It’s time to be brave.
Perth Agility Circle 2022
THE EVENT
The 2022 PAC event was a call to brave leadership - pushing senior leaders to confront complexity, challenge the status quo, and lead with courage in uncertain times.
We heard from Bjarte Bogsnes, founder of Bogsnes Advisory and global pioneer of the Beyond Budgeting movement, as he explored how organisations can break free from traditional management thinking and build more adaptive, human systems. Sarah Atkinson, Chief of Staff to the CXO at Atlassian, shared practical insights on leading through ambiguity, navigating transformation at scale, and creating the conditions for teams to thrive. And Zoë Coyle, founder of Pilot Light Consulting and acclaimed leadership facilitator, brought her signature energy and honesty to the stage - reminding us that brave leadership begins with self-awareness, connection, and compassion.
The event was a powerful call to arms for leaders ready to think differently, act boldly, and lead with purpose.
Speakers
Bjarte Bogsnes
Founder, Bogsnes Advisory
BIO
Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the business agility movement Beyond Budgeting and has been heading up the implementation of the concept at Equinor. He led a similar initiative in Borealis in the mid-nineties, one of the companies that inspired the Beyond Budgeting model.
Bjarte is Chairman of the Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT). He is a popular international business speaker and the winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award. Bjarte is also author of "Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential", where he writes about his almost twenty-five years long Beyond Budgeting journey. He has throughout these years inspired and helped numerous companies all over the world getting started.
His new book “This is Beyond Budgeting - A guide to making organizations more adaptive and human” will be out early 2023.
Bjarte has taken early retirement from Equinor to be able to continue his Beyond Budgeting work full time through Bogsnes Advisory.
Sarah Atkinson
Chief of Staff to CXO, Atlassian
BIO
Sarah prides herself on being a change agent. She enjoys making the complex simple.
As a practitioner and realist at heart, curiosity, experimentation and pragmatism are at the core of her DNA. Her hands on experience and passion is backed by over 20 years of successfully building, coaching and leading teams.
Sarah has worked in a diverse range of environments, including co-founding an Agile Transformation consultancy, partnering with startups in their scaling endeavours, through to leading transformations within corporate.
Passionate about unleashing the potential of teams, 2018 she made the leap to join Atlassian leading "Programs & Practices", a team of 200 Program Managers and Team Coaches across Atlassian's product and platform portfolios. Sarah's latest adventure sees her now partnering with Jurgen Spangl (Chief Experience Officer, Atlassian) on endeavours to consistently deliver quality end to end experiences for our customers.
Richard McAllister
Managing Director, Scalabl
BIO
Richard has over 20 years experience within software delivery, organisational change and scaling agility. He brings a fresh and energetic approach to solving complex business problems.
Richard is the lead organiser of Agile Perth meetups with over 2,000 members and the founder of Flow Perth (an organisation that host unique events in the technology, marketing & product community to bring skilled volunteers and charities together).
Zoë Coyle
Director & Founder, Pilot Light Consulting
BIO
A true believer in the power of self-awareness and connecting to others.
Pilot Light Founder and Director Zoë Coyle, is an author, leadership facilitator, and communications training leader, with experience that spans 20 years. Zoë is globally regarded in the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors for her work in creating transformational change. She is one of Asia Pacific’s leading facilitators of Dr Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ Programme and has delivered this programme to many of the largest and most inspiring organisations in Australia, South-East Asia and the UK. Her intellect, experience, wit and sense of humour makes her a sought after keynote speaker on leadership and human connection.
Zoë’s inimitable ability to meaningfully connect with individuals and transform them sets the stage for Pilot Light’s reputation for inspiring powerful change. She is the communication coach of choice for the CEO’s of some of Australia’s largest organisations where she delivers bespoke content and culture programmes that enable true leadership and success. She graduated from NIDA with a Bachelor of Performing Arts. Zoë is based in Sydney with her
husband, four children and a wirehaired dachshund. Zoë debut novel ‘Where the Light Gets In’ was published in 2022 by Ultimo Press.
