Who We Are

OUR STORY

OUR STORY

Our network of coaches have come together through Coaching Enterprise Architects as we collectively share a passion for helping through sharing of knowledge and wisdom. You will find our network of coaches share one thing in common – a passion to help you! We recognise that our collective expertise is useful to people who are starting their careers as Enterprise Architects or are struggling to know how to be a good architect. You may not have the connections or access to mentors to support your development and will most likely be drowning in an ocean of information trying to figure out right from wrong. What’s missing for you is the connection with the right experts who are genuinely wanting to see people grow and have successful careers just as they have done themselves, albeit the hard way. So come on board this journey with us, let’s travel together so we can show you what it means to have a highly rewarding career, just like we have – Become a great Enterprise Architect. We will show you how. We really do want to help you.

OUR APPROACH

OUR APPROACH

Coaching Enterprise Architects is set up as a partnership network. Our coaching associates are independently operating professionals, each with their own areas of experience and expertise. CEA provides a core curriculum and a learning & coaching methodology which all of our associates use, while slotting in their own specific material where appropriate. This allows us to tailor our services to your specific needs and select the best coaches to deliver those services. You will always get exactly the learning experience you need, delivered by the people best equipped to guide you on your learning journey.

Meet the team…

Christine Stephenson

Christine is a highly experienced enterprise architect specialising in the fields of Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy & Management.

With industry sector expertise that includes strength in mining, airline, travel, tourism, health and government she has managed a broad spectrum of projects, for global organisations and government agencies.

She has delivered effective architecture outcomes as well as building and managing architecture teams.

Her strengths lie in communicating complex concepts in simple, easy to understand ways, based on the audience she is working with and the outcome being sought.

She is a professionally certified Enterprise Architect (TOGAF®), and holds a Bachelor of Information Technology, Master of Business Administration and a Doctor of IT Management.

“I’ve known Christine for a decade and worked with her at 2 organisations. She is a person of vision, pragmatism and expertise in her field of Enterprise Architecture and I thoroughly enjoy working with her. I would hold Christine up as a role model, not just in the EA discipline, but for what it means to engage with integrity, good humour and a bit of steel too”

Jez Eherington, konvergent (Partner)

“Pragmatic & effective Enterprise Architecture!  I’ve been a client for over a decade & this team have helped me transition from analyst to architect & industry speaker.  I can’t recommend them highly enough.”

Heidi Beets, Business Architect

“Christine is perceptive and purposeful. She very quickly picked up key underlying themes, which, with her guidance, I reflected on. I found the visual nature along with structure in her coaching session helped me discern my thoughts and gain clarity on next steps.”

Ania Murlewski, Digital Transition and Transformation

Tom Graves

Tom is one of the acknowledged pioneers of whole-enterprise architectures, linking across all aspects of the organisation, beyond IT alone. He is also well known for his catchphrase “Things work better when they work together, on purpose”.

He has worked with organisations of all sizes from one-person startups to global-scale multinationals, guiding change at all levels from front line to executive and beyond. Professionally he has worked as an independent or in partnerships for the entirety of his career.

Tom is a prolific author and communicator, with books, and articles translated into at least a dozen languages worldwide. Although his focus as a writer has been mainly on non-fiction for skills-development, increasingly he has turned to fiction and storytelling as a better way to explore complex ideas and issues. He also has a life in there somewhere, though sometimes it can be hard to tell what exactly it is.

“Tom has consistently provided very insightful comments and constructive criticism to my blog on TOGAF as an enterprise architecture framework for government. He has prepared an excellent guest posting for my blog – a case study on the same topic. He has added tremendous value to my blog and to my experience on Twitter, where he is also quite active in EA discussions. I recommend Tom as an EA with both a holistic, business-focused perspective, and a very incisive intellect”
John Polgreen, Independent Consultant

“Tom is a friendly guy who knows his stuff about enterprise architecture from back to front. He is a pleasure to work with. Very creative too“

Jamie T, CEO at JA Media (International)

“As a creative and constructive writer Tom is outstanding. A closer look at his material may have readers thinking ‘lots of theory’. In my experience seeing his output used in practical ways across divisions –it is far from it. ”

Peter Tseglakof, Client Engagement Manager (Micro Focus)

Bard Papegaaij

Bard combines more than 30 years of experience in roles ranging from Research, Software Engineering to Enterprise Architecture, (Interim) Management, Coaching, Consulting and Public Speaking with a life-long personal journey into Emotional Intelligence and Human Potential Development. After a successful career in The Netherlands, Bard decided in 1998 to start a new adventure in Australia.

