Alina Meller
Between Burnout and Delivery: A Practice for Sustainable Change Agents
July 10th @ 10:40 - 12 noon EDT /4:40 - 6pm CEST
Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents live inside impossible polarities every day: holding space vs. driving delivery; servant leadership vs. personal authority; individual resilience vs. collective responsibility; caring for others vs. caring for oneself; short-term pressure vs. long-term sustainability.
When we pick a side, we burn out. When we try to “balance,” we get lost.
In this interactive session, I will share Support Circles — a practice I developed to help change agents sustain themselves and each other in high-pressure transformations. Rooted in group supervision, peer coaching, and human-centered leadership, Support Circles are a structural answer to a systemic problem: we ask our change agents to hold tension for entire organizations, and give them almost nothing to hold the tension for themselves.
Together we will:
Map the real polarities that drain change agents in our work
Experience a live mini-Support Circle
Walk away with three adaptable models you can run with your own teams next week
This session is for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, leaders, and anyone holding others’ transformations without a place to hold their own.
About the Speaker
Alina Meller is a Leadership & Agile Coach, Agile Transformation Consultant, PCC ICF Coach, Scrum Trainer, Mentor Coach, and Professional Supervisor with 16+ years of experience in IT, leadership development, and organizational transformation.
She currently works as a Senior Enterprise Agile Coach at Dell Technologies and as a Leadership Coach and Agile Transformation Consultant, helping founders, leaders, and teams improve leadership, collaboration, and delivery through coaching, facilitation, and Agile ways of working.
Alina also serves as an international-level Mentor Coach and Professional Supervisor for Coaches at CoachingUP University, supporting coaches in developing professional maturity and reflective practice.
Her work brings together Agile, Scrum, Scrum@Scale, leadership coaching, team coaching, mentoring, and supervision to help leaders and change agents build resilient teams and sustainable transformation.