In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse discusses gender equitable recovery and the dynamics of how COVID-19 has impacted women in the corporate workforce with Denise Purtzer. Together they explore a variety of gender dynamics in the workplace including authenticity, the pay gap and the importance of mentorship. Denise also shares many recommendations to consider for people reentering the workforce which are important not only for those going through transitions, but also for those of us who are supporting our friends and colleagues who had to step away from the workforce.

We considered not releasing this episode since it has been so long since it was recorded, however after we revisited this conversation the insights and take-aways still seem incredibly relevant in 2023.

About the Featured Guest
Denise Purtzer loves to connect the right people to make things happen. At the time this episode was recorded she served as the VP of Partnerships and Alliances. During that time she oversaw the partner network at ClearSale, a global fraud prevention system. Denise’s 20 years of experience in ecommerce has taken her around the globe, speaking and working in different areas to gain a greater understanding of locales including APAC, EMEA and AMER regions.

Follow Denise Purtzer on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisepurtzer/)

Reference(s)
AmericanProgress.org - October 2020 - “How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward” (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/10/30/492582/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/) 
Forbes - February 2021 - “COVID-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce. Here’s how to help them come back” (https://fortune.com/2021/02/13/covid-19-women-workforce-unemployment-gender-gap-recovery/)
The Washington Post - July 2020, - “Coronavirus child-care crisis will set women back a generation” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/29/childcare-remote-learning-women-employment/)

The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.

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About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).

About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.

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This episode of the Women in Agile podcast explores the topic of presence; what it means, how to build your own presence and what impedes it. We explore the importance of presence in agile teams and how to create that safe space for teams to explore their presence.

About the Featured Guest
Antoinette is an ex-software developer that took a detour through academia to end up in the world of professional coaching. A veteran of Agile transitions, her focus currently is on developing leaders to grow agility in themselves and their organisations. Before the pandemic she practically lived at 33,000 ft, but since the start of the pandemic she has been happily home in beautiful Cape Town.

Follow Antoinette on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/antoinettecoetzee)
Follow Antoinette on Twitter (@antoinetteCoet)
Follow Antoinette on Instagram (antoinetteAquarian)

Reference(s)
Doug Silsbee: https://presencebasedcoaching.com/doug-silsbee-legacy/doug-silsbee
Nancy Kline: https://www.nancykline.com
Coaches Rising: https://www.coachesrising.com/

The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.

Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org 

Connect with us on social media!
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Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg 

Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!

About our Host
Renae began her agile journey in 2010 when she found herself in the ‘pilot’ team to help discover and path the way for future Scrum teams. A certified Team Coach and Scrum Professional with Scrum Alliance, Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. Renae also thoroughly enjoys facilitating all kinds of workshops and training teams to support them in their own agile journeys. Renae’s career highlight to date was being accepted to speak at the Global Scrum Gathering in Vienna in October 2019 with her topic “Embrace the Storm: Unlocking Your Organization’s Agility by Harnessing the Turbulence and Chaos of Agile Transformations”.
Renae started the first Australian Women in Agile meetup community in Brisbane, Queensland in early 2018 and continues to build that community through regular events. 
Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and operates her own Pilates studio. 

You can connect with Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renae-craven-9b4a29/).

About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.

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During our 2022 discussion, Hannah Howard Bink and Emily Lint discuss Scaled Agile’s most recent transformative effort in their Marketing division. Yes, even Scaled Agile inspects, adapts, and evolves their strategy when they find their current business model lacking in efficiency. Learn from their lessons learned and take your Marketing or non-traditional Agile department flow to the next level!

About the Featured Guest

Hannah Bink heads digital marketing at Scaled Agile, supporting global expansion and account-based marketing efforts. She has 15 years of B2B marketing experience and studied business at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to Scaled Agile, Hannah spent the majority of her career in telecommunications and healthcare sectors, running global marketing divisions.

Follow Hannah Bink on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-howard-bink/)

Reference(s)
The Community Round Table (https://communityroundtable.com/) 
The Community Club (https://www.community.club/)

The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.

Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org 

Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg 

Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!

About our Host
Emily Lint is a budding industry leader in the realm of business agility. Energetic and empathetic she leverages her knowledge of psychology, business, technology, and mindfulness to create a cocktail for success for her clients and peers. Her agile journey officially started in 2018 with a big move from Montana to New Mexico going from traditional ITSM and project management methodologies to becoming an agile to project management translator for a big government research laboratory. From then on she was hooked on this new way of working. The constant innovation, change, and retrospection cured her ever present craving to enable organizations to be better, do better, and provide an environment where her co-workers could thrive. 

Since then she has started her own company and in partnership with ICON Agility Services serves, coaches, and trains clients of all industries in agile practices, methodologies, and most importantly, mindset. Please check out her website (www.lintagility.com) to learn more. You can also follow Emily on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-lint-802b2b88/). 

About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.

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In this 2021 conversation with Laura Re Turner, our host Leslie Morse explores the realm of Systemic Coaching and how agilists can bring systems thinking and an overall systemic view into the ways they work with people, teams and organizations.

About the Featured Guest
Laura Re Turner is an accredited coach, trainer, and facilitator who works with leaders and teams to develop an Agile mindset, behaviours, and the skills to thrive through change. Before becoming a coach, Laura delivered enterprise software projects as a project and programme manager, technology consultant, and software developer. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Future Focus Coaching.

Follow Laura Re Turner on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurareturner/)
Follow Laura Re Turner on Twitter @FutureFocusCD (https://www.twitter.com/FutureFocusCD)

Reference(s)
Book: Becoming Agile: Coaching Behavioural Change for Business Results by Laura Re Turner
Book: Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual by Peter Hawkins and Eve Turner

The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.

Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org 

Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg 

Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile to help spread the word and continue to elevate Women in Agile.

About our Host
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).

About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.

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The Women in Agile podcast series in support of the growing movement to amplify the work of outstanding women in the Agile community through the Women in Agile Organization. Passionate, creative, and intelligent people from all genders come together in these inspiring conversations to advance equality and inclusion for all.

The Women in Agile podcast series is sponsored by Scrum.org

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