Russell Hill is a senior trainer, enterprise coach, and consultant who helps organisations improve how they lead and deliver in complex environments — with a clear focus on sustainable change and measurable outcomes. He combines deep technical roots with senior leadership experience and top-tier consulting exposure, which makes him equally comfortable with board-level conversations and the realities of day-to-day delivery.
Russell’s leadership background includes senior roles in the Microsoft/MSN ecosystem (ninemsn in Australia), culminating as Head of Technology and Projects, where he led around 60 engineers and managers across delivery, strategy, vendor management, and performance management. He later brought that perspective into consulting as a Senior Agile Coach and Trainer at McKinsey & Company in Berlin, helping leaders and teams build practical ways of working that actually hold up under pressure.
Today, Russell specialises in Flight Levels and Kanban as pragmatic, scalable approaches to connect strategy to execution, improve flow across teams and value streams, and reduce the overload/dependency drag that quietly kills predictability. He works with leadership teams and cross-functional groups to strengthen alignment, decision-making, and operating models — so change is lived in everyday practice rather than described beautifully in slide decks.
Russell is a regular conference speaker and hosts Berlin’s Kanban Flight Club community, creating a practical learning space for people who want less “agile theatre” and more results.
Specialties: Enterprise agility at scale, Flight Levels, Kanban, strategy-to-execution alignment, operating models, leadership coaching & training, facilitation, flow metrics, organisational design and change, culture change that sticks, distributed/global ways of working.