Meet Our Expert Instructors

Laura is CEO of the Business Agility Institute. Over the course of her career, she's held a number of engineering and leadership positions & is living proof that you never quite know where your next career move may take you. With 25+ years of product experience ranging from R&D to marketing, to sales and professional services – she has been involved in the design of electronics for space applications, aircraft engines, diapers, electric cars, and software systems at Hewlett Packard, Agilent, Sales.com, and eBay - as well as several startups you’ve never heard of.

At BAI, Laura masterminds a series of never-ending experiments to run and build the Institute using the same modern, human-centric ways of working that we research, advocate, and share with the business agility community.

Evan is the cofounder of the Business Agility Institute; a fiercely independent research & advocacy organization for the next generation of companies. Companies that are agile, innovative and dynamic - perfectly designed to thrive in today’s unpredictable markets. As the Head of Advocacy and Thought Leadership at BAI - Evan leads research initiatives, collaborates with corporate members on their stickiest business challenges, and shares insights and aha's to accelerate business success - no matter what the future brings.

Evan is also the author of two books, Directing the Agile Organisation (2012) and #noprojects; a culture of continuous value (2018), as well as numerous BAI publications.

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D. is a seasoned international speaker, executive, thought leader, and published author. He is currently Head of Business Agility at Riot Games, where he builds the strategic capabilities and agile systems that advance Riot’s aspiration to be—and stay—the world’s most player-focused game company. He is President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), cofounder of the Business Agility Institute, and co-author of “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World,”

He is a strategic thinker who has spent the last decade helping organizations navigate complexity through clarity, creativity, and systems thinking. At the heart of his work is a belief that while technology evolves rapidly, the foundations of the human experience remain essential to designing for the future.