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 Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
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/
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
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.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse discusses gender equitable recovery and the dynamics of how COVID-19 has impacted women in the corporate workforce with Denise Purtzer. Together they explore a variety of gender dynamics in the workplace including authenticity, the pay gap and the importance of mentorship. Denise also shares many recommendations to consider for people reentering the workforce which are important not only for those going through transitions, but also for those of us who are supporting our friends and colleagues who had to step away from the workforce.
We considered not releasing this episode since it has been so long since it was recorded, however after we revisited this conversation the insights and take-aways still seem incredibly relevant in 2023.
About the Featured Guest
Denise Purtzer loves to connect the right people to make things happen. At the time this episode was recorded she served as the VP of Partnerships and Alliances. During that time she oversaw the partner network at ClearSale, a global fraud prevention system. Denise’s 20 years of experience in ecommerce has taken her around the globe, speaking and working in different areas to gain a greater understanding of locales including APAC, EMEA and AMER regions.
Follow Denise Purtzer on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisepurtzer/
Reference(s)
AmericanProgress.org - October 2020 - “How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward” https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/10/30/492582/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/
Forbes - February 2021 - “COVID-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce. Here’s how to help them come back” https://fortune.com/2021/02/13/covid-19-women-workforce-unemployment-gender-gap-recovery/
The Washington Post - July 2020, - “Coronavirus child-care crisis will set women back a generation” https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/29/childcare-remote-learning-women-employment/
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie 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.
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
Wednesday Mar 15, 2023
In this episode, learn about how Jill Stott, a passionate agilist, navigated her career to becoming the VP of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. In her conversation with our host, Leslie Morse, she shares key learning moments from her career that have allowed her to reach a place where she is fulfilled and feels unstoppable.
For those of us considering a career change, feeling a little stalled, or still wondering who we want to be when you grow up - this episode will have several prompts and inquiries to help get you thinking! We hope you enjoy Jill’s career story as she introduces her current motto “Do More Stuff Better”.
About the Featured Guest
Jill is the Vice President of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. She works to develop better ways to assist
people in improving business outcomes and employee and customer happiness. Her current motto: Agile is
simple; people are complicated. Jill knows that culture can make or break and Agile transformation. She
focuses equally on developing Agile mindsets and applying stellar mechanics.
Follow Jill Stott on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillstott/
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Hosts
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).
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.
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
During our 2022 conversation, SAFe Fellow Kathy Marshak and Emily Lint sat down to discuss Middle Management in the agile space. Where do they belong? How do you bring them on the Agile journey with you? And, most importantly, how do we as Agilists help them thrive in these new ways of working. Take a listen to learn more!
About the Featured Guest
Kathy Marshak is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Fellow, Business Agility Transformation Coach, and instructor with Icon Agility Services, Inc. She is passionate about guiding people through the cultural, organizational, and process changes required to increase business agility. Kathy has been applying SAFe since 2013 and working incrementally and iteratively since the mid-1990s.
Follow Kathy Marshak on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-marshak-agility/)
Reference(s)
The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/)
The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/).
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.
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
This episode features a new member of the Women in Agile Podcast team, Renae Craven. Get to know her through a conversation with our host Leslie Morse. Together they discuss authenticity and its importance in building our own leadership as well as building successful teams and organizations.
About the Featured Guest
Renae Craven is a certified Coach and Scrum Professional, with over 12 years of experience coaching organisations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. She enjoys building delivery teams that can self-organise to achieve commitments and hold themselves accountable for all outcomes. Renae balances hercoaching work with her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia.
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Reference(s)
Podcast: The Leader’s Playlist
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie 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.
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
During this 2022 conversation, Jess Brock and Emily Lint dive deep into dojos. What does it mean to run a great dojo and how do you measure a dojo's success? Have we been doing dojos all wrong? Find out more!
About the Featured GuestAt the brink of burn out, Jess Brock’s discovery of Dojo coaching renewed her faith in the possibility of providing meaningful and lasting Agile and technical coaching. Jess has led over 17 Dojos engagements, spanning 3 countries and in physical and virtual settings. She is currently working on publishing a book called The Dojo Coach’s Pocket Guide: Maximizing Immersive Learning for Agile Teams.
Follow Jess Brock on LinkedIn
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to helps spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostEmily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive.
Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.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.
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
In this 2021 conversation, Marjorie Anderson joins our host Leslie Morse to explore how community building serves our teams and organizations. The episode is aptly named after a quote Marjorie drops early in the episode, “Agile is Community, Community is Agile.” As you listen you’ll realize how true this is. During the discussion they touch on the multi-facted nature of nurturing communities and all the ways it has a possibility of serving the work agilists do.
About the Featured GuestMarjorie Anderson is an online community strategist who specializes in building community in the association space, seamlessly connecting community strategy to organization goals to drive sustainable value. She is the founder of Community by Association and the Product Manager for Community at Project Management Institute.
Follow Marjorie Anderson on LinkedIn
Follow @MarjorieAyyeee on Twitter
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.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.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
In this episode you hear from Queirra Fenderson, the keynote speaker for the WiA 2022 event in Nashville, TN as part of the Agile2022 conference. In her discussion with our host, Leslie Morse, she explores her wisdom in ambition and intuition.
Queirra shares her story of discovering her hidden inner-agilist, how she came to study the interplay of ambition and intuition and offers multiple tips and tricks for honing your “intuitive ambition.” While listening you’ll learn about blind ambition as well as different ways to get in touch with your intuitive hits. We also believe you’ll discover this is more than a “woo woo” conversation. Leslie and Queirra explore real-life challenges around privilege, bias, and the complexity of being a modern-day knowledge worker. Throughout the episode you’ll also hear a throughline that brings forward Agile values and principles. We hope you enjoy listening.
About the Featured GuestQueirra Fenderson is the CEO of The Ambition Studio, a professional coaching firm on a mission to end the burnout epidemic among leaders and entrepreneurs. As a Certified Coach, Professional Speaker, and Leadership Trainer, Queirra has supported the transformation of leaders across multiple industries that include Emmy-Award-winning entrepreneurs, C-Suite Executives, and U.S. Military Officers.
Follow Queirra Fenderson on LinkedIn
Follow The Ambition Studio on Instagram @the.ambition.studio
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 Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.
About our HostLeslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn.
About our SponsorScrum.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.