Gary Bamberger is a seasoned professional known for his expertise in driving pragmatic enterprise business agility transformations. With a diverse client portfolio ranging from small startups to industry giants such as AIG, Guardian Life Insurance Co., Intuit, Northrop Grumman, and Vanguard, Gary has demonstrated his ability to execute transformative initiatives effectively.
His approach begins with a comprehensive assessment of the existing organizational structure, culture, goals, vision, practices, and desired outcomes. Leveraging this understanding, he crafts customized roadmaps that incorporate support organizations and change management plans. Gary excels in building consensus and securing support to successfully execute these roadmaps.
In the execution phase, Gary is considered a “full stack coach,” providing training, mentoring, and coaching for executives, leaders, delivery teams, individuals, PMOs, and support organizations to foster the transformation of systems and practices to achieve targeted outcomes. He collaboratively establishes lightweight portfolio management structures using tools such as Jira, Confluence, VersionOne, Azure DevOps, and OKRs to create transparency and align the organization on desired outcomes.
Gary’s expertise extends to designing and delivering tailored training curriculum and workshops that integrate Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, XP, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, ICP-BAF, LeSS, Product Management, and customer discovery concepts. He supplements training with mentoring and coaching to reinforce and accelerate learning.
Recognizing the importance of leadership development, Gary implements agile leadership growth frameworks. These frameworks focus on developing leadership skills aligned with the future state and desired outcomes, incorporating training, group sessions, one-on-one coaching/mentoring, and 360° feedback to support leader growth.
As a forward-thinking leader, Gary also takes initiative in establishing sustainable coaching practices. He leads the evolution and execution of transformation roadmaps, supporting coaching practices through coach selection, and accelerating knowledge growth and capabilities expansion through training, mentoring, and coaching initiatives.