Sam O’Brien

Sam O’Brien is an Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Agilist and Retrospective Facilitator. Sam has worked with Fortune 20 clients to $100M companies in the US and internationally with distributed and diverse teams in all stages of Agile maturity. Since taking on her first XP project seventeen years ago, her experience spans all Agile methods and implementation approaches. She has experience in Finance, Manufacturing, Government, Medical Research, Marketing, Retail and Printing.

Sam’s passion for Agile is contagious. She trains management, business and IT teams with her Agile Express offering 2 Day Agile Bootcamps and 1 Day sessions on specific Agile topics from Scrum roles to Kanban.

She shares her home in Dayton with her loveable rescues, Charlie and Ela. Sam enjoys a proper pot of tea and can often be heard cheering for her favorite (football) soccer team or the local Dayton sports teams.