Mwaka Lungu
As Managing Director of the Consortium, Mwaka's drive is to see the mission of the organisation fulfilled as it advances business agility worldwide and support the professional development of its members. Mwaka implements and delivers the strategic objectives as agreed by the board and maintains an extensive up to date understanding of the organisation’s finances. Her areas of special interest include finance models, forecasting, business agility and leadership, and recreational baking.
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Emmy Christmas
Working within the support function of the delivery team, Emmy keeps the Consortium's Human Resources function ticking over, looking after everything from employee benefits, recruitment, payroll and policies to encouraging and facilitating the learning and development of the staff. She also works with the Board of Directors and senior leadership to influence and implement the Consortium's strategy. Outside work, Emmy likes to spend her time in the company of good movies, good food and good dogs.
Sophie Ilett
Sophie's role focuses on processing store orders, ensuring a smooth delivery of our products, and dealing with the ‘front line’ of incoming queries. She loves her role as Administration Lead as she is super organised and loves customer interaction. In her spare time, Sophie enjoys time with her dog ‘Lulu Bear’; she is always out and about enjoying the good things in life and infecting everyone with her laugh.
Katie Taylor
Katie worked as a freelance consultant for many years, then moved into academia to develop and launch the UK’s first Masters in Agile Leadership. She also co-founded the Agile Research Network which bridges the gap between academia and research. Katie has been a director for 16 years and is honoured to be the current Consortium Chair. She believes it is an exciting time as the field of business agility matures and Agile Business Consortium evolves to Professional Body status.
- Website:
- agilebusiness.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/katie-taylor-3b58061
Val Cox
Val is responsible for introducing the Consortium's Continuing Professional Development policy and supporting resources to help members develop their careers and hone their skills. CPD includes any learning activities that professionals carry out, so she checks member eligibility criteria and award accreditation to CPD providers. As you’d expect of someone who champions lifelong learning, she likes to spend her free time trying to improve her skills and is currently working on painting and coaching.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/valcox
Richard Campbell
To deliver on our mission to advance business agility worldwide, we develop and offer a range of knowledge products for agile practitioners and professionals. Richard's focus is building engagement with those using or potentially using our knowledge products to understand the challenges and opportunities to which we must respond. He seeks to understand what we can do to facilitate the adoption of agile principles to both improve delivery and the human experience when applying business agility. Richard's passion for agility translates to his life outside of work as a sustainable, ecological house self-builder, and advocate for social justice.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/rjcampbell
Andrew Craddock
Andrew has been working with agile methods since 1997 and, as a consultant, trainer and coach, helping individuals and organisations adopt agile ways of working, since 2001. He has been a director of the Consortium since 2003 primarily helping shape and integrate our methods and frameworks for most of that time. Having spent a productive year as Chair – a year focused on initiating the consortiums journey to becoming a globally relevant professional body for business agility professionals – Andrew is pleased to be readjusting his focus back to the methodology aspect of consortium business as the Product Architecture Lead.
Maher Hasan
Maher is an accomplished product manager with experience in agile, Lean and PRINCE2 environments helping launch multiple start-ups. He thrives on taking complex challenges and translating them into business value via simple user experiences, ensuring that good designs are backed up by good quality and accessible build. Maher is experienced in designing and implementing business solutions and has a proven track record of delivering technology products within budget, time and specification.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/maherhasan
Josie Robinson
As the Web Lead, Josie's role involves creating and updating the Consortium's website. She also spends time developing SEO techniques and exploring our monthly stats, which she finds particularly interesting. Josie has two small children and a dog to look after outside of work, so there is always something to keep her busy. In the evenings, she likes to wind down by crafting, especially making homemade cards and cross-stitching.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/josiejfrobinson
Jason Wright
Jason is an Agile Trainer, Coach, and Consultant, and he is passionate about bringing together his extensive and diverse business experience with hands-on agile transformation expertise to help individuals, teams, and organisations on their agile journey. He has been a director of the consortium for seven years, and he feels fortunate to be able to apply this experience to supporting and influencing the evolution of business agility worldwide. He is particularly excited to be a part of the next stage of the Consortium's journey to becoming the Professional Body for business agility professionals.
Emily Ruffle
Working as part of the delivery team, Emily is responsible for proposition development and delivery, a varied role working with the team to enhance the Consortium's communications, partnerships, and products and services. Her evenings and weekends are taken up by sailing, crafting, allotment digging and exploring the great outdoors – following her mantra “live your life and eat cake!”.
