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Craig Carrington has been a practicing Agile Coach and Scrum Master since 2007.

He holds expert coaching certifications from Scrum Alliance (Certified Team Coach – CTC), ICAgile (Expert in Agile Coaching – ICE-AC), and SAFe (SAFe Program Consultant – SPC).   

He has advanced capabilities and experience in individual, team, and organizational agile coaching, including with senior leadership, management, agile roles, and team members.  

While mentoring and teaching teams/organizations about agile processes is central to Craig’s skills, he is particularly excited about coaching teams through change and continuous improvement, focusing on the benefits of embracing the agile mindset, by helping individuals, teams and leadership identify and overcome the impediments tied to the organization’s cultural/organizational legacy.  He is skilled in coaching, mentoring, facilitating, and teaching training/workshops, and is active in local/regional agile professional organizations.

Craig has coached at a variety of organizations – from larger multinational corporations to smaller regional companies.  His experience spans across a variety of industries.

Sean Lemson is an Organizational and Team Performance Coach and certified Executive Coach with over a decade of experience helping companies transform. He founded Motivated Outcomes, LLC with one mission: To help companies become places people want to work. Accomplishing this often requires coaching at all levels of the organization from the senior leadership team to the teams building the product or service.

Leaders play a crucial role in the success of any effort. One bad leader can destroy the morale of hundreds of employees, and a loss of innovation follows. In his upcoming book One Drop of Poison: How One Bad Leader Can Slowly Kill Your Company, Sean makes a simple but powerful statement: Companies that treat employees fairly and respectfully have a competitive advantage in a market where turnover is soaring to new highs and employee engagement has never been lower. In these times, companies need a guide to help them align on a new people-first culture, assess their current situation, train their leaders, and eliminate poison from their organization. Sean is that guide.

A visionary pragmatist, Diana Larsen is Chief Connector at the Agile Fluency™ Project where we hold a vision of a future where: “Every agile software team practices Software Development at a level of fluent proficiency that specifically fits their businesses’ needs.” At AFP, she has turned her considerable skills as an advisor and guide to preparing upcoming agile coaches and consultants for the business challenges that lie ahead. 

During her extensive career, Diana has worked with business leaders to design work systems, improve project performance, inspire teams to greatness, and support leader and enterprise agility. Now, she prepares the grounding for other agile leaders to achieve similar results, building on the foundation of the Agile Fluency Suite.  

She is author of the books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; and Five Rules for Accelerated Learning. She co-originated the Agile Fluency™ model and co-authored “The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile” along with numerous other articles and blog posts. 

For over 25 years, Diana led the practice area for Agile software development, leading & managing teams, and Agile transitions at FutureWorks Consulting. FutureWorks Consulting partners worked with organizational leaders to create environments where everyone at every level could say, "I love my work...this is the best job ever!" 

Currently, in her spare time, she delivers inspiring conference keynote talks and facilitates productive Open Space Technology events.

"Neal brings practical expertise to businesses seeking to enhance their systems and processes. He's a PMP and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt who believes in empowering people to work more efficiently. Neal focuses on defining clear tasks, roles, and responsibilities, and fostering respectful communication to drive measurable improvements across the value chain."

Diane is an accomplished agile enterprise coach, facilitator and instructor. Her passion is Agile and Lean coaching with emphasis on team engagement and development of agile leaders. She has had the pleasure of serving teams and leaders in improving their agile practices as well as coaching leaders using Leadership Circle Profile assessment and 360 feedback tools. 

She loves exploring human behavior, system patterns, and organizational change. She facilitates a wide range of improvement workshops which include interactive games and engagement techniques to solicit business requirements, improve current processes, and improve team dynamics.

A few of the organizations Diane has had the privilege to serve are Avalara, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Glasstech, Hydro Resources, Nike and Microsoft Corporation. Diane is current co-hosts for the AgilePDX Westside meetup. She has served as Past President of the PMI Portland Chapter, and is a co-author of the Agile Almanac Book2: Programs with Multi and Virtual Team Environments which was released as a best seller on Amazon.com in 2017.

Diane is ICAgile certified in Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT), Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT), Enterprise Coaching (ICE-EC) as well as a Project Management Professional (PMP), and Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).