During this episode you get a chance to learn from Natali Betancur, a member of the Women in Agile Board who serves as the Executive Sponsor for our Scholarship Program. As you listen, you’ll get a chance to hear about Natali's Agile journey, which began in local government and evolved through various roles including work at Queens University of Charlotte's Center for Digital Equity. This episode explores themes of gender discrimination in the workplace and strategies for women in leadership positions, including building confidence and setting boundaries. The conversation concluded with Natali sharing her team's implementation of agile practices and digital equity initiatives, including their work to make Mecklenburg County more digitally accessible through strategic planning and community-focused projects.

About the Featured Guest

Natali Betancur is a dynamic and results-driven professional with a passion for creating positive change. With a diverse background in business management, finance, and strategic planning, she brings a unique perspective to her work. All Natali does is grounded in her core values of community, family and service. She currently works as the Deputy Director in the Center for Digital Equity at Queens University of Charlotte and serves as a board member for Women in Agile Org.

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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.

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About our Hosts

Leslie Porter 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. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in with Women in Agile since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).

In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Anne Monterio about her move from her home country of Brazil to Germany. Anne shares practical advice and tips on what to do to prepare for a move and how to settle into a new country and environment.

About the Featured Guest

Anne is an expert in Agile methodologies, project management, and product development. As a Product and Agile Coach at HelloFresh with over ten years at IBM, Anne has led agile transformations to boost team performance and customer satisfaction. Anne advocates for diversity, openness, and empathy believing these values are key to overcoming challenges and is passionate about creating tech products that simplify life.

• Follow Anne on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/anne-bravieira)

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

Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.

Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.

You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).

In this episode, Emily is joined by guest Chad Engstrom to unpack how agile role expectations have shifted over the last few years and where the industry is heading. They discuss how to understand the hiring organisation in interviews and what candidates can do to improve their chances of securing their dream job.

About the Featured Guest

Chad Engstrom is an Account Manager at TEKsystems. Across his almost 3 years with TEKsystems, Chad has held both recruiting and customer facing roles. As a recruiter, Chad specialized in the Agile space and he now helps his customers navigate their Agile Maturity and help them achieve their Agile goals and journeys.

• Follow Chad Engstrom on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-engstrom/)

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

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• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
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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

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/emilylint/).

In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Johanna Ferrer about her experiences of working with different cultures and across different timezones. Hear some of Johanna’s tips for establishing connections with your team members.

About the Featured Guest

With over 10 years of experience in the technology field, Johanna has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams in leading companies in the beauty, cosmetics, and retail sectors. In recent years, Johanna has focused on fostering agility and maximizing the talent of teams and areas within the organization through self-organization, empowerment, and generating value propositions with a systemic approach.

• Follow Johanna on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-ferrer-41183784/)

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

Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.

Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.

You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).

In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven chats to Vinnie Gill about her experience of living in different countries and how her agile career has grown because of that.

About the Featured Guest

Vinnie Gill puts people and culture first. She enjoys connecting with people and companies to find their purpose, walking alongside them in their organisational growth journey. Her passion is influencing change at the Enterprise level.

She is deeply involved in the Agile community, speaks at international conferences and has a special interest in educating and education being the tool that empowers people.

• Follow Vinnie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinniegill/)
• Her website: https://outcomeoveroutput.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 to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.

About our Host

Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.

Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.

You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).

In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Emily Lint chats with Alena Keck about the realities of leading international teams across the U.S., Europe, and beyond.

About the Featured Guest:

Alena Keck is an experienced Transformation Leader who has led complex, enterprise-wide change initiatives across Europe and the U.S.—from building an omnichannel Digital Solution Center at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA, driving engineering transformation at Aptiv, and aligning digital strategy and ways of working at Porsche, to heading the Lean-Agile Center of Excellence at Vodafone/VOIS. Her passion: driving purposeful transformation that delivers sustainable value—with people always at the core.

Follow her on linked in at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-keck/

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:

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/emilylint/).

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 geographies. Currently as an RTE at TD Bank Canada, Nidhya is at the forefront of driving Agile transformations and delivering successful products.

• Follow Nidhya on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhyapalaniappan/)

Reference(s)

• The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

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

Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.

Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.

You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).

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 performance and delivery of sustainable results, making her a dynamic leader.

Karyn is deeply committed to making a difference and ensuring meaningful engagement and outcomes for all.

• Follow Karyn on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karyn-smith-14b4353/)

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

Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 14 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.

Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.

You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).