Organizers
Ann-Marie Kong
Ann-Marie Kong serves as a Leadership & Agile Coach, empowers teams, leaders, individuals, and organizations to co-create and deliver sustainable solutions with agility, develop leadership agility, scale our impact in achieving business outcomes sustainably, and thrive on learning. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a trained Organization and Relationships Systems (ORSC) Coach, a Leadership Circle practitioner, an ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), a yoga practitioner, creative change catalyst, avid learner, community grower, and joyful soul. She is on a journey of living her life’s purpose, shifting from a life of success to a life of service with significance, and making a meaningful difference in the world by sharing enduring love.
Mike Kaufman
Mike has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, from developer to manager to quality and project management. But none of that matters when it comes to people, the one thing that Mike has discovered is at the root of his passions. The agile “bug” bit Mike early in 2007 and he has been swimming in the deep waters ever since. Through many different types of education, introspection, personal development, and self learning, Mike has found himself as an accredited Organizational, Relationship, and Systems Certified Coach (ORSCC), an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited Associate Certified Coach (ACC), and many other certified something-or-other. Through this, Mike works with leaders, teams, families, couples, and other systems to improve teamwork and communication by focusing on the most basic foundation – the underlying relationship. Mike helps people (re-)discover, build, and grow their connection to others.
Tarek Raafat
An authentic, servant leader with over 30 years’ experience in the delivery of digital transformation and enterprise integration through business process re-engineering and automation to federal government organizations. Coaches project teams to use lightweight agile processes by leveraging diversity, equity and inclusion and promoting mental well-being of all stakeholders and project team members to deliver results.
Enjoys swimming, body surfing, travelling, film festivals (TIFF), board games, stoicism, karaoke, chocolate and laughing.
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