Gilli, Your Agile Navigator.
Being the compass, leading the teams and understanding her agile "why"
Gilli Aliotti doesn’t just lead agile coaches, scrum masters, product owners, tech disruptors, and lean startup entrepreneurs — she ignites them. Known for transforming teams from chaos to clarity, she helps bold humans step into their power and become true Agile Warriors.
Over the past two decades, Gilli has orchestrated epic agile transformations and strategic programs at Google, Yahoo, Paramount, PayPal, Disney and a bunch of Startups, helping teams and businesses thrive at scale. She's a certified master business executive coach (Fowler School of Business), SPC5 Scaled Agile Consultant, Six Sigma Black Belt, ICAgile Coach (ICP-ACC), MBA Grad, an efficiency expert, ..and the founder of theCrea8ve (also on Substack) which fuels startup entrepreneurs and creatives to create bold ideas, …and is developing Hummm — a platform on a mission to elevate women in tech and leadership.
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At the core of everything she does? A fierce belief that agility is more than a framework — it’s a mindset that unlocks momentum, mastery, and meaningful results.
Her superpower: Helping leaders rise — with clarity, creativity, and unapologetic courage.
Now, through her no-BS platform The Agile Warrior, she’s channeling her fierce wisdom into bold thought-leadership and practical tools to help teams thrive, leaders evolve, and agility get its groove back.
"Agility isn’t just how you work—it’s how you win. Success starts with the mindset to adapt, the courage to lead, and the grit to keep moving forward."
🌀 Read about The Agile Warrior on this site
💥 Learn more about Gilli at gilli.net
💼 Connect with her on LinkedIn
Check out this Interview with AdvisoryCloud.com and Gilli
"I'm always curious about how we can collaborate and communicate better. In this often dispersed technology industry, we don't always have our development teams in the "same room" able to incubate and execute together. Often we have teams in different countries working together. We're always up against bottlenecks because of this, and lots of waste is created due to separation."
AC - Tell us more about your main areas of expertise?
GA - I would say I'm an 'agile productivity coach' in the product development space. I work with C-suite to development teams to effect change and deliver fast and smart, in fast-paced technology culture, through agile methodology and various matrix team productivity processes. I'm an executive "master business coach" as well as an agile-trained coach, plus have many years experience in the digital space across technology, media, and entertainment.
AC - Describe your main motivation?
GA - I've always enjoyed advising and coaching, it's in my nature to share what I know to others once I learn them.
I enjoy motivating people to do great things.
AC - Elaborate on the types of situations, challenges or decisions, you feel you could add the most value?
GA - I think the most challenging, and rewarding, scenarios for me are when I'm able to make an impact at the organizational level. I've been involved with several startups and seen them grow from scrappy and lean to high-performing scaling teams, launching great products. As an advisor/coach, I feel I can add the most value at an executive/leadership level, helping to change the mindset of old-thinking behavior and decision making, so that teams can be empowered to run with their roadmaps and deliver a great product.
AC - Do you see any disruptive trends on the horizon in your industry or position?
GA - I'm always curious about how we can collaborate and communicate better. In this often dispersed technology industry, we don't always have our development teams in the "same room" able to incubate and execute together. Often we have teams in different countries working together. We're always up against bottlenecks because of this, and lots of waste is created due to separation. I am fascinated by some new technologies coming out to bring people together, such as VR and AI, to make collaboration and answers delivered easier.
AC - Tell me about the most impactful project or decision you’ve been involved in as an executive.
GA - I have run many large-scale projects internationally, and for various companies, from Startups to Fortune 500. One is launching, with a dispersed, highly-motivated but lean team, AI-powered earphones plus an accompanying mobile IOS/Android App to Beta (pre-launch) phase, for the music celebrity, will.i.am, and his awesome startup. We had near impossible deadlines to get into the stores, and all of us playing multiple roles to ensure we launch on time. My most exciting launch was Paramount+, the widely adopted streaming platform. It’s an incredible thing to be able to enable over 50 scrum teams to execute and ship one of the world’s most successful media outlets, and during the lock-down Pandemic times, mind you! Oh don’t get me started on ‘back to office’ policies…. Yes, you can make shit happen without going into the office every day!
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