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 11, 2019
Wednesday Sep 11, 2019
Emma McGuigan dreams of a world where there’s no need for women’s groups because society has changed to the point where equality is a real thing. “I realize it’s a little naïve of me to make a bold statement like that,” she says, “but if we don’t make the bold statements, we’re never going to get there.”
Today, as Senior Managing Director for Accenture Microsoft Business Group and a champion for human rights advocacy and female empowerment, McGuigan is bold in her work with the Stemettes and the Orchid Project, both organizations working to improve the lives of women and girls around the world. In this episode, she offers much advice to listeners on everything from how to show up for conversations and really make a contribution, to how body language impacts our efficacy.
Emma McGuigan’s Words of Wisdom:
“There’s a power in listening. Have the courage to have a conversation. Bring that human side of you to bear because that’s when we’re at our best.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s 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.womeninagile.org/podcast
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
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Launching New Voices is a program from the non-profit Women in Agile. This program lowers the barrier of entry into conferences by providing new speakers with the mentoring and support needed for getting noticed and selected. The goal is to inject new ideas and diversity into the Agile conference circuit.
Jenny Tarwater, an agile collaboration coach and Director for the Launching New Voices program, tells us about what is involved in growing the next generation of conference speakers.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Become a mentor or protégé:
https://womeninagile.org/voices/
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender. 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.womeninagile.org/podcast
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
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
Wednesday Aug 28, 2019
When we think of “play,” we think of chaotic children running through the streets creating imaginary scenarios and making up ridiculous rules. However, play is not a frivolous activity that us grown adults need to abandon. Instead, Portia Tung says play is essential to the development and enrichment of both children and adults’ lives.
As an executive Agile coach and play researcher, Tung has been dedicated to promoting happier adulthood through lifelong play and founded the School of Play. After her research of thousands of children and adults at play, Tung has uncovered five characteristics of a playful leader, whom she calls “playmakers”:
Respectful
Resourceful
Responsible
Resilient
Real
Portia Tung’s words of wisdom: “We can’t give what we don’t have”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Learn more:
School of Play: theschoolofplay.wordpress.com/who-we-are/
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.womeninagile.org/podcastWomen in Agile website: womeninagile.orgConnect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Deatrice Gautreaux is an Agile coach at Accenture | SolutionsIQ and a champion for the Women in Agile movement. Being part of any women’s movement is a tremendous change for her. “As a young black girl raised in the south, segregation was a painful thing…” So Gautreaux made the intentional choice not to separate herself from the whole: “When it came to women movements, I took a step back.”
After an eye-opening experience at Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s annual employee gathering, Gautreaux was able to create for herself a new, empowering story about participating in the Women in Agile movement. She shares how the fabulous Lyssa Adkins gave her some advice for finding the confidence to lead life on purpose and the self-worth that she always had in herself since she was a child.
Deatrice Gautreaux’s words of wisdom:
“Rather than sit on the outside and be a spectator to your own story, own it, lean into it, embrace it and enjoy it.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s 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.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: womeninagile.orgConnect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Lynne Cazaly is an international keynote speaker, author and master facilitator. Her recent book “Ish: The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough” is also the topic of her Agile2019 presentation. By “ish” Cazaly means something like “doing a good enough job to release and get feedback” – something that agilists might call “bias toward rapid feedback.”
Too often people practice perfectionism even when the result of putting more time and effort isn’t demonstrably better than without it. How to spot a perfectionist? Cazaly says to look for “anybody working late, repeatedly working through lunch, not taking a break, not taking care of themselves, or being hesitant to share or show their work.”
Lynne Cazaly’s words of wisdom: “A lot of our identity can be tied up in the role we have, or the title, or the experience, or the story of where we’ve worked. Don’t get too hung up on that. You are so much more than your current role. You’re so much more than that bad experience with that team where it didn’t work out.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s 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.womeninagile.org/podcastWomen 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 07, 2019
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Stephanie Thomas is a disability and fashion styling expert, and Founder and CEO of Cur8able, a B2B business dedicated to dressing with disabilities. Stephanie was also the keynote speaker at the Women in Agile session at Agile2019 in Washington D.C.
For more than two decades Thomas has researched clothing and retail trends exclusively for people with disabilities, and as a congenital amputee herself missing digits on her right hand and feet, this is more than her profession, it’s her lived experience.
Thomas says people with disabilities are not seen as fashion customers, despite the $6 trillion combined buying power of these individuals, their family and friends: “We personify pets more than we do fashion disability customers. We design for pets, we have jackets for pets...” With her Disability Fashion Styling System©, she provides safe and stylish options so that people with diverse needs can dress to feel great and be seen.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile podcast is a platform for inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, in an effort to empower the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: www.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
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Lyssa Adkins and Kat Conner chat with the Women in Agile podcast to share their journey with TENWOMENSTRONG. Lyssa Adkins is a coach and facilitator, teacher and inspirer whose book “Coaching Agile Teams” has had a lasting impact on the Agile industry and community. Kat Conner is a Business Agility Innovator with Accenture | SolutionsIQ who brings deep leadership, change management and organizational agility knowledge to her clients.
After more than two decades of being acquaintances and then friends, the two only realized they shared the same desire to further the representation, leadership and empowerment of women in the Agile space. Says Conner, “When I think about agility, so many of the things that we hold dear, such as transparency, communication and collaboration, are really strong feminine qualities and energies.”
As for Adkins, she says, “There’s a bunch of masculine shells that I’ve put onto my femininity to fit myself into the world as it is.” Now the two are collaborating with TENWOMENSTRONG to help bring more feminine energy into the business world and life in general, especially in leadership. Why? As Adkins puts it, women have “the ability to go into the unknown and mystery for a long time to see what emerges.”
Kat’s WiA Wisdom:
“If you feel called, if this speaks to you in any way, talk to one of us or give us a call. We’re very open to sharing our experiences and how this may serve you in this moment of your life.”
Lyssa’s WiA Wisdom:
“All I really want is women being themselves and leading in their way because I think the world needs us to do that.”
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Learn more: tenwomenstrong.net/agile
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.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: www.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 31, 2019
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Welcome to the Women in Agile podcast series! In this inaugural episode, we introduce you to Natalie Warnert, the founder of the Women in Agile (WiA) non-profit organization.
Hear how WiA, which began as an open space formed by 40 women at the 2013 Global Scrum Gathering in Las Vegas, developed into a movement with 1,000+ members. 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.
Become a member by reading and agreeing to the code of conduct on https://womeninagile.org/conduct.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts.
Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile website: www.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