Elevating Leaders. Empowering Communities.

Elevating Leaders. Empowering Communities.

Shaping the future of leadership and innovation in the heart of RTP.

Our Purpose

We empower leaders, teams, and organizations to navigate growth and complexity with clarity and confidence. Through immersive learning, practical tools, and a vibrant peer community, we cultivate human-centered leadership, aligned goals, and resilient change that lasts.

From TriAgile to Elevate RTP

What We Believe In

The Future is Built Together

Elevate RTP is more than an event. It’s a platform for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators to rise together, shaping the future of our region and beyond.

Planning Team

Tom Wessel

Tom Wessel is a Lean-Agile Consultant with over 30 years of software development experience across various industries, spanning the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery.

With more than 15 years as a Lean-Agile consultant and trainer, Tom has partnered with organizations of all sizes to train, coach, and mature their agile mindset while transforming their value delivery approaches.

Tom co-founded Southern Fried Agile and TriAgile, both 501c3 nonprofits hosting annual agile conferences in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina. These conferences promote Agile and Lean learning while supporting regional charities.

Leslie Hobbs

Leslie Hobbs has been practicing agility and good listening skills since 2012. First as a Product Owner, then in Product Manager and Product Coach roles.

She is passionate about collaborating, experimenting, and facilitating with teams to figure out the best customer problem to solve. Throughout her career she’s had a customer first focus – each user has a specific need that needs to be solved in a clear, easy to use, application or software package.

As a coach for teams and individuals she has a chance to encourage, listen, and help product teams invent new ways of working to derive customer value.

Dan Parsons

Dan Parsons is a seasoned executive and leadership coach with more than 25 years of experience driving global product delivery and organizational transformation in Fortune 500 companies. His work sits at the intersection of strategy, agility, and human connection—helping leaders and teams navigate complexity with clarity and purpose.

Camille Sampson

Camille Sampson is an inclusive and visionary executive leader with over 25 years of experience driving transformational change and entrepreneurial growth across Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises. A proven builder and change agent, Camille has founded and scaled agile organizations, led high-performing consulting practices, and guided complex, enterprise-wide transformations that deliver measurable business impact.

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Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett is a transformation leader, coach, and strategist who thrives where people, culture, and business outcomes connect. He creates clarity from complexity, inspires leaders to grow, and empowers teams to deliver lasting impact. Motivated by people over process, Paul builds trust, alignment, and measurable transformation.

David Frink

David Frink is an executive coach with over 20 years of experience in product development and technology leadership, including coaching and supporting leaders within Financial Services & Technology, Marketing Operations, and E-Procurement.  He is a Certified Executive Coach, ICF-PCC certified coach, and a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach.

Yvonne Delaney

Yvonne Delaney is a principal consultant helping mid-sized and large enterprises scale organizational transformations to achieve higher productivity, increased quality, and faster time-to-market.

She is a passionate advocate, coaching businesses in new ways of working that maximize value & ROI, enrich the workplace, strengthen employee engagement, and ultimately achieve business outcomes by delivering products that delight customers.

Planning Team

Tom Wessel

Tom Wessel is a Lean-Agile Consultant with over 30 years of software development experience across various industries, spanning the complete product lifecycle from inception to delivery.

With more than 15 years as a Lean-Agile consultant and trainer, Tom has partnered with organizations of all sizes to train, coach, and mature their agile mindset while transforming their value delivery approaches.

Tom co-founded Southern Fried Agile and TriAgile, both 501c3 nonprofits hosting annual agile conferences in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina. These conferences promote Agile and Lean learning while supporting regional charities.

Leslie Hobbs

Leslie Hobbs has been practicing agility and good listening skills since 2012. First as a Product Owner, then in Product Manager and Product Coach roles.

She is passionate about collaborating, experimenting, and facilitating with teams to figure out the best customer problem to solve. Throughout her career she’s had a customer first focus – each user has a specific need that needs to be solved in a clear, easy to use, application or software package.

As a coach for teams and individuals she has a chance to encourage, listen, and help product teams invent new ways of working to derive customer value.

Dan Parsons

Dan Parsons is a seasoned executive and leadership coach with more than 25 years of experience driving global product delivery and organizational transformation in Fortune 500 companies. His work sits at the intersection of strategy, agility, and human connection—helping leaders and teams navigate complexity with clarity and purpose.

Camille Sampson

Camille Sampson is an inclusive and visionary executive leader with over 25 years of experience driving transformational change and entrepreneurial growth across Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises. A proven builder and change agent, Camille has founded and scaled agile organizations, led high-performing consulting practices, and guided complex, enterprise-wide transformations that deliver measurable business impact.

Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett is a transformation leader, coach, and strategist who thrives where people, culture, and business outcomes connect. He creates clarity from complexity, inspires leaders to grow, and empowers teams to deliver lasting impact. Motivated by people over process, Paul builds trust, alignment, and measurable transformation.

David Frink

David Frink is an executive coach with over 20 years of experience in product development and technology leadership, including coaching and supporting leaders within Financial Services & Technology, Marketing Operations, and E-Procurement.  He is a Certified Executive Coach, ICF-PCC certified coach, and a Gallup-certified Strengths Coach.

Yvonne Delaney

Yvonne Delaney is a principal consultant helping mid-sized and large enterprises scale organizational transformations to achieve higher productivity, increased quality, and faster time-to-market.

She is a passionate advocate, coaching businesses in new ways of working that maximize value & ROI, enrich the workplace, strengthen employee engagement, and ultimately achieve business outcomes by delivering products that delight customers.

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