Alistair Corrie
Alistair is a Professional Member of the Agile Business Consortium (Catalyst) and a Qualified Chartered Accountant (FCA). He has a keen interest in emotionally intelligent leadership, the neuroscience of problem solving, the psychology of human motivation, and the Inner Game approach to performance. Alistair is a hands-on agile consultant with extensive experience in business transformation and agile product delivery. He helps leaders and teams bridge the gap between traditional and agile thinking. He believes that governance is built into Agile, and that Agile is the Trojan Horse for delivering positive change in an organisation, and that Finance and HR can be the Trojan Horses for delivering that Agility by stealth.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- corriepartnership.com/
Alun Davies-Baker
Alun is an Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) and a certified Agile Business Consortium DSDM Trainer-Coach. He is an innovative professional, with 20 years of experience in senior leadership and consulting roles, across global and UK organisations and enterprise projects. Alun aligns creative thinking with extensive business process and application knowledge to facilitate collaboration and deliver successful outcomes. An enthusiastic advocate of Agile working with an ambition to further enable this approach via the training, facilitation and coaching of teams.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/alundavies-baker
Christophe Martinot
Transformation companion, former executive, and a convinced promoter of Business Agility and Agile Ways of Working for organizations.
Christophe is the co-founder of SeedingEnergy S.L. and the founder of Agilewow4all.
His professional portfolio includes working in FMCG (L'Oréal, Danone), pharmaceutical (Sanofi, Lundbeck, Novo Nordisk,...) and medical device (Abbott) global marketing and corporate communication (Omnicom) companies, with leadership positions within marketing and sales teams locally and internationally.
Christophe is passionate about continuous improvement and the constant search for greater efficiency.
He has complemented his marketing knowledge with training and practice in agile project management. In addition to being certified as a Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance), Lean Change Agent (LCM), Heart of Agile Essentials (Level A), Agile marketing (ICP MKTG), and Agile Leadership (ICP-LEA). In addition, he is also a certified ICAgile Trainer, a Management 3.0 Facilitator, a Certified Team Diagnostic (TDS) Practitioner, and a Certified Insights Discovery@ Practitioner.
Member of the global leadership group for the drafting of version 2 of the Agile Marketing Manifesto, and is the co-author of the Agile Customer Centricity Manifesto and co-initiator of the Business Agility Hub.
His vision: Members of the organizations are happier in their work because of their way of working and the value they bring to their clients and entities.
His mission: teach and support marketing, sales, communication, etc. teams seeking greater efficiency using agile mindset and taylor made transformation processes.
Colleen Dunn Hartoonian
Colleen Dunn Hartoonian is the Agile Coaching Capability Lead at AgileSherpas, specializing in team coaching and training.
With 15 years of marketing experience under her belt in both large corporate organizations and boutique agencies, Colleen is a Swiss Army knife of Marketing Agility. Throughout her coaching career she has worked with Agile teams in finance, pharmaceutical, entertainment, communications, security and advertising industries.
She holds numerous Agile certifications, including, Certified Professional in Marketing Agility (ICP-MKG), Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP- ATF), Certified Professional in Enterprise Agility (ICP-ENT), Certified Professional in Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT) and Certified Professional in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF), Certified Professional in Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA), ICAgile Certified Instructor, and Certified Scrum Master (CSM),
Her non-Agile achievements include a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Simmons University and spotlighting as a guest lecturer at Northwestern University.
Her favorite hobbies are baking, wood working, and gardening in her Nashville home, ideally followed by a good Netflix binge on the couch with her husband and rescue dog, Scout.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.agilesherpas.com/
Elizabeth Venter
As a passionate agilist, Elizabeth guides organizations and teams in adopting agility to support the delivery of measurable business outcomes. As a marketer and strategist by trade, with global work experience on both the agency and client sides, Elizabeth understands the full marketing environment and the constant demands being placed on all levels of the marketing organization.
During her time as the Global Digital Marketing Manager for Ford Motor Company, Elizabeth and team took a more Agile approach to designing and delivering a Global User Experience in only nine months. This experience taught her the value of taking a prioritized, iterative approach allowing for experimentation, testing, and fast feedback from markets and customers.
