Our Leadership
Our Expert Team members Driving Digital Transformation Services and Solutions"
Meet the visionaries behind our success. Our skilled and diverse team is dedicated to empowering businesses with innovative digital transformation services and solutions, leading them towards lasting success.
James Sheridan
Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
Our Coaches: Leading Experts in Digital Transformation and Innovation
Introducing our team of seasoned coaches who are at the forefront of driving digital transformation. With a wealth of expertise, they are dedicated to delivering strategic insights and innovative solutions to help businesses achieve sustainable success.
Heath Dorn
Founder & Transformation Coach
Heath is an experienced transformation leader and Enterprise Agile/DevOps Coach with an established track record of improving operational and financial results via Agile/DevOps transformations, hands-on Agile Coaching, and Organization Change Management. Heath is fluent in the languages of culture, processes, and technology.
Licenses & Certificates
- DevOps Institute Ambassador
- Scaled Agile Certified Program Consultant
- Jenkins Continuous Integration Open-Source Project
Heath's Successes
T-Mobile:
Hosted first ever AI/ML/RPA conference led Digital Transformation effort at T-Mobile with the creation of cross-functional customer journey teams.
US Bank:
Delivered US Bank's iOS mobile app in 9 months with the customer receiving Digital Banker of the year in 2018.
U.S. Space Force
Led Agile Transformation to replace 40 year old (SPADOC) Space Domain Awareness System with the new ATLAS system to detect and track objects on orbit.
US Air Force Research Laboratories (SACT - Sprint Advanced Concept Training)
Led Agile implementation of (DRAGON) Defense Readiness Agile Gaming Ops Networks Army Operations to revolutionize the way the DoD develops, validates, and integrates operational software for the space warfighter with commercial data.
John Nicol
Transformation Coach & Content Contributor
John Nicol is an experienced and innovative Transformation Lead specializing in Business Agility, Organization Change, Product Management & Delivery, Leadership and Team Development Coaching. John has been in the Business Agility adoption space since 1999 and has been part of numerous medium to large transformations from inception through implementation. John is also a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) focusing on systems coaching at all levels of the organization.
Licenses & Certificates
- Scrum Alliance – CEC, CTS, CSP, CPO, CSM
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC6)
- ICAgile – ICP-ATF, ICP-ACC, and ICP-BAF
- Agility Health – AHF / EBAS
- Professional Certified Coach – International Coaching Federation
John's Focus
• Trusted advisor and partner responsible for designing and leading medium to large scale Business Agility Transformations and Project to Product (P2P).
• Assess senior leadership and organization transformation readiness.
• Responsible for overall transformation strategy including integration and execution of the client’s transformation.
• Develop hypothesis’, plans, and pilot team(s) to begin client journey.
• Assess individual and team readiness; train, mentor, and coach individuals and teams new to business agility, product management, and scaling.
• Develop and create roles & responsibilities, OKRs, and Product Management framework.
• Coach Product Managers on product road mapping, product canvas development, customer journey mapping, story mapping, aligning Epics/Features with strategy, feature and story writing.
• Develop collaborative partnerships across the organization.
• Design leadership and delivery team training focused on intent-based leadership, self-organized autonomous teamwork, partnership, and accountability across the organization.
Tom O'Connor
Executive Program Manager & Content Contributor
Tom is a strategic leader with expertise in enterprise strategy and planning,
change management, and agile transformations. Tom assists enterprise
organizations in aligning strategic objectives with execution, driving
customer success, and managing programs and portfolios. Skilled in cross-
team collaboration, he bridges high-level strategy with actionable
implementations and outcomes.
Prior to Digital Transformations, Tom was a Principal Partner Solution
Strategist with Atlassian’s Partner Solutions Acceleration team, leading the
global enterprise strategy and planning practice with the key ecosystem
partner, Accenture.
Tom joined Atlassian through the AgileCraft acquisition (now Jira Align), serving as a Solution Architect and later as Advisory Services Solutions Architects Manager, overseeing teams driving client adoption and expansion. He began his enterprise agility career at Rally Software, significantly enhancing customer success within the Agile Business Unit and facilitating Agile transformations, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives impacting over 50,000 users.
