About Dr. Wasif Medi

Wasif has almost 20 years of experience across digital and business transformation with a focus on leveraging Agile practices to deliver enhanced customer value. He has multi sector exposure across Financial Services, Start-up/SME, Telecommunications, Third-Party Logistics and UK Public Sector. Wasif holds an Executive MBA (Distinction) from Bayes Business School (formerly known Cass Business School), London, UK, with a track record of successful delivery by building and leading high performing Teams. He is an expert Product Manager (PSPO 2), ICAgile Certified Enterprise Agile Coach, SAFe 6 Practice Consultant (SPC), Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP), PRINCE 2 Practitioner and a GIANT Coach

(https://www.giantworldwide.com/organizations). He has worked for companies such as Lloyds Banking Group, Serco Consulting and Capgemini.

Wasif currently runs his own business, working as Lean-Agile Consultant, Coach and Trainer. He has also operated in Non-Exec role, as Co-Optee on the England Committee working with Board of Trustees for Action for Children (https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/) and a Startup Expert for Carbon 13 (https://carbonthirteen.com/) supporting Start-Ups/Entrepreneurs on the Carbon13 Venture Builder and Venture Launchpad programmes to collectively reduce carbon emissions by over 400 million tonnes or 1% of global emissions.

Prior to this Wasif was Chief Operating Officer for a deep tech B2B SaaS SME, Unmanned Life (UML). Having played an instrumental role and succeeding in securing seed funding (~£2m) for UML he oversaw the continued growth and scaling up of the company while heading up the development and launch of its initial two solutions built upon it’s Al driven, cloud enabled software platform for the fully autonomous control, management and orchestration of robotic swarms (such as drones, AGVs etc.).

In recognition of his scale up leadership at UML he was selected for a place on the highly competitive, Shott Leadership Programme with the Royal Academy of Engineering (click here for further details). He leveraged the support provided by the programme (£10k grant, coaching, mentoring and peer support) to continue to build my Technology and Innovation Leadership knowledge, skills and experience.

Previously Wasif joined the largest retail bank in the UK, Lloyds Banking Group on its Executive Leadership Programme where as product manager he was instrumental in the development of its Remote Advice Mortgage Product, as Head of Digital Customer Insights he worked closely with Digital Executive Leadership to improve customer adoption, usage and value enhancement of the bank’s online banking and mobile banking platforms respectively.

In summary, I have almost 20 years of cross functional Business and Product leadership, Agile Delivery and Industrial experience underpinned by an Executive MBA with distinction from a top business school. I believe I will be a great fit for this role and would be happy to discuss my application with you in an interview.

Lean-Agile Coaching & Training:

As at Jul 2024 Wasif has ran 100+ training classes which last for 2 to 3 days, training ~900 executives from a plethora of organisations on Lean and Agile and how to scale associated practices to enhance business agility and value delivery to their customers (see testimonials below).

Client and Organisations worked with:

Capgemini, Lloyds Bank, Serco, UK Gov, Telefonica, UPS, Swiss Post, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Magenta Telekom, Huawei, UK 5GTestbeds & Trials and many more

Testimonials from Clients and Peers:

“Wasif and I have worked together for several years. He helped build the Unmanned Life business especially by leading the implementation of agile, scrum and Jira in the organisation and subsequently leading the agile delivery of our Lean portfolio. I worked alongside Wasif on several projects and have been consistently impressed with his ability to understand and apply the values and principles of agile and scrum to any initiative. He has deep knowledge and experience of the scrum framework and is able to efficiently an d optimally adapt and apply it to address problems, create innovative solutions and ultimately unlock and release value. Wasif is a fantastic Agile leader and expert. I recommend him unreservedly.”

