Nigel Thurlow is an Author, International Keynote Speaker, Organizational Design Expert, Continuous Improvement Leader, Agile and Scrum Expert, and The Chief of Agile at Toyota Connected. He is an internationally recognized industry expert on Lean and Agile approaches and is leveraging the power of The Toyota Production System and The Toyota Way to enhance and develop Agility in Lean Product Development. Nigel led the successful transformation at 3M Healthcare Information Systems and has taught and coached in notable companies such as GE, Bose, 3M, Microsoft, and MIT, and as of 2019 he
has trained over 6500 people in Lean, Scrum, and Agile techniques. He is the first trainer to have ever been accredited to teach Scrum by both the creators of Scrum. He is the creator of Scrum The Toyota Way, and the co-creator of The Toyota Flow System, an ordinal concept he conceived that blends the deep teachings of The Toyota Production System with Complexity Thinking, Distributed Leadership, Human Factors and Team Science. He is also the founder of the Toyota Agile Academy, a Toyota training and consulting practice helping organizations transform using these techniques.