Clifford Hazell
Cliff has made a career out of breaking down the obstacles that stand in the way of great work. He is often challenging the status quo in his quest to develop the right culture and systems for creation of excellent Companies and Products.
Tom Watson
Tom is a product management consultant dedicated to enhancing consumer experience through insight and efficiency.
He began his career at a successful dot com startup, where he embraced small team dynamism and covered several roles. He subsequently carried this hyper-agile business experience (a rapid application development culture and relentless customer centricity) into more corporate settings.
Val Yonchev
Before joining Team Topologies and Conflux to lead the Go-to-Market as Head of Customer Success, Val Yonchev spent time at Red Hat and Digital.AI, where he led teams focused on helping organizations to become more successful with technology. In his work, Val is very much driven by his belief that organizations must continuously evolve to remain places where people can bring their full creativity and full self to work. He is a Theory Y philosopher and Leading-by-Intent aficionado.
Noah Cantor
Noah Cantor is a Technology Leadership coach dedicated to empowering leaders to excel in themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Leveraging a blend of technical expertise, leadership proficiency, system understanding, and genuine empathy, Noah's approach is centered on unlocking individuals' inherent abilities while bridging any skill gaps they may encounter. He measures his success by the point at which his guidance is no longer required. His approach is to surface the innate capabilities of people, and help them fill in any missing gaps. He knows he has been successful when he is no longer necessary.
Simon Copsey
Simon Copsey is a consultant who helps senior leaders overcome complex challenges quickly, enabling happier staff to deliver better software sooner. With a background in the full software lifecycle, he uses the scientific method and modern management theory to find practical solutions. Additionally, Simon is a visiting lecturer in computer science and shares his insights through conferences, articles, and meetups.
Christopher Marsh
Christopher Marsh is a socio-technical consultant who specializes in helping companies develop a culture of continuous improvement. His focus is empowering software engineering teams to produce customer value through the fast flow of software development, and during his own career as a software engineer he has been a longstanding advocate and practitioner of continuous delivery.
Daniel Walters
Daniel Walters is a full-time dad and part-time CTO coach, fractional CTO, and technology strategy consultant based in Auckland, New Zealand. With extensive experience in senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), Daniel has guided organizations from startups to enterprises. Notable achievements include his pivotal role in the fast growth and sale of Hitwise (USD 240m) and establishing a development center in Malaysia for Experian's Consumer Insights division, where he led a team of 70. His formative experience as CTO and CIO for Seek Asia involved navigating challenges in a newly formed subsidiary resulting from the merger of two major competitors in Southeast Asia. Daniel's journey emphasizes cultivating a resilient, adaptive culture in a rapidly changing environment. He shares insights from his experiences in his publication, "Great CTOs Focus on Outcomes."
Victoria Morgan-Smith
Victoria is an independent consultant with nearly 30 years' experience in the technology industry, 15 of which have been spent operating within organisational leadership. There, she has coached teams and senior leaders to effectively deliver outcomes within a culture of inclusion, collaboration, curiosity and generosity.
Clem Pickering
Clem is an independent coach and consultant focused on helping tech leaders have effective conversations and foster people-first culture. He combines a background in technology and consultancy with his ICF-accredited coaching practice to help organisations create the conditions for better communication, high-performing teams and inclusive, engaging company Culture.
Duncan Stephens
Duncan is an independent consultant with over 30 years experience in information technology; with a strong belief in the benefits of Lean and Agile practices in ensuring investments in technology are successful in meeting business needs. Most recently he has been consulting to enterprises large and small; advising on funding models; organisational design and ways of working, as well as anchoring large digital and core-banking transformations.
He brings experience in managing large agile global development teams; transforming IT development capability organisationally and is particularly adept at finding common language to explain the benefits of modern software development practices in business terms to bridge the gap between technology and non-technology executives; supporting the important change process and human side of successful technology transformations.
Elizabeth Ayer
Elizabeth Ayer is a product and organisational consultant who promotes a virtuous cycle of empowered teams, fast flow, and business agility. With her background in product and portfolio management, she takes a value-oriented, collaborative approach to designing more humane structures for teams to thrive.
Sarah Wells
Sarah Wells is an experienced technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement and technology strategy. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.
Tom Geraghty
Tom is an independent consultant focussed on safety cultures and psychological safety as a mediator of organisational performance.. He is an Associate Principal at Conflux.