Kim Clement, CTO at Unmanned Life

Not only is Wasif extremely knowledgeable in SAFe and agile, but he brings a lot of practical business, strategy, data and leadership experience to the table as well. I’ve had the opportunity to learn from a lot of instructors through my many years of education; Wasif is hands-down one of the best at teaching that I’ve encountered. His ability to communicate complex topics and make them easy to understand is among the best I’ve seen. While he’s obviously quite skilled in this arena, it is also obvious that he comes pre pared and does the work ahead of time to help his students learn. If you have the chance to learn or work with Wasif in any capacity, then I’d highly recommend taking that opportunity.

Doug Rahden, Data Science Senior Lead at Booz Allen Hamilton

I have worked closely with Wasif on a number of occasions, and each time his delivery has been excellent. He has demonstrated the extremely high aptitude for a variety of tasks, and has a proven ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues and clients alike. He has also shown himself to be both adaptable and resilient, often within very short timeframes developing impressive understanding of a specific sectors as well as individual clients. Overall, in my opinion Wasif has made excellent contributions to each project I’ve had the pleasure to work alongside him on. I would recommend him to anyone.

Chris Archibald, Programme Director & Transformation Expert at Vodafone Business

Wasif and I, worked on the design, implementation and roll out of a SAP CRM solution. Wasif was the Project Manager, who worked very hard to make the project a success. He was central to the success of the team, directly taking responsibility for the development of the CBT solution and supporting final test, and user training. Wasif was more than consultant, he directly contributed to the success of the project, working above and beyond that normally expected to ensure the project was a success. I would not hesitate to make Wasif one of my team members in the future.

Nick Martin, Director and Cyber Security Consultant at Nix Computing Ltd.

Really enjoyed Wasif’s 2-day “Leading SAFe” course. it had a good balance of lecture, activities, visuals, and media. Wasif is a dynamic and engaging facilitator who kept my attention throughout the course and truly prepared us for the certification exam.

Rebekah Wilks, Director of Agile and Program Management Office at TQL

I have had the pleasure of working with Wasif over the past two years and I have found him to be an excellent conceptual thinker who is analytically very strong. On a number of occasions Wasif has used these abilities to conduct very effective strategy analysis breaking down problems, identifying causes and proposing optimal strategic recommendations. I have also found him to be an excellent team player, a reliable individual who is an eloquent communicator and am happy to recommend him.

Mansoor-ur Rehman, Global COO, Technology & Operations Risk and Controls at Deutsche Bank

Wasif, instructor for the SAFe Scrum Master course, was outstanding! He provided excellent learning and practical experience for anyone new to SAFe or looking to improve their understanding and implementation of SAFe. Wasif had exceptionally engaging, funny, and professional presentation skills and thoroughly answered any questions. I definitely felt prepared for the exam and facilitating development through the SAFe Scrum framework. I highly recommend his course.

Erin Colloton, Business Systems Analyst at CACI International

Wasif taught a great Leading SAFe course. Not only was he energetic and empathetic throughout, Wasif was thoroughly prepared with different teaching tools to helping professionals in varying industries understand the content more easily. Highly knowledgeable and experienced in this expertise. Well done!

Sarah Escosa, Principal Project Manager at Genetech

The Company has benefitted greatly from Wasif’s knowledge, skills and experience. He has used these to great effect in helping us secure our very first investment from the European Super Angels Club which influenced the securing of further downstream seed investment (totalling £2m), contributed to building the Company’s operating plan with the board, initial commercial and pricing model, scaled the number of employees threefold, oversaw the delivery of a £2m+ projects portfolio and implemented SCRUM and Jira for improved portfolio delivery and software development. While Wasif’s professional acumen was immensely valuable, he was also a wonderful team player. Optimistic, engaging and easy to get along with, Wasif was a true joy to have by my side and fostered positive relationships with me, my management team and throughout the company.

Nicholas Zylberglajt, CEO, Unmanned Life

Wasif is fluent in SAFe agile processes and able to teach the concepts efficiently and with a personable demeanour. A differentiator for him is his skill as a moderator; the way he keeps things moving forward while making it seem like a naturally evolving conversation.

Tristen Ashchi, Solutions Architect at Amplifund