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10 agile consultants
These ten agile consultants have advised organizations on agile ways of working, either as independent consultants or through consulting and training firms. Readers can learn how an agile consultant assesses teams and portfolios, chooses between frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe, and keeps a transformation on track.
Professionals to explore
01—10Betsy Irizarry
LinkedInExperience: Principal Consultant and Agility Coach · FreshTilt
Principal Consultant and Agility Coach at FreshTilt since 2017; the profile describes FreshTilt as a management consulting firm that specializes in business agility transformation, software product delivery consulting, training and coaching. She has also been a ProKanban Trainer (PKT) at ProKanban.org since 2023 and was Principal Consultant and Partner at FiveWhyz (2023–2025).
Chen Gongyuan
LinkedInExperience: Senior Agile Consultant & Founder · SSGBA
Senior Agile Consultant & Founder at SSGBA since 2019; the profile describes an agile transformation consulting practice focused on customer satisfaction in the Chinese market. It also says he has served as Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner and PMO Director in the agile transformation process, and lists SM PO PMO at guangdong mintai (2015–2019).
David Kollm
LinkedInExperience: Associate Director - Enterprise Agile Coach, AgileTransformation Delivery Lead, SPCT · Accenture
Former Associate Director - Enterprise Agile Coach, AgileTransformation Delivery Lead, SPCT at Accenture (2020–2023); he was also Principal Consultant, SPCT at Agile Rising (2024–2026). He has been ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and SAFe Professional Consultant Trainer (SPCT) at Boston Agile Partners LLC since 2017, and his profile says he helps organizations implement the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Gerd Wessling
LinkedInExperience: Founder, Principal Agile & SAFe-Coach, Transformation Lead & (SAFe)-Trainer · Scagilize
Founder, Principal Agile & SAFe-Coach, Transformation Lead & (SAFe)-Trainer at Scagilize since 2021, a role his profile describes as agile coach, consultant, trainer and facilitator. He was Principal Agile Coach, Senior Consultant & SAFe Trainer at Ivar Jacobson International (2021–2022), and his profile says he was instrumental in leading several large-scale SAFe and LPM transformations.
Isaac Montgomery
LinkedInExperience: Practice Director - Agile Transformation Services · TEKsystems
Former Practice Director - Agile Transformation Services at TEKsystems (2016–2017) and Strategic Advisor, SPCT Guide and Framework Contributor at SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc. (2017–2019). He has been Founder and Principal Consultant at Iam Solutions LLC since 2019 and Agile Transformation Coach at ADM since 2026. His profile describes leading enterprise transformations, with emphasis on lean portfolio management.
Krystian Kaczor
LinkedInExperience: Agile Consultant CEO · QAgile
Agile Consultant CEO at QAgile since 2010, where his profile says he specializes in Agile coaching, team coaching and process optimization and delivers training in Scrum, Kanban, Agile Product Management and scaling frameworks such as Nexus, LeSS and Scrum@Scale. He has also been a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org since 2015 and was Agile Consultant at PKO Bank Polski (2019–2020).
Liam Kane
LinkedInExperience: Agile Transformation Consultant · Independent Consultant
Agile Transformation Consultant (Independent Consultant) since 2025. He was Senior Agile Transformation Consultant at Accenture Business Agility (2017–2024) and Senior Agile Coach at TEKsystems Agile Transformation Services (2016–2017). His profile describes designing and implementing flow-based delivery systems and Agile operating models across large organizations.
McKenzie Burrell
LinkedInExperience: Enterprise Agile Coach & Jira Align Implementation Consultant · Multiple Companies
Enterprise Agile Coach & Jira Align Implementation Consultant for multiple companies since 2021. The profile says McKenzie has implemented Jira Align and Jira at multiple Fortune 100 companies in the market research, telecommunications and financial industries. Other listed roles are Principal (2018–2021) and Senior Consultant (2018) at Celerity - now Randstad Digital.
Piotr Lisiecki
LinkedInExperience: Enterprise Agile Coach Advanced SAFe SPC Leadership & Agile Consultant · Self-employed / Independent Consultant (B2B)
Enterprise Agile Coach Advanced SAFe SPC Leadership & Agile Consultant as a self-employed independent consultant since 2020. His profile says he provides Agile Coaching and Scrum Master consulting services to large international organizations and leads enterprise-scale digital transformation and IT delivery programs. He was Scrum Master Agile Coach at Samsung Electronics (2016–2020).
Robert Rendon (SPC6, CSM, CSPO)
LinkedInExperience: Director, Business Agility · Triverus Consulting
Director, Business Agility at Triverus Consulting since 2022; he was Senior Principal Consultant, Agile Services at Triverus Consulting (2020–2022) and Senior Consultant at CGI (2000–2020). The profile describes Triverus Consulting as an IT services and IT consulting company, and says he helps organizations cut through complexity and deliver what matters.
Choose the right perspective
Match the consultant's framework focus and scale to your need, for example team-level Scrum coaching versus an enterprise SAFe or portfolio transformation. Check whether the consulting role is current and whether the person has worked with organizations of a similar size and industry to yours.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide whether a team or organization needs Scrum, Kanban or a scaled framework like SAFe?
- 02What do you look at in the first weeks of an agile transformation engagement?
- 03How do you measure whether an agile transformation is improving delivery and business outcomes?
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