In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Shena Goorawa explore the importance of adapting to tough situations and embracing new challenges to grow your career. We discuss the importance of resilience and how leaning on your support crew can help you through the toughest challenges.
About the Featured Guest
Shena, an Agile Delivery Team Lead, began her career in 2006 in the call center industry. After a retrenchment in 2011, she transitioned to IT, starting in testing. ...
In this episode of the Agilists: Aspire and Achieve podcast, host Renae Craven and guest Shena Goorawa explore the importance of adapting to tough situations and embracing new challenges to grow your career. We discuss the importance of resilience and how leaning on your support crew can help you through the toughest challenges.
About the Featured Guest
Shena, an Agile Delivery Team Lead, began her career in 2006 in the call center industry. After a retrenchment in 2011, she transitioned to IT, starting in testing. Since 2012, Shena has excelled in agile roles, including agile trainer & Head of Agile Test Competency Centre, SA. Despite a layoff in 2020, she now leads Agile Delivery Managers in the FinTech industry, driving innovation and growth.
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About our Host
Renae Craven has been coaching individuals, teams and organizations for over 13 years and has spent a lot of time investing in and formalizing her professional coaching skills in recent years. Renae’s passion is leading and coaching organizations and as a Certified Team Coach with Scrum Alliance, she helps teams to find their rhythm and pace that balances learning with delivery. Renae established her own company NaeCrave Pty Ltd (www.naecrave.com.au) in 2020 and keeps herself busy with coaching and training delivery. Renae is also a certified BASI Pilates instructor and runs her own pilates studio in Brisbane, Australia. She has a YouTube channel called ‘Pilates for the Office Worker’ which features short 5 minute guided sessions that anyone can incorporate into their day, especially those of us who have been sitting down for extended periods. Subscribe to her channel Crave Pilates.
Renae has been organizing the Women in Agile group in Brisbane since 2018.
You can follow Renae on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaecraven/).
About our Sponsor
Scrum.org is the Home of Scrum, founded in 2009 by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber focused on helping people and teams solve complex problems by improving how they work through higher levels of professionalism. Scrum.org provides free online resources, consistent experiential live training, ongoing learning paths, and certification for people with all levels of Scrum knowledge. You can learn more about the organization by visiting www.scrum.org.
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