In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Nidhya Palaniappan explore Nidhya’s journey from South Asia to Canada, including how she found her agile role in her new location. About the Featured Guest Nidhya Palaniappan is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Agile practices. With a strong background in software engineering, Nidhya has dedicated over 9 years in various agile roles across geographi...
Jul 23, 2025•23 min•Ep. 2513
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Karyn Smith explore Karyn’s journey from a high school graduate to her current role as a COO. Karyn shares her reflection on how far she has come and the things she has learnt about herself along the way. About the Featured Guest Karyn is a seasoned executive with over three decades of international and cross industry experience. Karyn has a proven ability to inspire, empower and motivate teams towards high ...
Jul 09, 2025•30 min•Ep. 2512
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Tricia Broderick explore the topic of speaking at agile conferences including tips on submissions, preparing for your talk and how to be a keynote speaker. About the Featured Guest Tricia is a leadership and organizational advisor. Tricia has over 25 years of experience, igniting growth in leaders and teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia is an experienced speaker at agile conferences, has organized conf...
Jun 25, 2025•47 min•Ep. 2511
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven explores how guest Sibila Bijedic has helped non-tech teams understand and apply the agile mindset and principles. About the Featured Guest Sibila is a passionate coach that strives for agility while cultivating a strong desire for lifelong learning and evolving through collaboration. Follow Sibila on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sibilabijedic/) The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity o...
May 07, 2025•30 min•Ep. 2510
Ever been confused by the amount of certifications available and what will actually help you advance your career? Look no further than this conversation between Stephanie Ockerman and Emily Lint as they dive into the Agile certification landscape and their experiences in finding the right certifications for the next step in your career. About the Featured Guest Stephanie Ockerman is a Business Agility & Leadership Coach and Consultant, Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), author, and entreprene...
Apr 23, 2025•55 min•Ep. 2508
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Emily Lint about her journey into entrepreneurship. Emily shares her insights into how she made the decision to work for herself and how she prepared herself for that. Emily talks about how she finds clients and wins work and what she has learnt about herself and entrepreneurship along the way. About the Featured Guest Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and emp...
Feb 20, 2025•44 min•Ep. 2507
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve In Your Career video podcast series, we dive into the art of making your coaching stick and what it means to be truly effective in your Agile role. We'll explore how to show your value as an Agilist, maintain your confidence, and keep evolving in a world where Agile can become status quo. Join us as we unpack strategies for staying relevant, pushing the envelope, and sustaining not just teams, but your own career. About the Featured Guest Follo...
Feb 05, 2025•32 min•Ep. 2506
On this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Emily Lint sits down with Paula Susman to discuss people managers and agile transformations; what is and is not necessary as an Agilist to help managers transform and how do you set yourself and managers or leaders up for success in the long run to let go of command-and-control. About the Featured Guest Paula Susman is an accomplished and solutions-driven Agile Coach with 8 years of multifaceted experience in Agile transformations, process improveme...
Jan 29, 2025•44 min•Ep. 2503
In this episode of the Aspire and Achieve In Your Agile Career podcast series, Emily Lint speaks with Anne Monteiro about her global transitions in coaching and product management. Together they explore how to navigate uncertainty in your Agile career and identify business areas that align with your skills as well as how to identify emerging trends to stay on the top of your game in the product management and coaching space. About the Featured Guest Anne Bravieira Monteiro is an expert in Agile ...
Jan 22, 2025•46 min•Ep. 2504
In this episode, we discussed what sustainability truly means and why agilists are uniquely positioned to lead impactful sustainability initiatives. Joined by Joanne and Ann Marie, we explored their journeys into agility and sustainability, as well as two key World Work initiatives: The Week and the Sustainability Incubator Project . About the Featured Guests Ann-Marie Kong: Ann-Marie Kong is a facilitator, coach, practitioner, change agent, avid learner, and community grower. She serves as WIA ...
Jan 15, 2025•48 min•Ep. 131
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Shena Goorawa explore the importance of adapting to tough situations and embracing new challenges to grow your career. We discuss the importance of resilience and how leaning on your support crew can help you through the toughest challenges. About the Featured Guest Shena, an Agile Delivery Team Lead, began her career in 2006 in the call center industry. After a retrenchment in 2011, she transitioned to IT, ...