2017 was a key turning point in Elizabeth's Agile journey. While leading an enterprise-wide Lean-Agile implementation at Mercedes-Benz South Africa, she decided to certify as a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) in 2018. Elizabeth is an energized and engaging change agent, coach, and trusted advisor, with several successful Agile implementations under her belt.
She exhibits a spirit of constant learning and holds several accreditations including ICAgile's Certified Professional in Business Agility designation, along with an Enterprise Business Agility Strategist qualification through Agility Health.
- Website:
- www.agilesherpas.com/about/elizabeth-venter
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/lizventer/
Frederik Schukken
Frederik Schukken is an agile consultant with 15+ years of experience helping organizations, management and teams. He is passionate about establishing change and growing towards high performance. Frederik has been at the forefront of large and small transformations while working for Rabobank, Quint Wellington Redwood and Pink Elephant. He’s a board member of the Agile Consortium and organizer of the annual consortium conference in the Netherlands.
- Website:
- www.agileconsortium.nl/
Giles Lindsay
A Professional Member of the Agile Business Consortium, Giles Lindsay is a business agility coach and transformational leader who is passionate about empowering organisations to achieve their full potential through strategic planning, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. His soon-to-be-published book: "Clearly Agile: A Leadership Guide to Business Agility”, is a comprehensive guide to embracing Agile principles and transforming organisations. It provides insights, case studies, and practical advice for businesses adopting agile and creating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.’
Jan Otterbach
As Elavon Europe’s Business Agility lead, Jan helps lead and coaches key strategic change initiatives and plays a key role in improving ways of working across the organisation. He has been with Elavon since 2018. Having been part of both the commercial and technology side of our business, he is passionate about expanding collaborative and cross-functional ways of working that drive results and put people first.
Jan has an extensive background in technology consulting, risk management, compliance and audit – having worked for KPMG in both Germany and Ireland before joining Elavon.
He holds a Master of Science in Strategic Management and Planning from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and a number of certifications with respect to Agile Coaching and project management, as well as Information Security, Risk Management and Auditing.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.elavon.co.uk/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/janotterbach/
Jeroen Venneman
Jeroen has made it his mission to bring agile to the organisational level. He has a lot of experience in taking agile out of the ICT domain and making the connection with business and transforming departments like HR, finance and risk. He is the chairman of the Agile Consortium in the Netherlands and examiner for the Agile Master Certificate. With more than 25 years of experience in consultancy, training and coaching, no challenge is too big for Jeroen.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/jeroenvenneman/
Jim Ewel
Jim Ewel is one of the authors of the Agile Marketing Manifesto and the co-founder of the Agile Marketing Alliance (www.agilemarketingalliance.com ). He is also the author of the essential guide to implementation of Agile marketing, The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing.
He is frequently asked to speak on the topic of Agile Marketing at industry conferences, and he has helped over 80 companies adopt Agile marketing, including organizations as diverse as T-Mobile, Salesforce, Best Buy Canada, Thales, Doxy.me, EQ Bank, Boston Private, CUNA, NAIT, Deseret Digital, SpaceSaver, Great Dane Trailers, Northern Arizona University, Netskope, Sprinklr, and Zenprise.
Earlier in his career, Jim spent 12 years at Microsoft in various roles including GM of SQL Server marketing and Vice President of Server Marketing. Jim was also CEO of three startups in the Seattle area, all of which grew rapidly and were eventually sold to Oracle, Google, and Stratus Video.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.agilemarketingalliance.com
Liviu Mesesan
Liviu Mesesan is working as a Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach, investing his passion into helping others work better, efficiently, and effectively every day.
Being the first Registered Scrum Trainer by Agile Education Program, in Central and Eastern Europe makes him responsible in delivering the correct message, as it was originally created and put into practice by Jeff Sutherland himself, co-creator of Scrum Framework.
With two decades of experience working with individuals and teams from small startups to global enterprises makes him eager to help others succeed. He holds degrees in Economics, Computer Science Engineering, and Software Product Management. Having spent time in the roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner, Director of Projects, CTO, and CEO.
His mission is to leave a positive impact to individuals’, teams’ and organizations’ way of working, by training and coaching them into working with Agile and Scrum.
