Speakers

Onsite Keynote Speakers

Pierre Neis

Fifteen years ago, coming from Lean Thinking and Portfolio Management, Pierre E. Neis jumped into the agile world.

Pierre went through more than 200 agile projects and contributed to several communities. Ten years ago, as a member of the PMI, he contributed to creating the PMI ACP Certification, which left considerable space for improvement.

Five years ago, Pierre was asked by Mike Beedle to join his project on Enterprise Scrum. Unfortunately, Mike passed away, and Pierre used his org development and behavioral analysis research to write the first book in 2020, "The New Normal: AO concepts and patterns of 21-st century agile organizations," and "Swarming X4" in 2021.

Pierre is a certified agile master coach with several agile certification levels, still interacting with many initiatives on the evolution of work. He doesn't distinguish between development and an executive committee of a global organization.

In 2014, Pierre created Play14 (www.play14.org) with two colleagues, a global initiative on facilitation and serious games.

Even if he is a full-time consultant, he is still involved in Disciplined Agile with the PMI, with Open Eyes on the evolution of leadership, and with the ICF on agile coaching.

Pierre is an alumnus of Boston Consulting Group and MIT.

Title of presentation: The 12 steps of an Agile Transformation.

Agile transformation is a trendy theme, and many companies have taken its way. But what are we talking about? How to turn a giant whale into a swarm of fishes? How to move from robustness to responsiveness?

Fifteen years of research have brought to common light points. There are phases to moving from a "business as usual" work organization to a dynamic environment. How do you go from "What-you-know-now" to a company where each team, each entity, operates as an internal startup? Pierre will walk you through the main stages of transformation and 12 tactics for working in the 21st century.

An Agile company has a very particular design. This collaborative platform has automated its routines and freed them with all the talents available to recreate themselves perpetually. The company framework is limited to what is strictly necessary to direct its vital forces mainly towards creating value. Platform, Plexus, Programs, projects, and swarms are the new forms of work in this environment.

You cannot transpose this model overnight; for this, there are intermediate phases. These phases make it possible to define your organization's achievable objectives and design your alliance.

Jurgen Appelo

As an author, speaker, and founder, Jurgen Appelo is helping creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers. He also offers the unFIX model for designing versatile organizations focused on continuous innovation and better human experience.

Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, or… Dutch guy. Inc.com has called him a Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Leadership Speaker. In 2008, Jurgen wrote a popular blog at NOOP.NL, offering ideas on the creative economy, agile management, organizational change, and personal development. He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle.

Jurgen can help you upgrade the design of your company with more engagement and faster results. He can show you how to become an agile business with better software. He shows you how to creatively manage your company. And he can inspire professionals with a purpose, advocating work-life integration for creative people. Jurgen is CEO of Happy Melly and the unFIX model at Agility Scales and he is co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network.

Find out more at: http://jurgenappelo.com/media-kit

Title of presentation: Versatile Organization Design with the unFIX Model.

What comes after Management 3.0, SAFe, Holacracy, and the Spotify Model? Well, it’s not hard to see in which direction the world is moving: organizations that consist of networked individuals who work from anywhere, who form teams on the fly, who focus on the customer experience (CX), who aim for objectives and achieve results, and make that a whole lot of fun for themselves. Let’s unFIX our organizations! The unFIX model is a simple tool that helps you with the versatile organization design. Unlike many agile scaling frameworks and self-management methods, unFIX has its focuses on continuous innovation and the human experience. It facilitates gradual change, and dynamic teams, and has an important role to play for managers.

Peter Stevens

Peter Stevens is a Founder, Executive, Coach, Author, and Scrum Trainer. Peter started his career as a software developer at Microsoft, at the time a fast-growing startup in Redmond, Washington (USA). He is co-founder of the Personal Agility Institute, Scrum Ambassadors.org, Agile Executives.org, and the World Agility Forum. He most recently served as Chief Agility Officer for Vivior AG, the Swiss digital health start-up.

His first book, Ten Agile Contracts: Getting Beyond Fixed-Price, Fixed-Scope bridges the gap between purchasers and vendors of development services using agile methods.

Peter’s second book, Personal Agility: Unlocking Purpose, Alignment, and Transformation, co-written with Maria Matarelli will be published by the Business Agility Institute. Personal Agility is a simple, dialogue-based leadership framework that scales from the individual to the largest organization.

His blog series Extreme Manufacturing, Explained (and ebook by the same name) first documented the principles of applying agility to the challenge of manufacturing physical products. Today these principles are in use at companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and Bosch to create and deliver better products sooner.

Peter’s friendly and pragmatic approach has enabled large and small organizations to achieve successful Agile transformations. “Agility starts in the head. That applies to individuals as well as to the largest organizations. Change is easy if you want to do it. Once people realize what Agility is really about, they always want to go there!”

He is an instrument-rated pilot, speaks 4 languages, and lives in Zurich with his family and 3 cats. Peter supports corporate clients and partners around the world.

Title of presentation: The Agile Executive: Activating the Full Potential of Your Organization.

Agility started out as something that software developers do. But as organizations strive to deal with the challenges of today's complex world, agility offers a way forward. Discover how agility applies to leadership, how today's most responsive companies apply agility to meet their challenges, and how easily you can get started on the path of becoming an agile executive.

Online Keynote Speakers

Leise Passer Jensen

Leise Passer Jensen is a Corporate Rebels Academy member and learns from pioneers in the world's most progressive organizations. Leise has developed the 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙮 game where colleagues at all levels can co-create their new way of organizing - with our without a power hierarchy. Leise has for 20+ years dedicated herself to helping organizations increase their agility. She founded her own company, Agilit, in 2018, specializing in Networked Organisation and Agile Lean Leadership.

Leise is an experienced workshop facilitator, educator, and recognized speaker. She also co-organizes the global Meetup forum AgilityLab with 4000+ members.

Leise holds a Master's in Computer Science and bachelor(s) in English, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and the Enneagram.

Leise is an agile consultant, Scrum Trainer, and Serious Scrum writer, and soon ready to publish her first book about DamnGoodLeadership (so far available in Danish on www.pissegodledelse.dk).

In her spare time, she enjoys learning how to draw artwork on her Ipad using Procreate and practicing Nosework with her two small Terrier siblings Chip and Chap.

Title of presentation: DamnGoodLeadership - is it that simple?

We should never stop learning. Nevertheless, the principles of power hierarchies in organizations have not been updated with learnings from the industry since we saw the first org. diagram of The New York and Erie Railroad 200 years ago.

