I direct the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, and am founder of The Long Schoolroom, a learning community devoted to creative exploration and personal development. 

I am author of several books and a certified holistic arts coach with over 30 years of experience guiding others to write well, think deeply, and enact spirited transformation in their lives and work. 

Everything is invention and revision.  

You might not read poetry (I won't judge!), but we all need the poetic (a word which in Greek simply means “making”): beauty, connection, inspiration, wit. 

I team with high-performing creators, founders, leaders, and groups to spur them to new levels of clarity and direction, to workshop ideas and innovations, to integrate the personal with the professional. 

Wonder is at the heart of all artistic enterprises—and everything is an art!—so let’s court more of it in all we do. The imagination is our highest faculty, and dreams are the heart of reality. 

Let me know if I can help.

John Estes

I work with management and teams to create a high-performance organization with optimal alignment on company goals and short feedback loops. I help break barriers and bridge gaps between disciplines and business domains. By training, mentoring, and coaching I help organizations to make sustainable progress on their Agile and DevOps transformation journey. 
EXPERTISE
•	Passionate about Scrum/Kanban, experienced in introducing and refining Agile/Lean/DevOps practices, Continuous Delivery processes, coaching & inspiring teams for continuous improvements
•	Successful track record of building and scaling Scrum teams in a wide variety of companies (local, distributed, and with sourcing partners)
•	Proficient in all aspects of software development processes, able to fulfill different roles as needed: Agile coach, Scrum master, Product owner, (interim) manager.
•	Keen eye for identifying talented staff to unleash employee potential.
•	Familiar with many methodologies, technology stacks, platforms, and business domains.

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