- Website:
- liviumesesan.com/
Melissa Reeve
As co-founder of the Agile Marketing Alliance, SAFe contributor and Agile marketing thought leader, Melissa has over 25 years of experience leading marketing teams in the high tech, education and agile spaces. Prior to co-founding the Alliance with Jim Ewel, she created the Agile Marketing with SAFe course, founded the SAFe Business Agility podcast, and helped lead the evolution of the Agile Marketing Manifesto in 2021. An active speaker and thought leader in the Agile marketing space, Melissa lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA with her husband, chickens and dogs, where she enjoys hiking and gardening.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- www.agilemarketingalliance.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/melissamreeve/
Myles Hopkins
Myles Hopkins is a business agility influencer and leads the business agility community in Africa. He is the founder of Be Agile and has been a globally respected consultant for the past 20 years.
Myles is a strategic systems thinker whose strength lies in seeing the bigger picture and understanding how that will translate across the full internal and external ecosystem that a client operates within.
He guides organisations to place the customer at the centre of everything they do whilst, simultaneously, enabling this through winning market strategies, focussed innovation, seamless and timely delivery, digital solutions and real-time business intelligence.
Myles believes that the organisations that thrive in the future are those with the best talent and drives a strong people agenda within his clients.
- Website:
- www.beagile.co.za/
Priti Vyas
Priti Vyas is an Enterprise Agile Coach, Senior Growth and Transformation Consultant, Trainer and mentor at Tata Consultancy Services. Her agile expedition started in 2009. She has worked with diverse industries like Telecom, Banking, Pharmacy, Technology, Travel Tourism and Hospitality across geographies, working with CXOs for their enterprise’s agile transformation journey. She has contributed to TCS’s signature leadership and agile programs. She has groomed and mentored 2000+ people from different organizations.
She has done M. Tech from BITS Pilani – Specialization in Data and Analytics and has a B.E. in Electronics and Communications. She is SAFe Program Consultant, Lean Portfolio Management Certified, Scrum Certified Professional, Google’s Digital Cloud Leader, Professional Agile Leadership certified.
She has been a speaker in external conferences including Agile India, Agile Network India, written articles, and has been reviewer for external agility awards.
She is an avid reader and globetrotter, travelling; getting to know culture, heritage, language of various countries is some of her interest areas.
Rachel Chapman
Rachel is a strategic marketing leader with over 20 years’ experience in a wide range of marketing disciplines. Her marketing career started at Abbey National where she ran the Customer Insight team, setting up customer measurement frameworks ranging from brand perception through to customer satisfaction surveys. She went on to lead the B2B and B2C Marketing teams at Santander, launching the iconic ‘Bank of Antandec’ campaign.
Rachel left Santander in 2019 and set up her own Marketing Consultancy business, RBC Future Focus. She specialises in helping marketing departments become more effective, efficient and adaptable, with a focus on implementing agile ways of working. Rachel is an accredited ICAgile instructor, running their Agility in Marketing course, and co-founder of the hugely successful Meetup group, the Marketing Agility Community.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/rachchapman
Rikard Olsson
Rikard has vast experience of developing control models and management processes, including from his previous role as chief controller at AstraZeneca. He is today a sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars where he challenges how we lead and manage our companies and organizations, often with headlines such as Beyond budgeting / Dynamic management, and Future Finance.
Rikard has the ability to make the difficult easy and is happy to share his international experiences. Rikard's assignments primarily include business analyses, development of new governance models and development of shared services with a focus on financial functions. He has extensive industry experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare / real estate and real estate. Rikard has been the Managing Director of the Beyond Budgeting Institute since 2018.
- Website:
- bbrt.org/
Robb Alexander
Forward-thinking Senior Financial Services IT Professional and Agile Program Manager with 15+ years’ achievement leading major process and system improvement projects at premier financial institutions and consulting firms within the derivatives, regulatory, front, middle and back office spaces as well as in the FinTech and InsurTech SaaS industries. Proven record of success leveraging extensive financial and regulatory knowledge to plan and execute strategic improvement projects that realize immediate and sustainable increases in revenues and/or reduction in costs. Diligent strategist and negotiator with a keen ability to influence key decision makers. Especially adept in Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Large-scale Scrum (LeSS), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum@Scale (S@S), Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, utilizing the latest technological, management and training strategies to drive growth and efficiency in product development and operations.
