Michael Saunders | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

Have experience as CEO, CIO, CTO( holding a certificate as a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors). Comes from a C-Level background before entering the transformational space for large Enterprise. Client names like Leighton, Commonwealth Bank, Dimension Data, Sun Rice and Macquarie Bank are just a few of the brands that are on my resume on transformation. Both an Agile Coach and a DevOps coach, with capabilities across change, culture, and technology. Interested in working with clients who want to transform their organization to be the best in their given industry.

Current position (1)

Enterprise Executive And Leadership Coach

Lloyds Bank & Accelerated Digital Delivery

Achievements (3)

Scrum@Scale Practitioner Trainer

The Scrum at Scale Guide is the definitive guide to the Scrum@Scale framework. It contains the definitions of the components that make up the Scrum@Scale framework, including its scaled roles, scaled events, and enterprise artifacts, as well as the rules that bind them together.

SAFe SPC v4

Implementing a Lean-Agile SAFe transformation in the enterprise.

LeSS Certified Practitioner

Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale.

Degrees (2)

Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A)

Australian Institute of Business

2014 to 2017

Graduate of Australian Company Directors

Australian Institute of Company Directors

2014 to 2015

Presentations

Presentations (4)

How do you train leadership?

Getting Leadership into training is one of the biggest challenges to have any successful rollout. Normally the leadership doesn't want to go back to delivery to get trained. How do you get Leadership into training.

Innovation and Agile

What is innovation? Is every idea innovation what do leaders say about innovation. How do we measure it? What is a good measure?

Innovation is about creating hard cash. Everything else is a hobby

Many companies think that innovation is simply making “cool things” but if the board, c-level are not prepared to invest in innovation and it isn’t bringing in hard cash in the future the company will most likely cease to exist. Find out how to use innovation and Agile to ensure your organisation is amongst the winners.

Future of work and agile

Agile, AI and Robotics will the team end up being outsourced completely? What will the future of the team be? Can code really write itself?

Past talks (2)

Scrum@Scale VS SAFe

MeetUp Talk

London

August 7, 2018

Scrum@Scale

London

October 26, 2018