Our live, instructor-led, classroom trainings use the latest techniques in adult learning to maximize your learning, retention and engagement. All our instructors are pragmatic, experienced professionals with multiple years as both consultants and trainers who are committed to helping you achieve your personal and professional goals.
Carlton Nettleton, Chief Product Owner
Carlton Nettleton is the Chief Product Owner at Applied Frameworks, a management consulting firm, and co-creator of Online Education at Applied Frameworks. Carlton has over eighteen years of industry experience working with clients to improve quality, increase productivity, build great teams and launch new products using Agile software development practices and techniques.
Today, Carlton’s focus is directed at mentoring and supporting Scrum and Agile practitioners who work in less than ideal conditions. He shares his energy and enthusiasm with our learners so they can achieve their personal and professional goals. Carlton is fluent in both English and Spanish, has written a short book on Scrum and has been Certified Scrum Trainer® since 2012.
John Mulligan, Principal Consultant
John Mulligan is a Principal Consultant with Applied Frameworks, a management consulting firm. John was first attracted to Agile after serving over ten years as a nuclear submarine officer. Today, his passion is coaching people in organizations to develop products that customers love.
John’s experience spans software development, usability, management, and leadership development. Lately, John has been focused on Business Agility adoptions and overcoming all of the obstacles thousands of people encounter when their world of work shifts. Come hear him share these, and other stories, in our classes and workshops.
Kert Peterson, Principal Consultant
Kert Peterson is a Principal Consultant with Applied Frameworks, a management consulting firm that enables customers to develop and deliver great products. His passion is adult learning and organizational design that supports optimal learning and growth. Kert is a Certified Scrum Trainer and an Accredited Kanban Trainer®.
Kert began his career as a Software Engineer in NASA’s Space Shuttle program. These roots as a “maker” afford him practical insights into the daily challenges faced by testers, engineers, and other creatives working together to develop high-tech products and services. When Kert is not teaching, he likes to spend time playing mandolin and teaching tai chi.
Kim Poremski, Principal Consultant
Kim Poremski is a Principal Consultant with Applied Frameworks. While she enjoys the coaching and mentoring aspects of her role, she has a true passion for teaching. She brings her decades of IT, business analysis, and management experience in industries such as insurance, investments, banking, and healthcare to the classroom.
Kim helps students make the connection between “being” Agile and “doing” Agile by relating to the challenges her students face in the real world. Students consistently give Kim high marks for her energy, enthusiasm, knowledge, and real world examples.
Jason Tanner, CEO & Co-Founder
Jason Tanner is the CEO of Applied Frameworks, a management consulting firm, and co-creator of Online Education at Applied Frameworks. Jason’s professional experience spans product management and marketing, business planning, partner management, project management and leadership. His passion is coaching people in organizations to develop products that customers love.
Jason mentors, teaches, facilitates and sometimes does the work to identify and apply the optimal frameworks for given situations. Lately he’s been focused on very large scale Agile adoptions and overcoming all of the obstacles thousands of people encounter when their world of work shifts. Jason has been Certified Scrum Trainer® since 2013.
Joel Bancroft-Connors, Principal Consultant
Joel Bancroft-Connors is a Principal Consultant at Applied Frameworks. His passion is to unlock and maximize the inner potential of others. He believes his roots in customer service, and its singular focus on serving the customer is where his enthusiasm for Agile comes from.
In the classroom, Joel combines his passion to unlock the potential of others with decades of theater and game design experience to create engaging workshops for the participants. By leveraging his unique background, Joel can explain Scrum and Agile concepts in a way that ensures learners can immediately apply them to their professional lives. When he is not teaching, he spends time with his family in the Pacific Northwest.
Jay Pober, Principal Consultant
Jay Pober is a Principal Consultant with Applied Frameworks. His twenty-five years of expertise spans Agile product management practices, Agile transformation (with a focus on SAFe® implementations) plus product and organizational dynamics. He is a certified instructor for ICAgile® and Scaled Agile® .
Jay’s enthusiasm and love for teaching is obvious to anyone who attends one of his workshops. With more than fifteen years of working in highly regulated industries, Jay brings to the classroom deep knowledge of what works and a ton of engaging stories. Former students say his energy and liveliness is contagious, fun and produces real outcomes.
Laura Richardson, Senior Vice-President of Sales
Laura Richardson is the SVP of Sales at Applied Frameworks. For almost a decade, Laura worked with Luke Hohmann, the author of the book Innovation Games®, to uncover customer needs, develop product roadmaps and increase strategic alignment across enterprises of all sizes.
Laura’s enthusiasm and skill in helping people learn how to use collaboration frameworks to better understand customer needs is infectious. Laura brings her energy and years of experience with Luke to every class. Students appreciate that Laura uses all the techniques that she teaches and easily shares her experiences with every class.
Kevin Rosengren, Principal Consultant
Kevin Rosengren is a Principal Consultant and Engagement Director with Applied Frameworks. With almost twenty years as a product management professional, Kevin’s focus is on teaching product managers, product leaders and executives in developing deep, customer-centric Agile practices.
As a “Product Guy” with a proven track record of developing amazing products and great product managers, Kevin believes in combining great frameworks such as Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile practices to unleash the power of people to innovate quickly to deliver solutions with maximum business impact. His workshops are high energy, challenging, and fun, and if you get to attend one of his sessions, you are likely to experience his memorable laugh.