Karl Scotland is an independent strategy consultant based in Brighton, UK, working with organisations across the UK and internationally. He helps leadership teams keep strategy and execution connected, building the operating model to run their strategy with Strategy Deployment and his TASTE X-Matrix. Karl has 25 years' experience with Lean and Agile. He was an early pioneer of Kanban systems, a founding member of the Lean Systems Society and the Limited WIP Society, and received the Brickell Key Community Contribution Award in 2013. He is an authorised Agendashift trainer and facilitator, a regular international conference speaker, and founder of the Brighton Lean Agile Group. Clients have included the BBC, American Express, Aviva, HSBC, Cisco and Legal & General.