Jeffrey Shupack

Jeffrey Shupack is an advisor, speaker, and author. He helps organizations improve efficiency in delivering complex products. Specializing in change management, AI, digital innovation, and fostering learning cultures, Jeffrey guides leaders to enhance operational flow, speed to market, and customer satisfaction—the core mission of Project & Team, Inc., the innovative management consulting company that Jeffrey founded over a decade ago.

As a distinguished SAFe Fellow, Jeffrey leverages proven Lean-Agile, DevOps, Digital Engineering, Design Thinking, and Organizational Development methodologies to drive digital transformation and build high-performance data and AI-enabled organizations.

With decades of experience in bridging theory and practice, Jeffrey has delivered measurable, impactful outcomes across industries such as aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, finance, government, technology, manufacturing, medical, and oil & gas. He collaborates with Fortune 100 companies and government agencies.

Jeffrey is a prolific author with publications in leading industry journals such as IT Revolution and Forbes. As a sought-after speaker, he has inspired audiences at conferences, including the SAFe Global Summit and DevOps Enterprise Summit. You can find his published work at jeffreyshupack.com.

Driven by a passion for innovation, Jeffrey empowers organizations to continuously improve and grow through strategic transformation. He believes in the power of continuous learning and adaptation, empowering organizations to not only survive but also thrive amidst the increasing disruptions of an ever-evolving business landscape. Connect with him on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jeffreyshupack.

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Debbie Brey

Debbie Brey retired as a Technical Fellow from Boeing in 2024 after a 38-year career. She introduced and advanced Boeing’s working methods using a combination of Agile, Lean, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Debbie founded the Boeing Enterprise Agile Center of Excellence, where she focused on growing an internal Agile coaching capability and increasing the overall outcomes of business agility at Boeing.

Brey started her career as a software engineer in the F-22 program. She was one of the catalysts in bringing Agile into Boeing and leveraging those benefits beyond software organizations and products. She achieved recognition for her continued pursuit of improving outcomes by simplifying and clarifying guidance around Agile ways of working at Boeing, specifically how these methods could be embraced for cyber-physical systems.

With over 38 years of experience driving a lean-agile business transformation across the enterprise, Brey is a sought-after expert in improving business and organizational processes and developing software solutions. She holds multiple certifications from Scaled Agile, Inc., including SAFe® Practice Consultant Trainer and SAFe® Fellow designation.

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Lindy Quick

Lindy Quick is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) candidate and a Lean-Agile Transformation Coach with over 20 years of experience ranging from software application development, database administration, test automation, cyber-physical solution development and executive leadership.

Lindy has industry experience that includes manufacturing, insurance, federal government and defense. She has coached multiple Large Solution Agile Transformations and has an aptitude for process improvement and education.

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Jennifer Wales Fawcett

Jennifer is an empathic lean-agile leader, practitioner, coach, speaker, and consultant. Her passion and focus have been in delivering value in the workplace, as well as in shaping communities and culture through effective communication, product management, product ownership, executive portfolio coaching and leadership. She has provided dedicated service in these areas to technology companies for over 35 years.

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Malte Kumlehn

Malte Kumlehn is a Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP®) pioneer who helps clients harness the power of disruption with SAP delivery agility. He has over ten years of experience working with complex, distributed SAP program delivery initiatives, and is an early adopter of SAP DevOps and Agile at scale. Kumlehn is a team, program and C-level advisor and a SAFe® Summit speaker. He is a regular contributor to the fast-growing SAP delivery agility body of knowledge including providing thought leadership to Gartner and authoring the white paper, SAP Delivery Agility—Applying Essential SAFe® to Large-Scale SAP Implementations and Operations.

Malte's experience includes founding and managing the SAP Delivery Excellence (Agile for SAP) business at a top tier global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.

