Alanna Cresp Agile Practices Chapter Lead, ANU

Alanna Cresp’s career began in neuroscience, but she quickly realised she was more energised by transforming systems than studying neurons. She joined the Australian Public Service’s Innovation Division, where she discovered that STEM logic, human behaviour, and digital transformation make a surprisingly powerful trio. For nearly a decade she pushed the boundaries of what Agile can look like in government, from team-level delivery to portfolio planning. Now working in higher education, she applies those same muscles to redesign how universities operate. Alanna specialises in value-based decision-making and building teams that are both high-performing and high-trust. She has led multiple attempts to shift large organisations toward an agile mindset and learned as much from the hard ones as she has the successful.

What if the best training your team ever got wasn’t a slide deck — it was a show? In this hands-on session, Alanna shares how a team skit built around Agile anti-patterns became an unexpectedly powerful cultural moment, drawing more engagement than any training session before it. Participants will use an AI-powered chatbot to co-create their own script, then bring them to life as if on a movie set. Whether you watch or perform, you’ll walk away with a fresh way of thinking about how shared experiences—and a good laugh—can shift team behaviour more than any framework ever could.