About — ELENA ASTILLEROS

Hi! I’m Elena

AND I’M SOOOO EXCITED FOR YOU!

Talent and creativity are too precious to waste.

For over a decade I have created high performing teams, facilitated work alignment, and redefined how businesses connect with their audience in large and fledgling organizations with the help of Agile (to facilitate team efficiency, dynamism, and improvement); Design Thinking (to shift to a customer-centric approach); and Lean (to eliminate the waste of time, resources, and money in the workplace).

I bring to the fore transformational coaching practices and techniques that benefit elite athletes and the military to build teams of every size, de-escalate conflict, solve problems together, and help focus effort so everyone works in synergy to reach the incredible peak of ‘awesome’ as a team. I’ve been practicing Agile since 2008 and know just how to adapt the most suitable formula of Agile rollouts to bring out the best in the teams I work with. With coaching techniques and quips of wisdom gleaned from the world of competitive sports, neuroscience, psychology, history, social justice, the arts, and of course management and sales, I can help you reach your goals, overcome obstacles, and turn around results in as fast as three months!

With my experience, I power Agile development teams where colleagues review each other’s work and brainstorm ways to make work easier and faster. Everyone brings different experiences and can learn from each other. With my coaching, team members will begin to contribute to continuous improvement by consistently delivering products that exceed expectations.
Not only do I hold multiple certifications in Agile, I have worked with large corporates and am well versed in the different types of corporate culture.

Past Engagements

Thank you to the following companies and organizations, where I’ve had the privilege to work, consult, or deliver solutions for:

CHEVRON

LIVE NATION

TICKETMASTER

HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND

MUFG

BEACHBODY

TOYOTA MOTOR SALES

JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

CLARIS

SONY DADC

SONY PICTURES

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

VICTORIA MUTUAL

SYMANTEC

BARBIE

UNITED NATIONS & WORLD EXPO

What I promise

Productivity, Passion, Collaboration & Innovation

My talent is to create systems that support people and teams to show so they do their best work. I love to see the magic when that happens. And, because my goal is to create and brings the most value, I’ll throw everything into my work - Agile, Design, Lean, Nonviolent Communication, Future of Work, Psychology, Flow, Biohacking, Marketing, Life Planning…. If it could help, I will use it. I am the biggest champion of the teams I work with and help them work through problems by:

Creating custom Agile rollouts that target high impact areas teams really want to see change.
Aligning and propelling large groups towards a vision and inciting conversations about issues that need to be solved in order to attain that vision.
Identifying and overcoming obstacles that stand in the way of realizing your vision.
Facilitating efficient and amazing meetings and improving unproductive ones.
Enabling stellar project kickoffs, big room planning, or program increment planning that allow the company to improve on its turnaround time to the market.
Transforming disengaged teams into engaged teams that perform at their optimal and take courageous stances to constantly raise the bar.
Coaching individuals on how best to approach and complete their work and sharing practices that would help.
Neutralizing drama in an organization.
Going beyond creating agile transformations, I leave a healthier ecosystem in an organization.

THANK YOU!

Thank you for your talent, your searching, your hunger for improvement. Thank you for your quest to get better. Thank you for bringing innovative solutions to the market. Thank you for caring about your team, your job, your work, and your planet.

We may have never met in person, but if you’re here, you’ve followed that still small voice within that knows there is better out there. This is the same voice that knows you deserve work that matters, and once you get some pesky obstacles out of the way, your impact would soar. And for THAT I thank you.

Its people like you who bring my work to life. You’re the ones who inspire my best thinking, and keep me burning the midnight oil (at least the flashlight on my phone), to make and perfect my work. Its people like you who make economies grow, and money flow in useful ways for all the earth’s inhabitants.

Thank you for doing the most important work on the planet: FOSTERING EVEN MORE OF YOUR TALENTS AND HELPING YOU AND YOUR TEAMS GROW!

Let’s Stay Connected!

I want to support you on your path to getting the most out of your time at work and in life. Let’s start with getting the most out of your meetings. Here’s how I can help: I have a multi-stage checklist that will help you put your meetings into high gear.

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