Kim Ballestrin

Principal Consultant, Elabor8

Stream: Leading change

Kim Ballestrin is a passionate and highly skilled Principal Consultant at Elabor8 working on the Agile transformations of large enterprises.

She has over 20 years of diverse management (IT) experience, and since 2010 has been an Agile engagement lead in the telco industry helping one of Australia’s most prominent organisations on their Agile change journey.

Kim is an experienced technologist having worked in roles from IT business analyst through to program and delivery centre management. She specialises in Lean, Cynefin, Agile, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, DevOps and ideas to improve the ways that companies work and deliver value to customers.

Currently the organiser of the Melbourne Cynefin and Lean Coffee Meetups, Kim regularly presents and runs workshops at leading local and international conferences on the Cynefin Framework, Decision Mapping and Early Idea Feasibility.

Kim also collaborates on pro-bono projects that are driving real social change, including Charity Insights for Telco Together and BOLDMoves for Vic ICT for Women.