Deb is a senior leader in Baringa’s Business Agility practice with over 20 years’ experience driving transformation across Financial Services and Government organisations in the UK, Europe, and the USA.
He has enabled organisations to achieve 2–3x faster speed to market and significant cost efficiencies, preparing them to thrive in a faster-paced, digitally enabled, and AI-driven future.
Known for moving beyond theory into practice, Deb has a proven track record of helping leaders embed the right behaviours, mindsets, and ways of working at every level of the organisation – ensuring agility delivers measurable, lasting impact
Nikolay is a globally minded leader with an international career spanning three continents.
With over a decade of experience in consulting and transformation, he played a key role in the world’s first bank to successfully implement and scale the Spotify model in two countries – Belgium and the Netherlands. Nikolay has advised leading organisations through his work at top-tier consulting firms, including Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the past and presently at Baringa.
He brings deep expertise in business agility across both software and hardware, a strong track record in designing organizational operating models, and hands-on experience in driving transformations from team level to enterprise scale across multiple markets.
Language: English
In today’s world of constant volatility and uncertainty, organisational success—and in some cases, survival—depends on how quickly and effectively a business can respond to change.
Achieving this level of responsiveness requires more than simply doing Agile, as agility is not the goal – it’s a means to an end. True transformation demands a fundamental shift in mindset and a complete rethinking of the operating model. And while that may sound straightforward, the reality is anything but. That’s why so few organisations have succeeded in embedding agility at scale and realising its full benefits.
At Baringa, we’ve been helping companies do exactly that: embedding agility into their DNA. In this session, we’ll share practical lessons from our journey – from instilling a growth mindset and fostering servant leadership to reimagining organisational structures, sharpening prioritisation, and accelerating decision-making. Join us as we explore what it takes to build a truly adaptive, innovative, and customer-centric organisation capable of delivering value at pace – no matter what the future holds.