Kwasi Owusu-Asomaning - MBA, PCC

🚀 Pioneering award-winning VFX solutions that elevates production quality for 75+ film and TV projects. Elevating Stories Through Visual Magic Welcome to Luminary Studios, where creativity meets excellence and imagination knows no bounds. We are founded by three Ghanaian VFX artists with experience in the VFX for Films, TV, Animation and Commercials industry. For over 15 years, we've been fearlessly pioneering and crafting award-winning visual-effects for commercials, television and feature films of all shapes, sizes, and budgets. With experience working in the U.K., European and International VFX industry, providing 2D and 3D services such as Compositing, Matchmove, FX, and more.

🚀 Ensure that Peeple’s mission, vision, and values drive all strategic decisions. 🚀 Oversee compliance with charity regulations, safeguarding policies, and governance best practices. 🚀 Uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in board decisions. 🚀 Strengthen board effectiveness through continuous improvement and ethical leadership. 🚀 Develop and evaluate long-term strategies to expand Peeple’s reach and impact. 🚀 Assess funding opportunities and identify sustainable revenue streams. 🚀 Champion innovation in early years learning, parental engagement, and professional training. 🚀 Advocate for policies that improve early childhood education and family support. 🚀 Monitor financial health, ensuring responsible budget management and fundraising effectiveness. 🚀 Mitigate risks related to funding, operations, and compliance with charity regulations. 🚀 Approve annual budgets, financial reports, and key investment decisions. 🚀 Engage with beneficiaries, families, and educators to understand community needs. 🚀 Promote Peeple’s work through advocacy, fundraising, and public relations efforts. 🚀 Support, evaluate, and guide the CEO and leadership team. 🚀 Encourage a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the organisation. 🚀 Leverage professional expertise to enhance Peeple’s strategic initiatives. 🚀 Drive digital strategies to improve Peeple’s services, training, and outreach. 🚀 Support the development of new learning resources for families and professionals. 🚀 Embrace technology to enhance Peeple’s operational efficiency and service delivery.

🚀 Led a digital and culture transformation across the Digital and Technology function 🚀 Led executive coaching initiatives improving leadership capabilities of 8+ senior executives, resulting in a 25% increase in decision-making speeds. 🚀 Optimised the definition of processes and policies as part of Governance & Methodology leading to 60% + efficiency and performance improvement across the organisation. 🚀 Drove conversations on Supplier structure cost-efficiency leading to millions of Euros in savings. 🚀 Transformed teams through training, mentoring and consultancy on Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Lean, and DevOps leading to a 45% delivery improvement. 🚀 Facilitated and co-designed with HR the introduction of new roles within the organisation and managed the change management process to launch and embed these new roles.

🚀 Executive 1-2-1 Coaching of VPs and Senior Executives of Unversity

🚀 Re-structured Vodafone Business UK Product and Delivery structure including Ways of Working. 🚀 Coached, trained and developed capabilities in new roles. 🚀 Launched communities for growth 🚀 Designed a new governance model for Agile ways of working - looking at Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Lean, DevOps 🚀 Analysed two agile experiments, extracting key lessons learned and insights for continuous improvement. 🚀 Identified barriers to success and documented actionable recommendations to enhance agility. 🚀 Evaluated achievements against the previous product development model, highlighting measurable improvements. 🚀 Defined key agile metrics and value-driven sizing frameworks to support squad performance and alignment. 🚀 Developed comprehensive Vodafone Product Role Definitions, including Product Owner, Portfolio Lead, Scrum Master, Test Management, Business Analyst, and Service Designer roles. 🚀 Designed a scalable governance framework to enhance agility, cross-functional collaboration, and decision-making. 🚀 Assessed the current product development lifecycle and co-created a roadmap for agility-driven value delivery to Vodafone Business UK customers. 🚀 Led the formation and launch of 10 agile squads, ensuring alignment with business priorities and customer needs. 🚀 Trained, mentored, and certified Scrum Masters, equipping them with agile methodologies, facilitation skills, and servant leadership principles. 🚀 Coached and certified Product Owners, strengthening their expertise in backlog management, customer-centric innovation, and value-driven prioritization.

