Karen Bruns

Karen Bruns has been serving as an Enterprise Agility Coach & Trainer for the past four years; most recently her clients are in the public sector.  Prior to that she was solely in the private sector.  She has experienced success in transforming teams and organizations in both environments.  She has successfully coached functional managers to better understand and embrace their complimentary role within Agile. Karen has worked closely with executive personnel, project managers, product owners, developers, systems analysts, testers and vendors.  She has lived the reality of serving as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and team member, making her uniquely qualified to effectively coach these team roles.  She does not believe in installing Agile, but understands it is a cultural change that must be first embraced by leadership.  Karen has a natural passion for Agile and the power of transformation it holds. She is a practitioner of servant leadership, not servant beatership.  Karen is certified as a Facilitator of Open Space Technologies and is a member of the Agile Open Northern California conference organizing team.  She is a member of the Agile Games West organizing committee as well as the Emcee for the event.  In addition to being a CTC and CAL1, she is a Certified Trainer of Training from the Back of the Room in both the in-person and virtual formats, and is an ICAgile Certified Instructor of the ACC, AHR, and ENT courses.

Her most passionate endeavor is the creation of Emergent Agile Retreats; an organization devoted to provide focused Agile retreats for practitioners.