Micaela Eller

Personal Motto: Transforming the world, one iteration at a time.

Micaela's dream is to make the world better by building organizational cultures of compassion, kindness and empathy. She is an engaging and adept Storyteller and uses her professional experience as an Agile Coach, Leadership Coach, Teacher and Professional Speaker, as well as, her personal experiences to inspire others with a pragmatic approach to solving problems. She educates, guides, influences and instructs individual leaders and teams on how to get organized and get moving.

When organizations embark on a transformation they are, typically, looking for a particular outcome or result. Often, they are frustrated because growth or efficiency has stagnated or receded. However, if they approach transformation with only an end result or not commitment to the process, they will struggle to make progress. Micaela's approach to organizational and Agile transformations is pragmatic and philosophical. She knows that behavior is a reflection of culture and collective thinking and that transformation occurs as a result of the process not as an end goal. Once organizational leaders embrace the process, Micaela is able to use Agile processes to identify which behaviors are leading to desired outcomes and which are not. Culture follows behavior. Agile transformations are effective when the process is used to force and enable teams to communicate, to collaborate, to make hard choices, to 'think' not 'do' and to build a culture of compassion, kindness and empathy.

Micaela is Sr Agile Transformation Leader at IBM Watson Data and AI. She is a professional Storyteller and Speaker on Organizational and Agile Transformation, Scrum, Leadership, Social Activism, and Mental Health.

Specialties: Professional Storyteller and Speaker, Leadership Coach, Agile Coach, Agile Transformation, Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Agile Principles and Methodologies, Program Management, Strategy and Implementation, Process Modeling