In this inspirational speech, Leise will investigate if it is really that simple to create a modern organization with no bureaucracy. Are two crucial principles enough? Can people really have fun at work instead of being forced to ask less specialized colleagues to take the important - and top-motivating - decisions?

Is "You don't have to motivate me, Boss" a possible new mantra of our workforce?

Leise claims we are all leaders and, if you want to control, you really need to let it go. But what does that take?

Mun-Wai Chung

As a business agility consultant and executive coach, Mun-Wai specializes in creating and maintaining innovative organizations. Her clients learn from her and appreciate her pragmatic and people-first systems approach. “Release the potential of your staff and they will release the potential of the business” is what she goes by. She has over 20 years of corporate and Agile experience. Started in Engineering, and she ended up being Chief of Staff when she started working with HR, Finance, and Facilities. She works in organizations around the world, from startups to large enterprises, across various industries. Her ability to make the complex simple allows her to help the executives understand how their decisions affect the rest of the organization across the globe.

She frequently speaks at global conferences and professional gatherings. She also shares her experience, thoughts, and insights through her podcast, blogs, articles, and monthly Leadership Memos at https://www.munwaic.com.

Title of presentation: Daring You to Jump onto the Trojan Horse to Lead Your Agility Adoption.

Did your enterprise Agile transformation start with the Finance and HR departments? No? You are not alone. Are they on the roadmap to be next? Maybe they should be…

Agile is a mindset and a habit, using some frameworks and practices. However, it is hard to be agile when we need to provide all the answers at the end of each year for the entire following year or when we report in a waterfall manner. So, the way we do budgeting, forecasting, performance assessment, rewards & recognition, and cost control can be either enabling or hindering agility.

In this talk, Mun-Wai will walk you through an example of how she transformed the whole organization by stealth by evolving the Finance and HR departments. By evolving it this way, you achieve the transformation at a fraction of the price of traditional transformation programs.

Onsite Speakers

Martin Berg and David Symhoven

Necmettin Özkan

Artur Margonari

Gintarė Stundytė

Tomas Mikelionis

Tomas Mikelionis is a transformative business leader with a broad experience portfolio that includes successful Startup monetization and digital Agile enterprise transformation. The economics and MBA background gives Tomas a general context of the situation and uses extreme ownership techniques daily to deliver world-class standards meeting SLAs, team health growth, and double the last financial results in half the time. For unfair advantage, Tomas use - SCRUM, LEAN, CRM, ERP, BI, DMS, PMS, O365, Budget, KPI, and OKRs as one business tailoring system. The personal skills he is proud of are - a curious, fast learner, superior transformative storyteller, coaching team facilitator, brave continuous improvement, and excellent acumen with neuroscience and digitalization mindset. He has experience in Product ownership, and SCRUM mastery positions are more than 5 Years.

Title of presentation: Transforming the IoT Manufacturing Enterprise. Journey: from Guerilla Agile to Startups Portfolio.

Teltonika is a world-leading company with a complete manufacturing and service cycle in Agile transformation. The company was established in Lithuania more than 24 years ago and still is family-owned. At the moment, Agile in manufacturing business development is an emerging theme, so there aren't "gold standard" frameworks or practices, and there are no recipes for switching from Enterprise to Agile-driven company. Starting with the small scrumming teams is a good starting point for Agile to confirm effectiveness. Still, after some months of rapid Startup-like development, time for Agile scaling, daily Teams coordination, and product platform and portfolio management comes. What is an excellent scaling (or rescaling) approach - keep teams strictly independent or introduce some hybrid model? How do we manage hardware, firmware, and software development in parallel to ensure the timely delivery of the product in the global market? What is a good practice of Agile scaling preparation for full-cycle hardware startups and enterprises? Tomas will share the company's Agile experience in easy-to-adopt action protocols and management tools in the transformation journey from enterprise to startup and from startup to scaled Agile full-cycle company (not an enterprise).

Gustav Messany-Oberwandling

Gustav Messany-Oberwandling is an independent Agile coach. He has studied IT, philosophy, and systemic coaching. He has been delivering agile software and design for people for 10 years. As a free radical, he burns to take systems to the next level, connecting the dots between disciplines and conjuring new ways of thinking.

Title of presentation: Bring Democracy to the Next Level with Agile.

When certain key concepts of agile are properly implemented, they sustainably strengthen democratic structures. This talk explores these concepts and how they can be linked to democratic theory, especially by Castoriadis, an insider's tip to political and economical philosophy. Autonomy is foundational to both worlds. We need to distinguish the term from other terms such as self-organization, self-responsibility, or freedom. How did Kant define autonomy and what additional perspectives are helpful to prevent systemic dysfunction? Transparency is a pillar of agility and radical democracy. But how and what should one make transparent and for whom? Where should efforts be made to make things transparent? We'll learn about three spheres of influence, how the Athenians structured themselves in ancient times – the most advanced democracy to date – and a proposal for how to use them in modern systems. Finally, dealing with alienation is the nourishment to keep democratic and agile structures alive in the long run. Retrospectives and reflections are common in the agile world, and we will make explicit two qualities that are common in high-performing agile organizations but usually absent in systems with a lower level of maturity.

Michael Küsters

Michael is an Enterprise Transformation Coach helping companies of all sizes achieve new levels of performance with their software development organizations. He worked as a developer, tester, analyst, team lead, architect, and project manager before using first Six Sigma and Kanban, then Scrum, then other agile frameworks for helping organizations discover better ways of working. He wrote multiple books on his experience and led lectures at the Technische Universität Dortmund on how to run successful IT projects.

Check his blog and YouTube channel.

Title of presentation: Building a Successful Company with the TOP Structure.

Every day, thousands of companies worldwide ask the question, “How should we structure our software development in order to maximize our probability of success, while minimizing overhead, time to market, cost, and defects?” Due to its popularity, the Scrum framework is often the first choice for organizing teams. Unfortunately, Scrum requires massive adjustments to the way an organization works – and its scope is limited to single teams. As soon as a development organization extends beyond one team, organizations typically look for “scaling frameworks” – all of which have their own challenges in adoption.

The TOP structure condenses the essentials that successful organizations share and highlights the challenges where unsuccessful organizations waste opportunities, time, money, and energy – and often also staff motivation. The TOP Structure – Technology, Organization, Product – is a scale-free approach to successfully structure effective software development organizations of any size, and without any regard to adherence to any specific “agile framework,” although it can be utilized in conjunction with them. It can therefore be utilized by all organizations without running a major transformation program.

