I believe it is good to reinvent oneself every few years and my career is a testament to that belief. I spent the first part of my career in different roles in Software Development, mostly in vendor teams, then changed direction in my early thirties and spent a few years as academic at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. A move to the UK returned me to the software development world, and a good thing that was, since that is how I was introduced to eXtreme Programming in 1996. I never looked back. Agile opened up a whole new world, one I loved.

I became an Agile mentor in 2005 after a few years inside Agile teams, and then heard about this new role, Agile Coach, in 2009. After some coaching with Agile Coaching Institute (ACI) my interest was peaked and I started my professional coaching studies. I was one of the first Agile coaches in South Africa, working really hard, so started my own company to grow more coaches to help. In our coaching engagements we kept getting stumped beyond the team level, so next I upped my Enterprise game through ACI’s inaugural Enterprise Wizards Bootcamp in 2014. I stopped doing team coaching at that point, focusing on Enterprise Agility, which led to my focus at this point – growing inner agility in leaders at all levels of the organization. Along the way I started teaching and developing Team and Enterprise Coaches and love coaching coaches. This is also what attracted me to Team Catapult – I jumped at the opportunity to join the faculty!