Pylayeva, Dana

Dana Pylayeva is a business games designer, trainer and DevOps Culture coach, who is known for infusing playfulness into the most serious workplaces. She offers a unique blend of expert-level knowledge, exceptional facilitation skills, professional coaching mindset, and a diverse technical background as a former Java Developer, DBA Manager and Application Architect.

Dana is equally effective in coaching teams, coaching leaders, and navigating the complexity of enterprise transformations. She enjoys working with clients across diverse industries such as legal publishing, automotive, digital marketing, retail, fintech, music streaming, non-profits, etc. In her 25+ years of experience, she has collaborated with clients from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, and Australia. She speaks at conferences internationally and has led workshops at 80 conferences in 18 countries.

Dana holds a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation from Scrum Alliance, Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentials from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) certification from Co-Active Training Institute.

Dana is passionate about helping others grow and supporting the Agile/Scrum community. Through the years, she has been involved in various community roles as a volunteer, reviewer, track chair, program chair and conference chair at Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance organizations. She is the founder of the Big Apple Scrum Day conference in NYC, and a co-organizer of several local user groups.