118. Why everyone needs to be Agile

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!

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! 

Louis currently works as an independent change consultant within law enforcement. Earlier this year he founded Granger – a career development service for those who work in organisational change and those who want to.

Prior to that Louis worked for Ignite Consulting as a change specialist and trainer and has also worked extensively in Parliament and the University sector.

Louis' proudest achievement has been helping police in England and Wales design and stand up entirely new teams focused on the volume management of potentially dangerous and vulnerable individuals.

Learner and experimenter. It needs only two words to describe Michał's current role. Learner because he constantly needs to learn to stay on top of the knowledge required to lead teams and train people. Experimenter because he constantly needs to adapt the known and proven to the context of organizations they train or to whom they provide consulting services. The experimenter also because Michał is in charge of assessing and rescuing endangered projects. In OMEC two days are never the same.

Michał also sometimes participates in scientific projects:

• EUREC4A: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/4067/2021/

Michał's proudest achievement this year is being able to certify and re-certify quickly in various PM knowledge areas and also technical areas capitalizing on the knowledge he already has.

Helen is the Managing Director at Provek, having previously held the role of Training and Consultancy Director. She has an extensive project management background which includes working in both public and private sectors, successfully delivering programs, projects and business analysis for a wide variety of companies including British American Tobacco, Dresdner Bank, Wrigley, Coca Cola and the General Medical Council. Her key areas of expertise are Digital Transformation, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysis and Change Management. Helen also has Qualified Teacher Status following a brief interlude as a Secondary School English teacher.

Helens proudest achievement includes becoming Managing Director at Provek, and also re- training as a Secondary School English teacher after 25 years as a Project Manager.