Outside of work: an avid history buff, NFL and college football fan, boxer, home gym rat and softball trainer of my beloved daughters
Ruchira Parchur
A perpetually curious and people-centric Agile Leader, I thrive on cultivating a psychologically safe environment for creative problem-solving. Passionate about coaching, mentoring, and facilitating meaningful conversations, I specialize in strategic data analysis, process optimization, creating thinking environments and driving innovative experiments.
As an advocate for visual thinking (@InformationArtist), I appreciate intersections of innovation and collective thinking. A weekday corporate, weekend explorer and a full-time bibliophile. I share my day-to-day learnings of self-development in Agile, Leadership & Management at https://medium.com/informationartist.
Tuukka Smolander
Tuukka is a lean-agile advocate, change agent, program manager, leader and advisor with 20+ years of experience in the digital transformation and B2B space. With an engineering background and a diverse history of line organization and consultant positions, from early-stage startups to multinational corporations, Tuukka draws from a deep analytical understanding of lean-agile theory and principles combined with an abundance of practical hands-on experience from the trenches.
In addition to delivering change as a hands-on consultant and advisor, Tuukka is a coauthor of the Kokonaiskettera.fi lean-agile framework for 21st century service organizations by Triari Consulting.
Uloaku Ojiaku
Uloaku (Ula) Ojiaku is a Business Agility Strategist, coach, mentor and trainer with a focus on helping leaders and their teams in large organisations embrace a Lean-Agile mindset and adopt its associated ways of working to improve how they operate, effectively respond to changes in the marketplace and ultimately deliver value to their customers
With over 20 years of professional experience, she has worked in multiple countries, in a variety of technical, business and leadership roles across industries including Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Government, Retail and Consulting.
She is the Founder & CEO of Mezahab Group (a UK-based Lean Agile Innovation training and consulting company) and hosts the podcast Agile Innovation Leaders. She also currently serves a multinational retail organisation as an Enterprise Agility Strategist & Coach.
Vic Page
Vic is an independent consultant with a wide experience of delivering and analysing Information Systems projects within traditional and Agile development environments. He also has considerable experience in the development, implementation, assessment and validation of foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the Computer Science and Software Engineering disciplines.
In his early years, Vic worked for BT as a Systems Analyst, Requirements Engineer, Developer and Project Manager for both traditional and Agile projects based in the UK, USA and Europe. This included the development of the Syncordia Billing System and various CRM systems for BT Europe.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/vicpage
Vikram Jain
Vikram is an award-winning entrepreneur with a passion and proven track record in complex business turnarounds and performance improvement projects in a broad range of industries including financial services, the public sector and the energy sector. He is skilled in developing robust strategies to drive business performance balanced with an even stronger experience and passion for delivering results through inspiring others to help themselves, sheer hard work and pride in quality. Vikram is also the founder of JCURV, a consultancy with the sole focus of increasing the agility of the UK.
- Website:
- www.jcurv.com
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/vikramjain/
Zoë Merchant
Zoe Merchant is the founder and managing director of Bright, a strategic B2B marketing consultancy that gives marketers the power to do great work and deliver business results. With over 20 years of experience in agile marketing, she helps clients reinvent their marketing operations, align with business goals, and deliver tangible value.
As a leader and innovator in her field, Zoe has been recognised as a top 10 women leader of 2020, a 3x #40overforty advertising and marketing leader, and a #CannesLions70 Creative B2B juror in 2023. She is also a certified Agility in Marketing professional and a member of the Bank of England Decision Maker Panel.
Zoe is passionate about investing and reinventing marketing teams, promoting diversity and inclusion, and championing marketing's role in business transformation.
Being a volunteer reviewer for the Agile Business Awards is a great opportunity to make a positive contribution to advancing business agility.
You can raise your professional profile and make a positive contribution to advancing business agility. You will have loads of learnings on offer both from the entries themselves and the discussions with others on the reviewing panel.
