Celebrating Women in Agile with Erin and Karina E3

Celebrating Women in Agile with Erin and Karina E3

The Lurnist Show had the honor of inviting Erin Randall and Karina Jones to share their insight in the Agile space. The conversation ranged from what Agile methods are used for in everyday life circumstances, to balancing work from home, and about mentorship within the space and uplifting each other up. This conversation is one you shouldn’t miss out on.

If you are on the fence about Agile work, then you’ll sure have a clear picture after this episode. The topics were very valuable lessons and relatable to what we go through with the whole transition to work from home life.

Ad Meliora Coaching is a boutique coaching and consulting practice that serves organizations, leadership, and individuals. They specialize in performance transformations and business agility with engineering, mining, and manufacturing industries; however, they always come back to coaching and being of service to people.

Erin Randall is a longtime agile, coactive, and ORSC coach with a deep passion for serving people, teams, and organizations. Through her work with her coaching and consulting practice, Ad Meliora Coaching, she helps her clients to find the pain points and then reimagine a new way forward. Her goal in all that she does is simple: happy people doing great work.

Erin is an active believer in servant-leadership. She is one of the cofounders of the Agile Coaching Circles, and she co-leads the Agile Austin Coaching Group, so don’t be surprised when you bump into her at a meetup or in a Slack channel. She also makes mentorship a regular part of her coaching work. Throughout the year, she is actively mentoring one or two individuals that are trying to achieve specific goals in their work.

Erin holds coaching certifications as a coactive, agile, and ORSC-trained coach. Additionally, she has completed advanced facilitation training and is a credentialed Integral Facilitator. Erin also writes regularly about all things coaching on her blog, which is found on her site. Her particular passion is questions, and she is always looking for ways to ask better questions. She regularly teaches and speaks at conferences about how to help others learn and practice this foundational skill.

She and her husband, Joel, live in glorious Austin, Texas, with their two horribly wonderful dogs, Eleanor and Beatrice. When she isn’t vacuuming up dog hair, Erin can be found hiking, drinking way too much tea, or reading. (She reads a LOT.)

Connect with Erin on LinkedIn.

ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

Karina Jones is a PMP certified Project Manager and CSM certified Scrum Master. Her focus is on developing structure out of the most complex and innovative operations and projects.

In addition to her strong background in Computer Science and Mathematics, she holds a Masters of Nonprofit Studies from Arizona State University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Murcia, Spain.

She came to Arizona State University in 2012. Before ASU she worked for Procter & Gamble Latin America where she occupied diverse regional leadership roles in Information Technology for Latin America. She is originally from El Salvador but while working for Procter & Gamble she lived in Mexico city and Guatemala.

Connect with Karina on LinkedIn.

About The Lurnist – Celebrating Women in Agile

We highlight fantastic women who are doing great things in the Agile field, all the while creating role models to inspire young women in high school and college to want to have a career in Agile.

Who do you know that leads scrum teams? Builds great products as a product owner or product manager? Coaches leading agile transformations? Or, is an agile teacher or trainer? We’d love to get to know her with the hope to feature her story and journey to success on The Lurnist Radio Show & Podcast. 

About Your Co-hosts

Debra Hildebrand is the Founder and CEO of LurnAgile and has over 20 years’ experience in project management; including consulting and training in the public and private sector and teaching in higher education.

She is one of the architects for the Project Management Certification program at the University of Washington, where she received the Team-Teaching Excellence Award and currently instructs in the online portion of the program. Additionally, she developed and currently teaches traditional and agile project management courses at Stanford University.

 Her passion projects include Celebrating Women in Agile through her Business RadioX Show, The Lurnist Show, and helping veterans transition into meaningful careers in project management after service disconnection through her work on the board of Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA).

She is a certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute and has an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, NY.

Lauryn Jenne is a senior student at University of Washington Bothell (UWB), majoring in Management Information Systems with a minor in Computer Science IT. Lauryn currently works for UWB School of Business and is also the Digital Marketing Manager at Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA), a non-profit that assists veterans and military spouses in gaining careers in project management.

Additionally, she is the Vice President of Fundraising for Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity at the University.

Lauryn aspires to work for an organization as  a project manager and eventually create her own brand and startup company.

Lauryn currently lives in Seattle, WA

About Our Sponsor LurnAgile

LurnAgile is a Boutique, Woman Owned Small Business that delivers top quality Agile Certification courses and Agile Coaching.  We are a Scaled Agile Silver Transformation Partner, which shows our clients that we have invested in and are committed to the Scaled Agile training standards and coach offerings.

Each of our team of Elite coaches/instructors have over 10 years of leading and coaching Agile Transformations in some of the largest Fortune 100 and 500 companies in the world. This means that your organization is learning from someone who has “been there and done that”.