As a distinguished Advisor, Trainer, Speaker and Action Researcher, Malte developed the “minimum integrated business process” (MIBP) concept, as part of his Gartner thought leadership contribution published in Accenture's SAP Business Agility white paper, designed to elevate customer centric digital core enterprise solutions for co-creating breakthrough innovation to establish Business Agility. In addition to regular blogs and podcasts, Malte authored the advanced topic article: SAP Delivery Agility: Applying Essential SAFe® to large-scale SAP implementations and operations.

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Wolfgang Brandhuber

Before joining Project & Team, Wolfgang Brandhuber spent over 14 years at Accenture serving a range of large enterprise organizations throughout EMEA and all top companies based in Germany.

Accomplishing both undergraduate and PhD degrees from Friedrich-Alexander University, Wolfgang has over a decade of experience and held senior-level positions working on top healthcare, human resources, telecom, and insurance companies.

Wolfgang is an expert in Digital Transformation with unique experience and skills spanning HR transformations to cyber-physical deployments.

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Robin Yeman

Robin Yeman brings over 25 years of experience and proven ability to identify and evaluate market needs, build opportunities, and provide solutions leveraging best practices from Lean, Agile, and DevSecOps. Before joining Project & Team, Yeman spent almost three decades at Lockheed Martin advising entire product lifecycles and driving multi-billion dollar revenues by focusing on speed and agility.

Robin is a SAFe Fellow & SPCT with extensive experience in the continuous delivery of large cyber-physical systems. From submarines to space and biometrics to robotics, Yeman has supported most government agencies, including the intelligence community, federal space, Department of Defense, both domestic and international.

Robin is a Project & Team’s Strategic Advisory Board Member and is the Director of Cyber-Physical Advisory Practice.

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Emily Sperring

Emily Sperring's Lean-Agile journey originating in the Aerospace Industry giant where she successfully led launched 3 value streams, implemented a Solution Train and adopted Lean Portfolio Management.

Her work as a Release Train Engineer (RTE), Solution Train Engineer (STE), and an Enterprise Agile coach chartered to lead a cross-organizational evolution from waterfall into Agile using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) earned her the awarding of the an Leadership Excellence award in 2019 form the organization.

Emily is driven to foster an environment where people are empowered with the tools and training to organize around value and improve value flow.

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Cindy VanEpps

Cindy VanEpps’s first job out of college was crafting Space Shuttle Flight Design Software at Johnson Space Center. Over the subsequent years she has been a software developer, technical lead, development manager, consultant, and solution developer.

She has worked with numerous system engineering companies and with each she has proven success at helping transform traditional waterfall and highly regulated environments to agile and scaled agile practices.

In Cindy’s published thought leadership, teaching and consulting she has proven a wealth of knowledge and creativity but more importantly she brings pragmatism to the application of Agile practices. She “practices what she preaches” on the importance of focus on principles and evolving the specific practices based on both relentless improvement and application of the principles in the way that provides most economic benefit.

As a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) her pragmatic approach and entertaining style make her a fan favorite.

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Marguerite Bryan

Marguerite Bryan brings 20+ years of leadership experience transforming digital opportunity into measurable business results. As a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) Candidate, Marguerite has proven success with digital transformations in private and public sectors, as well as in regulated, corporate and lean startup environments.

Marguerite compliments her technical savvy, business acumen and laser-sharp customer focus with expert leverage of scaling Lean-Agile, Model-based Systems Engineering (MBSE), User-Centered Design, and ITIL practices, reaching across and beyond disciplines to ignite cultures of purpose-driven engagement, innovation and relentless improvement.

Marguerite approaches organizational transformation from a holistic view of the enterprise and its value-streams, optimizing for hypothesis driven experimentation, fast feedback cycles, and the lean, continuous flow of value. With deep experience in governance, finance and PMO functions, Marguerite engages in waterfall, hybrid and transitional environments with the relevant insight and experience, tailoring each transformation to organizational goals and mission success.

