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Charles Myers, Freelance Agile coaching Project Manager.

Charles Myers

Verified Expert in Project Management
48 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

With over 40 years of engineering and product management experience, culminating in Agile project management, ownership, hiring, and leading UX and development teams, Charles has designed, built, and managed several leading software products. He has successfully led and united teams on a product direction from inception to end-of-life. Charles can work well within large companies and small teams or business transformations where one leads both product and culture.

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Antonia McCullough, Freelance Agile coaching Project Management Expert.

Antonia McCullough

Verified Expert in Project Management
27 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Antonia transforms organizations into adaptable, high-performing teams through agile coaching and culture change. With 20+ years of experience, she specializes in embedding psychological safety, growth mindset, and sustainable agile practices that drive measurable results. Antonia partners with leaders at all levels to transition teams from "doing agile" to "being agile," creating frameworks and systems that foster lasting organizational transformation.

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Julia Manning, Top Agile coaching Project Management Consultant.

Julia Manning

Verified Expert in Project Management
15 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

With 20+ years of leading high-impact programs across Fortune 50 companies like J&J, PepsiCo, and Pfizer, Julia specializes in scaling Agentic AI, LLM platforms, and cloud modernization initiatives that deliver measurable results. She doesn't just manage programs. She builds the delivery systems that make AI actually work at scale.

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Lars Wagner, Top Agile coaching Project Management Consultant.

Lars Wagner

Verified Expert in Project Management
13 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Lars is an accomplished senior agile coach with various certifications in coaching and Agile management methodologies. He worked as a scrum master and agile and leadership coach in the banking and tech industries, using the OKR, Obeya, Katas, design thinking, LeSS, and SAFe approaches to drive organizational change. Lars excels in coaching senior leaders to thrive personally and become agile professionals, aiding both individuals and organizations in their agile journey.

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Vladimir Kelava, Expert in Agile coaching Project Management

Vladimir Kelava

Verified Expert in Project Management
14 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Vladimir is an agile coach with an extensive technical background, 10+ years in utility sectors, and experience leading development teams. His work is all about teaching, mentoring, and coaching teams and individuals to work more efficiently and productively. Vladimir is passionate about leveraging Agile and Lean ways of working to help individuals and teams create better work environments, become resilient to change, focus on creating value as they grow, and achieve high performance.

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Ethann Castell, Top Agile coaching Project Management Freelancer.

Ethann Castell

Verified Expert in Project Management
9 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Ethann is an Agile coach and Atlassian specialist with 20+ years delivering transformation across the Australian government, enterprise, and education sectors. Recently, he's led a 7-month Jira redesign for Queensland DPI (42+ teams, 300+ projects), coached BP's distributed teams to achieve 65% time/cost savings, and designed Agile operating models for organizations of 900–1,200 people. He is a published author of two Agile books, an ICAgile Authorized Instructor, and a SAFe Practice Consultant.

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Rajinda Rathnapala, Top Agile coaching Project Management Freelancer.

Rajinda Rathnapala

Verified Expert in Project Management
11 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

A certified and accomplished delivery leader, Rajinda has 15+ years of extensive experience developing, deploying, and scaling systems to drive business growth. He has successfully managed the end-to-end project lifecycle to deliver complex software projects and lead diverse teams while meeting budgetary constraints. Dedicated to building strong client relationships, Rajinda always streamlines processes and mitigates risks to achieve innovation and operational excellence.

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Nadine Schwarz, Expert in Agile coaching Project Management

Nadine Schwarz

Verified Expert in Project Management
16 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Nadine has more than a decade of experience in the agile field. She is a certified senior project manager, scrum master, and business coach. Running her coaching, consulting, and training business since 2019, Nadine previously worked internally as an agile coach in the corporate world. She received her bachelor's (BAA) degree after studying international management and a master's (MA) degree in international event management.

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Sathish Kumar TS, Agile coaching Project Management Freelancer.

Sathish Kumar TS

Verified Expert in Project Management
37 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Sathish is a dynamic and results-driven professional with a robust program management and Agile coaching focus. He targets leadership roles that drive strategic initiatives and foster operational excellence within the IT sector. Sathish is a Certified Agile Coach, SAFe Agilist, and Scrum Master offering over 24 years of diverse experience in release train engineering, program management, and product management, focusing on executing impactful projects that elevate organizational effectiveness.

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Philip Kappaz, Agile coaching Project Management Consultant.

Philip Kappaz

Verified Expert in Project Management
45 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Phil is an accomplished Agile coach and a program and project manager with an extensive background in service delivery, software development, data integrations, and system implementations. His notable clients include Neiman Marcus, FedEx, and Southwest Airlines. His certifications in SAFe and CSM, combined with his years of experience, give Phil the ability to adapt to new verticals (retail, biometrics, insurance, and health care), environments, and organizations and deliver results quickly.

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Bhavin Gandhi, Top Agile coaching Project Management Freelancer.

Bhavin Gandhi

Verified Expert in Project Management
23 Years of Experience

Agile Coach

Bhavin turns tech visions into reality by bridging business and technology to deliver measurable outcomes. With experience at Fortune 500s (Amazon, Facebook, GE) and startups (DISQO, Flipkart, BharatPe), he combines scrappiness with strategic execution and operational rigor, aligning 50+ cross-functional teams and safeguarding $500+ million in revenue streams. He's been helping B2C and B2B companies transform products and operations using Gen AI, ML, cloud infrastructure, and lean frameworks.

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