- You may have the opportunity to host sessions during the live event should you wish too
- Connect with other industry experts to review these outstanding applications
- Learn firsthand and hear agile success stories
- Be appreciated and acknowledged as an Agile Business Awards 2024 reviewer
- Opportunity to join and start Special interest groups
- Receive Credly badge to support your CV and profile
Commitment from us
- Help you as best as we can on how to do scoring (webinar w/c 27th November)
- Provide easy-to-use informative formats
- Be available, approachable, and communicative 😊
- Provide you with information as early as possible
- Publish your name as one of the reviewers on the website – after the application deadline
Commitment from you
- Avoid naming which organisations you have reviewed
- Commit not to disclose the detail and content of applications you have reviewed
- Declare any relationships held that may preclude your evaluation of an entry
- Review each application without bias
- Attend the webinar on 27th November or watch the recording
- Evaluate content and evidence as per guidance offered
- Support and positively represent the brand of the Agile Business Awards at all times
- Share any relevant feedback pertaining to the awards process or conference, so we can continue to improve
- Utilise your networks to promote the Awards to bring in potential candidates
Reviewer FAQs
You can raise your professional profile and gain recognition for making a positive contribution to advancing business agility. Be part of the growing community of Business Agility experts. There will be a whole host of learnings on offer, both from the entries themselves and the discussions with others on the review panel. You may also have the opportunity to host sessions during the live event, should you wish to.
As the professional body for business agility, we know it’s not all about qualifications! As a reviewer, it’s important you have good experience in the category you’re looking to review and a deep understanding of agile and business agility.
No. Due to conflict of interest, you are unable to both apply and review.
Before receiving applications for review, you will be sent a list of applicant organisation names. This is so that no reviewer will evaluate entries from organisations with whom they have, or have had, a relationship. Please let us know if this applies once you have received this list.
Register here and we’ll be sure to send you updates.
You will find out whether you are a successful reviewer when we have finalised the review panels. Please note, if you are not successful there will be other ways you can contribute to the awards and conference.
Dates to be aware of:
- 27th November – Webinar for all reviewers on the evaluation process for applications
- 4th December 22:00 GMT/UTC – Deadline for Awards applications Before receiving applications for review, you will be sent a list of applicant organisation names. This is so that no reviewer will evaluate entries from organisations with whom they have a relationship or potential conflict. Please let us know if this applies once you have received that list.
- 6th December – Before receiving applications for review, you will be sent a list of applicant organisation names. This is so that no reviewer will evaluate entries from organisations with whom they have a relationship or potential conflict. Please let us know if this applies once you have received that list. At this point, you will be asked to confirm you have no relationship with the applicants you are going to review.
- 8th December – Date by which applications will be sent to you for review
- 19th January 2024 22:00 GMT/UTC – Deadline for application reviews
- 23rd/24th January TBC – Balancing reviewer panels per category
- 29th January – Organisations will be informed whether they have been selected for awards and are invited to speak at the Awards Conference
- 6th February – Public announcement of selected organisations for each category i.e., those that will be invited to present at the Awards Conference
- 17-18th April – Agile Business Awards Conference
Reviewers will have 6 weeks to review. Note: dates may be open to minor changes, the period of December 8th – January 19th is fixed and will need the reviewer to be available for doing the review.
We strive for a maximum of 2 applications per reviewer. This will depend on the number of applications we receive and the number of reviewers we have on the review panel. Please be assured that our goal is for each reviewer not to be overloaded!
This will vary by application - we suggest to allow 8 hours of concentrated work and writing up of notes per application.
There will be two reviewer check-ins: Monday 18th September and 23rd October 2023 These sessions are optional to meet other reviewers, ask any questions about the process and guidance criteria.
Reviewer Training Webinar: Monday 27th November! Weekly check-ins will be scheduled during the review period: 8th December - 19th January 2024
For support with the review process and criteria, please refer to the Award Reviewer Guidance PDF and the Award Reviewer Criteria.
Reviewers will receive their Credly badge after the review process. The Credly badge is only given to those reviewers who have participated in the Awards review process. Sharing the badge on LinkedIn can support your CV and profile.