The De la Vega Consulting Team
Samantha De la Vega - Principal Consultant
Samantha is an author, endurance athlete, and Jiu Jitsu practitioner who leverages her worldly experiences and unusual life history to inform her consulting approach. She is a straight-shooter, with a knack for cutting through complexity and getting to the heart of matters. A visionary with years of experience managing tricky dynamics, either in the boardroom, in tough inner city negotiations, or crewing on teams during the grueling Badwater 135 through Death Valley, De la Vega can win over the most formidable of people in the toughest situations with her direct and collaborative communication style. Her versatility in challenging situations makes her one of the most original Corporate Problem Solvers you’ll find. You want to get things done? Get De la Vega on your side. You’ve got her full attention.
Josh Mathis - Senior Consultant
Since starting his career in wind energy project development, Josh operates in a continuous cycle of learning and applying Lean, Agile, Transition Management, Strategy Creation and Deployment, and Problem-Solving techniques across the energy, healthcare, consumer products, real estate, and technology sectors. Notably, he has led key initiatives within the Nike Technology and Supply Chain organizations and Kaiser Permanente’s hospital operations. He has also devoted significant time to assisting non-profit organizations and start-up technology companies with leadership development, value creation, and go-to-market strategies. Josh has effectively collaborated with individuals at all levels, from chief executives to front-line employees. He is passionate about empowering teams, fostering continuous improvement, and leveraging innovative technology to elevate organizations to the next level services to businesses of all sizes and industries.
Kyla Archamboult - Senior Consultant
Kyla is a versatile and innovative Scrum Master / Agile Coach for organizations at various places of the Agile journey. An expert at instilling Agile Principles and mindset in teams as well as enabling collaboration at all levels across organizations, Kyla is an engaging and fun person to work with. People tend to enjoy her sessions, while evolving their knowledge of Agile process at the same time.
Kyla is an Agile Professional by trade, a philosopher at heart, and a student of personal development, leadership, and communication. Using the wisdom and discernment earned over eight years of teaching and coaching, she uses her extensive experience to collaborate with clients to identify gaps and resolve organizational process challenges, adjusting her processes based on her full-breadth of knowledge across project and portfolio management modalities, including Agile, Waterfall, and lean frameworks.
She has extensive experience across a variety of sectors, including Consumer Experience, Digital Supply Chain, Software (including iOS and Android), Back-end and Front-end systems, Software Infrastructure, Retail, Banking, Operations, Medical, and WISP. Engage Kyla for your standard Agile ceremonies, or have her run your PI Planning or quarterly planning sessions. You’ll be thrilled with the outcome!