SAFe^® Product Owner/Product Manager 5.1 with POPM Certification

Lori is an Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach and Trainer with twenty years of training and coaching experience, eight years in Information Technology (IT) in the HealthCare Industry. She is a highly energetic and creative instructor who is passionate about facilitating participant engagement and excitement for learning while connecting the participants to the vision and purpose of the organization, i.e. the customer. Her aim is to empower learners to action. When she is not training or coaching, she likes to spend my time with friends and family outdoors snowboarding, surfing, hiking and exploring. 

David sincerely supports Life as an Executive Advisor, Leadership Mentor, and Business Agility Coach, with an overall goal of helping individuals regain line of sight and inspiration for the "organizing causes" they (are trying to) identify with. His personal goal is for Life as "a working adult" to feel as wonderful as it did as an innocent child. The core tactic is a "restoration of curiosity" through a reduction in speculation and personal fear, in favor of the shared pursuit of what truly is known (together). Direct, shared experiences as a Team - a group of people sharing a cognitive space - brings awareness which yields healthy debate, full commitment, and accountability for meaningful Outcomes - those desired experiences of both Customers and Employees.

David combines his own leadership experiences with the collective experiences of people working in various Sectors and Industries of the last 26+ years, which are now taking form as repeatable Frameworks (i.e. Scrum, SAFe, Design-Thinking, etc). He ascended quickly as a Finance Controller in his 20s, helping a Division of 1,500 people recover from certain closure, priming the parent organization for IPO. Lean (re) Start-Up principles and Strategic Hypothesis Validation through fully inclusive tiered decision making brought broad-scale ownership by everyone in that recovery. As an IT Director, David was part of two leadership teams at key inflection points as those private venture start-ups scaled to establish a formal Corporate identity, priming for acquisition in one scenario, and to double (later triple) its scale nationwide in the other scenario. David also served a globally distributed team of 600+ talented people as a VP of Product Development, aiding in their adoption of Scaled Agile Delivery practices and resolving some tough situations in their value-chain. As a consultant, he hopes to greatly expedite a compassionate and meaningful state of existence for working professionals.  

John is a results-oriented, MBA-trained business management leader with 20+ years of business, consulting and Agile coaching experience. He has been an SPC since 2015 (SA since 2014) and has employed SAFe to coach Executives, Program Leadership, Scrum Masters, Product Management, and diverse technical teams, helping them make transformational change from traditional waterfall-oriented approaches to Agile and SAFe delivery practices and principles. His efforts have resulted in improved program alignment, higher velocity of work delivered, and quicker responses to customer requests. His broad skills were gained through sound Fortune 100/500 industry experience and delivering multi-million dollar Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Business Intelligence solutions. He has balanced experience in coaching, consulting, program/project management, and systems development and has also co-authored several Agile Boot Camp courses. John enjoys playing Jazz, Gospel, and virtually any kind of music on his Alto or Tenor sax. He also loves travel and photography.