Cara Turner
CEO at Academy of Digital Arts
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolCara Turner is an impact-driven CEO and agile leader with 11 years of experience building teams, programmes and cultures that balance rapid learning with delivery. She founded and runs Project codeX and its Foundation in Cape Town, creating mobile-first computational thinking and coding pipelines that expand digital talent through accelerated tertiary programmes and partner initiatives. Formerly a divisional agile coach and scrum master in enterprise settings, she blends hands-on agile coaching, curriculum design and product ideation to scale skills and innovation across organisations. A trained facilitator and visual practitioner with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art, she brings a creative, human-centred approach to strategy implementation and remote facilitation. Notably, she combines startup grit with formal training in agility, facilitation and change models to turn learning programmes into measurable talent pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Lean Leadership Workshop, Lean Leadership Workshop at AgilocityVisual Facilitation Foundation & Advanced, Visual Facilitation Foundation & Advanced at Benjamin FelisFuture of Work Africa - Impact Accelerator, Future of Work Africa - Impact Accelerator at Village CapitalCognitive EdgeVirginia Satir Hologram Model for Change, Virginia Satir Hologram Model for Change at FaethmWaysfinding: Leading and Managing in Uncertainty, Waysfinding: Leading and Managing in Uncertainty at More BeyondDionysus Skills Development InstituteRemote Facilitation Practitioner, Remote Facilitation Practitioner at The Remote CoachesCertified Scrum Professional, Certified Scrum Professional at Scrum AllianceDan NorthTeam Leadership Skills for Scrum Professionals, Team Leadership Skills for Scrum Professionals at Loop Consulting / Scrum SenseStrategy implementation: X Matrix, Strategy implementation: X Matrix at Modus InstituteORGANIC agility® Foundations, ORGANIC agility® Foundations at Agile42BA (Hons) Fine Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of Cape TownDiploma: IS Project Management, Diploma: IS Project Management at Faculty Training InstitueEmpirical Experience - Agile SeriousPlay, Empirical Experience - Agile SeriousPlay at Scrum SenseDiploma: Project Management, Diploma: Project Management at Varsity College
Github Skills (6)
object-model6
javascript4
browser4
dom4
markdown1
voice1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emanuel281/SpazaShop
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:42 commits in 4 months
CTcodeX/Example
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
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