Developing Soft Skills for Today’s Workplace

Emily is an established Project Manager, Scrum Master and Coach. She's been working in Project Management for over 10 years and is passionate about sharing knowledge with the community and helping others grow and become more effective leaders and managers. She focuses on the 'people' in projects and helps individuals grow and develop their skills. She excels working in international environments and working virtually. Emily is an international speaker who loves connecting and sharing knowledge

Alice is a culture strategist and has a deep-rooted passion for cultivating cultures of change and belonging. Alice has 30 years of senior leadership experience in Corporate America and recognized credentials as a Certified Sr. HR Professional (SPHR) and Change Management Professional (CCMP), Alice brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to each course as she seamlessly integrates cultural strategy into evolving work environments. Known for her innovative approach, Alice has pioneered multipl... moree groundbreaking leadership techniques that amplify the effectiveness of leaders. These cutting-edge methodologies are at the core of her 20+ popular leadership courses, where she shares practical insights and strategies that resonate with aspiring and seasoned leaders alike. With a specialization in change management and human resources, Alice brings her comprehensive understanding of these domains to the forefront in all her teachings. As an HR Senior Professional, she utilizes her skills and knowledge with a singular purpose: to eradicate all forms of discrimination in the workplace and foster inclusive environments where everyone thrives. Alice is the author of 'Change Ready Cultures', on LinkedIn.

Ada started her IT career as a PL/SQL developer for a large engineering company. She transitioned to a hands on Technical Consultancy role on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Architecture for a Big 4. Followed by 5 years as an Entrepreneur. Since 2019 she has rejoined the corporate world. She has experience leading projects, analyzing challenges, and designing technical solutions. Always in pursuit of new knowledge and loves to share breakthroughs with those around her. Ada looks forward ... moreto many years of continued success in developing courses with Pluralsight! She provides her support through individual and team training which have a direct impact on the team performance. Ada has the following certifications: -Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (BB), 2019 -NLP Master level, 2014 -TOGAF EA, 2013 -Trainer, 2013 Given the opportunity, she loves spending time reading, running and dancing tango.

Curtis Webb is Senior Director, Head of Disbursements, Visa Direct North America at Visa. Visa aspires to be the best way to be paid by everyone everywhere. Visa Direct is a service that enables money movement use cases domestic and cross-border. Curtis’ team leads business-funded disbursement use case strategy and product management, including labor and wages payouts, emerging and small and medium businesses. His team is also responsible for established use cases like government, loan disbursem... moreents, and accounts payable/receivable. Curtis’ payments industry areas of focus include acquiring, tokenization, bill payments, and faster payments. In the past, Curtis served in various product management leadership roles at MetaBank/Pathward, Citibank, and Mastercard. Curtis holds a Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Saint Francis University. Curtis is also a licensed Private Pilot with the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Milena Pajic has more than a two-decade-long career in the IT industry, leading distributed teams and managing projects on the international level. Software developer by education, she dug deep into the code, earned significant hands-on experience, and learned the rules of the game. She has been heavily involved in building teams on the basis of self-organization and cross-functionality, spreading her knowledge, and investing in education. Milena is a Master of Computer Science, PMP Certified Pr... moreofessional, Certified Business Analyst, Professional Scrum Master, and Kanban Management Professional. Besides, strong organizational skills led Milena to COO and General Manager positions. She is also a frequent speaker at technical conferences. Milena loves to immerse herself in puzzles and riddles and unlock doors in Escape rooms all around Europe.

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ... morelives in Kennedale, TX with his wife and children.

Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer, and speaker. Currently the CTO of Full Circle Insights, he is the author of numerous books, ebooks, and online courses on various topics (technology and other). His latest book is "Advanced Apex Programming" - advancedapex.com Personal Website http://danappleman.com.

Michael is a consultant and Pluralsight author. He recently traded the corporate world of Accenture back into his passion: IT professional development and authoring for Pluralsight. Previous to Accenture, Michael was General Manager of Fairway Technologies Inc. at the Orange County offices located in Irvine, California. In 2017, Fairway Technologies acquired PDSA Inc., where Michael was Vice President/COO at PDSA, Inc. His responsibilities were to manage all projects and personnel while ensurin... moreg quality services are delivered on time and on budget to our valued clients. He has been instrumental in defining and executing a solid internal business and engineering process to ensure quality services, including using Agile and Scrum techniques, and excellent customer service. Before joining PDSA Inc., Michael was the Director of Information Technology at the Long Beach division of Boeing. He was responsible for all aspects of computing – strategic planning, architecture, application lifecycle, asset management, and outsource management. Michael also was an instructor at UCLA and University of California, Irvine's extension program. He has been a speaker at industry conferences, such as DevIntersection, Advisor’s Conference, DevConnections, Code Camp and Informant Conferences specializing in best practices of management, project management, leadership, communication, requirements gathering, estimation, sprint planning and Kanban. Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a master’s degree in Computer Science from UCLA, and has published several articles on computer technology. Since 2013, Michael has been a Pluralsight instructor having developed and published 10 courses on project management, project requirements, project estimating, team management, leadership and communication, Demand and Work Management: A Practical Approach, Developing Effective Agile Sprint Plans, The Technical Business Analyst, and two courses on Kanban.