Expert Engineering Meets Modern Process
Embedded teams, custom consulting, and digital product
At Stride, we view Agile as a mindset, a tool kit. We seek first to understand what success looks like and what keeps you up at night. Then, we embed and work alongside you to create a customized solution that results in the right approach for your team.
Whether your current technology team is 1 or 1,000, Striders co-locate with you, at your office. We embrace and respect your existing culture. By embedding with you, we see everything that you see, work side by side at the same desks, drink the same coffee. We fully immerse ourselves in your culture, and by doing so, we are 10x more valuable than if we missed out on all of the non-coding conversation and decision-making that happens every day.
Teamwork: An Ongoing Partnership
Our seasoned Agile developer and product consultants hit the ground running and immerse themselves within your team. We’ll adapt quickly and get you the results you need even quicker. You’ll be wondering why you didn’t find us sooner.
Regardless of your immediate need, our intention remains the same – help you be your best, forever. We are here to help your business improve through software. We help you embrace change in a way that actually becomes a competitive advantage. Why? We believe that the companies that can best leverage the process of building software are the ones that will succeed in the next decade.
Debbie has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and is passionate about helping businesses improve through software.
John brings to Stride nearly 30 years in IT consulting experience and a proven track record of helping clients realize business value from strategic systems development and integration projects.
Co-Founder & CEO
Debbie has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and is passionate about helping businesses improve through software.
As CEO, Debbie has unparalleled leadership experience in the technology space since she built five companies from the ground up prior to co-founding Stride.
With a reputation as a passionate woman executive in technology, Debbie is a sought-after writer and speaker. She has appeared in popular media outlets such as Huffington Post, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal.
Prior to Stride, she was the CEO of Cyrus Innovation, which she helped grow into a 5-time Inc. 5000 winner and Crain’s Best Places to Work.
President
John brings to Stride nearly 30 years in IT consulting experience and a proven track record of helping clients realize business value from strategic systems development and integration projects. He is passionate about leveraging the best of Stride on each and every customer engagement.
John has worked with a variety of clients on 6 different continents ranging from start-ups building mission critical products to transformations of large multi- national organizations.
Prior to Stride, John held various leadership positions in the agile consulting industry including COO of ThoughtWorks and CEO of Valtech. John began his career with American Management Systems (now CGI), where he was a Vice President in their Financial Services Group.
COO
Ken is an Executive Manager, Coach, Product Owner and Developer with over twenty years experience building software, the last fifteen of them coaching and working on iterative and collaborative (Agile Scrum/XP) teams. He is committed to the quality of work, professional development and well being of Stride's consultants.
In his career, Ken has assembled tech organizations, coached process transformations, and lead projects building corporate and content websites and intranets, systems for text annotation and entity extraction, e-commerce, content and asset management, and on-air scheduling. He has been accountable for PCI-DSS compliance and privacy issues and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional US.
Before joining Stride, Ken was Chief Technology and Product Officer at The Daily Beast (an IAC Company), VP of Technology at Simon & Schuster (a CBS Company) and Oxygen Media (now part of Comcast NBCUniversal), and Product Manager for the Common Customer Gateway at NYSE Advanced Technologies.
Director of Strategic Accounts
Chloe’s passion lies at the intersection of business and technology. Understanding both is critical to build market relevant software and forming high-performing teams. As a Client Principal at Stride Consulting, her primary goal is to strengthen client relationships on strategic accounts.
Chloe seeks to embody account management best practices and help her clients succeed -- whether it be adapting to shifting market trends or taking advantage of new innovations and emerging opportunity.
Prior to joining Stride, Chloe was a Client Principal at ThoughtWorks.
We'll help you understand where and how your team can improve as we help you bring your technology to market faster. Your team and company culture will be stronger after working with Stride.
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