Samar Sokolski SPC5

Samar Sokolski SPC5 has over a decade of experience in executive coaching and agile transformation. Beginning in 2011, Sokolski worked as the owner and executive coach at Agility LLC, where they enabled individuals and organizations to achieve measurable outcomes and live a life by design. In 2013, Sokolski served as an agile transformation coach at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, where they worked with the claims business department to adopt an agile mindset. They also worked with Hayneedle during the same year, assisting in scaling their agile practice and coaching scrum masters and product owners while providing a User Story Workshop for their teams.

Continuing in the agile field, Sokolski joined Paychex in 2013 as an Agile Transformation Coach, contributing to the company's enterprise-wide transition to agile methodologies. They provided transformation strategy and team structure recommendations and delivered enablement programs to empower Paychex to stand up and manage their own agile programs and teams. In 2015, Sokolski served as a Lean Business Agility Enterprise Coach at Verizon Wireless, assisting with the pilot of a lean business agility program for the company's IoT platform.

Sokolski's experience also includes roles at Fanatics, Inc. and Kiewit, where they served as an agile coach and trainer. At Fanatics, Inc., they coached infrastructure teams in creating high-performing teams and implementing agile processes tailored to their needs. This included implementing a scrum of scrum approach, coaching DevOps on customizing their processes, and guiding various other teams in their agile journey. At Kiewit, Sokolski joined as an agile coach and trainer to support the organization's transformation journey. They trained teams on real-world agile and Scrum/Kanban courses, developed Kiewit's internal Agile Playbook, and coached multiple SAP and custom development teams.

In 2017, Sokolski worked as an Enterprise Business Agility & SAFe Coach at Mutual of Omaha and later joined USAA in 2018 as an Enterprise Business Agility Strategist & Executive Coach. At USAA, they collaborated with the digital executive team to implement lean portfolio management and enable enterprise business agility transformation.

Most recently, Sokolski has been working at AgilityHealth since 2012 as an Enterprise Business Agility Strategist & Trainer. In this role, they have partnered with AgilityHealth clients to accelerate their journey to business agility through training and short-term contracts.

Overall, Sokolski's extensive work experience showcases their expertise in executive coaching, agile transformation, and enabling organizations to embrace an agile mindset and achieve measurable outcomes.

Samar Sokolski SPC5 has a diverse education history. Samar obtained a High School Diploma from Central High School from 2000 to 2004. Following that, they pursued their higher education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 2004 to 2009, where they earned a degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) with a focus on Information Technology.

In addition to their formal education, Samar Sokolski SPC5 holds multiple certifications in the field of Business Agility and Agile Coaching. Samar obtained the Enterprise Business Agility Strategist certification from Agile Transformation Inc. in October 2015. Furthermore, they became a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) 4 Certified Program Consultant in January 2017, certified by Scaled Agile, Inc. Samar also holds a certification as an ICAgile Authorized Trainer, obtained in January 2013 from ICAgile. Moreover, they have an ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching certification acquired in March 2013 and an ICAgile Certified Professional - Business Agility certification from ICAgile obtained in May 2017.

Based on the provided information, it can be concluded that Samar Sokolski SPC5 has a strong educational foundation in Information Technology and has further enhanced their skills and expertise through various certifications in Business Agility and Agile Coaching.