Women in Agile
The Women in Agile podcast is a platform to champion new voices in the business world, because we believe everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Dana James-Edwards is an agilist through-and-through. She is leveraging her talent in this area as she transitions her career focus solely towards enabling companies to come to grips with what it takes to truly enable diversity and inclusion.
This kind of conversation is the reason we launched this podcast, to give voice to the stories of women who are still discriminated against in our agile community. James-Edwards, herself a black woman with years of experience working in technology, shares a heart-wrenching example of an organization she encountered just this year where women working as agile coaches “were being put in the corner, were being put in the backseat, were being disrespected, were being overlooked for promotions.”
She also gives advice for how to catalyze change in your own organization.
“There was a period where being black took a backseat to being female.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: solutionsiq.com/womeningile Women in Agile website: womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Maaike Klasen is a scrum master as well as a certified professional coach with the International Coaching Federation, where she also holds a board position. She joins us virtually from the Netherlands to speak about how to fully occupy the duality in the role of a scrum master or agile coach, a balance many in the industry must learn to strike. We touch on coaching vs. consulting, confidentiality in performance reviews, and how coaching ethics play a part.
“Sometimes it’s difficult to recognize a conflict of interest and that’s where the code of ethics helps.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: solutionsiq.com/womeningile Women in Agile website: womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Melissa Reeve is the Vice President of Marketing at Scaled Agile and has a talent for creating growth wherever she is, may that be in people, business, or in her own garden. Reeve shares her agile journey (so far!) and how she has changed her style from leading as a conductor - orchestrating and controlling her teams - to an emerging Agile leader, supporting and growing her teams, one moment at a time.
She has learned to have empathy for those who learned traditional management theories, which is a lot of years of learning and mental models to unwind. And in the case of the Global 2000, many of the leaders fall into that category.
“I didn’t realize I’d become agile until I encountered others in marketing environments who are not.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagileWomen in Agile website: womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
How do we release the potential in each human? Allia DeAngelis wonders just that in her role as a Value Stream Architect and Organizational Transformation Coach. She unpacks for us how to use “sharp elbows” as a woman in the workplace and life in general, not in a way that undermines others, rather by creating room for yourself and others.
“If we have the same voices speaking up in the room, we will solve these things in the same way… I need you to create space for your voice so I can solve the problems with you in a different way.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagileWomen in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Cheryl Hammond has self-proclaimed obsession with Lean and Agile. She serves on the larger Women in Agile organization operations team and chaired the 2019 and 2020 annual Women in Agile conference sessions. In this episode, we dive deep into the discussion on professionalism and the not-always-positive significance of certifications in the agile world.
“I have learned that roles that have agile in their title are not roles that I want anymore.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagileWomen in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Laura DiBenedetto retired at age 37, accomplished and wealthy by societal norms. However, personally she was tired and burnt out. She went on a radical journey of self-discovery, research, and testing, determined to find energy and lasting, fulfilling happiness in all areas of life.
After discovering and applying the formula of the Six Habits, DiBenedetto has been devoted to sharing the universally applicable and deeply liberating truths so that others may find their own path out of misery and into lasting, fulfilling happiness and limitless possibility.
“The organization is a sum of individuals, and when you nurture, heal and grow the individual, you nurture, heal and grow the organization.”
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Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagileWomen in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Kory Stamper is an author and lexicographer who has been writing on language and change for over 15 years. She also delivered a timely and fascinating keynote at the Women in Agile 2020 online conference.
What might seem like an insignificant and innocuous word to one person can be triggering and offensive to another.
Stamper discusses the common greeting “hey guys” and its significance to women in the workplace, as well as a recent petition to change “ScrumMaster” to another term not associated with a historical reference to the master-slave dynamic. She emphasizes the need for agility in our interactions and the process of changing these terms and language at large.
“The process of collaboration is the thing that will change language permanently and will make language change meaningful to people.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagileWomen in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Hanna Gnann is the brand strategist behind Accenture | SolutionsIQ, and the producer of both this and the Agile Amped podcast. In a time of shaky economy and layoffs, standing out from the crowd in the job market is top of mind for many of us. Gnann shares some of her expertise on how to apply branding into your professional life, and especially how to apply it to social media.
“At the end of the day, it’s really your interactions with people, whether it’s online or in person, that matter.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
Link to the PDF mentioned: https://www.solutionsiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Personal-Branding-Worksheet.pdf
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeninagile Women in Agile website: https://womeninagile.org/
Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/womeninagileorg