Jeffrey Thompson

Jeffrey is an Agile Release Train Engineer (RTE) in the CORE Platform – Agile Practice at TD Bank. In his role at the bank, he is a project professional who acts as a chief Scrum Master and servant leader. He supports his teams and other stakeholders to effectively deliver on their Objectives and Key Results (OKR). Jeffrey does whatever is necessary to take his teams to a marvelous WOW!
Jeffrey is a Past President of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Toronto chapter. He also gives back to the community as a board member of the York Region Alliance of African Canadian Communities (YRAACC), volunteers in his church (including with the Knights of Columbus) and is a member of the Black Employee Network (BEN) at TD Bank. Jeffrey holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in General Business from Northcentral University (NCU). He is a researcher, and his ORCID number is https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-8776-7719.
Jeffrey is an accomplished and dynamic Certified Project Manager (PMP), Six Sigma Green Belt, MS Project Trainer, Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and ITIL professional. He has over 30 years of experience and has proven effectiveness with successful implementations in the financial, pharmaceutical, brewing, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industries, and government (Ontario Lottery and Gaming). He also mentors professionals and teaches project management.
He is married to Jannette and has two children, Shane and Zoë.