Meet the Team
Pamela Ashby
I’m a career marketer, qualified coach, Scrum Master, Agile Marketing & Leadership coach and trainer who’s worked with leaders and teams in large organisations to improve their agility. I set up the Marketing Agility Community Meet-up and was part of the team that updated the Agile Marketing Manifesto. For me, the Agile Business Consortium has an important role as an agnostic and inclusive professional body, advancing business agility worldwide. As Strategist, I’m happy to contribute to that goal. When not at my computer, I like to be outside – walking, gardening, and enjoying the English countryside.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/pam-ashby/
Debbie Baker
As the Events and Projects Manager for the consortium, Debbie’s primary responsibility revolves around orchestrating successful events and conferences. She leverages data-driven strategies to enhance the quality and impact of our delivered events.
During her leisure time, Debbie is occupied with her two teenage daughters, as well as her beloved dog and cat. She indulges her love for the outdoors through activities like walking and outdoor swimming.
Richard Campbell
To deliver on our mission to advance business agility worldwide, we develop and offer a range of knowledge products for agile practitioners and professionals. Richard's focus is building engagement with those using or potentially using our knowledge products to understand the challenges and opportunities to which we must respond. He seeks to understand what we can do to facilitate the adoption of agile principles to both improve delivery and the human experience when applying business agility. Richard's passion for agility translates to his life outside of work as a sustainable, ecological house self-builder, and advocate for social justice.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/rjcampbell
Stephen Clark
As Systems Architect at the consortium, Steve's passion lies in shaping the technological framework of the company as it pioneers innovative solutions in the field of information technology. His primary role involves strategising, designing, and implementing complex systems architectures that align with the company's vision and goals, as set forth by the executive team.
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Andrew Craddock
Andrew has been working with agile methods since 1997 and, as a consultant, trainer and coach, helping individuals and organisations adopt agile ways of working, since 2001. He has been a director of the Consortium since 2003 primarily helping shape and integrate our methods and frameworks for most of that time. Having spent a productive year as Chair – a year focused on initiating the consortiums journey to becoming a globally relevant professional body for business agility professionals – Andrew is pleased to be readjusting his focus back to the methodology aspect of consortium business as the Product Architecture Lead.
Katie Taylor
Katie has been a director of the Agile Business Consortium for 16 years and now leads this professional body as Chair. Through her background as a consultant and in academia, she launched the UK’s first Masters in Agile Leadership, and co-founded the Agile Research Network.
Maher Hasan
Maher is an accomplished product manager with experience in agile, Lean and PRINCE2 environments helping launch multiple start-ups. He thrives on taking complex challenges and translating them into business value via simple user experiences, ensuring that good designs are backed up by good quality and accessible build. Maher is experienced in designing and implementing business solutions and has a proven track record of delivering technology products within budget, time and specification.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/maherhasan
Mwaka Lungu
As Managing Director of the Consortium, Mwaka's drive is to see the mission of the organisation fulfilled as it advances business agility worldwide and support the professional development of its members. Mwaka implements and delivers the strategic objectives as agreed by the board and maintains an extensive up to date understanding of the organisation’s finances. Her areas of special interest include finance models, forecasting, business agility and leadership, and recreational baking.
Denise Murphy
Denise is the Community and Engagement Lead for the Consortium. She is a career product marketer and a multi-sector community engagement specialist.
The Agile Business Consortium is an independent professional body dedicated to advancing business agility worldwide. It supports its wide and varied membership through research, CPD training, certification, SIGs, networking, collaboration and thought leadership.
Denise’s role is to collaborate with the team to grow the membership of The Consortium and enhance the member learning experience. Her initial specific focus is to enhance individual membership engagement across all channels and groups and boost the sense of belonging for each community.
Outside of work, Denise is a keen singer and jazz fan when not organising family and community events.
Isaac Oladipupo
Isaac is a disruptor at the intersection of education, marketing and technology. He brings his extensive experience and expertise to drive the Consortium's product marketing strategies. He plays a pivotal role in positioning the organization's product offerings, engaging with the target audience, and creatively communicating the value of agile practices to advance business agility globally. When he's not busy, you will find him at the gym, travelling or simply meditating.
