Brian "Ponch" Rivera

Brian “Ponch” Rivera

Author, Speaker, and Organizational Performance Coach.

Co-creator of The Flow System™

Brian “Ponch” Rivera is the co-creator of The Flow System™, founder and CEO of AGLX Consulting, a former F-14 instructor and demonstration team member and current Captain in the Navy Reserve. He is a Cynefin Foundations Trainer and often co-leads complexity workshops with the co-creator of the Cynefin framework, Dave Snowden. “Ponch” has worked with the co-creator of the Scrum framework, Jeff Sutherland, and the co-creator of Lean Kanban University, and has led several high-profile digital transformations. He often speaks at global Agile, Scrum and Performance conferences on the topics of High-Reliability, Leadership, Teamwork, and Complex Adaptive Systems.

Brian “Ponch” Rivera holds a MBA, MA, and has a BA in Economics. He maintains multiple project management and Agile certifications to include a PMI-ACP, PMP, CSP, CSPO, CSM, is a Scrum in Hardware Trainer.

Following the U.S. Navy’s 2017 incidents at sea, “Ponch” put his civilian career on hold and volunteered to be a member of the 2018 Strategic Readiness Review Industry Best Practice and Learning Culture team where he led engagements with academics and executives on the topics of complexity, leadership, teamwork, safety, and culture. As a result of his combined civilian and U.S. Navy expertise, in early 2019 he was asked by U.S. Navy leadership to help transform the Naval Safety Center using the same concepts propelling the DevOps movement.

He is the co-author amjd co-creator of Flow System where he connects scalable methods and framework (i.e. Mission Command, OODA loop, Cynefin, Human Factors, Red Teaming, Psychological Safety, Wardley Maps, etc.) to the Toyota Production System and the Toyota Way.

Brian “Ponch” Rivera holds a MBA, MA, and has a BA in Economics. He maintains multiple project management and Agile certifications to include a PMI-ACP, PMP, CSP, CSPO, CSM, is a Scrum in Hardware Trainer.