Betty Schad
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About
Betty Schad is a results-oriented agile thought leader that leverages her experience with portfolio and program management techniques and a variety of agile frameworks to successfully guide organizations through complex agile transformations. Betty has applied agile and lean thinking across multiple industries including financial services, property and casualty insurance, and healthcare.
Betty has a unique blend of hands-on agile delivery experience and agile transformation strategy, including:
- A proven track record of leading $10M+ agile technology programs from inception to implementation while continually improving the execution environment through a focus on agile maturiy.
- Development and implementation of agile transformation strategies within a Fortune 6 company with a focus on execution and project management roles.
- Established Agile Leader community of practice focusing on supporting agile coaches & Scrum Masters across a Fortune 6 enterprise to drive agile transformation across 6 PMOs internationally.
- Development of customized training material built to maximize knwoledge retention and applicability to each environment.
- Experience coaching at all levels within organizations including teams, programs and enterprise-level.
- Extensive hands-on experience directly coaching individuals in roles such as Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
Betty has played a vital role in transforming both business and IT aspects of organizations to improve agility and is passionate about agile transformation being about more than simply a different way of doing work - it's a cultural shift.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2018-12-10 - present - Cigna (Agile Coach)
- 2013-09-16 - 2014-11-14 - Travelers Insurance
- 2014-11-24 - 2015-12-31 - Optum Technology Services of UnitedHealth Group (Agile Program Lead)
- 2016-01-01 - 2017-03-10 - Optum Technology Services of UnitedHealth Group (Enterprise Agile Coach & Agile Leader Service Owner)
- 2017-03-13 - 2018-12-07 - Modis Managed Solutions (Agile Director)