Resume template · Updated October 2026
Agile coach resume template
Short answer
Catalyst fits a senior agile coach. It starts with your current engagement and has no summary section, so the headline carries the credentials (ICP-ACC, SAFe SPC) and the first bullets carry the scope: leaders coached, teams and release trains supported. The fictional sample coaches the lending division of a bank after four years with a consultancy and an earlier start as a Scrum Master.
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Why Catalyst suits an agile coach resume
Catalyst opens with work experience and prints no summary, so the page goes from a headline naming your coaching credentials straight to the change you are leading now. That suits a senior coach whose current engagement is the argument, and its teal headings over full-width rules keep a three-job history easy to scan.
Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta keeps a summary and a conventional business look, useful when a short paragraph must explain a move from consulting into an in-house coaching job.
What goes in each section, in Catalyst's order
Catalyst prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Work Experience. Lead with scope a hiring executive can picture: how many teams or trains, which leaders, what change. Then show what kept working after you stepped back, such as internal Scrum Masters who now run events alone. Coaching that leaves an organization dependent on the coach reads as a weak result.
- Skills. Separate coaching work (one-to-one, team, leadership) from framework work (PI Planning, portfolio Kanban). Tools come last; coaching jobs are rarely won on Jira Align, though large SAFe shops do search for it.
- Education. A single line. Coaches are hired on track record, and a degree in an unrelated field raises no questions.
- Certifications. Coaching-specific credentials such as ICAgile's ICP-ACC weigh more here than a foundation Scrum certificate. Catalyst prints them near the bottom, so repeat the one or two that matter in the headline.
- Talks and community. Talks, meetups and communities of practice show you teach beyond one client. Keep two or three items, each with its topic in a few words.
The sample resume as text
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Rafael Moreno
Enterprise Agile Coach, ICP-ACC, SAFe SPC
Charlotte, NC | rafael.moreno@example.com | (704) 555-0128 | linkedin.com/in/sample-rafael-moreno
Experience
Enterprise Agile Coach, Copperline Financial Group, Charlotte, NC (02/2022 to Present)
- Coach the leadership group and 14 teams in the digital lending division through a move from annual project funding to long-lived product teams.
- Designed and ran a six-week Scrum Master community of practice; 11 internal Scrum Masters completed it and now run the division's retrospectives without outside facilitators.
- Facilitate quarterly PI Planning for three Agile Release Trains of about 300 people, with dependency boards every team can see.
- Worked with the CIO's staff on portfolio Kanban, making work waiting for funding visible so the oldest items were either started or closed.
Agile Coach, Brightwater Consulting Partners, Raleigh, NC (05/2018 to 01/2022)
- Coached teams at four client organizations in insurance, retail and healthcare software, from team launch to running on their own.
- Taught Scrum and Kanban foundations to more than 200 people at client sites, adapting exercises to each team's real work.
- Introduced throughput-based forecasting at a retail client, replacing date commitments made before the work was understood.
Scrum Master, Tarrow Health Software, Durham, NC (03/2014 to 04/2018)
- Served two teams building a patient scheduling product through their first year of Scrum.
- Started a cross-team retrospective that became the company's monthly improvement forum.
Talks and community
- Regional agile conference talk: "Funding teams instead of projects, one year in".
- Volunteer organizer of a monthly Lean Coffee meetup for Charlotte Scrum Masters.
Education
BS, Information Systems, Piedmont State University (05/2011)
Certifications
- ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), ICAgile (2019)
- SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), Scaled Agile (2023)
Skills
Leadership coaching, Team coaching, SAFe PI Planning, Portfolio Kanban, Flow metrics, Training design, Jira Align, Miro, Mural, Confluence, Professional coaching stance, Facilitating conflict, Executive communication
How to make the sample yours
Replace the transformation with your own
The sample describes a move from annual project funding to product teams. Write the change you were brought in for, in the employer's words, and how far it has got.
Show independence, not dependence
For each engagement, keep one bullet about what the organization can now do without you: internal coaches trained, events run by staff, a community that meets on its own.
Separate training from coaching
Classroom numbers ("taught 200 people") are easy to inflate and say little about coaching. Pair any training figure with a bullet about a team or leader you worked with over months.
Match the framework vocabulary to the employer
If the posting comes from a SAFe organization, keep PI Planning and SPC near the top. For a company running plain Scrum or Kanban, cut the SAFe terms back so you do not read as a framework installer.
Shorten the oldest role
Two bullets for your Scrum Master years show where you started. The space is better spent on coaching scope.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- agile coaching
- enterprise agile transformation
- leadership coaching
- team coaching
- ICP-ACC
- SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)
- PI Planning
- Agile Release Train
- portfolio Kanban
- flow metrics
- community of practice
- Scrum
- Kanban
- facilitation
- organizational change
Mistakes to avoid
- Calling a transformation finished because a framework was rolled out. Say what changed in how people plan, decide and deliver.
- A long list of every framework you have read about; coaches are asked to defend each one in interview.
- Training headcounts with no coaching result attached.
- Naming client companies that a consultancy agreement keeps confidential. Describe them by industry and size.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 5 of 5 | 9 of 9 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 5 of 5 | 9 of 9 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 5 of 5 | 9 of 9 |
Frequently asked questions
Which certifications matter most for an agile coach?
Ones about coaching rather than a single framework. ICAgile's ICP-ACC covers coaching, mentoring, teaching and handling conflict in teams; SAFe's SPC matters mainly where an organization runs SAFe. A foundation Scrum certificate is expected but rarely decides a coaching hire.
How do I move from Scrum Master to agile coach on paper?
Show work beyond one team: coaching other Scrum Masters, a cross-team event you facilitated, a leader you supported. Title each job as it really was and let the bullets show the wider reach.
Can an agile coach resume run to two pages?
Yes, after ten or more years, especially with several engagements. Keep the first page for your current and previous coaching roles, and shorten anything older to two lines.
How do I show results when coaching is hard to measure?
Describe observable changes: events teams now run without you, decisions made with data, waiting work made visible and reduced. Flow metrics before and after help where the teams tracked them.
Is a professional coaching credential worth listing?
Yes, if you hold one, because it shows training in coaching conversations and not only in frameworks. List it with the issuing body and the year, like any other certification.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Catalyst PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 5 section headings and all 9 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
Guides and templates for this resume
Sources, checked 29 October 2026
We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.
- ICAgile: Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) (ICP-ACC covers coaching, mentoring, teaching and handling conflict and dysfunction in agile teams)
- Scaled Agile: Implementing SAFe (SAFe Practice Consultant) (the course leads to the SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) certification; aimed at agile coaches among others)
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