Sinead is a seasoned Agile Product Manager and CX practitioner, with a diverse industry background in South Africa and New Zealand which spans QSR, retail, automotive, travel, and entertainment. Sinead has honed her skills in managing Agile Scrum teams and facilitating cross-functional collaboration with senior leadership. Exceling in navigating complex decision-making processes, and piloting new ideas from research and strategy through to delivery, Sinead has a proven track record of leading the design of products and services that streamline customer acquisition, boost customer retention, and enhance overall business efficiencies.

Sam has over 15 years of worldwide experience in leading complex product delivery programmes and business transformation. 

Sam’s background is in systems engineering and he has previous experience across several sectors, notably oil & gas, energy, software, manufacturing, telecommunications and banking. He has previously held roles at General Electric, Genesis Energy and most recently Chorus.

Sam has deep experience in operating model change, having led the design and implementation of new operating models in complex, legacy businesses. This includes designing adaptive operating models to achieve organisational strategy, designing transformation programmes, establishing delivery structures from the ground up, and implementing governance for complex regulated delivery. His most recent roles have sat on People and Culture teams and he has extensive experience in the people and cultural components of business transformation.

At Chorus Sam led a cultural transformation and re-design of quarterly planning. He previously led several operating model re-designs at Genesis Energy. His recent experience includes driving organisation wide change from the executive team down.

Katherine is a passionate problem solver with a deep interest in unlocking potential through organisational change and transformation. Katherine is experienced in creating modern, adaptive enterprise structures and healthy, sustainable work environments that empower teams to collaborate, adapt and learn. With her expertise in business agility and authentic, cultural leadership, Katherine is driven by a desire to improve the experience of work, and is rewarded by seeing positive evolutions in leadership, relationship systems and organisational culture, fundamentally altering workplace dynamics to be people and purpose led.

Yvonne has spent most of her career working with large, complex organisations in New Zealand. She has taken multiple teams on the journey to becoming more customer focused, and has supported teams across Customs, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry for Primary Industries, and the Inland Revenue with their customer and UX research practices. She relishes the challenge of encouraging organisations to become more customer-centric in their strategic decision making. Yvonne is also experienced in navigating complex business environments to identify areas of process improvement through research, analysis, stakeholder and customer engagement, and then subsequently working with organisations to implement and measure changes.

With a 15 year career forged through software delivery leadership and strategic execution, David has worked alongside leaders and delivery teams across some of New Zealand’s most recognised organisations, coaching delivery capabilities that lead to tangible, impactful change. From early-stage startups to mid-sized businesses and large-scale enterprises, he has supported a wide range of organisations in evolving how they work, scaling delivery capability, and embedding more adaptive, human-centred approaches to transformation. Whether coaching senior leaders or enabling cross-functional teams, his focus remains on aligning delivery with strategy in a way that is practical, measurable, and people-focused.

Known for a measured and pragmatic style, David brings clarity to complexity and builds trusted relationships across business and technology functions. His experience spans a variety of industries and operating models, enabling him to recognise patterns quickly and tailor solutions that unlock performance and shift culture.

His creativity doesn’t stop at work, he explores it through crafting hot sauces and making music, blending the same spirit of experimentation and thoughtful design that guides his approach to delivery and transformation.

Karen is a results-driven and strategic leader with a proven track record of driving enterprise-wide transformations that deliver cost savings, revenue growth, and operational simplification. She brings deep expertise in strategic planning and governance, fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability across cross-functional teams. Karen has led major transformation initiatives aligned to strategic priorities, spanning product and channel evolution, technology-driven change, and organisation-wide business simplification.

With a strong focus on innovation, Karen is passionate about harnessing emerging technologies including artificial intelligence to unlock business value, improve customer experiences, and drive operational efficiency.

Her leadership experience across the telecommunications and financial services sectors has consistently delivered impact through enterprise alignment and strategic execution.

Kacper is passionate about modern leadership and believes that leaders play a critical role in high performing organisations. A key focus for him is helping change how leaders think about work, culture and customer value. He helps leadership teams test and define customer-centric ways of organising and operating. His ultimate goal is to help organisations build engaging workplaces that deliver value to the end customer. Kacper has been involved in multiple international transformational projects, with teams in the USA, Australia and Poland. His recent engagements have focused on building adaptive organisations, introducing new management practices for New Zealand corporates.

