Panel with Agile Business Awards winners.
Join some of our 2024 Agile Business Award winners who shared their organisation’s transformation stories at the Agile Business Conference. Hear about their experience being involved in the business agility awards from application to winner and how it supported their journey and created the foundations for future success. Our panellists will discuss how their business agility approach improved outcomes across leadership, culture and governance in their organisations, highlighting and how this provides a foundation for future growth and organisational success.
We will also have an open networking session at the end of the panel for you to connect with others and discuss topics raised in the panel.
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Host
Fallon Taylor
Fallon is our Knowledge and Content Lead who is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge as a gateway to personal and collective growth. Her role focuses on the creation of engaging content that educates, inspires and sparks curiosity.
With demonstrated experience in large organisations, Fallon is a logical thinker who identifies creative solutions for the intended audience. She believes in decisions that are data driven and represent what our audience is asking for. This involves collaboration with all other roles across the Consortium to ensure consistency in the value of content we publish.
In her spare time, Fallon has enjoys digital illustration, gardening, gaming and training with her Australian Shepherd, Arlo.
Speakers
Alexandra Ponce
EEnterprise Agile Coach at Liberty Specialty Markets and Product Excellence Lead Globally for Liberty Mutual.
I’ve been leading Agile Transformations for over 20 years in large organizations such as Anglo American, International Gaming Technology (IGT) and Liberty Mutual.
With a background in Industrial Engineering I have been passionate throughout my career about finding the practices and behaviours that lead to organizational performance by focusing on people and how achieving great results makes everyone have a happy more fulfilling working experience. As an ICF Accredited Executive Coach, I use a blend of coaching, agile best practices and lean governance to help people achieve greater results while building high performing teams which is then translated into positive business outcomes.
Liberty Specialty Markets
About Liberty Specialty Markets
Liberty Specialty Markets is the International specialty and commercial insurance and reinsurance division of Liberty Mutual. We offer products across key UK, European, Middle East, US, Asia Pacific & Latin America markets. We provide brokers and insureds with a broad product range and have over 2,000 employees in approximately 50 offices.
Liberty Mutual
At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. By providing protection for the unexpected and delivering it with care, we help people and businesses embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow.
In business since 1912, and headquartered in Boston, today we are the fifth largest global property and casualty insurer based on 2022 gross written premium. We also rank 86 on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the US based on 2022 revenue. As of December 31, 2022, we had $50 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
We employ over 50,000 people in 29 countries and economies around the world. We offer a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, specialty lines, reinsurance, commercial multiple-peril, workers compensation, commercial automobile, general liability, surety, and commercial property.
For more information, visit www.libertymutualinsurance.com.
Anupam Tandon
Anupam is seasoned Procurement Leader with 17+ years of experience transforming global procurement functions and driving cost savings through strategic sourcing, process optimization, and technology enablement.
Currently, leading Strategic Procurement as Head at Sun Life Global Solutions, managing a team that delivers $40 million in annual procurement spend.
Responsible for transformative strategic advisory, third party risk management, shared services centers of excellence, policies and processes, and digital transformation through SAP Ariba and S/4 Hana platforms.
Previously held senior procurement leadership roles at Walmart, Carrefour, and Samsung, where I successfully implemented category management strategies, process re-engineering initiatives, and technology roadmaps.
Certified in Agile methodologies through SAFe 6 and a certified Mindfulness practitioner. Passionate about sustainability and leading procurement's role in achieving corporate social responsibility goals.
Proven track record of building high-performing procurement organizations through people development, change management, and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement. Expert advisor for procurement shared services, third party governance, and digital transformation strategies.
Always seeking new challenges to apply strategic thinking, process expertise and technology knowledge in creating business value through procurement excellence.
Sunlife India
The SUNLIFE India procurement function is integral to sunlife business . It is responsible for the coordination and management of all activities related to the acquisition of goods and services.
The overall Goals of strategic Procurement is to achieve large and sustainable cost reductions, long-term supply stability, minimization of supplier risk, Improve quality. and reduce cost.
We, at SUNLIFE India Procurement, have embarked on an agile transformation journey, rethinking how we can create value by embracing more flexible methods of working and developing a delivery model that is more sensitive to change and fast-paced situations. Sunlife Procurement has classified its present activities and processes to determine which areas require greater efficiency and which might benefit from greater agility.
It should then provide teams with the skills and culture that promotes speed, innovation, and chances for continual development. Value creation will be enabled by the transformation of the delivery model, which will create new opportunities and strengthen the capacities to respond quickly to exogenous and endogenous changes.
The challenge that emerges is to identify all the activities that Procurement function currently performs and assess the current level of maturity and nature of the activity (e.g., strategic vs. transactional, efficiency vs. agility). This determines where higher efficiency and reduced effort are required, and where agile, progressive, and iterative development can create and add value.
Spencer Allen
Spencer Allen, Bsc, Dip IT, is a customer focused Scrum Master and Agile Coach, with a proven delivery record in the UK telecoms service provision market.
He is a Senior Scrum Master in Vodafone UK where he has honed significant skills in data analysis, design, product management and financial acumen during his varied career with the company from soon after its inception.
Spencer is a result focused, people first leader and has enjoyed being central in Vodafone’s recent steps towards gaining business agility.
Vodafone UK Digital
At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but it is humanity that drives our business forward.
We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.
Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun, and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.
More than 38 years ago, we made the first-ever mobile phone call, we sent the first SMS in Britain, and have been changing the lives of billions of people ever since.
Now, we are using smartphones to fight cancer, big data for social good, and we aim to connect over 250 million people to our next generation networks by 2025.
We are passionate about building a workplace where you can truly be yourself, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference to people and our planet.
We are known for our technology, but it is humanity that drives us forward.