Colourful Voices featuring Anjali Leon and James Evans

Colourful Voices is a new Meetup series from the Agile in Color team. Its mission is to provide both new and experienced speakers an opportunity to practice a talk and receive constructive feedback from attendees.

October's Colourful Voices event will feature Anjali Leon and James Evans.
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Anjali Leon
Title: Building Resilience: Habits to Avert Stress, Anxiety and Burnout

Key Learning Takeaways:
1. Understand how anxiety manifests physiologically, emotionally, and mentally
2. Learn science-based techniques to manage anxiety and burnout
3. Reflect on the healthy and consistent habits that can build resilience against the negative impacts of stress.

Bio: Anjali draws on over two decades of technical and leadership education and experience to design and deliver outstanding programs that educate, inform, and inspire people to do their best work in an increasingly complex and changing world. Anjali’s coaching, training, and consulting practice, PPL Coach, specializes in Product, People, and Personal Leadership. She uses the principles and practices of Design Thinking and Lean and Agile to ignite curiosity, create connection, facilitate collaboration, leverage wisdom networks and embrace our collective wellbeing. You can experience Anjali’s authentic and unique heart, head, and hands approach through her training workshops or coaching programs.

James Evans
Title: It’s the growth for me! Meet James Evans

Overview: At its core, successful navigation of our chosen career space is both challenging and unique. As a well-traveled Person of Color (POC), I know that these pathways to success oftentimes have unique layers of complexity and frustration. Using this as a backdrop, my goal here is to set the stage where I can mentor and be mentored by those who are continuously growing and navigating through the agile community.

Bio: By day, James is a resourceful change agent that uses the power of business agility to help organizations untangle their processes while creating customer-focused, value-driven solutions. After work, James mentors’ new entrepreneurs on the lean startup methodology and helps previously incarcerated students navigate their new normal and sharpen their employment skills. In addition to bringing over 15+ years of I.T. experience in such roles as Agile Coach, ScrumMaster, and Project Manager, James views life and work through the lens of coaching, mentoring and partnering. His personality types are INTJ [Myers-Brigg] and 9 [Enneagram].