Why I Speak
I love being part of the global agile community! I truly enjoy blending my personal life and my professional life. Me and my husband, Alex Sloley, travel the world speaking at agile events and mashing that up with global exploration and leisure travel. We will speak at your events, visit the local museums, explore regional history, feast on your delicious foods, and connect with your people and agile community.
What you Get
I won't just speak for an hour and then disappear.
I will:
- Attend the entire conference
- Sign books, participate in panels, do photoshoots, give interviews, engage in podcasts, publicize and market your conference
- Be an engaged participant in sessions and workshops of other speakers
- Give emergency sessions if a speaker drops out
- Be a coach in a coaching clinic
- Attend social events
- Connect with your agile community
This is fun for me; I want to do these things!
What I Ask for:
These are my basic needs for speaking at your event:
- A free ticket to your conference. I want to enjoy the sessions, meet people, and just have a good time.
- A hotel room at the conference, or nearby, for the night before, the nights during, and the night after the conference. I don't need a fancy 5-star resort or a suite, but a king-size bed and double-occupancy for my husband would be nice.
- If you have a speaker dinner, please include me and my husband, Alex.
- Economy airfare for return flights from Sydney, Australia. I don't expect fancy business class. However, it would be nice if you paid for inflight meals, seat assignment, and luggage allowance. Also, direct flights are preferred, but a stop or 2 is OK.
- If you elect to have Alex Sloley speak also, you only have to buy hotel for 1 person. But you get 2 speakers!
How to Start
Check out my videos and speaking history, they give a nice overview of my experience and general vibe. Then explore my popular talks and see if anything resonates. All those sessions are described with info to help you select a session and to book me and/or Alex for an event. And then contact me either through this website or LinkedIn. I look forward to hearing from you!
Custom talk
Dont' see something you want, let me know! I am happy to create custom talks on a wide variety of subjects about all things kanban, lean, metrics, agile, Scrum, etc...
Recent speaker History
Regional Scrum Gathering Beijing - 2024 - Congnitive Bias: What are you Hiding
Melbourne Agile and Scrum Meetup - 2024 - Lack of Curiosity: The silent killer of agility
The Limited WIP Society - 2024 - The magic of Kanban - Why I use it and why I hope you will too
RSG Singapore - 2024 - You can't buy an agile transformation: #stopbadagile
Agile Fight Club: Scrum vs. Kanban - Kuala Lumpur - 2024
Sydney Tech Leaders - 2024 - Panel - discussion Lockdowns are over. So where do we go from here?
ScanAgile - Helsinki Finland - 2024 - Keynote - Lack of Curiosity: The silent killer of agility
RSG Tokyo - Tokyo Japan - 2024 - Lack of Curiosity: The silent killer of agility
Available Talks/workshops
You can't buy an agile transformation: #stopbadagile
With so many misconceptions, too many companies have been told they are doing agile, but they aren’t seeing the benefits after multiple, multi-million dollar “transformations”. They are losing faith in something they haven’t actually experienced. I created #stopbadagile to shine a light on what agility means. My hope is that together we can bring agile back to its essence so we can continue to help companies experience what agility really does look like.
Cognitive Bias: What are you hiding?
We talk a lot in the agile community about how important diversity is for teams and companies to thrive, but when we all bring our different biases to the table, we need to be mindful that they exist so that we can have meaningful collaboration rather than disagreements. This interactive talk is designed to help people understand what cognitive biases are, how they affect our thinking, and how we can use our knowledge of their existence to create a more collaborative space for discussions in the complex world we live and work in.
Lack of Curiosity: The silent killer of agility
In this session, we'll explore what it means to be curious, how we ended up with a lack of curiosity, how to spot a lack of curiosity in your workplace, and how to bring back something we never should have let go of in the first place.
AICAnon: Uncovering the agile conspiracy
My name is #AICAnon, I am an agile whistleblower and I have discovered the #AIC (Agile Industrial Complex) hiding in plain sight. I'll share my discoveries and uncover the #AIC plot to murder agile. You'll come away with the knowledge of how the #AIC operates, learn how to deflect their attempts at sabotage, and how to call out their behavior so others can uncover them in action.
Personal Kanban: Making life better, one sticky note at a time
Personal Kanban: Making life better, one sticky note at a time
This session talk is about how I took my work home with me and made Personal Kanban a part of my everyday life. Even in its simplest form, Kanban can add a level of organization to the lives of even the most disorganized people. You will understand how Kanban can work for you.
The Scrum Master Dog Pound
Personal Kanban: Making life better, one sticky note at a time
You are a Scrum Master, but you find yourself in between jobs. You begin your search. How do you choose the home that will be a great fit for you? How do you know which company you want to be adopted by? This talk is a fresh way to look at the companies that may be trying to hire for a role they don’t understand and don’t want to pay for.
MasterChef Agile
Hiring and agile coach? You get what you ask for!
Hiring and agile coach? You get what you ask for!
As agile coaches we are often asked by companies to give them what they believe are shortcuts to success. They are scared or unwilling to put in the hard work and want a playbook from someone who was successful to be laid out for them to follow in their footsteps. Explaining why this is not something that will work is often seen as a reason to mistrust coaches. They think we aren’t giving them the quick path because we are just in it for the money. I found a way to help me describe this in a way that makes my clients feel more at ease. Everyone can relate to cooking shows about starting off as a home cook (non-agile organization) and what it involves becoming a master chef (an agile organization).
Hiring and agile coach? You get what you ask for!
Hiring and agile coach? You get what you ask for!
Hiring and agile coach? You get what you ask for!
An agile coach has skills in training, coaching, facilitation, and mentoring. You should have experience in all four and have years of experience in multiple types of businesses. You also need experience in multiple agile frameworks, practices, and understand when to move between the different coaching stances. You need experience with transformation, business, and tech. This is all implied and is covered by one title Agile Coach. Most companies insisting on different title often don’t understand the role of a coach, they understand the role of the coach but want to pay them for one role while expecting them to work in multiple roles, or they’ve been led astray by an AIC company who pretended this was all industry standard.
Agile Sydney 2017 – Session Leader
Agile Coach Camp Sydney 2017 – Session Leader
Agile Coaching Retreat 2019 Kuala Lumpur
Agile Coaching Retreat 2019 Melbourne
Agile Coach Camp Sydney 2017 – Session Leader
Agile Coach Camp Sydney 2016 – Session Leader
Agile Coaching Retreat - WA USA - 2015 - How to make remote work succssfull
