Alex Canizales
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About
Alex Canizales is a Transformation Strategist & Coach, expert in Business Agility Transformations, Strategy and Portfolio Management.
He also draws on 25 years of total experience, 15 years of working experience in Agile, spanning multiple industries in fast moving tech and innovative environments, working with teams in different countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America, such as Colombia, Perú, Chile, Spain, Sweden, India, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
He is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Team Coach (CTC) and Certified Agile Leader (CALII) by ScrumAlliance, Accredited Coach at Agile Coaches Alliance, Associate Business Agility Coach by Business Agility Academy, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) by Co-Active Training Institute, Member of International Coach Federation (ICF), Certified Enterprise Business Agility Strategist (EBAS) and Certified AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF) by AgilityHealth, OKR Certified Professional, Lean Change Agent Foundations, unFIX Foundation, Member of Business Agility Institute, SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) and Release Train Engineer (RTE) by Scaled Agile Inc, Certified Agile HR Enabler by JLS and Kanban Management Professional (KMP) by Kanban University, Flight Levels Systems Architecture by Flight Levels Academy. Alex has a Bachelor Degree on Systems Engineer with Post Graduates on Software Development Process and IT Management, studies on Master on ICT Management. He is a Organizational Transformation Leader, energizing stakeholders and creating evolutionary and sustainable change, leading large-scale agile initiatives.
Deep experience working with teams, stakeholders and management to improve performance and outcomes, executive and leadership coaching, organizational evolution and agile practices at the enterprise level. Driving agile journeys, scaling agile and operating models from design to implementation in order to build highly performing teams and organizations. Keynote Speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering Peru 2023, Speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering Bolivia 2022 and Regional Scrum Gathering Mexico 2020, Speaker at ScrumDay Colombia 2022 y 2019.
Specialties: Business Agility, Lean - Agile Transformations, Scaled Agile & Lean StartUp, Agile Coaching, Co-Active Coaching, Agile Leadership.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2019-07-04 - present - Agilisters (Co-Founder & Principal Coach)
- 2014-11-17 - 2016-12-31 - Sunhotels (Agile Coach & Portfolio Manager)
- 2017-10-01 - 2019-05-17 - Banco Santander México (Sr. Agile Coach)
- 2019-05-27 - 2020-06-30 - Grupo Salinas (Enterprise Agile Coach)
- 2021-03-01 - 2021-07-16 - Mi Banco (Perú) (Enterprise Agile Coach)
- 2021-07-19 - 2021-12-31 - BanCoppel (MX) (Enterprise Agile Coach)
- 2023-10-02 - 2025-04-01 - Banco Nacional (Head of LACE (Lean Agile Center of Excellence))