Kevin has extensive experience in the audit industry as a Chartered Accountant, which has exposed him to both the public and private sectors, enabling him to grasp complex processes and understand organisations’ needs well. He has a keen focus and interest in fostering genuine relationships with people and utilising innovative and new ways to help businesses thrive internally. Kevin is also a music aficionado and loves writing and jamming songs or touring the country with his band outside of work. He is also an avid runner and can be found exploring the mountains or new suburbs during his free time.

Ben is a strategic and growth-driven executive with a proven history of building and scaling high-performing businesses across fintech, SaaS, education, and health. Over the past 15 years, he has successfully founded and led multiple ventures to 7- and 8-figure revenue, combining sharp commercial insight with operational execution and team leadership.

Ben has worked across start-ups, private equity ventures, and established organisations navigating transformation. He specialises in designing scalable operating models, embedding systems for growth, and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver on strategic priorities. His leadership is known for balancing ambition with empathy, driving outcomes while cultivating high-trust, high-performance cultures. He brings deep capability in business design, customer strategy, finance, and holds an MBA in International Business.

Yena is a curious learner, motivated by delivering visible results. She strives to create a sense of community through initiating transparency and trust. She has a background in health science, with experience building corporate partnerships and strengthening the brand for a non-profit organisation. More recently, she has worked with a portfolio of healthcare clients, transitioning health systems to a digitised model by delivering a solution to improve patient experiences and health outcomes. Yena believes in the value of human-focused approaches and is always exploring ways that companies can work smarter through agile ways of working. Outside of work, Yena is a pilates enthusiast, and is passionate about encouraging wellness in the workspace.

Tiziano has a focus on continuously improving the way organisations approach the challenges of a modern workplace, as well as how individuals show up and interact with each other, to create a productive and sustainable work environment. Tiziano has worked with numerous delivery and leadership teams in the agile space, both in advisory and execution roles over the past few years. In addition to this, Tiziano is a Certified Holacracy Coach who has played a leading role in the adoption of this self-organisation framework throughout multiple organisations. He has also taught Holacracy alongside its founder, Brian Robertson.

Sarah-may has had exposure to a broad range of businesses, from start-ups to large corporates, which has given her a passion for fostering positive cultural change to create diverse workplaces in Aotearoa. She is an experienced consultant who understands the complexities large organisations can often face. Using a blend of strategic planning and relationship management, Sarah-may guides teams and organisations to more effective ways of working using the latest tools and methodologies. Sarah-may is in her element when collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders, and is particularly interested in genuinely connecting with people, to help them be their best selves in the workplace.

Brendan has worked with many of NZ’s leading organisations and their Agile transformations, from small team based work to larger scaled transformations.

His motivation is to drive societal change through the way we think and behave in the workplace.

His work with leadership and pragmatic approach to resolving problems is pivotal to improving the performance of teams and individuals. Having such a wide breadth of industry experience, Brendan’s knowledge allows him to quickly identify patterns and the best solutions, techniques and tools to bring about high performance.

Arjun Bhat is passionate about helping organizations simplify processes, boost collaboration, and create memorable customer experiences by aligning culture, business goals, and technology solutions.

With a wealth of experience in agile frameworks and adaptive delivery, Arjun has played a key role in numerous successful business transformations.

Arjun has worked in Technology, Product and Delivery in a number of organisations across Australia and New Zealand such as Trustpower, Origin Energy, Vodafone / One NZ and ASB Bank.

Outside of his professional work, he is a talented musical artist and the Founder of a music services business, where his creativity and entrepreneurial spirit collide.

Ryan is passionate about working with teams and individuals to reach their potential, delight their customers, and have some fun along the way. He believes that the most valuable and impactful outcomes are created by empowered teams in an engaging environment underpinned by transparency, autonomy and trust. Ryan’s motivation comes from helping people grow and working with leaders and organisations to create a workplace where their people and business can thrive. With an education and background in project management, Ryan has worked in various delivery roles for many large organisations across the United States and New Zealand including CNN, The Home Depot, and Mitre 10.

Lisa is a natural people person and highly skilled at ensuring teams are successful thanks to her exceptional engagement and collaboration skills. A joy to have on any team due to her warm personality, she enables the success of projects through her expert communications and management ability. Lisa is a resilient team player with a passion for different workplace environments and cultures. She has worked in a variety of large and small commercial and non-profit organisations including most recently the iconic Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland Museum. Her degree in art history means she also has a keen appreciation for design and visual arts.

