Karen Beck
Principal Agility & Delivery Lead @DLA Piper
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Agility & Delivery Lead @DLA Piper
GB
Leading cross-functional teams to deliver high profile client facing products, ensuring a focus on successful value driven outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction- Spearheading and leading the transition from a project-based structure to a product-led operating model to align to modern ways of working and business outcomes- Leading and facilitating the cultural, skills and capability shift to adopt business agility and agile ways of working, championing pragmatic agile adoption and engaging a diverse range of stakeholders- Proactively identifying and addressing barriers to transformation and new operating model adoption, providing strategic guidance on scaling challenges and organisational readiness- Partnering with Legal Tech & Data & AI to integrate technology and data driven approaches into legal service transformation- Collaborating with IT and Legal Innovation teams to design and launch optimised product streams, contributing to the development of future value streams
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ABOUT KAREN BECK
I am a highly skilled Business Agility & Delivery Leader, focused on delivering impactful results and value in complex, sensitive global projects, programs and products. With a wealth of knowledge and experience, I specialise in transformation, delivery, operations, growing business agility, lean agile ways of working, tools and techniques. I am passionate about helping organisations, teams and individuals to continuously improve, self-organise, and experience the benefits of lean agile ways of working, particularly in the technology and digital fields. My goal is to work with organisations and teams on their journey to become high-performing, collaborative units and to foster a culture of continuous improvement to drive value. I relish the opportunity to question the status quo and have an insatiable hunger for learning and improving. I will work with you, your organisation and teams to help turn your obstacles into outcomes.Key Professional Skills• Enterprise Agile Coaching• Product & Project Delivery (hands on)• Organisational Business Agility Coaching• Leadership, Team & Individual Coaching• OKR Expert & Coach• Operating Model Transformation • Strategy• Kanban, Scrum, Lean, XP• Stakeholder Engagement• Community Building• Atlassian Suite (Jira, Jira Align, Confluence)Personal Attributes• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise at all levels from exec to technical teams• Open and honest communicator• Empathetic and emotionally intelligent• Confidentiality and sensitivity in demanding environment and situations• Passionate about learning, technology and improving• Active conference and community attendee and partner
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