agile, and continuous improvement grew. He left his traditional business analyst and project manager roles behind and evolved into an internal change agent kickstarting an agile transformation. Now in an advising role as an external change agent across many organizations, he promotes organizational agility and positive pressure for change.

Christopher 'Cp' Richardson has spent the last five years in software development and risk management focusing on providing teams with the knowledge and tools to become the best version of themselves. From being a software developer to currently being a project/program manager, Cp ensures people have what they need to be successful. Cp uses his past experience as a firefighter to metaphorically put out fires as well as inspire others to fight through the flames that are challenges in their professional environments.

Agile Coach, Open Space Facilitator and Certified Scrum Trainer. He has helped with the adoption of Scrum and Agile at numerous companies both large and small. He brings this broad range of experience to every training event to boost performance when applying techniques.

As an Agile Coach within Collins Aerospace, Erin speaks frequently in front of classes and communities of practice about lean and agile topics. Erin has also spoken at the Rockwell Collins Lean Day of Learning and Quality conferences about Training from the Back of the Room, Advance Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Lean Agile topics. Erin also enjoys speaking outside of Collins Aerospace at our local Eastern Iowa Agile Meet Up and being part of a group planning a, first time, local agile conference!

Harry Koehnemann is a SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile Inc. where he helps organizations build and deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality. He has spent the past two decades helping organizations in aerospace, defense, automotive and others adopt better engineering practices including Lean, Agile, MBSE, requirements management, quality management, and the related activities necessary to support compliance. Harry is a regular presenter on Lean-Agile topics and engineering practices at Agile, engineering, and government conferences.

Jeff is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org, Agile coach and speaker. He has been a Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team member and has worked with companies ranging from enterprise to small start-ups. While working with many teams across many companies Jeff has found that most problems are not technology problems, but are organizational structure, process, and people problems. Jeff brings storytelling, a broad array of experience, along with a collaborative approach to teaching and speaking.

Jon, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is an aerospace engineer by training. He is passionate about helping teams succeed in delivering business value through software. He works with teams to articulate, design, architect, and deliver software that solves challenging business problems. Jon seeks better ways for teams to accomplish their goals from the perspectives of people, process, and technology. Jon likes to help teams build an environment that enables effective practices, solid architecture, agile development, quality-by-design (not accident), and laser-like focus on delivering business value through the strategic use of s/w development. Specialties: beer, agile development, agile coaching/mentoring, domain modeling, architectural solutions that meet business needs, leading distributed teams, highly varied domain expertise, leadership by example.

Mike is an enterprise agile transformation coach at CPRIME Inc. and has been working with Agile since 2004 and Agile at Scale since 2012.  He has been involved with numerous large scale agile transformations including projects at Gogo Inflight, Oracle, Western Union, Google, and Raytheon Technologies. Starting his career at Sun Microsystems as a Java Software Engineer, Mike is now a certified agile coach. His passion lies with helping teams realize true agility and alignment towards outcomes through Lean Agile Principles and Lean Portfolio Management techniques. Mike is also an entrepreneur.  He purchased the largest Independent Heavy Diesel Truck and Crane Repair business in Colorado in 2019. Mike has learned much about how Agile can be effectively applied in the Corporate world from his experiences applying these principles to manage a real-world Diesel Truck and Crane Repair business and is ready to share this knowledge with you.

Tamara “Tammy” Allen joined Capital One just over 4 years ago on the Cyber Audit and Exam Team. During her time here, she has also had the opportunity to work in Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cyber Project and Portfolio Management and has been working in the Cyber Fraud space for the past 2 years. She initially established the Cyber Fraud Tactical Analysis team and has established and now leads the Cyber AML Reporting program. Prior to Capital One, Tammy worked as an anti-money laundering professional at Western Union Business Solutions, where she gained experience in sanctions, transaction monitoring, and best KYC practices. She also established the FinCEN 314a process for Western Union in addition to creating the Compliance & AML testing team. Tammy has earned a degree in Accounting from North Carolina Central University (2005), a Masters Degree in Project Management (2016), and an MBA from the University of Maryland, University College (2017). She holds a CAMS certification and has recently acquired the AWS Cloud Practitioner credential. Tammy is extremely passionate about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging and has been an active participant in several initiatives and business resources groups at Capital One by serving on various leadership boards while planning and organizing events to benefit associates at Capital One. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, practicing meditation, keeping her body moving and spending quality time with her daughter, Zoe.

Ted Wallace is currently an Agile Coach at Principal Financial Group. He has completed his Master of Science degrees in Computer Science and Physiology and is a certified ScrumMaster Professional (CSM, CSPO, CSP, CTC) and a registered corporate coach (RCC) with thousands hours of coaching sessions completed. His talented wife, Danielle, is from the Netherlands. They have three amazing children, Jace, Kyran, and Myka. He has published two books “Total Brain Coaching” and “The Coherence Code”.

Teddy is a Scrum Master and Agile Coach at Scrum Alliance. He has 25 years experience leading software and marketing teams in pursuit of continuous improvement and product excellence. He focuses his coaching on creating resilient teams and organizations. In his spare time, you'll find him wishing he had more spare time to pursue his passions of writing, photography, and music.

Zeenat Fadwani is currently a Managing Partner with Lean Agile Solution. As a former IT executive, Zeenat is uniquely equipped to work across the value chain from one team up to the largest enterprises needing transformation. She was at the forefront of the Scaled Agile transformation at AmerisourceBergen (a Fortune 10 company) and implemented a SAFe Agile Release Train for the entire department. Her multi-disciplinary approach, passion for excellence, and ability to bring Business and IT together makes Zeenat a recognizable expert in business agility. With her clients, she brings fun to engage teams while changing mindsets with focus on flow of value.

"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. Zuzi is a founder of the Czech Agile Association and the world famous AgilePrague conference. Zuzi was elected to the Scrum Alliance Board of Directors in 2017. She is an author of The Great Scrum Master: #ScrumMasterWay book (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)). Web: http://sochova.com Blog: http://agile-scrum.com Twitter: @zuzuzka LinkedIn: http://cz.linkedin.com/in/zuzka"