Change Angels

Agile HR and Agile Leadership are one of the enablers of Business Agility – the organization’s ability to thrive in the digital age by swiftly responding to the market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions. Globally, organisations are redesigning how they operate in the current VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world and Agile is rapidly emerging as the new paradigm. To support the organisations better, HR and Leaders need to adopt agile mindset. Current HR and People Management practices are increasingly out-of-touch with Agile values, and Leaders need support in how to successfully transform their organisation.

• Understand Agile-Lean values & mindset in the context of HR
• Understand the future of work & new ways of working
• Be familiar with the concept of modern leadership and understand what Agility in Leadership means
• Get guidance on how to support the development of Agile Leaders
• Understand the difference between leading and managing People
• Get access to case study examples of how others transformed their People Operations and successfully led the transformation

Joanna is an Agile – Lean consultant, who is an expert in Business Agility, Agile-Lean Transformation and Development of High Performing Agile Teams.

Joanna has a masters degree in Project Management, from UCD Michael Smurfit Business School and has a background in technology and business, she developed a career in Agile and Lean consulting and leadership development, working on bringing a positive change across a wide range of organisations, sectors and cultures. She has worked with organisations in the following industries, the Financial Sector including Insurance and Banking, Gaming, Aviation, E-learning, Tourism and Travel.

She holds numerous Agile certifications and is an approved provider of Agile & Lean Training and Consulting by Enterprise Ireland, IDA and Local Enterprise Office. She’s also authorised by the International Consortium for Agile to run the certified ICP-AHR trainings.

She has helped coordinate Agile-Lean events internationally and is a board member of Agile-Lean Ireland. Joanna is a very active member of the Global Agile Community. She both organizes and speaks at various Agile-Lean events. In 2018-2019 she was on the European Scrum Gathering Team with Scrum Alliance.