Business Agility Ambassadors

Alize helps organizations explore and reshape the future way of working and ignites a different way of thinking to create a mindset that unleashes business agility. Her passion and dedication to the value of agility-based organizations drives her ambition to inspire managers and leaders to work and live from their purpose and unlock the human potential in their organisation with a key focus on the customers and add value to the world.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/alizehofmeester/

Andrea is the CEO of AgileSherpas, the world leader in Agile marketing transformation. AgileSherpas helps marketing teams become more focused, more effective, and more impactful through tailored applications of Agile frameworks. Whether you're leading your first Agile pilot or scaling practices across a department, they support you at every step of the journey. Their training, coaching, and Edge Membership platform are designed to meet marketing teams where they are and help them grow with confidence in a flexible, and affordable way. 

Since founding AgileSherpas in 2017, Andrea has published two books, Death of a Marketer and Mastering Marketing Agility, as well as hundreds of blog articles. She is the co-author of the ICAgile certification for Agile marketing, and holds numerous accreditations herself.  

Andrea has been named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Top 10 Management Consulting Entrepreneurs to Watch, and she has spoken at conferences around the world. Although once referred to as “The Beyonce of Agile Marketing,” she does step away from her Kanban board sometimes. Her favorite hobbies include drumming, boxing, and hiking in her adopted Colorado home.  

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/afryrear

Elizabeth Venter-Botha is a global leader in Agile Marketing transformation. With over 20 years of experience driving change for blue-chip organizations, she specializes in helping marketing leaders and teams build resilience, clarity, and measurable results through agility.

Recognized as a Business Agility Ambassador and a trusted strategic advisor, Elizabeth has guided complex transformations across industries, including insurance, financial services, technology, and automotive. Her career spans leadership roles at Ford, Avis, and NTT,  and today she partners with executives and teams to connect strategy to execution, foster innovation, and create adaptive, human-centered ways of working in a technology-driven age.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/lizventer/

Erum helps organisations communicate change in ways that land, stick and inspire action. With 14 years’ experience across banking, IT, fintech and insurance, she turns complex transformations into clear, human stories that drive alignment, reduce resistance and build real buy-in.

Sitting at the intersection of tech, people and narrative, she demystifies tech-driven change and Agile ways of working for non-technical audiences, helping them understand not just what’s happening but why it matters. She also coaches leaders in impactful communication and trains teams to use AI to work smarter and create communications that build trust.

She regularly delivers courses for the Institute of Internal Communication on AI, Agility, Agile Communications and tech-led change.

Email:

[email protected]

Phone:

+44 7855 404 985

Website:

www.theagilestorytellingcompany.com

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/theagilestorytellingcompany/

Ilana is a seasoned software delivery consultant and leadership coach with extensive experience supporting organizations through complex change. She helps leaders and teams build clarity, capability, and delivery confidence through contextual coaching, systems thinking, and practical, outcomes-focused guidance.

Within the Agile Business Consortium, Ilana is an active member of the Finance SIG and contributes to the broader evolution of business agility through her writing and research on governance, organizational health, internal product management, and adaptive leadership. She brings over 25 years of experience in delivery and transformation across industries, designing the conditions where people and systems can thrive.

Ilana is the author of Inside the Box: Mastering Internal Product Management and serves as Board Member & Marketing Committee Chair for Cancer Assistance Services Halton Hills.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/ilanasprongl/

Ex CEO and Managing Director Jon Ward operates at the crossroads of agile, artificial intelligence, and business strategy. He lives by the Atlantic Ocean in Westward Ho!, England, with his wife, Tatiana.

A lifelong learner, Jon is currently a Principal AI Consultant with Automation Consultants and is exploring the application of Digital Models and AI to foster agility. Recently, he piloted modern working methods using agentive AI within a software solutions provider in the global financial services sector. Recognised as a Thought Leader by the professional body, the Agile Business Consortium, and a member of the Consortium's Business Agility Think Tank.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/jon-ward-26780/

Mike is recognised for his pioneering work in Lean, Agile, and Kanban, his advocacy for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy, and his relational approach to organisation. Author of the Lean-Agile classic Kanban from the Inside (2014), Mike has written a number of books for audiences in the Business Agility space – most recently, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025).

Prior to his consulting career, he was global development manager and Executive Director at a top-tier investment bank, CTO for an energy risk management startup, and interim delivery manager for two of the UK government's digital ‘exemplar’ projects. His focus now is on wholehearted, deliberately adaptive organisations and the transformational leadership that enables them.

LinkedIn:

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/asplake

Perry Timms has over 30 years of experience in business change and performance, with the last 21 being in HR/Organisation Development. He ranked Number 1 in HR's Most Influential Thinkers 2022 (his 5th inclusion in that list) and is now in the HR Most Influential Hall of Fame and a 4x Engagement 101 Global Influencer.

Perry is a 4x Guest Professor, a 2x author and a 2x TEDx speaker. Perry founded People and Transformational HR 12 years ago, and the venture is a Certified BCorporation, a WorldBlu Certified Freedom-Centred organisation, a Gold Standard 4-day Working Week, a 2023 Top 50 EMEA Inspiring Workplaces, Top 5 Most Flexible Workplace on the Flexa Index, a Living Wage employer and a Climate Positive enterprise. Perry is a Chartered Member of the CIPD, a Fellow of the RSA and in 2024 was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in self-managed, democratic organisations.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/perrytimms/

A true force of nature. Pim is renowned for his drive to help others experiment, innovate, transform and thrive. He is a disruptive, strategic thinker and changemaker who gets his energy from developing innovative and unique ways of working that help organisations stay relevant to their customers.

With more than 20 years’ experience in SMEs as well as large organisations, he has fulfilled multiple leading commercial, marketing and product roles – with a focus on innovative, consumer-centric experiences, and products. As a result, Pim has helped build and transform high-performing, collaborative teams with a start-up mentality and a focus on the continuous process of experimenting, measuring, learning and improving. To help others, he has also mentored multiple start-ups on their path from ideation to market introduction and growth.

Pim is a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and, as co-founder of Twinxter, is now dedicated to building and growing Twinxter and TwinxterAcademy.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/pimhofmeester

Vikram is the founder of JCURV a management consultancy the sole focus of increasing the agility of organisations so they can thrive in an uncertain world. Vikram and the JCURV team work with the FTSE 100 organisations, public bodies and charities, from the Board to frontline teams, to help them deliver their strategies faster and more efficiently to the market.

He is also the Chair of the SME Committee and Board Member the Management Consultancies Association and Trustee of the charity The Garden Classroom. Previously, Vikram worked at Oliver Wyman, Lloyds Banking Group and Ernst and Young.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/vikramjain/