Evan Leybourn

Evan is the Founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute; an international membership body to both champion and support the next-generation of organisations. Companies that are agile, innovative and dynamic - perfectly designed to thrive in today’s unpredictable markets. His experience while holding senior leadership and board positions in both private industry and government has driven his work in business agility and he regularly speaks on these topics at local and international industry conferences.

Evan is a pioneer the field of Business Agility; applying the successful concepts and practices from the Lean and Agile movements to corporate management. He is a world-leader on the topic.

His first book on the subject, "Directing the Agile Organisation", was published in 2013 and he is about to publish his second book "#noprojects: a culture of continuous value". On an unrelated topic, Evan also wrote the popular "Book Catalogue" android app. This shows that while he has a breadth of experience in both business and technology - he's also terrible at names.

As well as being a founder of CareerNexus, Evan currently leads the Business Agility Institute and the Business Agility Conference in NYC to advocate for agile organisations around the world.