Since the TOP structure is based on First Principle Patterns, it can be utilized immediately to highlight needs for action and builds on Continuous Improvement in order to shape a more effective development unit. In his talk, Michael Küsters, the author of the TOP Structure provides a brief overview of the model and demonstrates:

The TOP domains
Responsibility distribution in a TOP structure
How the TOP structure creates a sustainable balance
Some key principles and patterns that already apply in your company - although you've never seen them.

Thomas van Zuijlen and Linda de Roo

Linda de Roo is a dedicated Product Owner from the Netherlands with a deep background in the banking and insurance sectors, and a broad prior experience in software testing. She currently serves as Product Owner at Achmea.

A track & field enthusiast, Linda is also an avid (ultra)runner and athletics trainer.

More information about Linda can be found on her LinkedIn.

Thomas van Zuijlen is a seasoned Scrum Master and workshop facilitator operating in the Netherlands and Lithuania. A former dev and occasional quiz master, he’s proud to have been the two-time host of Agile Day Kaunas.

Thomas believes that self-organization, empiricism, and facilitation will save the world. His weekly newsletter on practical agility is called TheBacklog.cc.

More information about Thomas is on his LinkedIn.

Title of presentation: Running Uphill: 3 Practical Lessons in Collaboration from a Unique Team in a Complex SAFe Implementation.

Running Uphill is an interactive experience report by PO Linda de Roo and Scrum Master Thomas van Zuijlen.

Over the course of seven months, Linda and Thomas worked together in a unique team set up as part of a SAFe Agile Release Train within the Netherlands’ largest insurance corporation.

Their session is aimed at POs and Scrum Masters, who get to actively reflect on collaboration challenges using real-life wicked problems from Linda’s and Thomas’s teams.

Running Uphill uses those examples as the jumping-off point for stories from two perspectives, sharing doubts, losses, and wins from both sides of the Product Owner/Scrum Master sandwich.

Take-aways are presented as three concrete learnings to apply, around escalations, trust, and taking small steps toward empiricism in the unlikeliest circumstances.

Staffan Nöteberg

Felix Handler

Bob Willis

Denis Salnikov

Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach. He’s been actively consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, companies management, and organizations since 2014. Denis has led and taken an active part in several agile transformations initiated from scratch, working with both development teams and management, helping to establish and foster an agile mindset, self-organization and product ownership. He has supported several companies across Europe and US in their LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework adoptions. His scaling experience also includes Nexus framework and “Spotify model”. He actively contributes to the Software Development and Agile communities speaking at conferences, taking part in podcasts and writing in his Medium blog.

Find more about Denis here https://agileexpat.tilda.ws/ or follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/

Title of presentation: Teams Self-Design: Benefits & Side Effects

In the Agile community, we talk a lot about the "self-organized" or "self-managed" teams - the ones that control and manage their work themselves. But many organizations have already gone beyond that and let people not only choose HOW to work, but also WHICH problems to address or WHOM to work with. As suggested by Richard Hackman, we can call these teams "Self-Designing". In his talk, Denis would like to share his key findings and lessons learned while conducting self-design events and providing further support to self-designed organizational structures over the last four years. You will learn how having the freedom to choose whom to work with and what goal to pursue affects motivation, commitment, focus, quality, and outcomes of the Product delivery and its contributors. Denis believes that, by possessing this information and a ready-to-apply facilitation design, you will be able to make Self-Design happen at your own company to benefit both the people and the business.

Gražvydas Šedys

Julia Wester

Julia Wester is a co-founder of 55 Degrees AB, a software company based in Malmö, Sweden that focuses on providing tools to make work easier for people, teams, and entire organizations. There she leverages her experience working in and managing high-performing teams at companies such as Turner Broadcasting, F5 Networks, and LeanKit. Also a professional trainer, Julia is a LinkedIn Learning course author, a member of the advisory board of ProKanban.org, and a recent course steward for Scrum.org. No matter the task, Julia’s ultimate goal is to help people get more done with less stress.

Find out more about Julia at https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliawester/

Title of presentation: What are the Odds? Forecasting with Probabilities.

Are you tired of spending more time estimating and forecasting when work will be done than you spend actually doing the work? Exaggeration or not, if you calculate the value of the time used by your experts to go deep into requirements to break down tasks and estimate time, how much does it cost? How often do those expensive estimates turn out to be wrong despite your investment? The exciting news is that there's a way that you can save money and stress to quickly generate forecasts that are as reliable, or better, than the ones you're slaving over today. In this session, you'll learn about the components of a probabilistic forecast and how to use two simple metrics, cycle time and throughput, to create and continuously update your forecasts. You'll learn that if you track the start and finish time of your work, then you can use your historical data to learn the possible outcomes and the odds of each, allowing you to choose the appropriate forecast for the level of risk you're willing to accept. When you leave this session you'll have solid tactics to answer the questions "How much can we complete by X date?" and "How long will this take?" for both individual and multiple work items.

Aino Vonge Corry

Vaidas Adomauskas

Vaidas Adomauskas is a Chief Product Officer at Uncapped, London, UK.

He is the founder of Agile Coach, the only Agile training and consulting center in Lithuania, the founder of the Agile Lietuva association, and an Agile evangelist in Lithuania! Vaidas is currently managing Revolut Business, the fastest growing start-up in Europe.

For more than 14 years, Vaidas has been using and implementing Agile methodologies in companies (from start-ups to several thousand employees) and in roles (from scrum master and product manager to founder and manager). He conducts training and advises businesses on implementing and applying Agile project management methodologies. Vaidas’ ICAgile Certified Professional course is accredited by the international Agile consortium (ICAgile), so its participants receive international ICAgile Certified Professional certificates.

Vaidas is an ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP), a Scrum Certified Professional (CSP), a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), an active member of the Lithuanian Project Management Association and the INFOBALT Association, an Agile Project Management at Vilnius University and the School of International Business.

Title of presentation: LeSS to Scale Unicorns – Experiences from Revolut and Uncapped.

Revolut is known for its fast product development. Vaidas learned the way they work while leading Revolut Business. They did not "use LeSS". But for sure they used many practices that LeSS advocates for. When he joined Uncapped as a Chief Product Officer, he had a chance to build organizational structure, culture, and ways of working from scratch. Vaidas summarized it in this article early days of this journey. In this talk, he will share more details of the lessons learned, LeSS practices they used (without calling them LeSS), and why everyone willing to build a Unicorn should learn LeSS as early as possible.

Cheryl Hammond

Cheryl Hammond builds teams. Whether it’s admissions volunteers for her alma mater, regional recruiters for multiple competing Ivy-caliber colleges, high-achieving low-income first-gen college applicants, amateur colonial-to-medieval genealogists, or software engineers and IT pros, you’ll find Cheryl corralling dozens or hundreds of cross-functional high-performers and uniting them in pursuit of a common mission even when she didn't mean to. She can't not.

