Todd Little

Pollyanna Pixton is an internationally recognized expert on collaborative leadership who has worked and consulted with companies and organizations for thirty-eight years. She is president of Evolutionary Systems and director of the Institute of Collaborative Leadership.

Niel Nickolaisen is CIO and director of strategic planning at Headwaters, Inc.

Todd Little has held a number of senior leadership positions including director of software and technology at Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of Halliburton. For more than thirty years he has developed–and led teams developing–commercial software applications, primarily for oil and gas exploration and production.

Kent McDonald has nearly fifteen years of experience as a project and program manager in industries ranging from automotive to financial services.

Pixton, Nickolaisen, Little, and McDonald are all partners at Accelinnova.

Kent J. McDonald

Kent J. McDonald helps teams and organizations determine the right things to deliver. His more than 20 years of experience include work in business analysis, strategy formulation and execution, project management, and product development in a variety of industries including financial services, health insurance, nonprofit, and automotive. He shares practical ideas for effective business analysis and product management at KBP.media and practices those ideas as Content Curator/Product Owner for the Agile Alliance.

Niel Nickolaisen

Pollyanna Pixton is an internationally recognized expert on collaborative leadership who has worked and consulted with companies and organizations for thirty-eight years. She is president of Evolutionary Systems and director of the Institute of Collaborative Leadership.

Niel Nickolaisen is CIO and director of strategic planning at Headwaters, Inc.

Todd Little has held a number of senior leadership positions including director of software and technology at Landmark Graphics, a subsidiary of Halliburton. For more than thirty years he has developed–and led teams developing–commercial software applications, primarily for oil and gas exploration and production.

Kent McDonald has nearly fifteen years of experience as a project and program manager in industries ranging from automotive to financial services.

Pixton, Nickolaisen, Little, and McDonald are all partners at Accelinnova.

Pollyanna Pixton

Pollyanna Pixton, an internationally recognized expert on collaborative leadership, is president of Accelinnova, a firm providing proven tools for leading transformations. Pollyanna led development of the Swiss electronic stock exchange.

Paul Gibson spent more than thirty years developing products for IBM. For four years, he helped lead, guide, train, and transform IBM software teams worldwide in collaborative, agile, and lean approaches. He is a lifetime British Computer Society Fellow.

Niel Nickolaisen is the chief technology officer at O.C. Tanner. Niel has spent his career finding rapid, pragmatic ways to improve processes, teams, and results. He is passionate about transforming IT and leadership, and speaks about, writes about, and trains others how to do this.