Alex Sloley

Our profession is at an inflection point. AI is reshaping how teams learn, work, and ship, and the questions facing agile practitioners are harder than they have been in years.

Scrum Alliance has been part of my career for a long time. It gave me my first certifications. Its Coaching Advisory Team taught me how a professional body listens to its practitioners. I want to help it meet this moment.

A Member-Elected Director has one job: to be the membership's voice where decisions are made. That is what I am running to do. Not to represent one group over another, but to make sure trainers, coaches, and every certified member are heard, and to help the board set strategy for what comes next.

I am an agile coach, trainer, and facilitator based in Sydney, Australia.

My path into agile started in the 2000s at Microsoft in Seattle, where I spent 15 years shipping products as a Scrum Master, Scrum of Scrums Master, and Product Owner. Since 2015 I have run my own boutique consultancy, delivering coaching, training, and facilitation to enterprise clients around the world. Running my own practice means I feel the pressures our community feels. I am the product, the seller, and the delivery.

I hold the Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Alliance Trainer credentials. I co-chair the Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative at the Agile Alliance. I am a former member of the Scrum Alliance Coaching Advisory Team and have been a global shepherd for the Agile Coaching Retreats. In 2022 I wrote a book, The Agile Community, about how agile communities are built and sustained, because building community is the work I care about most. I have spoken at conferences from Sydney to Beijing, and I have spent two decades helping people find their footing in this profession.

This is not my first time running for this seat. Two years ago I was a finalist, and the membership chose someone else. That was the right outcome of a fair process. I listened, I kept contributing, and I am running again because the work I want to do for this community has only become more important.

I am asking for your vote because I believe a Member-Elected Director should be exactly that: your voice, carried into the room where decisions are made.