Challenge ∙ Growth ∙ Joy

Brock Argue

Brock Argue is co-founder of the Superheroes Academy. He takes a holistic approach to agility – recognizing that all aspects of the business benefit from the application of agile values and principles. His style of facilitation draws from many disciplines and creates an environment in which high-performing organizations can emerge. Brock’s work includes agile transformations at Digital Oilfield, ADP, Benevity and Suncor. As a dedicated volunteer with the Scrum Alliance, Brock supports the ongoing development of coaches as they seek to transform the world of work. He is passionate about continuous improvement and thrives on witnessing growth in those he works with. After more than 22 years in the Software Development industry Brock has a clear perspective on new ways to improve business processes and interpersonal communication. Brock is a Certified Enterprise Coach℠ (CEC), Certified Team Coach℠ (CTC), ICAgile Certified Coach (IC-ACC) and has received professional coach training through CRR Global. Brock provides coaching, mentoring and certification programs to individuals and organizations.

Brock’s support comes from his entire family, particularly his two daughters (Abby and Alexa) and his wife, Chris.

Superpower: Laser Vision - Enabling organizations to outpace competitors by zeroing in with laser focus on the most valuable goals.

Christine Argue

Chris Argue is the Administrative Director for Superheroes Academy. She leverages her skills in administration, management and social media to keep the Academy running smoothly. Chris has professional experience in retail sales, merchandising, banking, church administration, creative writing and childcare.

Chris has a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Minor in Psychology from the University of Calgary.

Superpower: Keeping the Co-founders of the Superheroes Academy in line...and correcting grammar.

Sharon Hoiland

Sharon’s passion is working with people, teams and organizations to create awareness and growth so they can reach their dreams.  She believes that every journey to a dream is unique and needs different supports along the way.  As a skillful facilitator, coach, mentor and teacher she is always ready to dance in the moment and bring forward what is needed by those she works with.

Sharon brings a breadth of experience starting from a rural upbringing, to teaching at the high school and post-secondary levels, to working in the IT industry as a software developer, architect, Scrum Master and Agile Coach.  Among the organizations Sharon has successfully guided on their Agile journeys are Oildex’s IT department, Enverus’ Marketing department and Librestream’s Product and Development departments.

Sharon’s own journey has led her to attain a Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), the Scrum Alliance’s Certified Team Coach certification (CTC), coaching certifications from Leadership that Works’ Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and the International Coaching Federation’s Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC)

Superpower: Generating safe spaces for people, teams and organizations to learn and grow in.

Simon Orrell

Accruing experience with business leaders in agile environments since 2004, Simon became one of three Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coaches in Canada in 2010 and has been working with individuals, teams, and leaders to help transform oil and gas, financial services, manufacturing and construction businesses. Since 1996, his career in product development and project execution has spanned a multitude of domains and his background as an engineer and recovering project manager also provides him with a pragmatic approach to product, team, and organizational evolution.

He specializes in the initiation and ongoing coaching of leadership and agile principles, values and techniques within organizations with an additional emphasis on Product and Portfolio management techniques for both co-located and distributed teams. He has been focused, for the last 10 years, on applying agile principles in broader business contexts. His ground-breaking work on coaching a large energy company to apply Scrum values and principles to construction mega-projects helped produce extraordinary outcomes. As a result, Simon has been invited to speak at numerous agile and project management conferences across North America and Europe.

Simon coaches individuals, teams, and organizations in finding new ways to connect with their work and each other, improve their effectiveness, and reach their goals.

Superpower: If Simon has one, he believes it is likely his ability to connect the dots from principles to practice.

Erkan Kadir

Erkan Kadir is co-founder of the Superheroes Academy. He is at his best when he is working with teams and talking about big ideas. Erkan draws on many years of experience building products, managing teams and leading organizations to catalyze growth. He excels at coaching teams into a greater understanding of themselves. Erkan’s work has benefited many companies including: Digital Oilfield, ADP, Enverus and Suncor. He is a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach℠ (CEC), Certified Team Coach℠ (CTC), Certified Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSCC), ICF Professional Certified Coach (ICF-PCC), and an ICAgile Certified Coach (IC-ACC).

