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Chris Harrison
Transformation Leader · Agile & AI Coach

Chris Harrison is a SAFe® Practice Consultant and Scrum Master with 20+ years across operations, agile leadership, and team training. The Houston-based servant leader you want in the messy middle of a transformation, when the framework is half-built and the teams need someone who has done this before.

Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison

Transformation Leader · Agile & AI Coach

Chris is a SAFe® Practice Consultant and Agile coach with more than 20 years of experience across operations, communication, agile leadership, project management, and team training. For nearly a decade he has put agile practices into development and non-development organisations alike, the operations groups, shared services, and back-office teams that most rollouts skip. His method is built on servant leadership, team dynamics, and clear communication, the conditions a team needs to keep improving after the consultant leaves. He runs coaching and classroom sessions with enough creativity that people actually retain the principles and apply them the next morning.

Chris is the call when teams have the agile vocabulary but not the habit, when standups have turned into status meetings and a Scrum Master rotation has burned out faster than it can be trained. He coaches teams from storming to performing and brings the same discipline to operations and non-development groups, where the principles hold but the idioms change. He has run Scrum Master cohorts, launched Agile Release Trains, and taught client-facing consultants at a Big-4 advisory practice. The teams he leaves behind tend to ask for him by name.

Base
Houston, TX
Years senior
20+
Industry depth
Tech · Telecom · Manufacturing · Public sector

Verifiable credentials

Re-verified Q1 every year · ID on file
SAFe® SPCPractice Consultant. Scaled Agile Inc.Verifiable · scaledagile.com directory
SAFe® SSMSAFe® Scrum Master.Verifiable · scaledagile.com directory
SAFe® POPMSAFe® Product Owner / Product Manager.Verifiable · scaledagile.com directory
PSM IProfessional Scrum Master I. Scrum.org.Verifiable · scrum.org assessment

What Chris does best

Team-level Agile coaching

From storming to performing. Coaches the team into the practices that hold and out of the ones that don't. The Scrum Master the team asks for back.

Operations + agile leadership

Agile inside development AND non-development organisations. Operations teams, shared services, back office. Same principles, different idioms.

Training that lands

Coaching and classroom sessions tuned for learners to actually apply what they've learned the next morning. Not theatre.

Engagement ledger

  • Tech · 2024

    A global telecom equipment maker

    Agile transformation in operations + non-dev teams

    Multi-team
  • Manufacturing · 2023

    A US automation control firm

    Scrum Master coaching cohort + ART launch

    9 teams
  • Consulting · 2023

    A Big-4 advisory practice

    Agile training program for client-facing consultants

    Cohort

“Chris ran our team into shape without lecturing anyone. The coaching style worked because nobody felt coached at.”

Engineering Manager · Global telecom

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