Product Management

Lisa Cooney

Agile Coach at Edward Jones

Faculty Profile

Lisa Cooney is a co-author of Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile (2021) and editor of Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out (2019). As a prominent member of the international Agile community, Lisa has spoken at many conferences and meetups on topics such as Agile 2, Agile and Devops, Cognitive Bias, Power, and Developmental Feedback.

Lisa has served as an Agile coach in a wide variety of organizations including Edward Jones, Spotify, the Agile 2 Academy, Axios, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), and the Department of Homeland Security. She is certified in Agile coaching, culture assessment, facilitation, scrum, and SAFe (SA). Lisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Wellesley College and a Masters Degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia.

Experience

April 2025 - Current
Agile Coach
Edward Jones
November 2022 - January 2024
Agile Coach
Edward Jones
December 2021 - September 2022
Agile Coach
Spotify
June 2021 - October 2021
Managing Partner
Agile 2 Academy
July 2019 - June 2021
Principal Agile Coach
Axios
December 2018 - June 2019
Agile Coach and Consultant
Blackstone Technology Group
September 2018 - December 2018
Agile Consultant/Editor
Independent
September 2017 - September 2018
ScrumMaster
Excella Consulting
September 2014 - March 2017
Instructional Systems Designer/ScrumMaster
Addx Corporation
January 2014 - September 2014
Instructional Systems Designer
American Systems
October 2012 - November 2013
Performance Solutions Designer
Carney, Inc.
May 2011 - October 2012
Training Developer
AECOM
2001 - 2010
Substitute French Teacher
Pittsford Central Schools
1989 - 1993
Instructional Designer and Technical Writer
Nortel Networks (Formerly CCI, then Northern Telecom)
1995 - 2008
Instructor
Pysanky (Ukrainian Egg Decorating) Instruction
1987 - 1989
Instructional Designer
Eastman Kodak Corporation
1986 - 1988
Manager, Audio-Visual Production Lab
University of Virginia, Department of Educational Studies
1985 - 1986
Computer Specialist
The American University

Education

1986 - 1988
Masters of Education, Instructional Technology
University of Virginia
1980 - 1984
BA, Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude)
Wellesley College
1976 - 1980
High School Diploma, High Honors
Hawken School

Publications

March 2021
Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile
Wiley
January 2019
Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out
Agile Leadership Institute
December 2015
Implementation of Agile Methods within Instructional Systems Design
Article, co-author