Bard provides consulting and coaching and has a pragmatic approach to helping people (individually and in teams) to become the best they could be. For 9 years, Bard has had a successful career in Gartner as Research Director, Executive Partner and Research Vice President, leading Gartner’s research in Enterprise Architecture and the people-side of work and management, as well developing Gartner’s current focus on organisational culture and change.

Bard is a strategic thinker and able to implement Enterprise Architecture in organisations and coach Enterprise Architects to have a complete set of skills to communicate with Business and ICT stakeholders.

“Bard is an exceptional mentor and coach who is able to offer deep insights and motivation in a very practical and humorous manner across all aspects of life with an ultimate goal to empower people to take control of their own stories.”

Wes Stever, Network Interface Manager

“Bard has great insights into human behavior and has helped tremendously in supporting our common clients.”

Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Research Vice-President - Gartner

Mark Edmead

Mark Edmead is an IT transformation consultant and trainer based in the US. Over the past 30 years, he has provided IT transformation and business improvement services that align information technology with business goals to drive bottom-line performance and growth.

Mark’s focus is on change management, process improvement, enterprise architecture, technology road mapping, strategic IT planning, IT organization analysis, IT portfolio management and IT governance. Mark is TOGAF 9.2 certified, TOGAF Business Architecture Level 1 certified,  and he is a an accredited Lean IT, DevOp, DevSecOps, COBIT 2019 Foundation trainer. a certified Baldrige internal assessor, a Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP) accredited trainer, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a past member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners.

Mark delivers our courses through North and South America as well as Europe.

“Outstanding facilitator! Mark did a great job balancing the instruction and class participation plus involvement by the students”

Participant, US Joint Forces Command

“Mark is the best instructor that I have experienced with this type of training in my 25+ years. Very impressive, well rounded, bright, energetic, and fun.”

Participant, Catholic Health Initiatives

“You are a great instructor. I had a great experience and learned a lot in your class. You certainly put us, the students, at ease and, created an environment of fun learning and encouraged constructive discussions and information sharing.”

Participant, Norfolk Southern Corporation

Donna Smith

With over 25 years’ experience in the ICT industry, Donna has performed a wide variety of roles including Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, Senior Project Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Change Manager, Method Consultant and Process Analyst. Having managed her own successful consultancy, Donna is well known and respected in the ICT community and has developed excellent relationships with all her Clients.

Leveraging her exceptionally strong stakeholder management and change management skills, Donna works closely with stakeholders assisting them to embrace the changes being implemented. Donna drives initiatives to achieve business value harnessing business leadership and stakeholder engagement.

Donna is a recognised expert in the field of Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF. Donna is a certified TOGAF trainer and also provides training in Business Process Modelling using the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Donna has several years’ experience in various industries including Health, Transport, Banking, Insurance, Pensions, Finance, Telecommunications, Retail, Parcel Delivery, Transport, Mining and various Government Departments.

“Donna is great to work with, very professional and focussed on getting the job done.”

Steve Shackcloth

“Donna’s training courses in BPMN and BPR are outstanding and I always receive positive feedback from our Business Improvement professionals.”

Gaby Doebelli

“Highly skilled in Business Analysis.”

James Hallam

Heminder Ahluwalia

Heminder is a CIO Advisor, Digital Business Strategist, Customer Centrist and Operations professional with 29 years of experience in providing technology direction, digital business strategy, transformation and innovation management.

He has worked with top companies in the area of customer service delivery , program management and digital thought leadership. Handled a B2B fintech as COO, built a million-dollar advisory service catering to CxOs and brought in revenue growth in telecom, financial services, manufacturing and retail sectors.

Heminder providers thought leader on digital technologies, improving core IT operations, cost optimization strategies, and open innovation. Built and led culturally diverse IT teams across multiple technology and functional areas; directed busines/IT program management portfolios, balancing resources, demand, opportunity, ROI and risk

Heminder

“He is absolutely customer centric, tries to learn more about our strategy, operations, challenges – absorbs a lot.”

Jagdish Belwal
“His problem solving technique, technical ability of analyzing the data in a mythological way are just a couple of  his strengths”
Mohamed Hassan, Texas Instruments

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