Steve Platts
Steve’s role centres around reviewing and analysing the technology used by the Agile Business Consortium and ensuring that our systems are laser focused on promoting Agile business practices and providing practitioners with the support they need. He spends his day testing, adapting, updating and breaking(!) our internal and external software to ensure we’re using the very best tech available. When not at work you’ll find him playing guitar, drawing or writing novels – all with varying levels of success!
Christina Reet
Christina is the Marketing Lead for the Consortium. She has a varied background in graphic design and marketing and is central to promoting the Consortium's products and events to the right audience. Christina works closely with the rest of the marketing team, using her creative and critical thinking skills to ensure the Consortium's strategy delivers. You will find her at a gig in her spare time, doodling new ideas for funny greeting cards or planning her next wild camping trip.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/christinareet
Josie Robinson
As the Web Lead, Josie's role involves creating and updating the Consortium's website. She also spends time developing SEO techniques and exploring our monthly stats, which she finds particularly interesting. Josie has two small children and a dog to look after outside of work, so there is always something to keep her busy. In the evenings, she likes to wind down by crafting, especially making homemade cards and cross-stitching.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/josiejfrobinson
Danielle Roper
Danielle is the Communications Specialist for the Consortium. With a background in journalism, content writing and marketing, she is responsible for creating content and engaging audiences by communicating stories that resonate with them. She also looks after social media and works closely with the Marketing Team to increase digital engagement. Outside of work, you’ll find her singing at gigs in Arabic, Turkish and sometimes even English! She is also a regular theatre and music reviewer and a member of a quiz league.
Emily Ruffle
Working as part of the delivery team, Emily is responsible for proposition development and delivery, a varied role working with the team to enhance the Consortium's communications, partnerships, and products and services. Her evenings and weekends are taken up by sailing, crafting, allotment digging and exploring the great outdoors – following her mantra “live your life and eat cake!”.
Charlotte Szczepankiewicz
Charlotte's role focuses on processing store orders, ensuring a smooth delivery of our products, and dealing with the ‘front line’ of incoming queries. In her free time, Charlotte enjoys going to live gigs, spending time with her dogs, playing video games and cross-stitching!
Fallon Taylor
Fallon is our Knowledge & Content Lead who is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge as a gateway to personal and collective growth. Her role focuses on the creation of engaging content that educates, inspires and sparks curiosity.
With demonstrated experience in large organisations, Fallon is a logical thinker who identifies creative solutions for the intended audience. She believes in decisions that are data driven and represent what our audience is asking for. This involves collaboration with all other roles across the Consortium to ensure consistency in the value of content we publish.
In her spare time, Fallon has enjoys digital illustration, gardening, gaming and training with her Australian Shepherd, Arlo.
Niamh Trundle
Niamh is an Experienced Learning Designer and educator with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry, designing, developing and delivering training programmes for a variety of clients across different industries. She is a strong education professional with extensive experience working in educational institutions abroad and in the UK. Niamh is passionate about creating engaging and interactive learning experiences and using the latest technological innovations to facilitate learning. She is committed to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in learning design to meet the needs of diverse learners and help to achieve their goals. Niamh's interests include applied linguistics, learning languages and travelling. She also enjoys cooking different international cuisines.
Jason Wright
Jason is an Agile Trainer, Coach, and Consultant, and he is passionate about bringing together his extensive and diverse business experience with hands-on agile transformation expertise to help individuals, teams, and organisations on their agile journey. He has been a director of the consortium for seven years, and he feels fortunate to be able to apply this experience to supporting and influencing the evolution of business agility worldwide. He is particularly excited to be a part of the next stage of the Consortium's journey to becoming the Professional Body for business agility professionals.