Cheryl is obsessed with agile and Lean principles and has used them to successfully plan and execute weddings, house moves, world travel, and her exchange student’s midterm grades recovery plan just in time for graduation. Cheryl has run family meetings using StrengthsFinder. [Because you know you want to know: Strategic, Ideation, Context, Significance/Competition, Command.]

Cheryl doesn't like or pursue certifications, though she’s picked up a few over the years (some for mercenary reasons). She learns and does and teaches these things because they are valuable and fun, not because someone allowed her to pay them for the privilege.

Cheryl’s colleagues (and sometimes clients) call her an agent of chaos because she delights in upending conventional wisdom and showing people a new way to think about—and love—their everyday work. If "the usual'' hasn't worked for you, she can help. She’s anything but.

Find out more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsktcase/

Title of presentation: Fortress Agile: Nurturing and Growing Healthy Practices in a Hostile Environment.

When the broader organization isn’t agile, teams can get stuck. They’re waiting for their knight in shining armor – the ‘enlightened’ executive – to transform it all. What happens when the hero isn’t coming? Is it possible to realistically accept an organization’s limitations without killing morale? Can a manager or coach ‘shield’ a team without losing momentum? Is there any point in making incremental change at the team or division level when ‘real’ progress seems eternally blocked by external impediments? This session explores practical tips to care for the humans in your realm; provide them a safe, comfortable, and defensible space in which to work; and make it inviting enough to win over (some of) the forces outside. Help your teams become self-rescuing princesses, and create the happily-ever-after that your people deserve!

Matteo Taddei

Online Speakers

Roman Pichler

Cansel Sörgens

Cansel Sörgens has been a professional in Digital Product Management for more than 13 years. She has worked with/for e-commerce/e-business companies in different roles in Product, Project, Portfolio Management and Agile Organizational Development. Since 2016, she practices Objectives and Key Results (OKR) and, as an OKR Coach & Trainer, helps organizations to implement and/or re-start their OKR adaptations. She’s passionate about OKRs because she believes it is the gateway to Business Agility, as it starts the conversation about value-driven alignment, focusing on measurable outcomes for more customer centricity and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

Title of presentation: OKRs Misunderstood

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) promise focus, alignment, accountability, and commitment. These promises might fill the hearts of many managers with joy. They hear the idealized stories of how OKRs helped organizations to become successful and want to have a piece of this cake, too. “When Google works with OKRs, we must too!” Some believe a framework alone would fix everything like it’s magic. Most of the time they're not aware of what it takes to enable an environment for OKRs to work well. If you want to apply an OKR to become more focused but keep changing your playfield every 2 months, the OKR is not the remedy you’re looking for. For OKRs to work well, organizations need to be prepared to undergo some serious changes. In this talk, I'll uncover some of the misconceptions such as Vertical vs. Horizontal Alignment, Score vs. Conversation, and Outcome vs. Output. I’ll also offer some practical advice on how to avoid or fix these common mistakes.

L. Ratnaravi and M. Noe-Nygaard

Luxshan Ratnaravi holds an MSc in Software Engineering and is an Agile Coach with the Danish financial software solutions provider Bankdata. He’s constantly on a mission of improving the status quo from his position of being an agile ideologist and a pragmatic problem-solver.

Luxshan’s professional mission in life, which has taken him through jobs as, e.g., IT Business Analyst, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, and Agile Coach, is to relentlessly improve companies by challenging their worn-out habits, reinforcing their purpose, and helping them in continuously improving their practices through the awesome values, principles, and practices from the agile space.

Mikkel Noe-Nygaard holds an MA in Architecture with a background in sustainable buildings and a speciality in Communications Design but has always been working with user experience in software. Mikkel designs both hyper-complex cloud-based expert tools and simple mobile applications with the same pride, and always puts the user first in aesthetic, efficient solutions. After 20 years of software enterprise experience, spanning diverse areas such as public health care and insurance, pension fund investments, tax, and property registration, and, at the time of writing, sustainable energy at Vestas, Mikkel has found a second calling as a cartoonist!

Title of presentation: How to Teach About Agile Through Comic Strips.

The format of comic strips is a very effective way of highlighting what goes wrong when Agile meets reality. Its humor, exaggeration, and provocations make the reader reflect on how to avoid the often relatable situation depicted in the strip. In this talk, the creators of the globally popular agile comic strip Comic Agilé – Luxshan Ratnaravi and Mikkel Noe-Nygaard – will break down the mechanics of how to create an educational agile comic strip. They will talk about its components, such as setting the scene, introducing some Agile theory, building an expectation, and delivering a punchline in the form of an anti-pattern, misunderstanding or just plain craziness. They’ll also show and analyze some of the most popular strips from Comic Agilé, as well as share the agile lessons to take away from each of them. All of this will be delivered in a highly entertaining and dynamic manner that invites any Agile consultant or educator to join this journey of telling the story of how to successfully become agile.

Jan B. Olsen

Jan B. Olsen is a transformation consultant and coach with 10+ years of experience in scaled Agile environments ranging from business domains to large and complex development organizations. He has experience with complicated and challenging strategic and tactical consultancy assignments in designing new business models and lowering unnecessary complexity in large organizations. Jan is able to analyze, design, and change organizational design and structure and the organizations' culture, mindset, and behaviors. He is guiding transformation through consulting, training, and coaching. Jan can effectively act as a consultant/coach to management, teams, and team members. His last responsibility was as part of the transformation leadership team at Danske Bank. He took part in redesigning 5,000 people large development organization from top to bottom with new business and operating models.

He has various certifications and accreditations, including Certified Agile Coach at Scrum Alliance and European Individual Accreditation Senior Practitioner at EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council).

He has been a speaker at multiple meetups, Agile Tour, and XP Conference.

Title of presentation: Professionalising the Scrum Master Role

Jan has set out to professionalize the Scrum Master role and competency development. In this session, he will share lessons learned and challenges encountered.

Why is this important for you?

In order for Agile to work to its fullest potential, Scrum Masters need to have the necessary competencies to support and challenge the organization. Still, this is not enough, as the Scrum Masters’ focus needs to be based on the organizational maturity of the organization to achieve maximum results. Misalignment between the two will keep the organization dead in the water, and self-orientated Scrum Masters will be seen as less valuable.

