// About

Designer. Analyst. Scrum master. Coach.
Every step was an iteration.

I’m S N Sunanda, an Agile Mindset Coach based in Bengaluru. I help people and teams work the way healthy agile teams work: in small steps, with honest feedback, and without fear of change.
OFF THE CLOCK
Volleyball, table tennis and pencil sketching. Organiser of hackathons, innovation jams and sports carnivals. Headed a PoSH committee. Relief volunteer during natural disasters.
// My story

Why I coach mindset, not method

I started as a graphic designer. I moved into healthcare IT as a business analyst and stayed thirteen years, sitting between doctors, product owners and developers, translating what people needed into what teams could build. Then I became a scrum master, coached teams of ten and twelve to maturity, and earned my ICP-ACC to become an agile coach.

Somewhere in those years I noticed a pattern. Teams that struggled did not have a process problem. They had people who were afraid to ship something imperfect, who took on too much, who avoided feedback, who needed to control everything, or who froze when plans changed. The framework was fine. The mindset was stuck.

So I went and studied the human side: behavioural training and behavioural science, NLP, emotional intelligence. I brought those tools back into my coaching and the results changed. Now I take the same approach to individuals. No frameworks, no jargon. Just the five shifts that let a person, or a team, adapt without burning out.

"Agile was never about the ceremonies. It was about being able to say: this didn't work, let's try something smaller."

// Competencies

What I bring to every session

Five disciplines, one practice.

Agile Mindset

Sixteen years of living the values behind the practices: iteration, transparency, feedback, focus and responding to change. ICP-ACC certified.

Behavioural Training

Designing sessions that change what people do on Monday, not just what they know on Friday. Experiments over lectures.

Behavioural Science

Habit formation, decision biases and motivation, used to make each experiment small enough to succeed and repeat.

NLP

Reframing, language patterns and state management to loosen the stories people tell themselves about readiness, failure and control.

Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness, regulation and empathy: the foundation of psychological safety, feedback that lands, and leadership without fear.
// The journey

Sixteen years, four iterations

2003 – 2005

Graphic Designer

RR Donnelley. Where I learned that a first draft is a tool for thinking, not a finished thing.
2007 – 2020

Senior Business Analyst

HealthAsyst, healthcare IT. Thirteen years translating between clinicians, product owners and engineers. Led teams of 4 to 13, including as QA lead.
2021 – present

Scrum Master

Synchronoss Technologies. Coaching teams of 10-12, scrum masters and product owners. PI planning, roadmaps, and the human side of every retrospective.
Now

Agile Mindset Coach

ICP-ACC. Coaching individuals, new leaders and teams to adapt without burning out. Bengaluru and online.

Let's start small.

A free 30-minute discovery call, no preparation needed.