CME Group
Helped transformation, product, and technology leaders scale product culture across multiple portfolios.
Are you struggling with slow delivery and inconsistent execution even though your organization is already "Agile"? I help leaders like you shift from Agile Theater and Dogma towards real agility, leveraging laser-focused interventions guided by system thinking.
From Friction to Scalable Flow at
What this looks like in practice
Helped transformation, product, and technology leaders scale product culture across multiple portfolios.
Coached R&D and commercial leaders to improve innovation flow behind key product launches.
Partnered with leadership teams to improve cross-functional collaboration and execution impact at scale.
If This Sounds Familiar
What if we could replace Theater and Friction with Flow and Impact?
This is not about adding more process. It's about finding "Process Organization Fit".
From AI Activity to Impact
AI efforts stall when they are managed like fixed projects: activity-heavy, output-focused, and detached from customer outcomes. Success is announced before adoption and business results are real.
What changes the game is managing AI initiatives like product investments: outcome-aligned, customer-centric, and continuously learning.
Refocus AI from Technology to ImpactChoose the right starting path based on your context and urgency.
Identify the primary systemic constraints and define the highest-leverage moves for better flow, focus, and business impact.
Redesign the connections between strategy, portfolio, and delivery so teams can execute with speed and predictability.
Keep leadership decisions aligned with execution realities as your organization evolves through complexity and change.
Real World Agility Outcomes Driving Business Impact
“Yuval is, without question, the best Lean/Agile partner I have ever worked with. By reorganizing scattered teams into clear value streams and introducing practical, context-aware agility, we turned a reactive culture into one built on flow and ownership. Within months, budgeted hours dropped by 25%, on-time delivery was restored, and our capacity expanded from one active contract to nine in parallel. Quality and customer satisfaction soared, and engineers finally had the headspace to innovate again.”

Steve Lizotte
Engineering Leadership | Transformation | Predictability | Scale · Idemia
“Yuval would be an asset to any C-suite as they contemplate adapting their organization to a rapidly evolving technology landscape that is likely to disrupt many businesses. We owe a debt of gratitude to Yuval for giving us the best training and a strong start on our journey toward Product-Oriented Teams and outcomes-focused delivery.”

Sunil Cutinho
Chief Information Officer · CME Group
“Yuval gave us the foundation to mature as a company. Before his involvement, our growth had outpaced our ability to deliver — releases were dragging, priorities were unclear, and business and engineering often felt misaligned. Under his guidance, we rebuilt focus and momentum. Our release cadence improved dramatically, cross-team alignment became the norm, and teams rediscovered their confidence. Faster delivery, better collaboration, and a stronger sense that everyone was finally pulling in the same direction.”

Glen Demetrioff
President & CEO · Rapid-RTC
“Rather than imposing a rigid playbook, Yuval helped us co-design a process that fit our reality — collaborative, disciplined, and adaptable. His patience, persistence, and ability to connect agile principles to real product challenges transformed a hesitant team into a confident one. The result was a faster, more focused innovation process that became a model for future projects.”

Cindy Grönberg Moldin
ex-P&G, ex-Deloitte · Gillette | P&G
“Most consultants tell you the answer; Yuval asks the right questions so you find the answer yourself. He has a knack for identifying the concepts and language that are missing and getting us to discuss them in a way that gives us a chance to improve how we work together.”

Tyson Bertmaring
COO | Head of Stewardship · Dyno Therapeutics
“Yuval has a deep understanding and vast knowledge of Agile — but more than that, he understands how organizations and people actually operate. He brought clarity, practical structure, and data-driven insight that improved flow, focus, and collaboration. <strong>His work directly contributed to multi-million-dollar wins by turning theory into measurable progress.</strong> Throughout our work together, Yuval constantly provided original and thoughtful perspectives on the complex challenges we faced, helping us turn theory into measurable progress.”

