About Ali
Ali is a seasoned Engineer turned Agility Coach with over a decade of experience guiding organizations, teams, and leaders toward outcome-driven transformation. He brings a systems-thinking mindset and a pragmatic approach, grounded in meeting clients where they are and co-creating solutions that unlock their inherent potential.
Ali’s coaching emphasizes value delivery and measurable impact, empowering organizations to evolve their ways of working while staying aligned to business goals. He excels at translating complexity into clarity—fostering alignment, enabling flow, and ensuring teams are equipped to consistently deliver outcomes that matter.
As the founder of Elevated Agility (est. 2018), Ali has partnered with enterprises, startups, and nonprofits across sectors including Digital Investments, Web Media, Trucking Logistics, IAM, Personal & Commercial Banking, High-Value Payments, and Cloud Infrastructure. His engagements span strategy formation to hands-on enablement, with a focus on elevating delivery capability and organizational agility.
An Accredited Kanban Consultant, Ali leverages the Kanban Method, STATIK, and the Kanban Maturity Model to drive evolutionary change. He complements this with a growing focus on AI advocacy, supporting teams as they adopt AI tools and practices to amplify decision-making, reduce transaction costs, and accelerate innovation.
Ali is passionate about cultivating high-performance cultures through coaching, metrics-led feedback loops, and continuous learning—helping organizations not only transform but thrive in complexity.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Toronto (up to 50km)
Experience
- Koch EnterprisesHead Agile Coach - AI/ML Discovery & DevXMay 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)Provide hands-on coaching for pods and leaders delivering AI/ML products, balancing agility with releases. Introduced hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery model in Azure DevOps to integrate vendor (C3.ai) with Koch. Designed and facilitated Agile workshops and compliance-readiness bootcamps for cross-functional teams. Standardized documentation, validation, and deployment workflows for predictability and auditability. Developed executive dashboards [velocity/cycle time/blocker aging, model churn] to improve transparency.
- RBCAgile Program Delivery - Digital TransformationJune 2022 - May 2025 (2 years and 11 months)Mentored Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and delivery leads to improve Agile maturity and autonomy. Facilitated sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and portfolio-level workshops. Implemented flow-based reporting (throughput, cycle time, blocker aging) to track progress and risk. Balanced Agile delivery with compliance requirements by embedding regulatory checkpoints in workflows. Trained teams on DevOps maturity using DORA metrics, CI/CD, and continuous testing practices.
- ScotiabankAgile Program Delivery - GIAMOctober 2021 - June 2022 (8 months)Principal Agile Coach for IAM DevSecOps program serving 90,000+ global users. Guided leaders & teams in defining Definition of Ready/Done, KPIs, and internal/partner team agreements. Delivered Agile workshops and bootcamps for executives, engineers, and architects to accelerate adoption. Provided leadership with progress dashboards, compliance reports, and dependency mapping.
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Education
- Certified SAFe 6 Practice Consultant ~ Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise Advanced Certified Scrum MasterScrum AllianceCertified SAFe 6 Practice Consultant ~ Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise Advanced Certified Scrum Master
- Accredited Kanban ConsultantKanban UniversityAccredited Kanban Consultant