Women in Agile

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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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Responding to Change Without Burning Out - Brandi Olson | 2029

Brandi Olson works at the intersection between learning, organizational agility, and human-centered design. She says: “We put people in a position of having to choose between doing good work and their humanity, and in most cases that’s a false choice.” Listen in as we explore how to recognize burnout in ourselves as well as in our organization, how it’s all about prioritization (whether proactive or reactive), and whether having grace within our team can prevent burnout in the first place. Lesli...

Oct 21, 2020•43 min•Ep. 51

The Power to Make Change Comes from Sisterhood - Lizzy Morris | 2028

Whether coaching, facilitating or value-stream mapping, Lizzy Morris introduces innovative and pragmatic techniques for promoting team engagement and accountability. She believes it is women who will catalyze change in society. We are living in another Civil Rights movement. During the 60’s, people who supported the movement saw their businesses burnt down and they lost customers. Although the environment is different now and you might not see flaming crosses, there is still a risk today. What w...

Oct 14, 2020•44 min•Ep. 50

Merging Agile and Hawaiian Wisdom - Erin Kaohelaulii-Brett | 2027

Erin Kaohelaulii-Brett wakes up every day ready to motivate others to be a catalyst for change. An agile coach in the healthcare insurance industry, she shares her unique story of going from super skeptical to change champion – all while finding ways to integrate lessons from Hawaiian language and culture into her daily work. The agile transformation initiative at her employer started strong then fizzled after the external consultants rolled off. Kaohelaulii-Brett invokes the Hawaiian concept of...

Sep 30, 2020•34 min•Ep. 49

Blatant Gender Discrimination in the Agile Community - Dana James-Edwards | 2026

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...

Sep 23, 2020•42 min•Ep. 48

Exploring the Duality of Agile Coaching - Maaike Klasen | 2025

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 ...

Sep 16, 2020•41 min•Ep. 47

Leading an Agile Marketing Organization - Melissa Reeve | 2024

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 i...

Sep 02, 2020•33 min•Ep. 46

Sharp Elbows: How to Create Space for Your Own Voice - Allia DeAngelis | 2023

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 ...

Aug 26, 2020•43 min•Ep. 45

Professionalism in the Agile Industry - Cheryl Hammond | 2022

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 c...

Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 44

The Six Habits to a Happy, Fulfilling Life - Laura DiBenedetto | 2021

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 i...

Aug 05, 2020•47 min•Ep. 43

Why Changing Language is an Agile Process - Kory Stamper | 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...

Jul 22, 2020•44 min•Ep. 42

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