Podcast Guest

I am a professional coach and I work with organizational leaders to build cultures of accountability & greater agility.

I do this by connecting people, teams and organizations to their vision for agility. I connect individuals to teams, teams to organizations, and organizations to their mission, vision and positive core. I have a sense about organizational systems and how people relate and thrive in them.

I am a solo-preneur and this is my 3.0. Back in 2002 I began my 1.0, and during that time, after a sabbatical from my technical career, I did interesting work in conflict resolution, workplace mediation and diversity training. Since then, I’ve learned, gained skills, developed my professional purpose and honed my superpowers.

My TOP 5 StrengthFinder #SuperPowers:

1. IDEATION: Finding connections
2. COMMUNICATION: Putting thoughts into words
3. ACTIVATOR: Turning thoughts into action
4. STRATEGIC: Finding creative alternatives
5. MAXIMIZER: Focus on strengths

The name of my company, Operational Innovations, came from my vision of operational excellence. I believe the systems in which we work should support, not impede. Sometimes a second set of eyes can help us see the things we need to see. Or sometimes a skilled coach can help us find the answers we’ve been seeking. I have a keen sense for spotting and eliminating waste in organizations.

It is my mission to (re)connect leaders to their vision, to build agility, develop high performing teams and to create organizations and cultures where people want to work!

I am an executive and leadership coach, a learning facilitator and public speaker.

Go to: www.operational-innovations.com

AKA/Misspellings: Alisha McLain, Alicia McClain, Alicia McClean

Specialties: Agile organizational transformation, change management, executive and leadership coaching, expert training experiences, public speaking

#Agile, #Leadership, #Coaching, #Agiletraining #Organizationaltransitions, #agility #badass

A Communication, Leadership and Public Speaking Coach/Consultant based in Los Angeles, CA, working globally with populations ranging from private individuals to non-profit & for-profit teams to C-Suite executives. As an ICF certified coach with a performing arts background, I combine personal and professional growth strategies with techniques that promote higher impact communication, allowing clients to achieve a new level of authenticity, comfort and influence in their lives and work.

In the wheelhouse:
– creating content and rehearsing presentations for any setting;
– executive and entrepreneurial coaching;
– leadership training for individuals identified as high-potential;
– developing and facilitating team-building/collaboration workshops and off-sites;
– assessing, strategizing and building processes for transition and culture management

Also a Director with Stand & Deliver Consulting Group, based in Mill Valley, California. Building and executing transformational programs for teams looking to elevate their impact via High-Performance Communication. S&D programs are built on intersecting philosophies from the worlds of sports, theatre and high performance psychology, making them compelling and relevant for any audience looking to maximize performance potential. 

Melissa Boggs is a keynote speaker, leadership, agility, and culture coach and executive with background in leadership, business, and product development. A Certified Enterprise Coach with an MBA, she blends education, experience, and enthusiasm to work closely with leaders on their most challenging business problems. Through training, consulting, and coaching, Melissa encourages executive leadership to expose and understand the hidden strengths and weaknesses that exist within their culture, and how they can amplify what is best about the traditions, habits, and behaviors in their org. Most of all, she helps leaders and employees alike to introduce joy and inspiration into the workplace.

She is a former nonprofit executive and board member, having served on the Board of Directors for both Scrum Alliance and Agile Denver. In 2020, she was privileged to present at the World Business and Executive Coach Summit, and has been featured in Business Coaching and Authority magazines. She is currently serving as the Vice President of Business Agility at Sauce Labs.

I am a professional coach & supervisor with 20 years experience in helping individuals, teams, business leaders, and other professionals raise their confidence, efficiency, and performance through a better understanding of themselves and others. I have over 20 years of business experience leading companies & teams, and as a consultant & trainer in areas such as authentic leadership, team management & collective intelligence, action learning, and co-development cultures.