Roy Emek
VP Engineering · Informatica
“Yuval consistently bridges the gap between agile theory and practical impact. In an industry often distracted by frameworks and buzzwords, he stands out for grounding his work in real outcomes. Yuval does not just teach modern practices — he helps shape them, proving their value through every engagement.”

Jon Terry
COO | Co-Founder · Leankit
“By having Yuval on board, we found not just an experienced professional but also a partner in our lean journey with a passion and commitment to coach and guide us until we achieve our goals. He can swiftly move from strategy/blueprints to training a class, implementing methods/processes all the way to helping us through tough issues through hands-on coaching. This makes Yuval very valuable and influential in our journey towards lean.”

Adam Magen
VP Operational Excellence · Siemens Digital Industries
“Yuval provided very practical and grounded feedback along the way. He does a brilliant job at highlighting ways to connect and integrate enterprise delivery practices so that the activities of a delivery team can be understood at a senior leadership level while also building a clear way to incorporate OKRs at every level. His leadership helped accelerate the product leadership capabilities in our division.”

Steve Ishmael
Senior Director Product Management · CME Group
“Yuval is an endless source of knowledge in management methods, Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum etc. Always up to date with most recent thoughts and trends. With Yuval we managed to <strong>spread agile across our 3,000+ people organization</strong>, stabilizing delivery across massive global business units.”

Yaki Koren
PMO Agility Leader · Amdocs
“Yuval has a broad range of knowledge when it comes to agile and how companies should and can implement it. He is great at providing helpful resources for understanding the best practices. I would recommend Yuval as an Agile Coach, Trainer, and Advisor anytime.”

Gabriel Columbus
Senior Transformation Coach · Wells Fargo
“Your posts and advisory have been immensely beneficial. Your writing is clear, engaging, and highly relevant. By applying your flow principles, we have seen organizations <strong>reduce coordination overhead by 10-40%</strong>, allowing teams to finally focus on building rather than negotiating dependencies.”

Tamar Lavi
Enterprise Agile Coach
Case Studies
Measured outcomes across tech, biotech, fintech, and enterprise
Trust note: where exact attributable metrics are unavailable, result language is directional and framed as representative.

Problem -> Action -> Results
Spectrum Healthcare, a multispecialty medical practice in Maine, wanted to improve operational efficiency across surgical operations, quality, marketing, clinical operations, physiotherapy champions, compliance,...

Problem -> Action -> Results
How NEC moved from project chaos to predictable high-throughput flow by combining SAFe structure with Kanban-based flow management.

Problem -> Action -> Results
M:M Bio, a collaborative ecosystem of oncology and immuno-oncology biotechs based in Oxford, wanted to revolutionize its approach to drug discovery and R&D. With companies ranging from early-stage discovery to clinical...

Problem -> Action -> Results
Dyno Therapeutics, a pioneer in AI-driven gene therapy, faced a critical scaling challenge that threatened to slow its innovation. As the company grew, its brilliant teams—spanning machine learning, data science, and...

Problem -> Action -> Results
How Gillette used Scrum and cross-functional product teams to accelerate a complex new product launch and improve decision-making under aggressive timelines.

Problem -> Action -> Results
CA Technologies unifying marketing and sales silos through marketing agility at scale: the patterns, challenges, and results from one of the early enterprise agile marketing case studies.
Practical thinking on delivery systems, product operating models, OKRs, and the AI execution gap — from real consulting experience.
A deep dive into the conversation with Dave West at Scrum.org about the 95% AI failure rate and why organizations must evolve their management operating system.
Read more →How to set and adapt WIP limits in Scrum with Kanban, including ownership, timing, and exception handling without weakening flow discipline.
Read more →Free Product Organization Scorecard
See where you stand on the path from Theater through Factory to Lab, and identify the #1 constraint holding your product organization back.
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I combine enterprise agility depth with product and operating-model pragmatism. The focus is always the same: less theater, more business impact.
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