What you will learn:

In the session, you will learn how to effectively align Scrum Master's purpose and competency development with organizational maturity, which will enable you to communicate the focused effort to the organization. You will also learn the importance of building a strong community of practice within the Scrum Masters, to ensure continuous learning of Agile and Lean practices and various Scrum Master stances.

Andreea-Ruxandra Peter

Andreea-Ruxandra Peter is a Math teacher who became a Java Developer and then discovered Agile.

She is a Scrum Master at heart, but her current position requires her to have Project Manager skills too. Andreea-Ruxandra enjoys being a meeting facilitator and sharing her knowledge with others. She learned a lot from the Agile/Scrum classes that she had taught. She also learned from her experience in Agile that nothing is as simple as it seems. But being Agile should be about responding to change, about being able to help your client have the best product they could have.

Andreea-Ruxandra’s current focus is on improving meetings, improving motivation, and helping teams learn what works for them.

Title of presentation: 6 Ideas to Make your Team Great.

Are you part of a virtual team, spread across continents and time zones, or just “forced” to work from home? Do you feel you are talking with strangers, but you need to work with them anyway? Then Andreea-Ruxandra Peter can tell you what her teams did to improve their remote collaboration and communication. Together we will talk about the small things we did in order to help ourselves and our team to become stronger and better.

Before the pandemic, most companies moved from collocated teams to remote ones in order to decrease their overall costs, now working virtual is a fact of life. The simple fact of copying the collocated way of working into the virtual is not helping us – we struggle and we get frustrated very often.

So, what can we do? Can we make our day better and be happy at work? What if the answer is right in front of us?

Andreea-Ruxandra wants to show you how to identify your team’s challenges and what you can do to help your team. Or how you may fail when trying specific ideas.

There is no perfect recipe for success that is for sure. But she wants to talk about choosing the right people for virtual teams (or educating them), creating team agreements that have a focus on the virtual aspect of work, talking about the need for virtual events, and of course the respect of our time zones when setting up a time for different activities.

Her hope is that by the end of her presentation you will see key differences between how collocated teams work and how virtual teams work.

Julia Kung

Creating a safe space for mental health, mindfulness, and emotional security with compassion and courage is why Julia Kung gets up every morning. She holds regular meditation classes and organizes workshops. Julia is unstoppable when it comes to the topic of well-being and personal growth. She burns for innovative ideas and creative solutions. Julia is a people believer and a team developer. During the past 10 years, she has consulted and enabled business leaders on a diverse range of people topics and supported in Recruiting, Talent, and Organizational Development. Julia holds a Bachelor’s degree in business management. She’s a senior HR Generalist with 10+ years of local, regional, and global experience across a broad and diverse range of industries, specifically in building, scaling, and transforming organizations. Driven by an ever-curious nature, she is passionate, tenacious, and collaborative in problem-solving with proven consulting and coaching skills and the ability to build strong relationships with different people across the organization, both internationally and locally. Previously, Julia was undertaking a variety of interim and project consulting roles, acting as an advisor to the recruiting team, ensuring to attract and retain diverse, engaged people. She provoked positive changes in people management by coaching and encouraging effective feedback loops between employees and managers. Julia cultivated a positive working environment within the office that inspired a healthy culture.

Title of presentation: Self Mastery and How to Get There. A Practical Approach.

From The Agile Coaching Growth Wheel explanation: "Self Mastery: At the heart of great agile coaching is the need to invest in yourself through learning and reflection and take care of your wellbeing. Self-mastery starts with a focus on yourself, having the emotional, social, and relationship intelligence to choose how you show up in any given context.

Oliver Perner

Dean Latchana

Dean Latchana supports individuals and organizations to succeed in a dynamic market by helping them to develop situational awareness and ways of working that are contextual to their needs. He advises and guides individuals and organizations to gain a new set of competencies so they can continuously re-optimize to an ever-changing business landscape. Dean co-develops change to remove organizational debt to create a more balanced focus for continuous improvement and innovation. In order to achieve this, as a Business Agility Consultant, his role is to support business transformation programs and develop new ways of working across departments. He teaches departments, and coaches & mentors individuals. Dean is an accomplished speaker and established practitioner across several business sectors. latchana.co.uk Find out more on Dean’s LinkedIn or website.

Title of presentation: Leader’s Role in Enabling Organisational Competitiveness.

How well is your organization responding to rapid change and uncertainty? In responding to change, as a leader, how are you engaging individuals across your organization? How are you enabling organizational learning in order to enable organization competitiveness? These are crucial questions that will be discussed in this talk. We’ll discuss the principles for nurturing and promoting continuous transformation. A transformation that is respectful of legacy, recognizes established success, and is accommodating to each individual’s growth journey. Supported by the speaker’s experience, the talk will help leaders use the following approaches to foster exploration and emergence – prerequisites for organizational competitiveness.

Mark Marijnissen

Mark Marijnissen is an internationally recognized expert on Obeya and in particular the Art of Obeya Hosting. As an Organization Coach working for Organize Agile, Mark has guided multiple transformations and has hosted many events to build learning organizations - organizations that continuously improve. Mark was one of the five speakers at the worldwide Obeya Summit and has authored a training module on Obeya Hosting in the core curriculum of the Obeya Association, the worldwide leading place where Obeya professionals meet. Mark is known for his unique combination of being both analytical and human-centered - combining his experience with mindfulness and nonviolent communication with a clear and technical presentation of complex ideas. Before hosting participatory change as an Organization Coach, Mark worked as a Life Coach, Nonviolent Communication Trainer, Software Developer, Scrummaster, and Lean Startup Consultant.

Read the article on Obeya Hosting here and, connect on LinkedIn or view the website.

Title of presentation: The Art of Obeya Hosting.

The Obeya is a digital and physical room where people come together to move from strategy to execution, and from insight to action, by making inclusive and sustainable decisions. Although people often highlight visual management as the key to a successful Obeya, hosting the space is equally important. In this talk, Mark will share the Art of Obeya Hosting with examples and techniques: What does it take to stop bad meeting habits from ruining your Obeya Session? How can you host a space which cultivates good habits for collaboration, shared understanding, and creative problem solving that allows participants to move from insight to action?

Vineet Patni

Vineet Patni is a passionate trainer, a compassionate coach, an avid learner, an aspiring author, and a firm believer in Lean-Agile-Scrum values and principles.

Vineet strives to integrate work and personal life so he can live a fulfilling life. He chose to follow his passion for teaching, combined to bring positive change and live his core values of service and contribution. That’s where he found his Ikigai (his reason for being).

He serves organizations in reshaping workplaces by adopting collaboration-based work environments by spreading the right Agile Mindset, thereby enabling Business Agility.

