The Agile Leadership Collective 

Hema Patel

CEO - Lightbox

Hema has a passion for transformation and innovation especially in the media and technology space and especially, leading people through change. 

Hema initially worked in the Spark Ventures team, where agile was first implemented at Spark over 6 years ago. Most recently Tribe Lead for Lightbox, Hema has been part of wider Spark’s wider agile rollout.

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Her strong commercial background means Hema has a keen interest in the business rationale for agile and for transformation at large. 

Richard Phillimore-Smith

Tribe Lead & Head of Sales - SME at Vodafone

Richard excels at developing and leading top-performing teams, empowered to deliver exceptional customer experience outcomes, in an innovative and collaborative way.

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With 18 years at Vodafone UK and NZ, he's worked across all parts of the business and most recently has been an integral part of the Agile at Scale rollout.

As Tribe Lead for SME Segment, he has lived first-hand the experience of leading a large team through the change.