As a sought-after speaker, coach and trainer, Alicia McLain is known as the “organizational whisperer,” and has, for the last 15+ years, been about the business of building high-performing teams, empowering leaders in transition and creating climates where teams can thrive using agile practices. Her expertise is in the transformation of people and systems during agile transformations. Ms. McLain coaches, trains and transforms mid-size to large companies domestically and internationally. She is an executive and leadership coach who has led and witnessed the transformation of people, attitudes, hearts and minds toward greater agility and high performance using agile practices. She is passionate about being of service to help connect organizations to their mission and values. She is the founder and co-organizer of the Agile Coaching Exchange for Southern California (ACE:SoCal), the first MeetUp group of its kind established in the United States in partnership with the flagship in London. She holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership, a Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification and Scrum Alliance certifications in scrum master, product owner and scrum professional.