Being Present - Antoinette Coetzee | 2305

This episode of the Women in Agile podcast explores the topic of presence; what it means, how to build your own presence and what impedes it. We explore the importance of presence in agile teams and how to create that safe space for teams to explore their presence.

 

About the Featured Guest

Antoinette is an ex-software developer that took a detour through academia to end up in the world of professional coaching. A veteran of Agile transitions, her focus currently is on developing leaders to grow agility in themselves and their organisations. Before the pandemic she practically lived at 33,000 ft, but since the start of the pandemic she has been happily home in beautiful Cape Town.

 

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Reference(s)

• Doug Silsbee: https://presencebasedcoaching.com/doug-silsbee-legacy/doug-silsbee
• Nancy Kline: https://www.nancykline.com
• Coaches Rising: https://www.coachesrising.com/

 

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About our Host

Renae began her agile journey in 2010 when she found herself in the ‘pilot’ team to help discover and path the way for future Scrum teams. A certified Team Coach and Scrum Professional with Scrum Alliance, Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. Renae also thoroughly enjoys facilitating all kinds of workshops and training teams to support them in their own agile journeys. Renae’s career highlight to date was being accepted to speak at the Global Scrum Gathering in Vienna in October 2019 with her topic “Embrace the Storm: Unlocking Your Organization’s Agility by Harnessing the Turbulence and Chaos of Agile Transformations”. Renae started the first Australian Women in Agile meetup community in Brisbane, Queensland in early 2018 and continues to build that community through regular events.  Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and operates her own Pilates studio.

You can connect with Renae on LinkedIn 

 

About our Sponsor

Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.