The Agile Leadership Collective 

Hema Patel

Senior Business Leader - 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. 

Steven HK Ma • 馬國豪

Executive Agilist

Steven Ma has an infectious passion for more human ways of working. With almost a decade of experience in agile transformation, Steven is an expert in co-designing organisations for empathy and agility.

He is the founder of No Moss Co, the Principal Trainer and Certification provider for Bain & Co and the Director of Ways of Working at the Commonwealth Bank Australia.

He is also the founder of Cause Corps - a grass roots movement with a mission of making doing good a daily habit. Cause Corpos has accomplished over 10,000 direct action activities in 16 countries with over 3,500 members contributing to causes including mental health, animal welfare, environmental action, disaster relief and children’s hospitals.

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.