Agile Beyond the Enterprise: Coaching the Businesses Next Door with Marina Alex

Agile Beyond the Enterprise: Coaching the Businesses Next Door with Marina Alex

April 16, 2026 · 34 min

About this episode

Dave West interviews Marina Alex about her transition to coaching small and medium-sized businesses after a shift in the enterprise market.

Most Agile coaches build their careers inside large organizations — but what happens when a new opportunity calls from an unexpected direction? Scrum.org CEO, Dave West, sits down with Marina Alex, an AI & modern management expert and Founder of The SWAY Academy, who answered that call. After the enterprise market shifted in 2022, Marina pivoted her practice toward small and medium-sized businesses in Knoxville, Tennessee — and discovered what she describes as a blue ocean: many companies...

More episodes of Scrum.org Community Podcast

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Scrum.org Community Podcast podcast page.