Dr Stephen Thorpe is a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar in the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology. He leads the innovative Master of IT Project Management that he co-created and lectures on team facilitation, digital transformation and change management, IT project management and supervises students undertaking a range of project management and agile related research projects. He is the director of the Project Management Research Office and a director of Zenergy, a company delivering facilitation training, coaching programmes and services in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and in the US.