Join us to learn a few new secrets behind high-performing project teams in today’s adaptive work environments! This interactive panel of senior Agilists at Everforth Apex will dive into a couple core elements that drive project and team success: building authentic relationships, running effective meetings, and transforming retrospectives into powerful tools for growth.
Discover practical strategies for establishing trust, understanding what truly matters to your stakeholders, and setting up working agreements that stick. Learn how to turn daily status reports into engaging daily planning sessions, and explore creative retrospective formats like the “treasure map” and “retrospective karaoke” to boost team energy and insight.
You will walk away with actionable tips, real-world examples, and fun, adaptable techniques you can use immediately to foster collaboration, spark engagement, and deliver meaningful results!
Amanda Dawe is a Lead Consultant and Agile Coach at Everforth Apex who partners with leaders and organizations to strengthen both the strategic and human foundations of high‑performing teams. With a background in large‑scale digital transformation and designing frictionless onboarding experiences, Amanda works closely with executive and senior leadership to create clarity, alignment, and environments where people can contribute at their best. Her coaching approach emphasizes meaningful engagement at every level of the organization: practicing active listening to understand what leaders and teams truly need, leading by example to model effective behaviors, and fostering collaborative spaces rooted in psychological safety. She focuses on creating the conditions where thoughtful input is welcomed and trust is built through consistent, visible follow‑through. Across her client engagements, Amanda helps leaders elevate everyday team practices focused on transforming meetings, standups, and retrospectives into energizing, strategic opportunities for connection, insight, and meaningful progress.
Teri Christian is an international enterprise change agent with over 25 years of experience helping organizations transition from traditional, manufacturing‑era mindsets to modern digital operating models. She is the creator of the Digital Operations (DigOps) model and author of "Digital Operations, How to Survive and Thrive in the Industry 4.0 Jungle." Both leverage more than ten years of applied learning and experimentation to address real-world organizational challenges in the Industry 4.0 economy. With a background spanning business analysis, management consulting, and senior advisory roles, Teri brings deep expertise in Lean, Agile, and large‑scale enterprise delivery. Passionate about building learning organizations, she focuses on enabling teams to deliver meaningful value through transparency, collaboration, and customer‑centricity in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Zahava Savory is an Enterprise Transformation leader and Agile expert known for bringing clarity to complex environments and helping organizations adopt modern, adaptive ways of working. She draws on extensive experience across small and large‑scale initiatives in a wide range of industries and fields to coach executives, shape operating models, guide adoption of frameworks, and strengthen portfolio practices. Her focus is to create sustainable ways of working that deliver real business outcomes. Zahava's humanistic approach emphasizes empathy, psychological safety, and authentic connection as essential catalysts for meaningful and lasting transformation. She blends strategic insight with practical coaching to accelerate delivery, strengthen alignment, and enable leaders to operate with confidence in fast‑changing landscapes.
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