Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
I am a highly collaborative, positive and adaptable Programme Manager, with extensive experience in coaching teams, facilitating engaging workshops. developing leaders and driving systems change. I specialise in creating safe spaces for open discussion and empowering teams and individuals to understand their capabilities in order to deliver projects of significant value to their users. I understand (and love) servant leadership, coaching, facilitation, reflective practice, Agile frameworks and project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Miro and Mural. I build (and value) powerful educational experiences, safe spaces, self-organising teams, cross-functional collaboration, transparency and commitment. Feel free to contact me directly at [email protected]. If you would like to meet face to face, the first coffee is on me.
I lead impact measurement and learning initiatives together with the wonderful True Athlete Project team, who work hard every day to create a more compassionate world through sport. This means that I: - Build robust impact reporting frameworks to support funding and partnership development - Design evaluation methodologies for our range of powerful programmes - Create learning systems that enhance program delivery across our UK and US operations - Support social impact strategy development for National Governing Bodies, community clubs, and partner organizations - Drive continuous improvement through data-driven insights and stakeholder feedback from grassroots to professional levels
In this role, I have oversight over the fantastic Denis Goldberg Scholarship, which is funded by Herriot Watt University, as well as a wider range of International focused programmes within the Challenges Group portfolio. On each of these, my responsibilities include project management, internal and external reporting, financial management supporting the growth of Challenges work in across the Group, engaging current and new partners, developing strong working relationships and ensuring new and continued sources of income.
In this role, I was focused on spreading the Agile mindset throughout the organisation, as well as guiding and coaching three diverse teams on how to maximise Agile/Scrum practices and values to become self-organized, cross-functional and to deliver value to the customers. The different contexts, requirements and agile maturity of each team required me to adapt a proactive and flexible approach, and transition swiftly between different roles (servant leader, coach, facilitator, teacher, mentor, manager and janitor) depending on the circumstances. Overall, I am most proud of my work in helping to build a trusting and safe environment within each team which allowed us to tackle challenges head on without fear of blame or judgement.
In this freelance role, I collaborated with the Education Team to analyse, streamline and develop internal processes to improve efficiency and transparency. I also delivered Agile workshops and support to Full Stack Development students during their bootcamps, and assisted internally with the incorporation of Agile practices to enhance productivity and cross-team collaboration.
In this role, I coached multiple remote international development teams transitioning into Scrum and Kanban and led on promoting and facilitating a greater alignment with Agile values and principles across the organisation. This involved leading productive daily standup meetings, planning and facilitating engaging retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, sprint reviews and planning sessions, supporting Product Owners in user story writing and task prioritisation and providing regular progress reports to Business Teams. I also took it as my responsibility to build greater community among the teams and supporting the personal and professional development of all team members, through introducing fortnightly coaching and reflection sessions, group activities and fostering a safe space for discussion and dialogue.