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Sunny Johnson

Sunny Johnson

SMJ Speaks Consulting, LLC, Unleashing Agile Excellence: Agile Coach

Mooresville, North Carolina, United States

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Sunny Johnson stands out as an Agile Coach with an impressive ten-year track record in Agile leadership, enriched by her extensive experience in retail and sales. Her insightful approach to managing intricate projects from their inception to their execution has significantly optimized operations and team dynamics within challenging IT environments.

A fervent advocate for Agile methodologies, Sunny has been instrumental in reshaping business processes, resulting in remarkable productivity boosts and stronger stakeholder relationships. Her participatory leadership style fosters a culture where continuous growth and inventive problem-solving are the norms. Strategically, Sunny aligns business goals with Agile tenets, ensuring projects are completed punctually and within financial constraints while adhering to the utmost quality standards.

Sunny began her professional journey in roles centered on customer service, cultivating a deep reverence for client satisfaction that now permeates her Agile project leadership. This respect for the customer experience is a foundational element of her strategic planning and execution.

Her expertise is characterized by the following core competencies:

- Agile & DevOps Integration: Sunny is adept at integrating Agile methods with DevOps practices, strengthening team collaboration, and enhancing production processes.
- Advanced Agile Practices: Skilled in various Agile frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe 6.0, Sunny uses Jira roadmaps effectively to lead enterprise-wide Agile changes.
- Leadership & Influence: She is renowned for her influential leadership style, having championed Agile adoption across different organizational layers, thus promoting a culture committed to learning and agility.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Sunny's exceptional ability to engage stakeholders ensures a collective vision and drives strategic initiatives through focused project management.
- Team Development: Committed to her team's growth and development, Sunny is dedicated to fostering an atmosphere where peak performance and innovation are standard.
-Retail & Sales Acumen: Her solid background in retail and banking provides a unique perspective on customer relations and operational dynamics, leading to a client-focused approach to technology solutions.

Beyond her technical prowess, Sunny is also recognized as a "Super-friend Connector," helping others harness their potential by refining their conversational skills for more engaging and fruitful relationships. Through her motivational "Sunnyisms," she assists professionals and entrepreneurs to access resources and forge meaningful connections, accelerating their path to achieving goals within their organizations or enterprises.

Sunny is the visionary behind SMJ Speaks, LLC and the Release the Brake Mastermind program, tailored for professional and entrepreneurial women. An accomplished author, her works include "Learn How I Made a Fortune While in College", "Come into the Light: Discovering Your Path to Purpose, Prosperity, and Powerful Relationships" and “Sprints to Success: A New Scrum Master's Career Guide.” Her diverse career spans higher education, financial services, telecommunications, and her current role at Cambria Solutions.

With an MBA from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Winston-Salem State University, Sunny's educational background complements her professional expertise. Residing in Mooresville, NC, with her life partner Bruce Johnson and their two sons, Harrison and Corban, Sunny embodies the spirit of leadership, mentorship, and the pursuit of purposeful, prosperous relationships both personally and professionally.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Finance & Banking
  • Government, Social Sector & Education
  • Business & Management

Topics

  • Agile Mindset
  • Agile Transformation
  • Agile Coaching
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Agile software development
  • Agile Leadership
  • Agile and Culture
  • DevOps Agile Methodology & Culture
  • Scrum & Agile
  • Business Agility
  • Agile Retrospectives
  • Agile People
  • Women in Tech
  • International Women's Day
  • Black Women in Tech
  • Women in Agile
  • Black Women Entrepreneurs
  • women's leadership
  • Women in Business
  • Women in Leadership
  • Women Empowerment

Sunny Johnson

SMJ Speaks Consulting, LLC, Unleashing Agile Excellence: Agile Coach

Mooresville, North Carolina, United States

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