In the last eight years, Vineet has performed various roles such as Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach & Trainer, Leadership Coach & Trainer, Enterprise Transformation Coach, Community Leader, and Conference Speaker

Title of presentation: Minimalism: The Key to Maximizing Value and Great Product Ownership.

As per the Scrum Guide, “The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team.” A lack of more profound understanding of this, coupled with the misunderstood stance of a Product Owner as the output maximizer, results in suboptimal products and wasted efforts of the Scrum team members.

Well, keeping people busy and producing much stuff is not the intent of Agile Product Development using Scrum. But then, what is the missing ingredient to create successful products? Simplicity and doing less are the mantra!

In this participatory session, the speaker will bring fresh perspectives about successful Product Ownership through success stories of great achievers, connecting principally to Lean Thinking and Agile values & principles.

Christina Lange

Maarten Dalmijn

Carmen Guerra Jurado

Carmen Guerra Jurado is a Scrum Master, Agile coach, and business agility trainer in the Netherlands. She is characterized by her enthusiastic and creative personality, which comes to the fore in, for example, designing her own retrospectives such as her Golden Apples retro board game or Encanto retrospective. She first came into contact with Agile in 2016, during a major Agile transformation at one of the largest Dutch energy companies, and knew from that moment that she had found her calling. For her, Agile means "getting things done, while having fun", and constantly reviewing what you do to make it better, through transparency and the power of human connection.

Carmen had her first experience as a speaker during the Women in Agile Business Agility Conference NYC in 2020, as part of the Launching New Voices program. Later that year she was a speaker at the Agile Consortium, where she spoke and facilitated a workshop about psychological safety.

You can connect with Carmen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-guerra-jurado-agile-coach/

Title of presentation: Why is Nobody Talking About Bruno? A Talk About Psychological Safety, Toxic Positivity, and Culture in Your Organisation

Inspired by the movie Encanto, Carmen compares the character Bruno and negative or awkward events that may transpire in our day-to-day work life. Having established the context for the talk, we dive deeper into the importance of psychological safety, organizational culture, and toxic positivity. In conclusion, we discuss the potential effects for not only the people experiencing a 'Bruno', but also what having 'Brunos' in your organization could mean for the organization itself, and why it is important to actually talk about your 'Bruno(s)', unlike the song in the movie Encanto suggests.

Takeaways for participants:

Why is psychological safety so crucial in a workplace?

What is toxic positivity and how can you recognize it in your workplace?

Hopefully a positive reminder of why people work where they work and why it's important for them (to continue) to make their workplace a joyful place to work.

Algirdas Milašius

Dave Westgarth

Craig Cockburn

Craig Cockburn (“coburn”) has been working with agile practices for over 15 years. Originally a software engineer, where he worked in networking and was recruited remotely in the 1980s, he holds software degrees from Edinburgh University and Napier University, the latter an M.Sc. with class medal and distinction. Craig is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a freelance agile coach. He is an active member of the agile community and is a founding committee member of the BCS Agile Specialist group. He has worked as a scrum master, development lead, and agile coach across many sectors, particularly the public sector and banking. He wrote the UK’s first guide to getting online in 1992, invented an early browser, and is credited on the acknowledgments for HTML5 and in the book “Agendashift:” by Mike Burrows. Craig has used remote working for many years and has research published on it from 1993 as well as extensive blog posts pre-covid based on his own experience. Recently Craig has been one of the advisors and early supporters of the Agile20Reflect festival and is a co-author of "Agile an Unexpected Journey", available through Amazon. Craig uses Red Team Thinking to help organizations make better decisions through critical thinking. His main talk topics are Critical Thinking, Visualizing Strategy, Visualizing Talks, and Remote Working.

Craig's full biography and contact details are at https://www.craigcockburn.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CraigCockburn

Twitter: @siliconglen

Medium: siliconglen.medium.com

Title of presentation: Visualise Your Roadmaps and Options Using a Strategy Map.

“Most strategy dialogues end up with executives talking at cross-purposes because…nobody knows exactly what is meant by vision and strategy, and no two people ever quite agree on which topics belong where” (Geoffrey Moore Escape Velocity)

Lack of alignment and vision is often cited as one of the reasons transformations fail. Where there is a plan, it's often developed in a management silo with little input from the rest of the organization. In this new technique, first presented at Agile Tour London, Craig uses thinking from cynefin, wardley maps, and visualization to introduce strategy maps - a way to see everything on a page from context to vision including your competitor's moves.

There's a new line of thinking that existing roadmaps don't really work as summed up in this tweet which blew up and some people referencing my earlier approach which went into more detail. Let's not roadmap or railroad product owners into only one way forward that hides what competitors might do.

This talk is the 2nd most watched talk in the whole[ Agile20Reflect festival archive|https://www.youtube.com/c/AccessAgileFreeLearning] - a global series of 800 events in 2021 to mark 20 years of the Agile Manifesto.

Yannick Vanderstraeten

Yannick Vanderstraeten is the Agile Community Lead in Telesoftas, where he is responsible for supporting the Scrum Masters in the company's diverse projects. Yannick also covers the implementation of Agile methodologies and encouraging and facilitating Agility at all levels of the company.

His journey in Agility started about 16 years ago as a software developer. Once he felt the taste of it, he got hooked! He’s been a Scrum Master for about 5 years and Community Lead for the last year. Recently, he also started external coaching.

Yannick believes strongly in approaching Agility not just from the soft side but also the development process side of things – something where his developer background has been invaluable.

Find more about Yannick and contact him on his LinkedIn.

Read about Yannick’s experience here.

Title of presentation: Fostering Partnerships Between Client and Developers, Not Silent or Revolting Workforces.

When talking about Agile teams, we hear the usual terms: roadmap, product goal, sprint goal, it's about the outcome, not output, etc... All that is true, but there are a lot of things that can be hidden underneath all that, which may not be immediately visible.

In software development, things like code debt, legacy, and CI/CD are also very common terms, yet they don't always tend to play nicely with the team's delivery roadmap. In his presentation, Yannick will show how a Scrum Master can foster a healthy partnership between clients and the dev team by actively incorporating these aspects in the day-to-day, using some examples of his developer-to-Scrum Master journey along the way.

Viktor Grekov

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Chris Stone

Olina Glindevi

Martin Berg and Daniel Wester

Martin Berg is an experienced coach and organizational change manager. He has been helping organizations how to improve their way of working within agile since 2007. On top of his keen interest in both people and interactions, he makes use of his drawing and illustration skills to make points that sometimes might be hard to understand without them. Examples of this are his illustration of the Cynefin framework; his comics illustrate different work-related aspects. All can be found at vige.se.