My approach is person-centred & psychodynamic and I help clients identify their values, needs, priorities & preferences, and understand the impact these elements have on their own behaviour & performance, as well as that of others. Through raised self-awareness of how we function as individuals, team-members, managers, and leaders, as well as the impact our behaviour has on those around us, the work I do with clients then focuses on reinforcing the areas in which they function effectively, and developing the areas they feel need to address.

People know me as the “Pragmatic Manager.” I offer frank advice for your tough problems. I help leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development.

I could say that I am a human who facilitates other people’s thinking. I am a business owner. A Mother. A friend. A volunteer. A Master Coach with over 11000 hours experience. Author of Simplifying Coaching (Open University Press https://amzn.to/3cRFOuk) All of these are true and each will impact how we start a conversation. With some definitions you might assign me power which I do not deserve.

Right now my learning journey is all about power and partnership – it’s an interesting ride and I’ll be sharing and listening through blog posts as I go… I’m interested in how we hold presence in coaching and work in partnership in spite of power differences. In demand as a coach, supervisor, mentor coach and keynote speaker, my passion is to deliver and develop deep and simple coaching across the world. That means supporting coaches to do less!

I am an Agile + professional coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. My current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, helping leaders take up the “Agile transformation” that is theirs to make…this is where I thrive and help thrive.

My Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why I am a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.

I have been pleased to serve the emergence of Agile Coaching as a profession. In 2010, I co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute which has developed over 10,000 people in the knowledge, skills and being-ness needed to yield genuinely competent agile coaching. Since 2011, I have been a member of the ICAgile working committee that defines the learning objectives for Agile Facilitation and Coaching and I assess candidates for the ICAgile-Expert in Agile Coaching competence-based certification. I have also served the Scrum Alliance as an application reviewer for the Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation.

I am the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10 Agile book years after publication and will be released as an audiobook in Fall 2020.

I like to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change, organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace, agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. I tend toward a balance of the provocative and practical.

I hold an alphabet soup of certifications: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), Project Management Professional (PMP), Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC) and Certified Integral Facilitator (IF). I am also a trained Co-Active Coach and Leader.

Agility comes from a group’s ability to think and act together, and trust enables them to move forward more quickly and in concert. I am a What-If thinker, spotter of downstream impact, and applier of knowledge who is unintimidated by big problems. My goal-focused coaching is tailored to meet your needs and work with you towards your desired outcomes.

My current areas of focus include:
* Developing organizational change strategy, including product/program/team structure shifts to increase autonomy and customer-focus
* Coaching leaders and teams to improve work relationships, reduce burnout, and enable better delivery
* Facilitating team and organizational workshops to create alignment, clarify roles, and enhance collaboration & delivery practices
* Public speaking and mentoring others to apply agile practices that make sense and become trusted leaders

Pradeepa Narayanaswamy is an enterprise thought leader in the agile space, and an executive leadership coach. She is a self-proclaimed “Pragmatic Agilista”, helping organizations deliver high quality products and services with customer focused outcomes.

Pradeepa has 20 + years of industry experience in both co-located and distributed environments with a diverse background ranging from development, testing, leading teams, scrum masters and agile coaches and now to an enterprise agile leader.

As an enterprise agile leader, she takes a systemic view to look for improvement opportunities and uses continuous feedback and learning to prioritize, implement and measure progress. She strongly believes and works towards bringing people together to collaboratively and creatively solve organizational problems. Pradeepa values the benefits of technical practices and is an avid supporter of bringing agile techniques into development, testing and deployment cycles.

Cornelia Shipley is the founder of 3C Consulting and a sought-after speaker, professional development and diversity consultant and strategic planning expert who works with clients to expand their capacity, increase their capability and drive clarity in the organization to ultimately increase  the retention and advancement of mission critical talent.

As an executive development strategist, Cornelia and her team have worked with leaders at Procter and Gamble, Turner Broadcasting ,DaVita, Kaman Industrial Technologies, VMware, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline,  Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, Mondelez, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Care Network, Comerica Bank, Edward Jones, Ascension Health and others as a coach, strategic planning consultant and professional development facilitator.