Mike Sutton

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About Mike Sutton

Mike is a multi-talented professional and startup entrepreneur who seeks joy, learning and the pursuit of passion in all he does. As a software professional with over 25 years experience in engineering, people, product and process management across a wide range of industries from defence, travel/tourism, banking and credit markets to eCommerce and social media, Mike loves to bring people together to deliver great products and generate joy! Mike has been experimenting and learning from building startups for over 15 years and fully understands the absolute importance of team, shared values and the power of diversity to bring successful products to market. As a deeply passionate agile practitioner for over 16 years - Mike has helped organisations that build software as part of their business to become more joyful, effective and passionate through the use of agile approaches - this has been as a 'coach','trainer'. Most often as a 'secret agent of joyfulness', bringing connection and pragmatic, risk-mitigating engineering practices to product development. Mike's professional goal within the software development sector is to help software teams and the organisations they are in to exceed their own expectations. In doing so, they will delight their customers and rediscover joy in work. Specialties: Building & leading engineering teams, guiding organisations to delivery, helping everyone he meets to be better versions of themselves, building communities that are greater than the sum of their parts, infecting others with joy & hope and sparking innovation.