Daniel Wester has passion for people and leadership development. He is an experienced coach within Agile and Lean since 2011.

Title of presentation: Leadership Dojo – Discover and Practice Behaviours & Skills Needed in Your Role.

“That is obviously wrong and you are stupid!" a team member suddenly burst out on the daily standup.

You didn't see this coming. Even when this was directed to another member of the team you, the Scrum master, were shocked. But as a good Scrum Master, you acted and tried to handle the situation, you picked up and got things to calm down. Afterward, you had a feeling that you could have done better in that situation. But how? How could I have been better prepared?

As a Servant Leader and Scrum Master navigating in the complex environment of team dynamics and external system influences, it is important to practice. We bring you the Leadership Dojo where you will have the possibility to experience real-world situations in the different Scrum events, together with co-coaches and co-learners. Research has shown that practicing and preparing for different situations makes challenging situations easier to handle. Like firemen or elite athletes that train to handle different situations, we must also.

Bent Myllerup

Bent Myllerup is cofounder of Better Change, an organization of master-level agile coaches in Europe and South Africa. He is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer. He holds a Master in Management Development (MMD) from Copenhagen Business School and is normally focusing on leadership and culture in his engagements with clients. Bent is offering various training programs under Agile Leadership Journey, ICAgile, and Scrum Alliance.

Title of presentation: Mastering Agile Coaching.

According to the State of Agile Coaching Report 2021, only 19% of people who consider themselves to be Agile Coaches have a master-level certification in this area. Bent doesn’t believe that you can blindly evaluate people’s competencies based on their collection of badges, but he thinks there is a degree of truth within the numbers. Bent sees it as a potential risk of damaging the reputation of the profession when the numbers are as low as indicated.

What does it take to be a master Agile coach?

Well, first you must have your Agile foundation in order. You must know where Agile comes from; you must live the values and principles; you must know the various frameworks and practices, and you must have the personal experiences of practicing it yourself for years. You must have had your hands on the hobs for a while and know how it feels and smells.

Another important matter is your awareness of your personal experiences and opinions as not directly applicable to the context of those you are coaching. Often Agile coaches are contracted for a limited time to help an organization implement agile approaches. There is no chance you are going to gain a deep insight into the dynamics of the organization in this short time. You need to rely on the members of the organization and, in Brent’s opinion, you serve them best by enabling them to manage the change. In other words, unlock their potential to succeed with Agile.

This is where Systemic coaching comes in. Bent’s experience is that the clients of Agile coaches highly benefit from their coach being skillful in professional coaching techniques, as this enables them to take ownership and act during the change.

Bent has been educating Agile coaches in professional coaching techniques for more than a decade, and in this workshop, he will take you through the fundamentals of Systemic coaching and some of the advanced techniques as well. Most importantly, Bent will do this by making you practice it throughout the workshop. He will also address when coaching is not the answer.

You do not become a full-blown systemic coach after these few hours, but you have started on your journey of mastering Agile coaching, and you will be ready to apply the learnings in your practice right away.

Charles-Louis de Maere

Charles-Louis de Maere’s mission is to make the world a better place one step at a time by reducing frustration levels in the workplace. His main area of expertise is in the field of human relationships.

As a Scrum Master/Agile Coach, Charles-Louis thrives when bringing people in contact with agile values and letting them apply their understanding of it to their context. This can be limited to the IT department. However, he’s noticed the benefits are much higher when everyone is on board. Charles-Louis is also more interested in pragmatism than applying dogmas without reflection. The goal should still be to work on something of value and perform relevant work. He’s worked both with start-ups as well as big institutions, adapting his coaching to what’s needed.

As a trainer/facilitator, Charles-Louis strongly believes people learn at their best when they are given the space to experiment and start important conversations. Although he has a fair idea of the structure of the training, he also lets the training topics emerge from what the participants actually need in order to enrich their experience, rather than enforcing his strict training program.

Follow Charles-Louis here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleslouisdemaere/

Title of presentation: Fairy Tales at Work, Why Not?

The workshop is focused on high interaction between people. At the beginning of the session, they will get acquainted with a story. Some might know it, others might not.

Throughout the storytelling, they will be invited to work in small groups to create meaning from what happened, bringing their own perspective in groups, then back in plenary.

The facilitation aspect will highlight how we can use existing stories, and fairy tales, as a vessel for communication, be it on a project, during a retrospective, for new team members, and works as well in person or remotely.

Tomas Lekavičius

Ceri Newton-Sargunar

Vladimirs Ivanovs and Marija Maijere

Vladimirs Ivanovs is Optimus Prime of the agiletransformer.com team. He’s worked in various sectors and provided coaching and training all over the EMEA region. He was an Agile Coach for British Petroleum and lived in Azerbaijan and Georgia for a few years, working with senior leaders. His passions are visualization and his mustache. Vladimirs has presented different topics at Agile Tour Vilnius more than 5 times, so there must be a reason why!

Marija Maijere is an agiletransformer.com girl and the creative soul behind new games, workshops, and innovative practices. Her passion and active studies in the area of art therapy serve as an infinitive source of innovations and helped to create dozens of unique training programs for companies and universities. Background in product management and digital marketing in industries from retail to dating helps her to find a common language with anyone. Her empathy level is 98.

Title of presentation: Agile Vitamins for Leadership.

Interest in Agile Leadership has tripled over the past 10 years, but still many are asking the same questions over and over again - "Why shall I bother?", "What is it?", "How can I master it?". You should be brave to start looking for answers. Two authors have combined practical experience in agile coaching and art therapy, as a result, a role-playing workshop game "Agile vitamins for Leadership" was born. Participants will have a chance to use their imagination and help fairy-tale characters realize their leadership potential with the use of 9 Agile Leadership competencies. Character and competency choices are gamified, there are a few rounds of interaction within small groups, which then lead to a role-play on stage and debrief. Through fun and laughter, you will discover new behavioral patterns and strategies for personal growth as leaders. Anyone can do it!

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Noel Warnell

Ceren Yildirim

Meredith Finkelstein

Meredith is a 20+ year technology veteran. She works in fintech leadership on current portfolio management focusing on AI and cloud native. Meredith is passionate about self-sovereignty, high-performing/high EQ teams, and rethinking development practices. Her handles are hackerm0m on all the social networks and thehackerm0m on twitch. Most recently, she spoke at Visions2030 and IJAD Digital Space on humanistic blockchain implementations.

Title of presentation: What is Quality? Traditional Agile Ideas and A New Embodied Approach.

