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Dana Pylayeva

Dana Pylayeva

Enterprise Agile Coach, CEC, PCC

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Dana Pylayeva is a Certified Enterprise Coach, who excels at navigating complexity, creating learning communities, infusing playfulness, and unleashing innovation in teams and organizations she coaches.

She brings a unique blend of exceptional facilitation skills, her diverse technical background (as a former Java Developer, a DBA Manager, an Application Architect), her 20 + years of Agile/ DevOps coaching experience (with clients in US, UK, Canada, India, Japan, and Ireland) as well as a strong professional coaching mindset (rooted in Co-Active and ORSC).

Dana’s coaching range includes individuals, teams, leadership as well as a Business Agility transformation coaching across a diverse span of industries: legal publishing, automotive, digital marketing, retail, FinTech, music streaming, non-profits etc.

Business games designer, author of “DevOps with Lego and Chocolate” and “Fear in the Workplace” games, Dana is an international speaker (80 conferences in 18 countries), organiser of several local meetups in NYC as well as the conference chair at Agile2024 conference.

Area of Expertise

  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Agile Games
  • DevOps Agile Methodology & Culture
  • Agile Retrospectives
  • Agile Coaching
  • Agile Leadership
  • agile
  • DevOpsCulture
  • DevOps
  • Facilitation
  • remote facilitation
  • liberating structures
  • Scrum & Agile
  • Professional coaching
  • Training Design
  • Psychological safety
  • Overcoming Toxic Cultures

Getting Unstuck: Playful Techniques for Agile Coaching Effectiveness

Do you ever feel stuck with your Agile coaching style? Expand your coaching range, and amplify your ability to emerge victorious amid life's challenges, by weaving more playfulness into your Agile Coaching Growth Wheel.
Already using cards, games or Lego in your coaching? This workshop will offer you five playful coaching tools that require no packing! Drawing inspiration from Co-Active coaching, ORSC and Liberating Structures, this hands-on interactive session will guide you through perspective shifting – a powerful and playful way to unblock your teams, enable optionality, and even help the teams effectively overcome their adversity, and recover from the setbacks.
Experience it, debrief it, and learn to introduce playfulness in your organizations, dialling it up (or down) based on the context you are in.

Lean Agile London 2024

Getting Unstuck: Playful Techniques for Agile Coaching Effectiveness

May 2024 London, United Kingdom

Regional Scrum Gathering® Cape Town 2024 Sessionize Event

February 2024 Cape Town, South Africa

Dana Pylayeva

Enterprise Agile Coach, CEC, PCC

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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