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Neil was extremely knowledgeable, diligent and engaging when working with us at MedAdvisor. Neil was able to adjust and prioritise as the situation required to tailor as required. He was able to make significant impact in a short period of time and help kick start MedAdvisor on our agile transformation agenda.

I engaged Neil to uplift the common understanding of agile and lean practices at MedAdvisor, including running workshops and coaching teams and individuals that are directly affected by this change. Neil was highly successful in achieving a high level of engagement across the business as can be seen by the adoption of personal kanban boards, well attended and inspirational sprint reviews and the conversations occurring across all teams. I think the key was Neil's ability to translate agile so that different people could understand it and how it could apply to their role. I intend to get Neil back to MedAdvisor in the future to check in and help us continue to improve how we work to deliver value to our clients.

Neil was able to align our team on an improvement agenda that months later our team of 30+ is still energised by and committed to. His smart approach, deep knowledge, experience and effective manner made his short time at our company highly productive and pivotal - he had a big impact. Thank you, Neil!

Neil was not the first Agile coach to spend some time with us, but he was the only one to actually help us create a meaningful and sustained change. The others came to us through someone, who knew someone else (etc!) and tried to help but they didn’t really manage to effect much change – I couldn’t make heads or tails of what they were trying to do for us. It’s real testament to Neil's ability to understand complex situations outside of It and software development and make it simple for us (me!).

Leadership is the art of Influence with integrity and I can confidently say Neil is one of the best leaders I've had the pleasure of working with and learning from. Neil is passionate about his work, passionate about his purpose and passionate about making a difference. He strives to add value, allow and encourage growth and allow people to bring their best and contribute their best. He also brings a technical and academic depth of understanding to his work that ensures that his vision and ideas are founded on proven strategy and theory. I would gladly work for Neil again and confidently recommend him to others.

Neil is an exceptional leader and a true inspiration. Not only he lives and breath Agile, but he is also able to create and hold the space where individual, teams and organisations can evolve in their agile journey while maintaining a focus on delivering results, changes and value. Any organisation that wants to succeed by increasing their agility and their efficiency should contact Neil. He is most likely one of the best in town. I should add that engineers absolutely enjoy working with Neil and trust him. He is able to maintain excellent relationship with everyone. This makes an enormous difference to any workplace. Neil gets the best out of any team and individuals by trusting and empowering everyone. His intervention is just enough to make a difference but he knows out to get out of the way and let the magic happens. That is excellent leadership skill here. Get in touch with Neil.

Neil is an extremely knowledgeable and passionate Agile Coach. I recently participated in his workshop “How to be an Effective Scrum Master” and I absolutely loved it. I highly recommend his workshops to anyone who wants to have a broader understanding of Agile and planning to grow in this field.

The best in the business...Neil will tailor his approach depending on what your business need, get him while you can! We engaged Neil's services to get a fresh look at our software delivery practices and found ourselves getting a timely reminder about what continuous improvement really means. Neil has a very pragmatic approach and he has master the art of "Getting To the Heart Of The Problem"...no matter how hard that conversation turns out to be. If your team or business...or even just your ideas, need a shake up, speak to Neil.

Our organisation recently have Neil in as an Agile coach, he was excellent! He observed very quickly to our pain points and challenges and provided a wealth of experience, knowledge, and short sessions on techniques. He also provides tailored suggestions which incorporate feedback and adjust accordingly quickly and with ease. He is great and engaging participation from the team.

Parks Victoria had the pleasure of engaging with Neil to provide Agile coaching across a series of projects. Neil was quickly able to assess the capabilities and maturity of the teams and provide strong guidance (both at a team level and individual level) to increase the effectiveness of deliveries. Neil is deeply passionate about 'true' Agile software development, he has strong background in both hands on software development and management of development teams and projects. Neil doesn't pull any punches and will help you quickly get to the heart of matters and refocus efforts as necessary. I can thoroughly recommend his services.

An insightful, calm, strategic and highly pragmatic leader in the technology space. Able to distill almost any situation into an opportunity to add value to the customer. Takes misused principles and methodologies and translates them into their intended use of fostering a learning mindset. He's able to translate this in useful ways to the team and individual. Overall, Neil is an excellent teacher, with high integrity, strong values who is someone to follow and see as a role model.

I worked with Neil while he was on an engagement with SMS to provide Agile coaching and develop IP; I needed him to provide workshops for Business Analysts to help them better understand how to work in an Agile environment. Neil designed and ran sessions that explained where and how BAs can add value, and provided take-away material that acted as an easy-to-follow reference while working on projects. Neil has the ability to explain concepts in a very practical way that makes them easy to understand and apply in real situations. I found Neil to be knowledgeable, flexible in his approach and very helpful – I hope to be able to work with him again!

Neil is one of the most passionate and influential Agile coaches I have met in my career. His pragmatic approach and personalised coaching sessions have helped me not only upskill my team, but also be more effective in my role as a Scrum Master.

Neil understands and appreciates that every organisation needs to arrive at their own way to evolve into an agile organisation. He's knowledgeable and experienced. He listens and observes before offering advice, suggestions and coaching. I found Neil engaging and approachable and really got a lot from his time with us. His pragmatic approach to adopting agile behaviours and avoidance of dogma meant that we learnt and started applying those learning's immediately. I would recommend Neil to anyone who's serious about becoming agile.

Despite having done several courses and thinking that I had a decent idea of what I thought Agile was, Neil managed to push my understanding so much further. He helped simplify some complex topics to make it easy for everyone to understand but still challenged the way we worked as a team, not to make us change to how he saw other teams work, but to make us understand how we work and how we could focus on improving.

During Neil's 4 month tenure at SMS he hit the ground running and quickly determined what was required with regards to internal Agile training. He ran a series of excellent Agile "Personal Development Bites" which were aimed at Consultants to attend primarily during their lunch time. After each session I attended I came away feeling like I had learned a wealth of practical skills that I could apply in my every day role as a Consultant. Neil did not just focus on theory, but helped demystify Agile by providing plenty of examples and practical scenarios that got the whole group involved. I thoroughly enjoyed each session which Neil delivered and only wish he could have stayed on longer at SMS to further help develop my/our Agile skills.

I have to say that I am really lucky to have a chance to work withNeil. Even though it was a short time frame but I learned so much from him. He changed the way I think about software development, team, goal ... Thank you so much.

What Neil doesn't know about Agile isn't worth knowing! I had the pleasure of working with Neil engaging with multiple high profile clients together as he coached our teams and the client on their Agile journey. Neil had an uncanny ability to identify problems and area's for improvement and suggest multiple ways to tackle the situation. I'll miss our chats about the obvious issues with military WoW, and the not so obvious similarities with Agile! I'd recommend Neil to any team or organisation that wants to improve their ability to deliver!