Principal Trainer and Founder

Paul Kok 郭安賢

Paul is a seasoned technologist with 30+ years working experiences in senior Asia Pacific regional IT leadership and management roles such as Enterprise Level Coach, Lean Agile Coaching Leader, Chief of Staff, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Services Management Director, PMO Director, Enterprise Architect, Business Analyst, Domain Technical Director in global matrix organized IT division of multinational enterprise listed in DJ30 and NASDAQ (e.g. Goldman Sachs, NIKE, Melco Resorts), with also entrepreneur experience in building startup companies with Lean Startup approach to start, run and grow a business.

Paul is now an independent consultant. Most recently serving as internal and external lean agile coach and trainer supporting directly CxOs, Managing Directors, Heads of Division, and senior executives to enable their agile transformation journey for enterprises in financial, banking, airline, hospitality, gaming, retail, property development, government authority, etc.

Developing and mentoring agile coaches and scrum masters for the agile community in Hong Kong and China. Expanding focus on coaching business owners and other different key roles in scaled agile context.

The first SPCT Candidate in Hong Kong co-delivered 3 classes of Implementing SAFe to certify SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs). He has been the SAFe Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) of v4.6 and v5.0, one of the dedicated groups of global SAFe SMEs who contributed in the LPM exam materials. Paul is also a Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprise (SAFe) In-country Reviewer who shares and contributes SAFe knowledge and experience by producing high-quality translations in native languages.

Paul delivered 100+ different agile related trainings with a total number of 1000+ attendees in the last 4 years.

Language of instruction: English / Putonghua / Cantonese.