Shahzad is a lead agile coach, he has over 14 years of experience in partnering with organisations to achieve business transformation and customer satisfaction. He holds the Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credentials, and he has extensive knowledge and skills in agile methodologies, training, mentoring, and analytical thinking.

Niall is a seasoned leader with over three decades of experience, transitioning from a software engineer to a dynamic cross-functional leader. His core philosophy centers on empowering individuals to reach their full potential, across various domains, including engineering, product development, data, architecture, user experience, and operations.

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Haroon Khalil is a Lean-Agile Practitioner and a Professional Coach, working with individuals, teams, managers, and Senior leadership teams to help them deliver results.

His favourite focus areas involve unearthing better ways to help people adapt to the pace of change in business environments, improve overall business performance, grow leadership capabilities at all levels, and support better ways of working to bring the delivery of purposeful outcomes to life.

He's worked with people from a wide variety of sectors, these include: Asset Management, Banking, Insurance, Consultancy, Recruitment, Start Ups, Retail, Sports, and Public Sector institutions.

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For Jord, the best time to play a game, is always!

Jord is a freelance Agile Coach and Senior IT Program Manager. He supports the Agile transformation of companies and the development of the IT teams by putting in place collaboration best practices as communication models, visual facilitation, collective intelligence, meeting facilitation techniques and gamification. He supports company communication by creating posters summarising key points. He also facilitates brainstorming workshops using visual canvas and facilitation techniques such as liberating structures.

Jord's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordrengerve/

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Today you'll meet Paddy Corry, an expert in product roadmapping.

Paddy is an Agile Coach, most recently at SS&C, a global financial services and consulting business. With more than 20 years experience in software development, Paddy has previously worked as a Scrum Master, a Teacher, and a programmer for many years.

As an agile coach, he is experienced as a change agent, trainer, facilitator and coach. He particularly enjoys using coaching competencies to partner with product people and agile teams to help sharpen focus on goals and to help achieve business outcomes.

Paddy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddycorry/?originalSubdomain=ie

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Today you're going to meet Antoni Tzavelas, he might just be the happiest human on earth!

Antoni is a keynote speaker and leadership coach who has found his true vocation in igniting the spark of inspiration in others.

After successfully navigating the vibrant fields of fashion design, systems engineering, cloud engineering, cloud training, and team coaching, he began focusing on spreading the potent messages of happiness and empowerment, and his mission to illuminate personal and professional fulfillment paths for others.

Global engagements have seen him gracing stages at many conferences around the world. Such appearances are complemented by participation in countless community meetups where he has imparted his knowledge and insights, furthering an understanding of leadership, happiness, and engagement.

Antoni guides individuals to prioritize their happiness in every aspect of their lives. By offering straightforward, impactful strategies through keynote speeches and workshops, he empowers people to unlock their full potential. This is not just his career: it’s his mission to help make the world a more inspired and happier place.

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Overcoming fear-based leadership means shifting from control and intimidation to trust, empowerment, and fostering a culture of psychological safety.

Nisha and Carmen have worked together in teams to successfully overcome this regimented traditional type of leadership and seen amazing results.

About our guest

Carmen Payne is the owner of SOAR! Transformational Life Coaching and is a professional and personal development coach with 25 years’ experience in the areas of leadership, coaching, mentoring, training, and project management. Prior to making the leap from her 25-year corporate career, Carmen traveled the world, and facilitated workshops, even as she developed, tested, trained, and partnered with fortune 500 companies to deploy integrated IT solutions.

Carmen obtained her ICF accredited coaching certifications at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts and with the Quantum Success Coaching Academy. Carmen also holds certifications in Neuro Linguistics Programing and Time Line Therapy® and is a certified Add Heart facilitator.

Her services include personalized coaching, workshops, consulting and speaking.

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Story Points - Are they Helping or Hindering? 🧐 Are they helping us deliver better? OR are they just fuelling endless debates? On our first episode of the new season of The Delivery Space podcast, Peter Zylka-Greger and Benjamin Huser-Berta join us to break it down. Here are some highlights: 👉🏽 The story point debate—is it still relevant or outdated? 👉🏽 How can story points be misused, leading to debates and frustrating planning sessions? 👉🏽 The trap of equating story points to time and money and why this approach can backfire and set your team up for failure 👉🏽 Alternatives to traditional story points that focus on data-driven approaches for more reliable planning. (Check out the links below for The Lighthouse Tool) 👉🏽 How reframing estimating can humanise workspaces to get the best out of teams. Tune into the episode to get further insights. Link in the comments below ⬇ About our guests Benjamin Huser-Berta is a seasoned Software Engineer and professional Scrum Master with a passion for transforming the way teams work. With experience as both a developer and an Agile Coach, Benji has seen firsthand how unproductive processes and overwhelming workloads can drain motivation and make work frustrating. He believes in creating a work environment that is both creative and fun, where teams can focus on delivering true value rather than just staying busy. Peter Zylka-Greger is an experienced professional who has worked with teams around the globe for many years. His passion lies in fostering real collaboration and helping teams reach their full potential. Peter believes that a successful team is more than just a group of individuals; but it requires building the right system around them, and a well-equipped toolkit for them to truly flourish. The approaches nowadays rarely look at the system at play and this part really excites him.

Our Let People Work Website: https://www.letpeople.work/

Our Lighthouse Tool: https://www.letpeople.work/lighthouse

Our Let People Work Training: https://www.letpeople.work/training

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Ted loves connecting with people and learning new skills that support the evolution of our collective intelligence. He has developed a rich catalogue of Agile Coaching and IT delivery knowledge and has broad experience in multiple business sectors. He uses this background to coach, mentor, train and facilitate teams, individuals and organisations.

In this episode, Nisha and Ted discuss why your personal agility matters and some of the lessons that Ted has learnt as an Agile coach along the way.

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