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Date: 29 Oct 2020 01.00pm AEST. (UTC +10)

Duration: 60 mins
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Vicki Young, Director of Curation, Spark the Change, will conduct this Fireside chat with Dr Elise Bialylew.

"I had heard of Mindful in May, but it wasn’t until my GP sister started raving about the program that I had a closer look. I have now participated in Mindful in May and am a HUGE fan of Elise Bialylew and her amazing and very special story".

Elise is a doctor trained in psychiatry, author of the book The Happiness Plan and her work has featured in the Huffington Post, New York Times, and on Australian Television. She founded Mindful in May in 2012, now the world's largest online global mindfulness campaign, raising funds for global poverty. Since inception the program has taught over 40,000 people to meditate and build mindfulness habits, whilst raising over $800,000 in funds to build clean water projects in the developing world. She's passionate about supporting individuals and organisations to develop inner tools to flourish and offers workshops and training at The Mind Life Project and Power of Presence online mindfulness program.

Some of the things you can expect in this chat:

• Elise’s ‘why’, her journey from psychiatrist to social entrepreneur and mindfulness expert, and the lessons she learnt along the way
• The science behind meditation and the positive impact on well-being
• What’s the minimum amount of meditation you need to do each day and what benefits can you expect?
• How to embed regular daily habits and how to maintain a healthy routine during times of stress.

The talk will focus on the journey an agile practitioner progresses through from when they first become interested in agile through to advising at the highest levels within an organisation and contributing to the industry body of knowledge. The talk will highlight the risk of having false confidence in your skills/knowledge and how to best avoid the Dunning-Kruger bias. I'll bring in topics from my book such as learning to notice your own coaching style (even if you're not a coach) and how to moderate your behaviour to better serve those you support/work with. In the talk I'll discuss what it means to BE agile and work with the principles of agility as opposed to the processes and practice playbooks. I'll conclude by showing how an agilists personal and professional development start to merge when playing the role of senior agile coach; these will be some personal reflections.

Niall works as an agent of change, promoting agility through education, coaching and modelling of new behaviours.
As a professionally certified coach with the International Coaching Federation he blends mindset/behavioural coaching into all his work with executives, teams and individuals.

Specialties:
- Coaching Capability development
- Scaled Agile transformation advisory
- Business agility and digitisation
- Agile coaching /consulting /delivery 

This is a semi-interactive talk on the many ways we can unpack career development conversations. We'll sit down, chat, and create a career development plan that is mapped out for a specific person - and perhaps even ourselves! All you need is a pen, a piece of paper, and a curiosity to unpack what could be in store for the next chapters of our careers.

In this session, we'll discuss the GROW model, learning styles, the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - and much more - and how to ask these questions in a way that asks for an honest, sincere inventory of ourselves at a certain point in time. Where do you want to be? How do you learn? What are you motivated by? By the end of the session, you'll (hopefully) develop a clearer picture.

John has a humanistic approach to engineering management - which he has used to run autonomous, mission-driven teams all the way from infrastructure to application development. In his spare time, he organizes DevOps Girls - a non-profit educational group that aims to empower women coming into DevOps roles.

How do you know if you're really agile?

Numerous industry surveys have shown organisations receive a number of benefits from being agile. Unfortunately, the collection and analysis of empirical evidence is rarely conducted. Without robust empirical measures, many turn to the symbols they can see - measuring velocity, team happiness, and getting teams to "self assess" their capability.

This talk will give you a playbook to measure agility based on:

• The empirical evidence and data on what makes an enterprise agile.
• How you measure an agile culture.
• The antecedents of agile leadership.
• How to grow and sustain an agile culture across the enterprise.

Matthew Hodgson
CEO. Executive Agile Coach and Partner for Enterprise Agile Transformation, Zen Ex Machina.

Matthew is a highly regarded international speaker and Enterprise Agile Coach. 

He is a contributing author to the books The Emergence of the Relationship Economy and The Psychology of Aid and continues to publish in international journals in the fields of org psych on the pragmatic aspects of organisational culture, learning, teamwork and motivation.

Mia Horrigan
Founding Partner Zen Ex Machina - VP of Agile Program Delivery, Zen Ex Machina

Mia is a Professional Scrum Trainer and Enterprise Agile Coach. She is a Founding Partner in Zen Ex Machina and has Product Management, Program Management and large scale Scrum Implementation experience in Government, and Commercial organisations. her clients include the Australian Taxation office, Dept of Industry and Innovation, Nestle and Australian Bureau of Statistics. Mia has over 15 years senior management experience leading service delivery teams and implementing ICT programs from planning through to implementation. Mia leverages her extensive experience in product and project management capability to deliver programs using PRINCE2 and Scrum to introduce the efficiency, process improvement and planning. Mia has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), a Post Graduate Diploma in Management and a Bachelor of Commerce. Mia is a PST and has CSM, CAL-1, CSP0, SPC4, SA, PSM I, PSM II and PSM III, PSK and PRINCE2 certification.

Decades of research show that sustained motivation and wellbeing have a common predictor: meaningfulness. 

Meaningfulness means experiencing our work and lives as positive, significant, and purposeful. 

Purposeful Leaders create the conditions for people to know that they matter and how they matter to compel inspiration, engagement, satisfaction, and fulfilment. 

In this experiential workshop, author, award-winning researcher, and consultant Zach Mercurio, Ph.D. will help you to develop and implement the core habits of Purposeful Leadership by offering a deep, practical look at how to uncover and state your own leadership purpose, cultivate regular experiences of mattering, connect people to a bigger purpose, and develop personal and team habits that routinely create experiences of purpose. 

Bio

Zach Mercurio, Ph.D., helps leaders enable the daily experience of purpose, meaningfulness, and mattering. He is a researcher and Honorary Fellow of Psychology in the Center for Meaning and Purpose at Colorado State University and author of "The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose." Zach advises leaders in companies, non-profits, and schools around the world on the Practices of Purposeful Leadership, mattering, and meaningful work. Some of his clients have included Hewlett-Packard, The National Park Service, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, Crocs, and The Alzheimer's Association. His work is featured internationally in outlets such as Forbes, Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, and Thrive Global. Zach lives in Fort Collins, CO with his wife, two sons, and adopted dog.