About Dipesh Pala
Dipesh Pala is a thought leader in the Agile space with nearly 30 years of experience across various industries. Over the past decade, Dipesh has led IBM’s transformation journey, growing the Agile capability from the ground up across the Asia Pacific region. He is passionate about enabling organisations of all sizes to optimise solution delivery through pragmatic use of Agile, Lean, and traditional methods.
Dipesh has coached over 3000 Agile practitioners globally and has been instrumental in rolling out Agile at scale in many organisations across multiple countries, including Australia, NZ, UK, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, and China.
More recently, Dipesh has co-founded two unique EdTech enterprises: Dreamcity and Mindflight7 – the leading and largest virtual reality education provider in Australia that has delivered XR programs to over 38,000 high school students and adults across more than 400 schools and institutions.
A keen advocate of simplicity, Dipesh offers simple, practical, yet powerful ways to address the challenges team members and managers in Agile environments face today. He continuously pushes leaders and their teams beyond practices and principles to advance in their Agile journey.
Session Agile leaders of the future: What do they do differently?
Agile executives and leaders of the future differentiate themselves by embracing a set of practices and mindsets that drive agility, innovation, and a people-first approach.
Drawing upon over a decade of experience leading Agile transformations in multiple organisations across nine countries, Dipesh will share real-life case studies and key practices that future Agile executives and leaders use differently.
Some of the key aspects they focus on include –
- Having Customer Obsession is paramount
- Practicing Adaptive Leadership to navigate complexity and uncertainty
- Elevating not only Artificial Intelligence (AI) but also Emotional and Human Intelligence for superior outcomes.
Understanding the above principles is crucial and may seem simple but integrating these into our daily routines requires discipline. If you are an executive or a leader of an Agile team, this session will provide clear guidance on where to focus your efforts to lead into the future. Be inspired by knowing what serves to catalyse and nourish a modern workforce culture – and what does the opposite.