Dipesh Pala is a thought leader in the Agile space with nearly 30 years of lived experience across a variety of industries. Over the last decade, Dipesh has led IBM’s transformation journey to grow the Agile capability from ground up across the Asia Pacific region and pursues his passion for enabling organisations of all sizes to optimise solution delivery through the pragmatic use of Agile, Lean and traditional methods.
Dipesh has coached over 3000 Agile practitioners and has been instrumental in rolling out Agile at scale in many organisations across multiple countries including Australia, NZ, UK, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia & China, and is currently coaching and mentoring today’s Managers and Executives to become the Agile Leaders their teams need.
In addition to being a top-rated speaker at industry conferences, Dipesh is also the co-founder of Dreamcity, where he has established the foundations of the venture based on Agile ways of working and thinking. This innovative model offers a high-tech environment that allows children to try out their dream jobs in a life-like world, empowering them to be better global citizens of tomorrow.
More recently, Dipesh co-founded MindFlight7, embedding agility into the core of this unique and exciting EdTech business, providing first of a kind virtual reality-based programs that have already helped over 40,000 high school students to make more informed decisions around their subject selection and subsequent future career direction.
A keen advocate of simplicity, Dipesh offers simple, practical yet powerful ways to address the challenges team members and managers in Agile environments face today. He continuously pushes leaders and their teams beyond the practices and principles to take a step further into their Agile journey.