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Svetlana (Lana) Barry

Toronto, ON, Canada

My certifications

Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
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Certified ScrumMaster®

About

Title: Agile/Scrum Coach

Lana Barry is a strategic Lean-Agile change agent who enables value stream predictability and organizational agility through the application of Agile values, principles, and context-specific frameworks for over 20 years.

Focused on emergent leadership expansion through professional coaching and empowerment.

Career aligning startup strategy and vision through product delivery with distributed team learnings for innovation and enablement in Digital, Mobile, Wallets, Loyalty, Gamification and FinTech. Strong preference in working with Bitcoin, Blockchain, VASP & Cryptocurrency startups.

Intellectually curious and avid learner. Transparent, candid and objective in all communications. Builds on trust by being vulnerable, leveraging expertise in Lean-Agile and growth mindset.

Intuitive in trusting people, processes and impacts of motivational engagement in creating organic cultures.

Leads through influence with neuro-agility. Builds awareness and fosters new leadership capabilities for growth and resilience. Remains realistic, while exhibiting sustained ability to thrive during change and ambiguity in a VUCA context.

• Breakthrough Coaching Enhanced Program by the World Business & Executive Coach Summit (WBECS) 2020-21 ICF, mentored by Marcia Reynolds (PsyD, MCC)
• Full Summit Executive Leadership Coaching Program grad by the World Business & Executive Coach Summit (WBECS) 2020-21 ICF
• Coach in accreditation, pending *Enterprise Coach (CEC), Scrum Alliance 
• Coach in accreditation, pending *Professional Certified Coach (PCC-ICF), International Coaching Federation
• Certified SAFe® 4 Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe®
• Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Scrum Alliance
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance
• Job Effectiveness Coach (Peter Drucker) trained by The Emerson Suite, ICF
• Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI
• Thought Leadership

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2021-07-22 - present - Bitso (Head Coach, Engineering People Management)
    • 2012-05-21 - 2014-08-25 - TD Bank (Project Manager, Technology Solutions, Life & Health )
    • 2015-04-06 - 2015-07-10 - Universal Mind (Delivery Manager, MEIJER mPerks Loyalty Portfolio)
    • 2015-09-01 - 2016-07-25 - The Emerson Suite (Digital Project Manager)
    • 2016-11-06 - 2017-06-06 - The Globe and Mail (Scrum Master, Digital & Data Science)
    • 2018-02-13 - 2021-06-07 - Xapo (Scrum Master)