Shaping high-performing portfolios

Expert guidance in portfolio evolution, leadership development, ways of working, and adapting SAFe to the needs of your enterprise.

I'm Eric Willeke, and I partner with organizations and leaders to navigate complex transformations and achieve lasting impact. With deep experience in portfolio management, leadership coaching, and agile frameworks, I help you build high-performing product portfolios and drive strategic growth.

My approach is direct, collaborative, and focused on helping you deliver immediate tangible impact while setting yourself up for long-term growth and sustainability.

What I do

Evolve your portfolio business model, streamline funding approaches, and maximize impact through portfolio mapping, tailored workshops and advisory services.

Rejuvenate and unleash the impact of your existing ARTs and multi-team programs through mapping, topology design, leadership team formation, and charting workshops.

Amplify impact, build confidence, and move beyond your unchallenged assumptions through individual coaching and formal mentoring.

Drive adoption, develop effective coaches, and transform your capabilities with LACE mentoring and transformation strategy support. Leverage my experience as a SAFe Fellow, SPCT and past Principal Contributor to SAFe to adapt SAFe to your environment and deliver high-stakes training when it matters most.

Should we work together?

Effective coaching and advisory relationships require a healthy underlying human connection. If you think my services are a fit for you and your organization, I encourage you to schedule a free 30 minute conversation to explore our personal fit and if my approach is right for your team.

  • Eric helped my leadership team focus on the agile transformation problems that matter, provided knowledge, understanding, and mindsets to start tackling those problems, supported me personally as a coach through significant organizational change, and planted seeds that will continue to bear fruit for years to come. I recommend him for any executive navigating complex agile transformation challenges."

    Brian King

    CIO (Retired) - T-Mobile

  • I’ve had the pleasure of working with Eric over the last two years on how we can strengthen and improve delivery of our strategy and how we can position the strategy team to add maximum value to the business. Eric has a huge amount of experience in delivering value for organisations and a vast knowledge of best practise theory. However, it is his ability to ask the right questions at the right times that has helped us to think more deeply and clearly about the outcomes and value we are creating. The conversations are often disarming in their frankness and the speed with which he helps us get to the heart of an issue.

    Nick Sullivan

    GM Strategy - Kiwibank

  • Eric is a phenomenal coach and mentor. He demonstrates great command over the subject matter while introducing humor and fun to the sessions. He has the social awareness to read his audience and adjusts the content on the fly to meet their needs. As a mentor he has mastered the ability to ask questions and help guide the person to their own answer instead of giving an opinion right away.

    Erin Adamaitis

    Agile Advocate & Sr. IT Leader

  • SAFe Fellow & Principal Contributor Eric Willeke is a true thought leader in his field. Eric has a truly fundamental understanding of the principles behind the various lean and agile methods and has a clear perspective on the difference between methodology and ideology. This frees him to apply his knowledge in most any enterprise or agile intellectual context.

    Dean Leffingwell

    Cofounder & Chief Methodologist

  • Eric is one of the most gifted consultants I've ever met, and has one of the clearest views of the qualities that every next-generation leader must *possess*. I recommend Eric without qualification for a small team or a large enterprise.

    Gene Kim

    Author, Researcher, & Speaker

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