Stuart Turner

Stuart Turner partners with people wanting to develop healthy workplace ecosystems, which enable groups of talented people to be highly effective and fulfilled. Such environments are now essential to support diverse, collaborative groups in tackling the many intractable problems of today’s increasingly complex and rapidly disruptable world.

Practically this may mean:  
Leading Scrum and Agile workshops for practitioners and business owners  
Facilitating Agile Leadership workshops for Executives and Senior Leaders  
Co-creating healthy ecosystems for groups and whole organisations  
Coaching individuals and groups to amplify their effectiveness  
Exaptation of ideas and practices  

Stuart has conducted courses and workshops in UK, Europe, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia, Australia, USA, and Canada. His clients include many large financial institutions and government agencies as well as small and medium-sized companies from a variety of industries.

Stuart bridges the disciplines of product development, organisational design and personal coaching. His background in software engineering combined with an ongoing fascination with communities and organisations as well as individual and collective change has led him to become a certified coach, mentor and trainer of anthro-complexity and agility.

Stuart conducts the following courses:
Certified Agile Leadership (Essentials, Teams, Organisations) - for Scrum Alliance®
Certified Agile Leadership II (Follow-on Programme for CAL-ETO) - for Scrum Alliance®
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) - for Scrum Alliance®
Certified Product Owner® (CSPO®) - for Scrum Alliance®
OpenSpace Agility

Stuart lived in Singapore from 2011 ro 2018. Joining the Agile Community when arriving in Singapore, he founded the Agile Singapore Conference in 2013 and organized it again in 2014. He has spoken at several international conferences, the largest being a plenary session for 1,100 delegates in Orlando, USA.

Stuart has been producing software for over 30 years and using Agile approaches and coaching organisational innovation for roughly 20 years. He has travelled the world, experiencing many different cultures and experiences. He still enjoys developing software and continues to develop the FAST-Standard analysis service for the financial modelling standard largely adopted by the big accounting and auditing firms.

Stuart is a Certified Agile Leadership Educator with the Scrum Alliance®. This is the top tier in the Agile industry with still fewer than 60 people holding this status, globally. Stuart is a former member of the trainer assessment committee for Scrum Alliance, responsible for assessing, interviewing and approving new CSTs.

Stuart is a Professional Certified Coach® (PCC) (500+ hours of coaching) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). ICF is the most recognised professional coaching standard, globally.

Stuart is an Advisory Board Member with the Open Leadership Network, where he also provides education and guidance on effective workplace transformation. Combining open space technology with concepts such as invitation, coaching and experimentation can rapidly accelerate increasing your agility.