Sam Bowtell
Sydney Australia
My certifications
Certified Scrum Trainer®
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner®
Certified Agile Leader® 1
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner®
About
Energy, Caring and Fun. I bring these to every aspect of my work as a Certified Scrum Trainer, Coach and Facilitator. I’ve played many roles in the teams I have been part of; Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Leadership Coach, Product Owner, Practice Lead, Training Lead, Program Lead and Sales Lead.
Community contribution:
- Conference speaker and industry thought leader in Agile and Scrum, including Agile India (2018, 2019, 2020), Scrum Australia (2018, 2020), Agile Australia (2020), Global Scrum Gathering (2020) and more.
- Establishment of an annual community Agile conference in Australia, bringing together organisations to learn from each other and tell stories. Received multiple awards.
- Establishment of the first not for profit Agile community in Australia, connecting organisations to help each other learn and grow in Agile.
- Coaching and mentoring in not for profit organisations helping them run their business with agile and scrum.
- Developing career opportunities for people with disabilities in agile and scrum.
- Introduced new volunteering partnerships with community organisations. Leveraged these to provide project team members in volunteering days for team bonding and a sense of giving back to the community.
- Facilitated Team Management Systems personality and work preference sessions for many business areas and not for profits helping create high performance teams. Leveraged these techniques to quickly establish teamwork and culture on all projects I am involved in.
- Facilitated leadership coaching workshops on a regular basis for senior leaders to equip them with a coaching mindset and solution-based toolkit to help their team achieve purposeful positive change in their lives and improve business performance.
Other qualifications
- Design Thinking Fundamentals
- Lean Principles and Theory of Constraints
- Coaching for Executives accredited facilitator
- Team Management Systems accredited facilitator
- Project Management Professional certification (PMI)
- ‘Hot-house’ workshop facilitator
- Service Performance Improvement facilitator
- Leadership training for General Managers
- Mastering World Class Effective Communications
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2023-07-01 - present - Grow Your Agility (Director and Certified Scrum Trainer)
- 2009-04-01 - 2010-10-29 - Commonwealth Bank (Team Member)
- 2010-11-01 - 2012-09-03 - Commonwealth Bank (Scrum Master)
- 2012-09-03 - 2014-08-19 - Commonwealth Bank (Agile Coach Regulatory Project)
- 2014-09-08 - 2016-10-31 - Commonwealth Bank (Agile Coach Scaled Agile program)
- 2016-11-21 - 2019-03-29 - Commonwealth Bank (Product Owner Wealth Agile Practice)
- 2018-04-02 - 2020-12-31 - Commonwealth Bank (Chief Product Owner - Agile Practice)
- 2020-06-30 - 2023-08-15 - RedAgile (Certified Scrum Trainer)