Erkan couldn’t succeed the way he does without the support of his Super-Spouse, Paula, his son and their fur-babies, Shorty and Dumpling.

Superpower: Hyper-reflection - Observing complex situations and mirroring the one area that will have the biggest impact.

Renee Matsalla, CSPO, A-CSPO

Renee is the Co-Founder of Tacit Edge Product Management and a product manager, owner, and marketer with a passion for launching innovative software and helping people reach their potential as product leaders. She is a dedicated mentor, driven to help others find their identities as product leaders and innovators.

Renee currently coaches at SAIT, The Scrum Alliance, the New York Federal Reserve, as well as dozens of other companies where she has helped Product Managers from around the world. She's led the product strategy, development, and launch of Benevity's newest employee engagement software, Missions (2018) which is used by some of the world's most iconic brands, including PayPal and RBC. She's also worked on ActiveConversion's management team, proudly helping them become the leading sales and marketing software for industrial companies. 

Her passion is diversity, inclusion, and belonging, an area vital to her after living as an ex-pat in the diverse and vibrant Berlin. Renee's work in Germany saw her leading the launches of mobile monetization products used by Facebook, Google, and the world's largest mobile game developers. 

When she's not hard at work scaling Tacit Edge with her co-founder, she's often found rock climbing, hiking, and playing the flamenco guitar.

Superpower: Inspiration - Collaborating with and encouraging teams to feel ownership for their products while reaching for big goals.

Christa Hill, PMC-III

Christa Hill is the Co-Founder of Tacit Edge Product Management. She blends her industry expertise to fuel our economy with empowered, innovative and diverse product leaders that embody the entrepreneurial spirit. Her love of Product Management stemmed from a unique perspective on problem/solution-based innovating, a deep curiosity for the world and a fundamental drive to improve it. 

She's held senior positions with companies from Getty Images to Benevity in content API, end-user experience, and product ownership and management. 

Her career in FinTech led her to Morgan Stanley's At Work as Vice President, Global Private Markets Product Management, where she was instrumental in moving money around the globe through purpose-built services that facilitate liquidity events within employee stock plans for private fortune 500 companies and start-ups. It was at Morgan Stanley where she created the first-ever public-facing API that scales the administration of a corporation's lifecycle from private ownership to IPO. This ground-breaking work secured Morgan Stanley's position as the premier product for Private Markets liquidity activities. Together with technology partners, they rose from millions to billions of dollars in activity within 12 months.

Before she discovered Product Management, Christa took on a passion project to revitalize a local community recreation centre where she ran a skating school. She is driven by equity of access and providing quality instruction. When she's not busy scaling Tacit Edge with her co-founder, you can still find her lacing up her skates, mentoring, and occasionally belting it out in a super groovy rock n' roll band.  

Super Power: Exuding joy, equity, and enthusiasm in bringing it out in others to inspire and empower everyone around her. 

Mishkin Berteig

Mishkin Berteig has been improving the lives of managers and their staff since 1995. Mishkin co-founded BERTEIG in 2004. Mishkin is committed to helping individuals, teams and organizations to transform their way of working and achieve Real Agility™.

Mishkin has assisted organizations of all sizes to make the transformation from traditional methods (or no method at all) to Agile methods (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, OpenAgile). Mishkin has helped with culture change, change management, executive management coaching, Agile management, Agile product, project and operations management, Agile teamwork and Agile engineering practices. Mishkin is a  primary author of the Real Agility™Program, BERTEIG’s solution for organizations to achieve higher levels of organizational agility.

Mishkin has developed and delivered Agile training both in public and in-house seminars for over 15,000 people around the world. Courses have been as short as three hour intensive seminars and as long as five day immersive boot-camps, and audiences have ranged from junior team members to senior executives of Fortune 50 organizations. Mishkin has been a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) since 2005 and is the longest-standing CST in Canada.

Mishkin is a highly skilled trainer and consultant, decorated with a number of credits:

• Certified Scrum Trainer®, Path to CSP Educator®, CSP-PO, CSP-SM, SAFe Program Consultant

• ICAgile Authorized Instructor, ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)

• Leadership Circle Profile Certified, Master of OpenAgile, Team Kanban Practitioner

• BSc, Computational Science