One of the pillars of my team is quality. Quality is usually considered something a product has. A product either is or has high quality or does not. However, software is never finished!

My experience of quality has changed over my career. What if we think of quality as the feeling we experience when we build software and not a metric to measure, like test coverage, or a goal?

This workshop is for agile practitioners, technology leaders, product owners, scrum masters, and developers. We will begin with a case study of my embodied experience of building a piece of software and how that correlated to traditional quality metrics. Then we will share our own experience of what writing software feels like, from an embodied perspective. Prompts include, deployment to production, code review, story grooming, but this is intended to be open to what the participants want to discuss. What is the feeling quality when we engage in these activities? Time permitting, we can discuss how we can begin to incorporate this new notion of quality into traditional agile practices.

The quality of the experience of building a software product informs the quality of whatever we are building.

Anna Zakoyan

Working as an Agile Coach, Trainer, and Consultant, Anna is the founder and CEO of PrimeProjekt – an agency helping companies transform their product/service development process to meet maximum efficiency, and cultivate high-performing teams. Anna has 16 years of experience in project and team management, 12 out of which focused on Agile solutions. She has helped 50+ companies transform how teams collaborate and how work gets done. These include SGS Digicomply, Krisp, Ucraft, HSBC, Ameriabank, and Joomag. She has coached more than 100 teams and trained more than 2000 individuals. She conducts private consultations and coaching sessions, training for startups and organizations, as well as offers programs for individuals. Anna has been a speaker at several international conferences including Scrum Global Gathering 2019, Agile Z-Day 2020, Frug’Agile 2021, and Agnostic Agile Conference 2022. Being herself a true humanist, she loves working with people, craving together an "Agile mindset" and getting the most out of each team.

Follow Anna at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annazakoyan/

Title of presentation: Coaching Agile Teams to Achieve High Performance.

Anna is now running an Agile Team Coaching program online. The program helps teams achieve high performance, identify weaknesses, gaps, and opportunities, and improve by working through 10 practical areas of focus. There are visual templates and group exercises. Thus, she thought that she could use one or two exercises to facilitate some important topics like effective communication, dealing with conflict, or setting goals using Mural or Zoom with breakout rooms. Anna believes that you may reap the benefit of such a practical workshop and use the knowledge when working with your team later on.

Ann-Marie Kong

Ann-Marie Kong is a Leadership & Agile Coach, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a yoga practitioner, creative change catalyst, avid learner, community grower, and a generous, joyful, playful and grateful soul. She is on a journey of living her life’s purpose, shifting from a life of success to a life of significance where success is aligned with significance, and making a meaningful difference in the world by sharing enduring love.

Connect with Ann-Marie via LinkedIn or her website.

Title of presentation: Growing Your Leadership Agility with Positive Intelligence

“The solutions to our current problems cannot be solved from the same level of consciousness that created them.” - Albert Einstein

You live in a rapidly changing, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and interconnected world. To meet the adaptive challenges you face today, you need to evolve in your consciousness, in your ways of thinking and being.

Leadership agility is your ability to take wise and effective action amid complex, rapidly changing conditions. Positive Intelligence is a pathway to developing your leadership agility.

Positive Intelligence enables you to recover faster and shift from your inner critics/saboteurs to your Sage by developing your mental fitness muscles. Mental fitness is your capacity for handling life's great challenges with a positive mindset rather than getting stressed and upset.

What’s possible for you when you get out of your own way?

Learning outcomes

To experience your saboteurs and how to shift to your Sage
To develop your mental fitness muscle with Positive Intelligence repetitions

Pre-work (optional): You are welcome to take your Positive Intelligence score assessment and saboteur assessment.

Susannah Chambers

Susannah Chambers is laser focused on empowering teams – and the individuals that make up those teams – to recognise and articulate the value they create. She is hugely passionate about coaching a culture where everybody’s voice is heard to enable teams to co-craft an environment where they are ready to engage with ‘the value conversation’. And so she created the Metrix & Chill approach! Susannah is an Agile Coach Lead and Certified Scrum Master. She has over 20 years of practical experience serving individuals and teams in projects on local to an international scale across a wide range of sectors: tech, retail, construction, and education. Widely renowned as a “walking/talking/singing/dancing career portfolio”, Susannah has been described as modeling the mindset and behaviors one would wish to see in agile teams through her own actions and strategies she equips teams with through her coaching. As well as her day-to-day work coaching teams in agile ways of working, Susannah has studied Leadership Coaching at Harvard Extension School and for a Diploma in Coaching at the University of Cambridge. Susannah’s mission in life is to bring joy. Her favorite way to spend her time is being with her 3 children.

Title of presentation: Metrix & Chill - Teams Articulating Their Value.

How do we explain the value we’re creating through the effort we invest? Metrics for measurement are often seen to be the answer to this challenge. However, what do we do when people gravitate to their own view of which metrics are important? The Metrix & Chill model, designed by Susannah Chambers and offered to the software development teams she serves in the tech environment, helps teams and individuals make sense of how to move forward meaningfully and strategically through gaining alignment around understanding which metrics matter. In this interactive session, Susannah will share the Metrix & Chill approach and explain how the strategies it incorporates (including value statementing, a basket of measures, and financial proxies) can rapidly create positive outcomes in teams articulating their value. This session will create value for anybody working in any sector in any role and with any level of experience!

Mikhail Sorokin and Alexander Lemiasheuski

Alexander Gijsbers

Alexander Gijsbers is a managing consultant at Blue Bricks, a Product management coach, and a certified PSPO3 Product Owner. He has over 8 years of experience in helping organizations to be more Agile and deliver great products and services. Alexander started his career as a business analyst and quickly moved into a Product Manager role. He has worked with a variety of organizations, from Startups to large Enterprises, across various industries. He most recently served as Digital Product Lead for Vattenfall in the Netherlands.

Clients describe Alexander as both highly analytical and human-centered, allowing him to clearly communicate complex ideas. He has the ability to get people involved and is committed to turning ideas into tangible solutions. He can show your product teams how to deliver value, by focusing on the right opportunities.

Check his Linkedin and Twitter profiles!

Title of presentation: Building the Right Things by Asking the Right Questions.

Most product teams spend the majority of their time focusing on shipping features quickly and reliably. Often making progress in this area feels like the right thing to do. However, how do we know if we're actually delivering the most value for both our users and the organization? In the product discovery process, we actively validate what is valuable to our users, before moving on with the development & delivery.

In this workshop, Alexander will discuss:

What Product Discovery is and how it can help your organization?
What the key elements of Product Discovery are and how you can navigate them?
How you can structure your Product Discovery process?

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