🚀 Led agile transformation initiatives, partnering with senior leadership to embed agile practices, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement across BP’s operations. 🚀 Coached and mentored senior leaders on agile leadership principles, empowering them to lead teams through change and improve decision-making speed and effectiveness. 🚀 Facilitated workshops for leadership teams and employees, designing custom sessions to foster agile adoption, process optimisation, and high-performance cultures in a safety-critical environment. 🚀 Developed and executed tailored team coaching programs, helping teams adopt agile practices to increase collaboration, transparency, and alignment with BP's strategic goals. 🚀 Optimised agile processes across multiple departments, driving efficiency improvements and streamlining workflows to meet BP's stringent safety and operational standards. 🚀 Collaborated with cross-functional teams, supporting the integration of agile methodologies into BP’s energy projects, ensuring project delivery was on time, within budget, and aligned with quality and safety benchmarks. 🚀 Facilitated agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, and Daily Scrums, ensuring teams were aligned and focused on continuous value delivery and safety priorities. 🚀 Championed the adoption of lean principles, promoting waste reduction and continuous value delivery, leading to measurable improvements in team output and organisational efficiency. 🚀 Monitored and tracked agile performance metrics, providing actionable insights to leadership teams on team velocity, safety compliance, and process optimisation. 🚀 Promoted a culture of learning by creating environments for feedback, reflection, and knowledge-sharing, enabling teams to quickly adapt and improve processes. 🚀 Guided teams through agile transformations in complex, high-risk environments, ensuring that safety and operational efficiency remained top priorities while embracing change.

🚀 Coached and trained senior executives on creating environments that foster change, enabling enterprise agility. 🚀 Led portfolio management and prioritization of business-wide strategic change initiatives to maximize value delivery. 🚀 Provided 1:1 executive coaching to senior leadership, enhancing decision-making, agility, and transformation leadership. 🚀 Designed and optimized organisational structures to enable business agility and cross-functional collaboration. 🚀 Partnered with the leadership team to restructure departments using lean principles, improving operational efficiency. 🚀 Guided leadership teams in demand management and prioritization techniques, ensuring clarity and alignment for teams. 🚀 Delivered team coaching, training, mentoring, and facilitation, embedding agile practices and engineering excellence. 🚀 Established and launched the Scrum Master Community of Practice, fostering professional growth and knowledge sharing. 🚀 Collaborated with the Nationwide Design Studio (UX/UI) to establish consistent design practices and user-centric approaches. 🚀 Built and scaled an Agile Coaches Dojo Academy, creating a space for practicing coaching, learning techniques, and receiving coaching supervision. 🚀 Developed an internal Agile Academy, curating learning pathways from foundational to expert levels in agile transformation. 🚀 Scaled internal agile capability, training, mentoring, and coaching key roles including Agile Coaches, 🚀 Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Business Analysts through communities of practice and hands-on learning.

🚀 Continuously leading executive coaching initiatives improving leadership capabilities of 60+ senior executives in various organisations to date, resulting in a 40% increase in decision-making speeds. 🚀 Spearheading transformation initiatives for 100+ teams to date, enhancing business agility and reducing time-to-market by over 40%. 🚀 Leading organisations adoption of Agile methodologies, Scrum, Lean, DevOps, and Digital Transformations including scaled agile.

Brought in to lead agile transformation across multiple SAFe Agile Release Trains (ARTs), working closely with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) to implement and scale the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) within the organisation. 🚀 Coached and mentored Scrum Masters and Product Owners across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs), embedding SAFe best practices and improving agile delivery maturity. 🚀 Launched and supported several Agile Release Trains (ARTs), collaborating with business stakeholders to form, align, and scale high-performing agile teams. 🚀 Partnered with senior leadership to optimize portfolio management and prioritization, ensuring alignment of strategic initiatives with business value delivery. 🚀 Facilitated Program Increment (PI) Planning events, ensuring effective roadmap alignment, dependency management, and cross-team collaboration for successful SAFe execution.