Board of Directors
Richard Campbell
To deliver on our mission to advance business agility worldwide, we develop and offer a range of knowledge products for agile practitioners and professionals. Richard's focus is building engagement with those using or potentially using our knowledge products to understand the challenges and opportunities to which we must respond. He seeks to understand what we can do to facilitate the adoption of agile principles to both improve delivery and the human experience when applying business agility. Richard's passion for agility translates to his life outside of work as a sustainable, ecological house self-builder, and advocate for social justice.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/rjcampbell
Peter Coesmans
Peter has been involved in agile working and its predecessors since 1997. He has helped to forward professionals in agility (co-authoring Agile Portfolio Management), project/programme/portfolio management (co-authoring IPMA’s ICB4 standard), and facilitation (setting up the international CPF assessment for IAF international). Peter often gets the opportunity to speak at professional conferences worldwide, on a myriad of topics. He is always looking for sustainable improvements and believes true change is brought forward in small steps, through learning and experimenting, and by collaborating with people with a common goal.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/petercoesmans/
Vince Grant
Vince has been a Director of the Consortium since 2019. Currently, he chairs the Board’s RemNom (Remunerations and Nominations) Committee in addition to taking an active interest in supporting the overall organisational strategy. Vince's company Catalyst has been unconsciously run as an agile organisation right from its foundation over 25 years ago; the penny finally dropped when he attended the Consortium's annual conference in London some years ago, and he has been involved with the Consortium ever since! Outside of business, Vince has interests in music (including as a local church organist), reading, walking, cycling, gardening, and occasional online studies in Astrophysics and related fields.
Myriam Hamed Torres
Myriam is the Innovation Lead at Thomson Reuters Labs collaborating across business segments and customers to deliver the next generation of data-driven solutions through rapid prototyping and agile research and experimentation. She is also an agile coach, mentor, author, speaker, and event organiser with the goal of bringing individuals, teams and organisations together to help them thrive in a VUCA world. As Director of the Consortium Myriam's ambition is to bring industry insight to support our members with relevant knowledge and products as well as guide the next generation of professionals.
Giles Lindsay
Giles Lindsay is a technology executive, business agility coach, and CEO of Agile Delta Consulting Limited. Giles has a track record in driving digital transformation and technological leadership. He has adeptly scaled high-performing delivery teams across various industries, from nimble startups to leading enterprises. His roles, from CTO or CIO to visionary change agent, have always centred on defining overarching technology strategies and aligning them with organisational objectives.
Giles is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (FBCS), and The Institution of Analysts & Programmers (FIAP). His leadership across the UK and global technology companies has consistently fostered innovation, growth, and adept stakeholder management. With a unique ability to demystify intricate technical concepts, he’s enabled better ways of working across organisations.
Giles’ commitment extends to the literary realm with his forthcoming book: “Clearly Agile: A Leadership Guide to Business Agility”. This comprehensive guide focuses on embracing Agile principles to effect transformative change in organisations. An ardent advocate for continuous improvement and innovation, Giles is unwaveringly dedicated to creating a business world that prioritises value, inclusivity, and societal advancement.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/gileslindsay/
Mwaka Lungu
As Managing Director of the Consortium, Mwaka's drive is to see the mission of the organisation fulfilled as it advances business agility worldwide and support the professional development of its members. Mwaka implements and delivers the strategic objectives as agreed by the board and maintains an extensive up to date understanding of the organisation’s finances. Her areas of special interest include finance models, forecasting, business agility and leadership, and recreational baking.
Katie Taylor
Katie has been a director of the Agile Business Consortium for 16 years and now leads this professional body as Chair. Through her background as a consultant and in academia, she launched the UK’s first Masters in Agile Leadership, and co-founded the Agile Research Network.
Sophie Theen
Sophie joined the consortium recently as a Non-Executive Director in hopes of supporting the consortium's ambitious growth plans in bringing the world of agile closer to organisations, companies and individuals who aren't part of this ecosystem yet. Sophie is the Chief People Officer at Oakam, where her aim is to shift cultural paradigms within organisations and to champion diversity and equality using structured, disruptive thinking. Sophie has been featured on the Women in Fintech Powerlist for three consecutive years and was the first HR professional to win the top 35 Standout in Fintech!
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sophietheen
Kevin Withane
Kevin is a senior legal and compliance director (UK qualified) with over 18 years experience gained globally in both in-house and private practice roles. He has broad experience managing a legal function spread across regions and direct involvement in developing and driving forward company strategies, with a particular focus on advising on corporate governance, corporate finance, regulatory matters, M&A, ethics and compliance, diversity, equity and inclusion.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/kevinwithane
Jason Wright
Jason is an Agile Trainer, Coach, and Consultant, and he is passionate about bringing together his extensive and diverse business experience with hands-on agile transformation expertise to help individuals, teams, and organisations on their agile journey. He has been a director of the consortium for seven years, and he feels fortunate to be able to apply this experience to supporting and influencing the evolution of business agility worldwide. He is particularly excited to be a part of the next stage of the Consortium's journey to becoming the Professional Body for business agility professionals.