110. How to become an Agile Change Agent

Louisa Leung is a Managing Partner at Lifting Lanterns where she is a coach, mentor, consultant, expert, trainer and speaker in the Project Delivery space. She has previously been in roles like the National Head of Consulting Services and has successfully set up multiple Project Management Offices (PMOs) and implemented Agile frameworks for the likes of PwC, NBNCo, Sydney Water and Dimension Data. She has spent many years in senior managerial roles rolling out organisational change with valuable experience from both technical and non-technical aspects of IT in a variety of private and public sector organisations. She is a recognised guest speaker at forums such as PMI, IIBA, itSMF, meetups and many universities.

What’s your proudest achievement?

Being able to run a business whilst still being a proud mother of two little boys! Able to practice what I preach by applying Agile, Change, Project Management and Facilitation to my daily life.

Patrick is a consultant and educator with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations adopt and adapt best practice frameworks.

His areas of expertise include IT service management, governance, information security, project management and Agile practices, and organizational change management.

Patrick holds certifications as many disciplines including ITSM, governance, project management, Agile, etc.  He is an expert speaker at many national and global industry events, and has authored a wide variety of published articles, including being host of the Making IT Work vlog on YouTube.

Patrick lists his proudest achievement as having had the privilege of working with more than 400 organizations to help them get better results using best practice framework...and having the bruises to prove it!

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. 

As an Assistant Director, Dianne is responsible for the implementation of the agricultural Development Programme, which includes the preparation of Draft Estimates of Expenditure, Achievement Reports, Implementation Schedules, Briefs, Comments, Cabinet Notes and Requests for Funds. Dianne is the Ministry’s Technical Assistance and the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Focal Point. Some of Dianne's previous portfolios included, Statistician I, Economist I, Tariff Analyst and Senior Planning Officer. Dianne served on the National Council for Sustainable Development, Project Advisory Committee for Multilateral Environmental Agreements and participated in a training programme in India: International Programme in Financing Inclusive Agriculture and Rural Development.

Dianne has gained many awards and scholarships, which are listed below: 

• An award from the Rotary Club in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, for the best Advanced Level examination results (Secondary level education)
• Dianne was awarded a Scholarship whilst studying for her Masters Degree in Economics, to conduct research in the field of Regulatory Economics, for her Thesis.
• Dianne was awarded a Scholarship by the Government of the Republic of India, to study for a PhD in Economics.
• Dianne was awarded Scholarship by the Government of the Republic of Chile, to participate in the Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation based on International Cooperation.
• Under the Singapore Cooperation Programme’s Training Award, Dianne participated in a training programme titled: Public Private Partnerships: Infrastructure Projects Development

Dianne's proudest achievement giver her passion sustainable rural development is preparing a Rural Electrification Policy and Project Proposal recommending the extension of the electricity Grid and the utilisation of Solar Powered Panels, to provide electrification, for rural communities. Further to this achievement, Dianne is proud to have language skills in Spanish, French and German.

Falko helps leaders double the effectiveness of their teams in a matter of weeks. In the best case, this can be done without hiring new employees or reorganizing.

This can be achieved by different approaches that can be combined in a way putting value creation in the spotlight. To mention a few: making work visible, getting things done, team topologies, the art of business value, coaching habit and moving from a project to a product or even service mindset.

• https://vempio.de/podcast/ Podcast “DevOps from your ears straight to the brain” mostly in German language but with quite a few English episodes, too.
• Trainings in cooperation with DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association)
  • DASA DevOps Professional - Specify and Verify – DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) co-author
  • DASA DevOps Certification Program (devopsagileskills.org) as trainer
• Trainings with colleagues of vempio
  • English: DevOps Basics, Scaling DevOps, DevOps in Embedded Systems, DevOps Value Streams
  • German: DevOps Grundlagen, DevOps in der Praxis, Skalierung von DevOps, DevOps Wertströme
• First graduate and best of class in Engineering IT Master at University Magdeburg