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Michelle Walter

Michelle Walter has 10+ years of experience in supporting Clients in pursuing their aspirations and achieving their goals through building strong teams and programs. Michelle is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) who excels at coaching process improvements, software integrations, program management, and organizational technical capability development. Michelle is an expert in using data analysis to defining and test processes and technology to optimize continuous product delivery.

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Audrey Boydston

Audrey Boydston is an experienced Lean-Agile coach, trainer, speaker and SAFe Program Consultant Trainer.

As a Certified Trainer for ‘Training from the BACK of the Room!’ and a Certified Facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and materials, her focus is on engaging her audiences and creating a love for lifelong learning through each workshop she creates and delivers.

Audrey has spent the majority of her career working for large enterprises in the financial services industry, including GE, Citigroup, Sears, Discover, HSBC, and Capital One. As an Agile Coach at Capital One, she launched a Community of Practice for around 75 SAFe Program Consultants from across the enterprise.

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Olby Shaju

Olby Shaju is an SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) & Business Agility expert specializing in program and solution predictability. He uses Lean-Agile principles and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) practices to help govern spend and establish guardrails. He has deep client experience in strategic investment funding, and agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance. Industries include Energy, Oil & Gas, Construction Development and Advertising .

Aa a technical expert in Oracle P6 EPPM, Microsoft Project Online & Server, and Earned Value Management, Olby is uniquely qualified to meet organizations ”where they are” in their transformation. Olby is also a a PMI PfMP & PMP and he received his MBA in advertising.

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Robert Blechman

Robert Blechman is a global business transformation leader focused on merger/acquisition integration, business growth, turnarounds and organizational change. For over 20 years, he has led engagements delivering high impact results at many of the world’s leading companies including AT&T, Chevron, Cisco, France Telecom, GE, Hearst, McKesson, Varian and Wells Fargo. He is known for bringing a high degree of collaboration, clarity and a “can do” approach to solving complex business challenges. Rob has deep experience in management consulting for M&A, operational improvement, technology and business growth initiatives for Fortune 500 clients. He was also a co-founder, President and Board member of Soltima, Inc., a Silicon Valley venture backed communications software company.

Rob is currently supporting the global integration and growth of two acquisitions, leading channel development across 50 countries, market entry into China, building operational capability, and serving as the relationship manager with key corporate and government stakeholders.

Rob received his MBA in International Management and Finance from New York University, a BA in History from Tulane University, and is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).

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Saahil Panikar

Saahil Panikar is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) with 10+ years of experience in Lean-Agile/SAFe coaching and Scrum Master in the tech industry (large/small business, startups, private and federal), in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Saahil has supported over 120 different Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe teams, 13 concurrently, and the longest for 39 sprints.

Launching over 50 Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and participated in or led 8 SAFe Transformations, Saahil has extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.

Key expertise include: Large Solution Trains, Shared Services and Data Management, Business Agility (Lean Portfolio Management), and cross-value steam Enterprise LACEs.

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Erik Marvik

Erik Marvik is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) with over 6 years helping organization within the Fortune 100 and government agencies improve how they deliver value.

Erik’s direct Lean-Agile experience comes from him serving in past roles including Scrum Master, Project Manager, Business Analyst, and Change Manager. Erik has also worked with multiple organizations across numerous industries, including Energy, Corporate Affairs, IT, Manufacturing, and Defense.

Erik has been recognized and award by clients for outstanding performance and for his significant contributions to their Agile and digital transformation initiatives.

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I-Wen Chen

I-Wen Chen helps complex organizations set strategic direction, execute iteratively, and deliver results.

I-Wen holds an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management and has broad experience in leading transformations for clients in various industries including: oil and gas, manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, financial, and defense— across 6 continents. Her breath of experience and her approach to create a positive environment for change has led to her being repeatedly recognized from clients a their ‘key change champion’.

As a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), I-Wen has extensive experience in Lean Six Sigma and helping clients transition from traditional waterfall to scaling Lean-Agile. She has a passion for coaching, and training.

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