LOOK FORWARD CONSULTING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- President
- Programmer
- Founder of the Scrum Academy
- Our Leader
- President of the Scrum Academy
Carlton is the founder of The Scrum Academy and a Certified Scrum Trainer®. He has over twenty-five years of experience with Scrum and Agile software development. When not working with our clients, Carlton enjoys travel, cooking, learning new languages and rugby.
Our leader, Carlton Nettleton, has over twenty-five years of professional experience spanning all the various roles found within, outside, a Scrum Team - consultant, executive leader, product manager, programmer and instructor. He has written a book on Scrum. He is an expert in facilitation, adult education and instructional design. In this regard, he was recruited by the Scrum Alliance to help design and develop their advanced Scrum certification programs.
Carlton Nettleton is the President of The Scrum Academy, a global provider of live and on-demand training that improves the performance of Agile teams. He brings twenty-five years of experience with Scrum and other Agile practices and is an expert at designing and delivering impactful Agile training for enterprises of every size.
Over the years, Carlton has advanced through multiple professional roles: programmer, ScrumMaster, product manager, Certified Scrum Trainer®, instructional designer for online and in-person courses and consultant for a wide variety of companies. This diverse work history gives him the ability to connect to people in all Agile roles, from many different backgrounds by providing interesting real-life examples and posing purposeful, insightful questions.
Above all, you will find that Carlton is empathetic to the challenges businesses face when adopting Scrum and other Agile practices. Unlike most instructors, Carlton has five years of experience as an executive leader. Which means he has seen the impact of Agile adoption from multiple points of view. This allows him to be thoughtful, understanding and pragmatic when advising teams and organizations on how to adopt Scrum and Agile.
As a recognized thought leader on Scrum and Agile practices and product management, he has spoken at over sixty events around the world. He has been writing about Scrum and Agile practices since 2008. This includes a short book on Scrum, Fourteen Observations of Good Scrum Practice, that helps new Scrum Teams overcome common obstacles to high performance. He speaks three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese) and lives in Portugal with his family and a Boston Terrier named Bruno.
What are Carlton's accomplishments?
20+ years of experience with Agile and Scrum. Over the course of his career, Carlton has been a programmer, ScrumMaster, product manager, Certified Scrum Trainer® and consultant.
Designed the continuing education programs for Certified ScrumMasters® (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owners® (CSPO) for the Scrum Alliance®. If you have taken a CSM or CSPO course, you have seen Carlton's work.
Eduardo's passion lies in navigating the creative challenges associated with the development and growth of digital products. He is a Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner with over ten years of experience developing digital products using Scrum and other Agile software development practices. In addition, Eduardo is an accomplished product manager who has launched multiple software products in Latin America. He is excited to work with The Scrum Academy to help further the adoption of Scrum, Agile and modern product management practices in the Latin American region.
Ted is enjoying his second career as Operations Director. After having practiced law for a number of years, he prefers not arguing every day and instead providing excellent customer service. He handles the day-to-day communications and supports inquiries from our customers, and gets in a good game of tennis when time permits.