Sooner Safer Happier author Jonathan Smart joins Deidre to talk new ways of working, minimizing time to learning, and maximizing time to value. Don't miss this excellent discussion on value streams and OKRs and why this pivot is important now. (Learn more in Jonathan's book, Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility.)
Jonathan Smart is a business agility pioneer and co‑founder/CEO of Sooner Safer Happier, where he helps large organizations deliver better value, sooner, safer, and happier through better ways of working. He is the lead author of the award‑winning book Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility, which distills hard‑won lessons on how to improve outcomes while creating more humane workplaces.
Before founding Sooner Safer Happier, he led enterprise agility at Barclays, where teams delivered up to three times more in a third of the time with dramatically fewer production incidents and higher engagement. He is a long‑time agile and lean practitioner, global speaker, and community builder behind the Better Value Sooner Safer Happier movement and its learning platforms.
Deidre Paknad has founded and led three tech startups, acquired companies and been acquired, and led a high-growth business as an executive at IBM for several years; this affords her a unique perspective on using both speed and scale to drive growth. In her role as CEO at WorkBoard, she works with senior leadership teams at some of the world’s largest companies to clarify, align, and drive strategic priorities with greater speed and agility. She is a frequent speaker on Outcome Mindset™ and tapping into ambition.
Deidre has over a dozen patents and has twice been inducted into the Smithsonian Institution for innovation. Goldman Sachs named her one of the 100 most intriguing entrepreneurs of 2019. Deidre hosts The OKR Podcast, which focuses on accelerating outcomes and fostering an outcomes culture.