Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Podcasting, Review Conference Proposals
STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
1.5.0 of Quality Coaching essentials
earned:
1.0.0 of Quality Coaching essentials
thanked contributors on:
Coming all the way from New York to Brighton, we're very happy to announce that Susanne Abdelrahman will be joining us at MoTaCon to answer this head-on in her talk: Can we actually co-own quality?...
earned:
🖖 Can we actually co-own quality?
awarded Diana Dromey for:
🖖 Can we actually co-own quality?
Contributions
It this the perfect balance?
A reflective “wins” episode that turns everyday progress into momentum, and reminds us to log the good stuff, not just the problems.
Share your wins no matter how big or small and celebrate yourself
Inspired by Melissa Fisher’s posts on LinkedIn, I suggested a 'Wins' TWiQ theme, and the episode was great. As promised, here are my wins I shared, and these will be going into a collection. Tag yo...
Thank you to everyone who joined my AI masterclass yesterday!Loved the engagement, energy, and enthusiasm that you all brought.Of course, always grateful for the opportunities like these.Than...
MoT doesn't use sentence case headings. That is all. Yours, a frustrated editorPS, capitalising words in hashtags works great, please don't confuse these.
#hashtagsworkworsewithoutcapita...
... a new member joins, steps up on the This Week in Quality (TWiQ) stage and says hi.Welcome, Ibekwe. Thanks for introducing yourself. 😃 Lovely to also see all the welcome messages coming in ...
I've just recorded a session on Riverside for BrowserStack's conference Breakpoint. Had a wonderful host in Jenna Charlton and shared my Accessibility Quadrants visual heuristic. The quality m...
Public collection
A hot-takes episode where the crew debates AI skepticism, manual testing’s staying power, whether AI agents really speed delivery, and why quality ultimately lives (or dies) with leadership decisions.
