President & CEO

Lee’s 16 years of experience spans a broad array of roles and responsibilities. He is currently one of just over 230 Certified Scrum Trainers worldwide. He is also a SAFe Scaled Agile Program Consultant, Project Management Professional, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, and a Certified Lean Agile Professional. His personal experience includes web development, quality assurance, test engineering, sr. product manager, sr. project manager, ScrumMaster, agile coach, consultant, & ADDIE training professional. His client list includes over 44 Fortune 100 companies, government projects, software production facilities, and many successful large-scale agile implementations.

His unique blend of real-world experience in various roles combined with the ability to drive home complex concepts in an easy to understand manner make him an amazing coach to get any team best focused on project related initiatives. Unlike other trainers or coaches, Lee has personally assisted in the organizational transformation of companies sized from start up to enterprise intercontinental.

When not coaching or training, Lee enjoys doing motivational, inspirational, and keynote speaking sessions at various conferences, churches, & universities. He has been recognized multiple times for excellence in public speaking and does all he can to help others get the most out of both work & home life.

Lee is a graduate of the Disney Management Institute and has served as Chairperson for the Scrum Alliance Certification Advisory Board. He is the inventor of Rapid Release Planning and is continually looking for ways to advance the Agile & Scrum community.

Stacey Ackerman - Premier AgileDad Partner

Sr Marketing Specialist / Agile Coach / Trainer

Stacey serves as the Founder of Agilify. She knows what it’s like to be a marketer, after all she’s one of the few agile coaches and trainers that got her start there. After graduating from Journalism school, she worked as a content writer, strategist, director and adjunct marketing professor.

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She became passionate about Agile as a better way to work in 2012 when she experimented with it for an ad agency client. Since then she has been a Scrum Master, agile coach and has helped with numerous agile transformations with teams across the globe.

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Stacey speaks at several agile conferences, has more certs to her name than she can remember and loves to practice agile at home with her family.

Chuck Ludwigsen - Premier AgileDad Partner

Sr. Agile Coach / Trainer

Chuck Ludwigsen is a technologist and the founder of ClarityMinded Consulting. He has over thirty years of experiencing both building technology solutions and the processes used to take those projects from conception to production. “The process should be developed in the same way that an application is; with standards, requirements, collaboration, evaluation, objectives, and measurements.”

Michelle Hurtley - Premier AgileDad Partner

Agile Coach / Trainer

Michelle Hurtley is organized. Beginning in the United States Air Force as a computer operations specialist, Michelle instantly and repeatedly drew organization and efficiency out of the variety of tasks and teams she served. To this day, she can step into virtually any role and bring a clear, efficient oversight of every step of a project. “I am honored to help people do what they do better.”

Shawn Hurtley - Premier AgileDad Partner

Technology Coach / Trainer

Shawn Hurtley is a teacher and consummate problem solver. Having held roles as a technology educator as well as an implementer, Shawn has a distinct ability to see a product from the perspective of the ultimate consumer. “Sometimes we are too focused on pure technology. We forget the person at the other end of the keyboard. Never ignore or forget the human factor.”

Roy Schilling - Premier AgileDad Partner

Director of Education / Agile Coach / Trainer

Roy is the Founder of OnlyAgile. He is an experienced Agile Coach, Trainer, and Leader with strong technical and leadership qualifications and more than 30 years of experience in strategic planning, team development, project and product management, systems engineering strategies and over 15 years as an Agile practitioner. Roy has a proven ability to successfully analyze an organization’s critical issues, identify deficiencies and opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness and effectiveness. Roy has worked in numerous industries including: Government, Financial services, Insurance, and Manufacturing. 

Rachel Rayner

Jr. Coach/Trainer

While most agile professionals have a background in technology and software, Rayner specializes in using the agile process for creative projects. She produced, wrote, and directed two web series, has served as a writer and developer of a television project, and co-founded a small production company. The adaptation and implementation of agile in unconventional settings is of particular interest to her, and she enjoys finding ways to make any process, situation, or group more agile.