Meet The Team
Chief Agile Coach & Business Development
Winston Gillies
"Perspectives are Key"
As an Agile and Negotiations Coach, Winston mentors business owners and teams to improve the way they work together to set/attain, define/resolve business problems and develop/implement process improvements within their organizations.
Chief Enterprise Coach & Tech Lead
Ahmed Sorour
"Build the Right Thing Right"
As a seasoned developer by trade, Ahmed has focused on coaching teams and enterprises on how to write and produce high quality software systems. His secret is to guide, train and mentor teams throughout their continuous learning and improvement journey.
Chief Agile Coach and Product Lead
Kevin McManus
"Optimize Your People"
Kevin brings over 30 years of experience in the IT industry spanning Systems Administration, Software Development, Software Engineering Management and Technical Training. His passion is to help teams and organizations kick it in to overdrive by leading Agile Transformations. He believe in melding the capabilities of technology with the creativity and ingenuity of highly talented people to produce exceptional results. For more than 15 years, he has helped companies achieve business agility through the transformation or people, processes and work.
Chief Agile Coach & Experience Lead
Leeanne McManus
"The Fusion Between People and Technology"
Leeanne brings a unique technical background and people-focused aptitude to guide teams in high-energy, dynamic and high-velocity learning. She leads with a passion for engaging, improving and focusing on how to leverage technology to improve overall performance and exceed business objectives. Her specialty is to meet teams where they are, and apply Agile and Change Management techniques to help teams to achieve their goals.
Chief Instructor and Tech Lead
Jason King
"Team Delivery , Team Growth"
Jase loves to teach! After 23 years in the "code-mines", he's finally surfaced to help guide teams through the process of getting set up to succeed, agile delivery and onboarding. His deep expertise has been as a developer, team lead, technical coordinator, architect and instructor.
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Fast Ascension is an experiential learning organization that applies best practices and high-velocity team techniques to launch teams to their missions!