Elizabeth Venter-Botha

As a passionate agilist, Elizabeth guides organizations, leaders, and teams through Agile transformations to support the strategic delivery of measurable business outcomes. As a marketer and strategist by trade, with global work experience on three continents on both the agency and client sides, Elizabeth understands the complex demands of the digitally driven marketing environment and the pressure that leaders face on all levels of the marketing organization.

During her time as the Global Digital Marketing Manager for Ford Motor Company, Elizabeth and team took a more Agile approach to designing and delivering a Global User Experience for 132 countries in only nine months. This experience taught her the value of taking a prioritized, iterative approach allowing for experimentation, testing, and fast feedback from markets and customers.

2017 was a key turning point in Elizabeth's Agile journey. While leading an enterprise-wide Lean-Agile implementation at Mercedes-Benz South Africa, she decided to certify as a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) in 2018. Elizabeth is an energized and engaging Agile leader, with several successful Agile implementations under her belt. She exhibits a spirit of constant learning and holds a number of advanced Agile qualifications from ICAgile, SAFe, and Agility Health.

For Elizabeth, AgileSherpas brings together her love of Agile + Marketing. When not engrossed in all things Agile, Elizabeth and her husband enjoy traveling the South African bush and stunning Cape Winelands. She also maintains a very active Instagram page for her agile cat, Lilly.