Fortune Buchholtz
Consultant
Fortune Buchholtz, Consultant at Conflux
Fortune Buchholtz is a seasoned Enterprise Agilist and Business Agility Coach with over 15 years of experience guiding organizations through complex transformations.
Specializing in adaptive methodologies, Fortune excels at coaching distributed teams to enhance delivery efficiency, organizational flow, and customer value in an environment of psychological safety.
As a certified Scrum Master, Product Owner, Team Coach, Agile Coach, Enterprise Agile Coach, Transformation Coach and Product Owner, she leverages both systems thinking and Lean/Toyota principles to build resilient, learning organizations that can pivot rapidly in dynamic business Environments.
Fortune's expertise spans strategic leadership, team empowerment, and cultural transformation across diverse industries including finance, insurance, technology, energy and e-commerce. Her approach combines technical proficiency, deep facilitation skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement, helping teams, managers and leaders develop a growth mindset to exceed customer expectations through collaborative, people-centered and value-driven practices.
A high-energy, pro-active, and optimistic personality, she’s worked in the US, the EU, India, the Philippines, and the UK.
Recently she’s supported and coached teams towards engineering excellence, guiding a transition towards Extreme Programming practices, flow, flow metrics, Kanban and Monte Carlo for a data integration platform team working on a multi-million pound 5-year project at an aggressive scale-up. She also coached a business head on adopting product-operating model principles, as well as Design Thinking practices.
In San Francisco she initiated the Agile transformation and then lead a 44-person set of distributed teams towards an innovative streaming product at a pre-IPO firm. Other firms have included Cisco, Siemens, and a major regional US bank.
Her Agile career began by developing a prototype open source carbon-trading system, which allowed her to go to Bangalore to work with the team in person.