Christina Reet
Christina is the Marketing Lead for the Consortium. She has a varied background in graphic design and marketing and is central to promoting the Consortium's products and events to the right audience. Christina works closely with the rest of the marketing team, using her creative and critical thinking skills to ensure the Consortium's strategy delivers. You will find her at a gig in her spare time, doodling new ideas for funny greeting cards or planning her next wild camping trip.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/christinareet
Pamela Ashby
I’m a career marketer, qualified coach, Scrum Master and Agile Marketing trainer who’s worked with large organisations to improve their agility. I set up the Marketing Agility Community meet-up and was part of the team updating the Agile Marketing Manifesto. For me, the Agile Business Consortium has an important role as an agnostic and inclusive professional body, advancing business agility worldwide. As Strategist, I’m happy to contribute to that goal. When not at my computer, I like to be outside enjoying the English countryside.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/pam-ashby/
Danielle Roper
Danielle is the Communications Specialist for the Consortium. With a background in journalism, content writing and marketing, she is responsible for creating content and engaging audiences by communicating stories that resonate with them. She also looks after social media and works closely with the Marketing Team to increase digital engagement. Outside of work, you’ll find her singing at gigs in Arabic, Turkish and sometimes even English! She is also a regular theatre and music reviewer and a member of a quiz league.
Mia Williams
As a Support Specialist, Mia dedicates most of her time to assisting the Propositions Lead, Marketing Specialist and Administration Lead. The other side of her role is working as a mentee with the Product Architecture Lead and Learning Development Lead. Away from work Mia enjoys going on coastal hikes, finding hidden gems and discovering great food places.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/mia-w-a72258100
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
Board of Directors
Katie Taylor
Katie worked as a freelance consultant for many years, then moved into academia to develop and launch the UK’s first Masters in Agile Leadership. She also co-founded the Agile Research Network which bridges the gap between academia and research. Katie has been a director for 16 years and is honoured to be the current Consortium Chair. She believes it is an exciting time as the field of business agility matures and Agile Business Consortium evolves to Professional Body status.
- Website:
- agilebusiness.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/katie-taylor-3b58061
Jason Wright
Jason is an Agile Trainer, Coach, and Consultant, and he is passionate about bringing together his extensive and diverse business experience with hands-on agile transformation expertise to help individuals, teams, and organisations on their agile journey. He has been a director of the consortium for seven years, and he feels fortunate to be able to apply this experience to supporting and influencing the evolution of business agility worldwide. He is particularly excited to be a part of the next stage of the Consortium's journey to becoming the Professional Body for business agility professionals.
Mwaka Lungu
As Managing Director of the Consortium, Mwaka's drive is to see the mission of the organisation fulfilled as it advances business agility worldwide and support the professional development of its members. Mwaka implements and delivers the strategic objectives as agreed by the board and maintains an extensive up to date understanding of the organisation’s finances. Her areas of special interest include finance models, forecasting, business agility and leadership, and recreational baking.
Myriam Hamed Torres
Myriam is the Innovation Lead at Thomson Reuters Labs collaborating across business segments and customers to deliver the next generation of data-driven solutions through rapid prototyping and agile research and experimentation. She is also an agile coach, mentor, author, speaker, and event organiser with the goal of bringing individuals, teams and organisations together to help them thrive in a VUCA world. As Director of the Consortium Myriam's ambition is to bring industry insight to support our members with relevant knowledge and products as well as guide the next generation of professionals.
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Vince Grant
Vince has been a Director of the Consortium since 2019. Currently, he chairs the Board’s RemNom (Remunerations and Nominations) Committee in addition to taking an active interest in supporting the overall organisational strategy. Vince's company Catalyst has been unconsciously run as an agile organisation right from its foundation over 25 years ago; the penny finally dropped when he attended the Consortium's annual conference in London some years ago, and he has been involved with the Consortium ever since! Outside of business, Vince has interests in music (including as a local church organist), reading, walking, cycling, gardening, and occasional online studies in Astrophysics and related fields.
Kevin Withane
Kevin is a senior legal and compliance director (UK qualified) with over 18 years experience gained globally in both in-house and private practice roles. He has broad experience managing a legal function spread across regions and direct involvement in developing and driving forward company strategies, with a particular focus on advising on corporate governance, corporate finance, regulatory matters, M&A, ethics and compliance, diversity, equity and inclusion.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/kevinwithane
Sophie Theen
Sophie joined the consortium recently as a Non-Executive Director in hopes of supporting the consortium's ambitious growth plans in bringing the world of agile closer to organisations, companies and individuals who aren't part of this ecosystem yet. Sophie is the Chief People Officer at Oakam, where her aim is to shift cultural paradigms within organisations and to champion diversity and equality using structured, disruptive thinking. Sophie has been featured on the Women in Fintech Powerlist for three consecutive years and was the first HR professional to win the top 35 Standout in Fintech!
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sophietheen