At Agilify Coaching & Training, we’ve all worked in traditional waterfall organizations where handoffs, sign-offs and other “offs” get in the way of producing really cool, innovative campaigns.

In 2012, founder Stacey Ackerman began experimenting with agile for her advertising agency clients and saw first-hand how the collaboration, structure and mindset changes really paid off! In no time at all work was getting out the door faster, the relationship with the agency and its client was better and quality improved.

In 2014, Agilify Coaching & Training launched and set out on its mission to help companies find a better way to work.

Our Philosophy

We don’t just teach agile, we live and breathe it every day.

It’s not just a job to us—it’s our passion.

We use an agile mindset and processes to organize our small team and keep each other accountable. We even use it at home to manage housework, homework and more!

Our Team

We’re small, but mighty.

Stacey knows what it’s like to be a marketer, after all she’s one of the few agile coaches and trainers that got her start there. After graduating from Journalism school, she worked as a content writer, strategist, director and adjunct marketing professor.

She became passionate about agile as a better way to work in 2012 when she experimented with it for an ad agency client. Since then she has been a Scrum Master, agile coach and has helped with numerous agile transformations with teams across the globe.

Stacey speaks at several agile conferences, has more certs to her name than she can remember and loves to practice agile at home with her family.

As a lifelong Minnesotan, she recently relocated to North Carolina where she’s busy learning how to cook grits and say “y’all”.

Stevie is a well-known agile speaker, coach, trainer and facilitator who’s passionate about business agility, having helped hundreds of teams and leaders quickly respond to change while meeting customer demands.

For more than 15 years, Stevie has transformed companies that were in need of a new way to work. She believes in helping people recognize their strengths and using them to build successful teams and leaders.

Stevie is a Strengths Strategy Certified Coach, Certified People Acuity Coach, Certified Dale Carnegie Trainer and Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional, Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner.

In her free time, Stevie is an avid rock climber with her teenage son and enjoys baking with her daughter. She lives in Minnesota, but is willing to travel to warmer locations (especially in January).

Eirik is a marketing tech guru, and by day he’s a Senior Digital Marketing Manager, specializing in Salesforce and Pardot Consulting.

At Agilify Coaching & Training, he’s the one that keeps it all together—handling all things on the back-end (like invoices and logistics) so our customers and team members are happy.

Eirik has an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Entrepreneurship.

When he’s not running the company, he’s well, running. Or hiking or biking.

When Max isn’t making copies (okay, sitting on the copy machine), you may catch him popping up during a video call or lounging on the desk.

Even though he’s almost 19 years old (90-something in human years), he’s not ready to retire quite yet.