Jan 09, 2025•28 min•Ep. 2502
In this episode, Emily chats with Lyssa Adkins and her newest venture with the Women in Agile community: World Work. We dive into what this program is, why it matters, and how it can mobilize the agile community to serve the world beyond the workplace. Let’s uncover why agilists are uniquely positioned to be a force for good and create a ripple effect of positive impact. About the Featured Guest Lyssa Adkins is an internationally-recognized thought leader and the author of Coaching Agile Teams w...
Jan 03, 2025•43 min•Ep. 130
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven unpacks guest Rebecca Murphy’s career journey and how she found herself in Tech after completing her Literature degree. About the Featured Guest Rebecca fell into tech after realising that not everyone who graduates with a Literature degree gets a column at the Guardian. She has worked in roles spanning Product Management, agile coaching and leadership across the mobility, ecommerce, and publishing industries, buildin...
Dec 27, 2024•26 min•Ep. 129
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily List and guest Katie Rose Kaufman share advice on how to find the next step in your career journey as an early career individual including understanding what you like, what you can bring to a role and how you can transfer your skills into new roles. About the Featured Guest Katie Rose Kaufman has 7 years of experience as an artist and as an agilist. Katie Rose went to college thinking she would be a photographer. But after r...
Dec 07, 2024•52 min•Ep. 128
In this podcast conversation, we discussed vision journey mapping, what it is and how it can help your team, organization, or yourself to vision for the future…whatever that future may be. From setting yourself and your teams up with the emotional capacity to have the conversation, to working through negative manifestations, to creating a self-paced plan, this episode will leave you jumping to craft your vision board. About the Featured Guest Temi has 15+ years of industry experience in product,...
Nov 27, 2024•45 min•Ep. 127
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Natalia Juszkiewicz about how she became a Scrum Master, how she learnt about the role, and how it fits into an organization. About the Featured Guest Natalia is a Scrum Master and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience, including 3 years managing other Scrum Masters. Natalia values partnership and openness, specializing in team building and gaining new perspectives from working with top-level managemen...
Oct 30, 2024•27 min•Ep. 126
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily Lint and guest Theresa Given talk about their experiences with job layoffs and what they have learned about themselves through those times. About the Featured Guest Theresa Given discovered Scrum and Agile ten years ago. She has been exploring and experimenting since. Tere enjoys the world of possibilities; she's tried each Scrum accountability, tested multiple Agile practices, worked in varied industries across public, priv...
Oct 16, 2024•51 min•Ep. 125
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily Lint and guest Allison Pollard introduce the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve video podcast series. Allison shares the background of the Women in Agile Mentorship program and how the program is helping those involved with their Agile careers. About the Featured Guest Allison helps engineering managers, team leads, Scrum Masters, and technology leaders have more productive interactions with their bosses, their peers, and their te...
Oct 02, 2024•50 min•Ep. 124
In 2023 the US saw an all-time high workforce participation rate for mothers with young children, as well as the narrowest gender gap for workforce participation in history. However, women remain underrepresented in leadership roles, but why? In this episode Emily and Anne discuss the part that existing job structures and parental expectations present that continues to create barriers for career growth. They talk about the current statistics around this continuing conversation and what we can do...
Sep 18, 2024•40 min•Ep. 123
In this episode I chat with Becky Kuzma, a fast friend I made while at the Agile 2023 conference. Her talk on “How to Foster Neurodivergent Teams” inspired me and many others at the conference to look at the landscape of neurodiversity in the workplace with a different lens. Lots has been learned recently about neurodiversity and how it contributes to a more diverse and inclusive workplace as well as providing a lot of opportunities for individuals to consider their strengths in this traditional...
Sep 04, 2024•46 min•Ep. 122
How can AI and coaching work together? We know its impact on our world and large enterprises, but can it simplify your day-to-day and enhance your Agile coaching? Join Emily Lint and Alysia Silberg as Alysia guides you on leveraging AI for your business and daily routines, helping you reclaim your time and boost effectiveness with tools that might seem out of reach. About the Featured Guest Alysia Silberg is the Founder and CEO of UnemployableAI harnessing AI to drive growth, scalability and pro...