Licenses & Certificates
- SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)
- Scrum Alliance – CSM, CSPO
- Scrum@Scale Practioner
Tom's Focus Areas
- Strategic Leadership & Execution – Proven expertise in enterprise strategy, planning, and
agility transformations. - Change Management & Business Transformation – Skilled in driving organizational
change, Agile transitions, and continuous improvement. - Customer Success & Stakeholder Engagement – Focused on delivering value through
professional services, strategic planning, and advisory solutions and products. - Program, Portfolio & Solution Management – Experienced in overseeing strategic
initiatives and outcomes, aligning them with business objectives, and designing scalable
solutions. - Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication – Adept at fostering teamwork,
engaging stakeholders, and ensuring alignment across diverse teams. - High-Level Strategy to Execution – Acts as a bridge between strategic vision and actionable
implementation, ensuring seamless execution. - Business Development & Growth – Experienced in defining product and solution
frameworks, driving adoption, and expanding market presence. - Training, Coaching & Consulting Leadership – Led Agile trainings such as Leading SAFe,
consulting activities, and organizational coaching to enhance agility and performance.
Thomas Looy
Transformations Coach & Learning Facilitator
Tom is a value driven Transformation Coach utilizing his background in Agile Methods, Lean, Lean Startup, Kanban, Theory of Constraints, and Systems Thinking to assist his clients in achieving great value outcomes.
Tom was a Project Manager and IT Director in the first 12 years of his career. For the last 20 years Tom has been an Iteration Manager, Product Owner, and Transformation Coach.
Prior to joining Digital Transformations, Tom was an Agile Coach for several consultancies including ThroughtWorks, Tacit Knowledge, Big Visible, SolutionsIQ, and Accenture.
As an Agile Coach Tom's clients have included Williams-Sonoma, Washington Mutual Bank, Barclay's Global Investing, Visa, Nike, Autodesk, T-Mobile, and Salesforce.
Tom's Lectures and Workshops
- The Purpose of Daily Standups and Retrospectives on Agile Teams (Eng)
- Agile Project Management: What Does it Look Like from a Developer's Perspective (Eng)
- The Agile Wall Chart: How to use a User Story Map for planning and displaying progress on a large scale enterprise applications
- The Beer Game: Applying the Theory of Constraints daily on your Agile Team
- Leadership Agility: Mapping your career growth to the stages of leadership development
- The Prisoner's Dilemma: How independent decision making and local optimizations destroys your organization's ability to deliver value
- Advanced Scrum and Systems Thinking Workshop
Jim Elvidge
Transformation Coach & Content Contributor
Jim has had an extensive career in eCommerce, new media, cybersecurity, financial, and communications industries, with over 15 years of Agile/Lean and Transformation training and coaching. Systems thinking, org design, prioritization, cycle time optimization, innovation, and motivation are some of his coaching strengths
Licences & Certificates:
- Scaled Agile Certified Program Consultant
- Large Scale Scrum Practitioner
- Certified Scrum Professional
Jim's Successes
- Led a large cybersecurity company to deliver features to the market 5 times faster than before. Implemented the rollout and change management plan.
Established an OKR program to help the entire organization achieve alignment on priorities.
Led the SAFe rollout to 150 teams at a S&P 100 software company to achieve consistency, transparency, and effective planning and dependency management.
Demonstrated 30% greater value delivery through moderate org redesign.
Created and rolled out metrics and continuous improvement program for a 500+ person dev org.
Jim Sutton
Transformation Coach & Content Contributor
Over twenty years of experience in the product development and telecommunications fields with extensive experience in Enterprise Development, Satellite Communications, Customer Relationship Management and Long Distance Call Processing.
Licenses & Certificates
- Chief Agile Officer - Agile Business Institute
- Certified SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant - Scaled Agile
- Certified Scrum Master - Scrum.org
Jim's Successes
Saved a 3rd generation textile company from moving operations to China, via energy and operational savings
DSCSOC Operations NCO during cutover from failing DSCS II to DSCS III satellite
Helped Liberty Mutual make up five year competition gap in less than a year via the application of lean and agile principles
Strategically leading Agile Transformation and Devops culture for the Department of Defense.
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