Times flies and I have been working with Agile Coaching for over 13 years now (written in 2021).
I am always asked to share my career development at women’s leadership conference, and also other occasions. Today I am writing it out.
I started my career in software development, and advanced myself as system integrator and then troubleshooter for mobile telecom equipment. I also worked as the project lead for Ericsson’s first CDMA project, and then worked as product manager as well. I have in general a lot of curiosity, and wanted to try out different roles.
Back in 2005 to 2008, Ericsson hired many external consultants and the technology, product, culture, structure and complication in organization history etc were very overwhelming for external consultants. So Ericsson decided to build their own internal coaching capabilities. Given my curiosity, I tried out different roles within Ericsson and had rather good view of end to end process. So in 2009, I had my career change from a system architect (for Ericsson Messaging in One and Ericsson Messaging over IP products) to an agile coach. I was also trained thoroughly in terms of Agile and Scrum, and to certain extend, Kanban as well. I also officially kicked off my full-time Agile Coach role.
In order to grow more internal coaching capability, while I was still learning and growing to be a better agile coach, I started to mentor fellow agile coaches in January, 2011. I was counting on the new agile coaches to support me in different parts of the organization also. Since then, I have been mentoring many agile coaches.
Gradually, the mentoring system becomes more and more systematic. It covers different skills we should have, such as teaching, facilitating and professional coaching. In March, 2011, I designed Way to Ericsson Coach (WTEC) which has been offered to thousands of all internal leaders, including managers, technical leaders and Agile Coaches within Ericsson. The system also includes domain knowledge as well, from technical practice, product, leadership, to organization. 
To better support leaders who were going through Agile adoption, and to better support organisations which will embark their own journey, I also launched Way to Ericsson Agile Leadership (WTEAL), with a 3 module based structure. WTEAL Module 1 was a 3-day program, which was rolled out to over thousands of leaders in Ericsson globally.
In 2013, I was the head coach for Ericsson and supporting coaches across different organisations. In 2015, I started to head Ericsson Global Transformation Support Center (GTSC), supporting different products and services to advance to their next level utilizing Agile and Lean practices and frameworks as vehicles.
In 2017, I decided to leave Ericsson to explore other areas. Since then I have supported organizations across difficult industrials. To name a few, automotive, banking, insurance, financial services, E-commerce, Pharma and more.
As I was travelling to clients’ sites all the time, I started to innovate the business model of my company. I started to offer virtual mentoring sessions through Zoom, and so far, I have mentored Agile Coaches, Product Owners, and/or leaders from 78 countries.
To give back to the global community, I offer free monthly coaching circles to our past graduates to stay connected and advance together.
Join our community if you are not part of it yet. You are also invited to connect with me via LinkedIn, and follow our company on LinkedIn, to stay connected.
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