Amanda is passionate about improving the world of work and helping organisations succeed by prioritising their most critical resource, their people. She believes in empowering leaders and teams to thrive and perform at their best primarily through culture change and organisational design. With a background in science and psychology and an MA in Organisational Psychology from Columbia University, Amanda has extensive experience in helping shape organisational strategy and leading large-scale transformational change in Australia. She is driven by her deep curiosity and passion for learning, valuing genuine connections and building meaningful relationships along the way.

Will has over a decade of experience helping organisations improve how they deliver, lead, and adapt.

Having held roles at organisations like Xero, TVNZ, Auckland University, and Kordia, Will has enabled transformative change and strategic improvements across a diverse range of large-scale teams.

With a background in technology, portfolio management, coaching, and consulting, Will combines deep technical understanding with a pragmatic approach to change. Coupled with a strong bias to action, he’s passionate about building strong teams, supporting people navigate complex organisational change and put more simply, leaving things in a better place than he found them.

Most recently at Xero, Will partnered closely with Senior Leadership and teams to deliver new product market fit experiences for US and UK markets.

Dan has a passion for helping people realise their potential. For the past three years, he has been helping senior leadership teams across New Zealand’s most respected brands in creating high performing cultures through adopting an agile mindset.

With a blend of enterprise and grassroots agile experience, Dan brings a pragmatic senior leadership lens to his clients who want to embark on a transformative journey personally, as well as organisationally. Dan’s career has seen him so far work with and advising leaders on organisational agility across Telecommunications, Financial Services, FMCG, Media and Broadcasting, Postal, Government and Manufacturing industries.

Priya is passionate about working with people and helping them do their best work. She strives to drive efficiency in processes and empowers her teams to continually experiment, learn and improve their ways of working. She believes in transparency and empathy being key to building trust with teams. Priya has a background in project delivery, customer success and engineering. She started out as a software developer then transitioned into business analysis, project consultancy, process improvement and leadership. Priya has helped teams transition to agile ways of working as well as ongoing agile coaching and scrum mastery. She also has a creative side, with a passion for painting and photography.

Steve has over 25 years professional experience spanning software delivery, leadership and individualised coaching for transformation. Working with organisations across a wide range of industries, his focus is on creating clarity, systemic thinking and translating strategy into action.

He is committed to fostering excellence in individuals, teams and organisations. By creating environments in which people can do their best work, Steve supports others to create a clear understanding of their challenges and opportunities so that they can design appropriate actions for leading and embedding change.

Steve is keenly interested in how technology supports change and transformation in society and is committed to helping organisations provide the best experiences for their customers so that they can be recognized and rewarded for the value they create.

Edwin helps organisations rethink how they approach work and people, applying agile thinking to help them improve. In 2006 he founded agile leader Clarus, acquired by Assurity in 2012, and established Assurity’s successful education business while running the Auckland branch and the national agile practice. He has extensive experience working with executives and senior leaders to establish agile practices across various business units. Edwin is also a professional Scrum.org trainer, the first person in the world to become a certified Evidence-Based Management consultant. He donates a percentage of his time to social organisations including schools, universities and charities.

Sujith’s motivation is to support teams and individuals to deliver valuable and impactful outcomes. He believes this is best done by listening, understanding and helping individuals realise their untapped potential, while having some fun along the way. He has a strong passion for visualisation and facilitation, materialising what’s in our heads to better align and bring teams together. Sujith started his career off as a programmer and worked his way through leadership roles as Service Delivery Manager and Senior Project Manager at Gentrack Ltd. He now helps teams embrace change by empathising and understanding how to unravel their traditional norms using an agile mindset.

Steph is an expert generalist with a track record of turning complexity into progress across strategy, investment management, policy and advisory, productivity improvement, and project delivery. A lifelong puzzle-solver, she’s lived in 10 cities and 5 countries, with a career spanning multiple sectors. Highlights include working with heavy-haul rail at Rio Tinto to various government roles including at the Western Australia Department of Health, and NZ’s Ministries of Social Development, Education, and Kāinga Ora Homes and Communities. 

She’s known for connecting the dots between people, process, and performance to unlock measurable results.