Methodology Wars & Leadership

 

Steve Kozlowski is a leader of the Program Management Guild at Mastercard, where he focuses on providing common expectations, tooling, best practices, and professional standards to drive program management competency across the employee journey. With a background in counseling and education, Steve has spent the last decade in various delivery roles in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, including Project Manager, Program Manager, Release Manager, Incident Commander, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, DevOps Coach, Continuous Improvement Coach, and Trainer. He has contributed to teams and projects involving branding and website digital transformations, consumer app development, B2B process maturation, On-Prem to Cloud migrations, and Architecture and Security-focused initiatives.

 

Jay Boyle​ is a leader of the Program Management Guild at Mastercard, where he focuses on providing common expectations, tooling, best practices, and professional standards to drive program management competency across the employee journey. Jay has been a High School teacher, corporate trainer, scrum master, agile coach and varying shades of in-between. A series of global misadventures bounced Jay through several countries, three continents, and two career changes - all of which has given him a unique perspective on the value of a growth mindset. For over fifteen years Jay has brought his own personal brand of caffeine-fueled tomfoolery to classrooms, boardrooms, and conference centers where he promotes a "win or learn" approach to continuous improvement and growth. Jay works to make people awesome and empower teams through strategic use of pop-culture references, extreme nerdiness, and targeted coaching and training.

 

Jeff is an inspirational people leader, problem-solver and change agent. He cultivates a high-trust environment where he creates challenging, real-time growth opportunities for emerging leaders – formal and informal. Jeff applies a high-touch, adaptive feedback approach based on the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership® Model. Situational leadership is a practical, repeatable process leaders can employ to enhance their effectiveness when attempting to influence others.