Roger Burlton and Whynde Kuehn

Roger Burlton is Chairman of the BPTrends Board of Advisors and a Founder and Chief Consultant of BPTrends Associates. He is considered a global innovator in methods for Business Process and is recognized internationally for his thought leadership in Business Process Management. Roger has developed and chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Business and Information Management and Business Process Management, globally. He currently chairs the annual BPM Forum at the Building Business Capability Conference in the US and the IRM UK BPM Conference in Europe and his pragmatic BPM global seminar series, started in 1991, is the longest continuous running BPM seminar in the world. Rogers is the author of the best selling book, Business Process Management: Profiting from Process and the Business Process Manifesto. He is widely recognized for his thought leadership in business process strategy, business architecture, process analysis and design and process management, measurement and governance. Roger graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and is a certified Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. Whynde Kuehn is recognized globally as a pioneer, thought leader, educator, and advisor in strategy execution, transformation, and the intentional and sustainable design of organizations and business ecosystems, enabled by business architecture. She has worked with an extensive array of organizations to build their capacity for end-to-end strategy execution, including Fortune 500 and global enterprises, governmental and non-profit organizations, social enterprises, startups, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. As the founder and managing director of the global management consulting practice S2E Transformation, she helps clients connect strategy to execution at the enterprise level and catalyze new ways of thinking and doing business. Whynde founded the online learning community Biz Arch Mastery, co-founded the Business Architecture Guild, co-founded Women In Architecture, is a fellow with the Institute for Digital Transformation, and a member of the Women in Management Global Leadership Committee. She is the author of Strategy to Reality and co-author of The Execution Challenge. Whynde was honored as a WIM Top50 Global Award Winner in 2025 for Global Excellence in Digital Transformation and Strategy Execution as well as voted the Top Architecture Leader in Europe in 2026 by the Chief Architect Network. Connect at https://www.linkedin.com/in/whynde-kuehn/ and for more information visit cohesionbydesign.com and s2etransformation.com.