Aug 08, 2024•46 min•Ep. 121
In this episode host Renae Craven chats all things Professional Development with guest Theresa Given, exploring different ways to assess growth opportunities and then how to plan for those opportunities. About the Featured Guest Theresa Given discovered Scrum and Agile ten years ago. She has been exploring and experimenting since. Theresa enjoys the world of possibilities; she's tried each Scrum accountability, tested multiple Agile practices, worked in varied industries across public, private a...
Jul 24, 2024•30 min•Ep. 120
In this episode Renae and Sally talk about the inspiration behind her #stopbadagile bird aviary and how they reflect what Sally has learnt along the way. About the Featured Guest Sally Sloley is an agile coach who specializes in visual solutions. She started her career as a web developer at Microsoft HQ. She loves being part of the agile community, helps organize conferences, and speaks about lean and agile around the world. She started #stopbadagile on LinkedIn in 2023 to help shine a light on ...
Jul 10, 2024•33 min•Ep. 119
For this podcast discussion, Emily Lint and Jessica Katz sit down and talk about consent-based leadership, not a new concept for the poly community, but a relatively new one for business. What can we learn from different communities and ways of living that allow us to embody true, just leadership? Listen to find out! About the Featured Guest Jessica Katz is a trainer, mentor and coach through Liberated Elephant. Jessica is passionate about working with individuals, teams, leaders, and organizati...
Jun 26, 2024•41 min•Ep. 118
In this podcast conversation, our host Emily Lint and Nita Ambedkar do not shy away from the controversial topic of failure in the Agile world. They discuss what failure might mean or look like for you and how it may be different from your peers, how you best find your center, and recover to continue to bring your best for the transformation to come. About the Featured Guest Nita is an outgoing, confident , leader led by curiosity, and a let’s do it attitude. She has 22+ yrs of experience in IT ...
Jun 12, 2024•32 min•Ep. 116
In this podcast conversation, we discuss navigating imposter syndrome and its relationship to knowing your own value. Having a strong supportive network and tapping into your own bravery is critical as you’re pursuing success in your career. About the Featured Guest Carrie Driscoll, Agile coach and president of Reef Consulting, leverages 20+ years in project and operations management to drive growth and innovation. Her firm specializes in business agility coaching and digital transformations for...
Jun 05, 2024•42 min•Ep. 117
For this podcast discussion, Emily Lint and Kate Arms combined their two favorite loves: Psychology and Agile by discussing the Theory of Positive Disintegration and how it impacts the way we transform. Could hard transformations and struggles help us to actually grow better? About the Featured Guest Kate Arms is an Agile Coach once described as “our team’s equivalent of Yoda.” She gave up programming as an act of teenage rebellion, but keeps coming back to tech, previously as a tech transaction...
May 15, 2024•46 min•Ep. 115
In this episode Renae and Sarah talk about the art of asking a dumb question and how modelling that helps others to feel more confident to ask their own ‘dumb’ questions. About the Featured Guest Having spent most of her career in Human Resources and Learning and Development, Sarah came across Agile as a philosophy and way of working, and LOVED IT! She jumped ship and moved into a customer experience team working in agile philosophy, and has now become a Scrum Master. Follow Sarah on LinkedIn Th...
Apr 24, 2024•38 min•Ep. 114
In this podcast conversation, we discuss what it truly means to “choose your own career” in the product management field as well as how to stay on that path as your most authentic self. Gabrielle has a drive for helping others see themselves to the roles that most align to their life and we hope this discussion will open new eyes to what it means to be in the product management field for new and developing Agilists. About the Featured Guest Gabrielle Hayes is a pioneer who transforms the product...
Mar 13, 2024•35 min•Ep. 113
In the final episode of the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching series, guests Renee Troughton and Craig Smith discuss the Code of Ethics and how to put the Code into practice. About the Featured Guests Renee Troughton is one of the most experienced Enterprise Agile Transformation Coaches in the southern hemisphere, with extensive experience working in small to large organisations across many sectors including finance, insurance, superannuation, government and telecommunications. Craig Sm...
Mar 06, 2024•42 min•Ep. 112
