John McFadyen

John McFadyen is a seasoned executive and enterprise Agile coach with a background in software development. With over 20 years in technology and agile coaching, he co-founded Agile Centre and previously served as an Agile Advisor at McKinsey & Company. Since 2018, he has served as a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), and Certified Team Coach (CTC) through Scrum Alliance.

John has led large-scale Agile transformations in UK and European markets, collaborating with C‑Suite leaders to embed Business Agility in company DNA. He brings his audience engaging, story-driven, and highly practical training sessions informed by “war stories” and real organizational dynamics.

He created the Agile Coach Academy, an 18-month apprenticeship program blending teaching, mentoring, and practical coaching, aimed at developing Scrum Masters into professional Agile Coaches.

John also experiments with personal AI, training intelligent systems on his own content to improve accessibility of agile education worldwide.

His public thought leadership appears through blogs and a YouTube series such as Growing Scrum Masters, focusing on team scaling, dependency management, and effective product vision.