Consulting
Simplicity and leadership
I love simplifying complex things and providing leadership to others so that no matter what kind of work they do, they are all able to see the bigger picture and this often has an incredible impact on their intrinsic motivation, shared understanding, much better performance and better business outcomes.
Portfolio, program and project management
I am proven to be accountable for the successful delivery of critical high-value projects and programs in matrix organisations and across different geographies. I ran a multi-million programs/portfolio of projects and achieved excellent results. Some of these were extremely complex in terms of people management (international and dislocated teams, multiple stakeholders with conflicts of interests) and scope (governmental - tax, health, pension; banking; finance; data mining; ERP; telco; broadband; energy; retail), various markets (Europe, Australia) and different technologies (Salesforce, Microsoft, AWS, SAP, Segment to name just a few).
Teams and individuals
Passionate about coaching, I have upskilled numbers of clients and organisations in different ways of delivery (agile, waterfall, kanban, lean, OKRs - objectives and key results, ...), start-up, negotiations and leadership. It’s incredibly rewarding to unlock the potential in start-ups, people and teams.
All successful people have or had coaches - think for example Steve Jobs (Apple founder), Larry Page, Sergey Brin (Google) - they even had the same coach. I have always had one and I am changing my coaches as per my needs. It's priceless - they speed up our progress so much. It would take us years to figure it all out on our own.
References
Taken from my LinkedIn profile, cherry picked only a few:
Kevin Wilkins, CCX (Creative Customer Experience) Practice Lead @sseaven ➕ Conference Speaker ➕ Co-Founder SYDNEY CCX ➕CX/UX/SD/Ai/VX: Spela was the Project Manager in my team for a Salesforce implementation project that spanned many months. During that time, I learned a great deal from Spela about project management and business analysis. I acquired skills by working with Spela that I still use daily. The project we worked on together was delivered successfully thanks to Spela's attention to detail and project management expertise. When our project ended, I would continue to seek her out for advice. Working with Spela was instrumental in shaping my career. I would happily work with her again and know that she will excel in any role she is in.
Alvin Zhou, Senior Software Engineer: Špela was very professional during the time we worked together in Tquila ANZ. I worked with her across several projects and I was very impressed with her Agile skill as well as the budget estimation skill. Everything seemed to be simple and easy going when the task was assigned to me. I learnt a lot from her about how to manage customer relationship with different clients.
Personally, I admired her passions for her job and she had the talent to motivate the whole team. I could feel to be engaged with the other team members under her leadership. She was one of the best programme manager I have ever worked with.
Shailja Sharma, Salesforce Solution Architect || Certified Product Owner: Spela was the Program Manager for a multi million engagement for which we worked closely together. There were several stakeholders and a large team that Spela managed with a finesse rarely seen on projects of this scale.
She was the epitome of team strength and always motivated and stood up for the team. On certain occasions when we needed to have any difficult conversations with stake holders or internal team members, she never hesitated and ensured balance between all the involved parties. Her project planning and estimation techniques are legendary as are her Agile training and adoption skills. Spela is one of the best Program Managers that I have worked with and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for methodical & permanent solution for their project management issues.
Jernej Kaše, Partner Cloud Engineering Leader - DWH, Analytics & ML at Oracle: I have worked with Spela as a Consultant on a banking project. On that particular project Spela showed a deep knowledge of business rules approach, which she used in for a banking solution. We had difficult challenges on the project and she proved in many situations that she acts very professionally and she is very upfront when needed. Her consistency in communication solved important issues, but most of all she is a great team player.
Sue Carter, Head of APAC, AirPartners: Spela is a dedicated, loyal and conscientious team player who excels in all functions associated with PMO. With superior customer engagement and business analyst skills Spela provides quality advice and recommendations to ensure balanced business decisions are able to be made in a timely manner. Spela has a can do attitude and can always be counted on to deliver high quality outcomes.