Sam Bowtell

Grow Your Agility

Grow Your Agility, led by CST Sam Bowtell, creates powerful, practical Scrum and Agile learning experiences. With 90+ Net Promoter Score and real-world leadership, Sam inspires lasting agility in people, teams, and organisations.

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Title: Certified Scrum Trainer and Director

Company: Grow Your Agility

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

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Grow Your Agility

Experience and services

Courses taught: 390
Trainer since: 2020
Additional services
Open to co-training
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)
Training formats
- Live Online
- Live Online + Self-Paced
Industries
- Administrative Services
- Advertising & Marketing
- Agriculture & Forestry
- Arts & Entertainment
- Construction
- Education
- Finance & Insurance
- Government
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- IT & Communications
- Manufacturing
- Nonprofit
- Other
- Professional Services & Consulting
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Transportation & Warehousing
- Utilities
- Wholesale Trade
Area of expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Transformation
- Business Strategy & Planning
- Change Management
- Customer Experience
- Digital Transformation
- Leadership & Team Development
- Product Innovation & Development
- Project & Program Management
- Training & Development