Mark Summers
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Sandra Whiles
Mark has done some excellent coaching withe me for the past few months around business planning for my new venture He has a very creative style which really helped me focus my thinking and plans. He challenges when it's helpful and has a way of offering great insight and a different perspective on challenges I wholeheartedly recomend Mark as a coach
Praveen Karadiguddi
I had pleasure of working with Mark at Ripplerock/Asos, Mark is one of the great Agile coaches who has real passion for Agile. He is an awesome facilitator of growth and change for organizations. I would thoroughly recommend Mark as he will boost organizations performance and proficiency plus bring astonishing results.
Sandra Whiles
Mark has done some excellent coaching withe me for the past few months around business planning for my new venture He has a very creative style which really helped me focus my thinking and plans. He challenges when it's helpful and has a way of offering great insight and a different perspective on challenges I wholeheartedly recomend Mark as a coach
Praveen Karadiguddi
I had pleasure of working with Mark at Ripplerock/Asos, Mark is one of the great Agile coaches who has real passion for Agile. He is an awesome facilitator of growth and change for organizations. I would thoroughly recommend Mark as he will boost organizations performance and proficiency plus bring astonishing results.
Sandra Whiles
Mark has done some excellent coaching withe me for the past few months around business planning for my new venture He has a very creative style which really helped me focus my thinking and plans. He challenges when it's helpful and has a way of offering great insight and a different perspective on challenges I wholeheartedly recomend Mark as a coach
Praveen Karadiguddi
I had pleasure of working with Mark at Ripplerock/Asos, Mark is one of the great Agile coaches who has real passion for Agile. He is an awesome facilitator of growth and change for organizations. I would thoroughly recommend Mark as he will boost organizations performance and proficiency plus bring astonishing results.
Sandra Whiles
Mark has done some excellent coaching withe me for the past few months around business planning for my new venture He has a very creative style which really helped me focus my thinking and plans. He challenges when it's helpful and has a way of offering great insight and a different perspective on challenges I wholeheartedly recomend Mark as a coach
Praveen Karadiguddi
I had pleasure of working with Mark at Ripplerock/Asos, Mark is one of the great Agile coaches who has real passion for Agile. He is an awesome facilitator of growth and change for organizations. I would thoroughly recommend Mark as he will boost organizations performance and proficiency plus bring astonishing results.
Credentials
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Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
International Coach FederationSep, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Enterprise Coach
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Certified Scrum Master
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Certified Scrum Practitioner
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Certified Scrum Product Owner
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Certified Scrum Trainer
Scrum Alliance
Experience
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BeLiminal
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founding Partner
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Nov 2016 - Present
Beliminal is a network of professional coaches brought together by a desire to see real human potential and engagement at work in organisations. We do this by by supporting leaders and teams create environments where people can flourish.We live the values of Trust, Respect, Joy, Purpose and Equality, in everything we do. Beliminal is a network of professional coaches brought together by a desire to see real human potential and engagement at work in organisations. We do this by by supporting leaders and teams create environments where people can flourish.We live the values of Trust, Respect, Joy, Purpose and Equality, in everything we do.
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Agile Coach
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2010 - Present
As the founder of Exploring Agility I aim to create world class development organisations and teams that deliver value to their customers through collaboration, sound engineering practices, empowerment and a dedication to quality. I hope to help many teams improve their working lives and reap the benefits by adopting an Agile approach. My clients include Travelcorp, Autodesk, Iris and SDL. As the founder of Exploring Agility I aim to create world class development organisations and teams that deliver value to their customers through collaboration, sound engineering practices, empowerment and a dedication to quality. I hope to help many teams improve their working lives and reap the benefits by adopting an Agile approach. My clients include Travelcorp, Autodesk, Iris and SDL.
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RippleRock
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Agile Coach
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Aug 2010 - Jun 2015
Working for Ripple Rock as an Agile Coach in a number of clients includingTechtronics, ASOS.com and Tesco.com.ASOS.comLeading a team of coaches in ASOS.com to transform the way they delivered business change. • Trained and kick started new Scrum teams.• Coached the business transformation team and helped them develop new processes to flow change through the organisation.• Managed the ALM team for 3 months, a programme to solve problems around people, process and tools that would allow the business to respond to change faster.• Built and kicked off a ScrumMaster education programme to develop internal ScrumMasters that I had helped to recruit. Tesco.comTesco.com is the online shopping arm of the largest supermarket retailer in the UK, I coached their Agile path finder programme, helping to form teams, coach Product Owners, shape the programme, deal with issues of being distributed in the UK and India, and helped the teams establish solid engineering practices.
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Emergn
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United Kingdom
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Business Consulting and Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Agile Coach
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Feb 2011 - Oct 2011
Department of Work and PensionWorking as part of a team of emergn coaches to support the delivery the Universal Credit programme. • Engaged in the development of Agile and Lean processes• Trained staff within the Department of Work and Pensions and ran the capability building stream of work for emergn• Devised and ran a programme to support the development of the process facilitators Department of Work and PensionWorking as part of a team of emergn coaches to support the delivery the Universal Credit programme. • Engaged in the development of Agile and Lean processes• Trained staff within the Department of Work and Pensions and ran the capability building stream of work for emergn• Devised and ran a programme to support the development of the process facilitators
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Agile Coach
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Aug 2007 - Jul 2010
As an Agile Coach at EMC Consulting formerly Conchango I worked with a number of external clients and projects, training, coaching and mentoring in all things agile and Scrum including Aviva, Thomson Reuters, Icap Dunhunbee, Associated News Ltd, Virgin Media, Lloyds of London and EMC internal coaching. As an Agile Coach at EMC Consulting formerly Conchango I worked with a number of external clients and projects, training, coaching and mentoring in all things agile and Scrum including Aviva, Thomson Reuters, Icap Dunhunbee, Associated News Ltd, Virgin Media, Lloyds of London and EMC internal coaching.
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Tribal Group
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Scrum Master / Team Leader
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Sep 2000 - Jul 2007
After leaving university I joined Tribal as a developer, on their EBS system for further education colleges. I progressed to team leader and then helped the department move towards agile delivery using Scrum. After leaving university I joined Tribal as a developer, on their EBS system for further education colleges. I progressed to team leader and then helped the department move towards agile delivery using Scrum.
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Education
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Sheffield University
Computer Science