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THE TRUTH ABOUT AGILE
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Barrie Kolstein
Head Violin Maker, Restorer, and Appraiser
Kolstein Music
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Kolstein Music
“STRINGS & BOWS”
The Innovative Leadership of Kolstein Music
Strong business leadership is a vital part of every successful company and a
tenet that is not unfamiliar to Kolstein Music. Kolstein has been contributing
to the musical industry for 77+ years designing, repairing, and restoring finely
made violins, violas, cellos, basses, and bows for some of the world’s top
musicians and budding young talent.
This POV explores how their business, led by founder Samuel Kolstein, former
owner Barrie Kolstein, and current Owner and President, Manny Alvarez, shaped
the journey of this legendary company.
Manny and Barrie shed light on the company’s innovative products, services and
concepts that continue to make Kolstein a leader in music industry.
Join:
• Timothy Cobb, Principal Bassist with the New York Philharmonic
• Rufus Reid, Bassist, and Musician, Composer and Educator, and who played with
the late, jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon
• Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer
as they share insights on Kolstein’s innovation and enduring success.
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Thom Holmes
Music Historian and Author
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Roland – Inventor, Innovator and Manufacturer of Electronic Musical Instruments
How did acoustic instruments develop into the digital sounds and technology we
know today? One of the driving forces for this evolution of music is Roland
Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical equipment and
software. This year, the legendary company celebrates its 50th anniversary as a
leader whose innovative brand spans numerous genres of music and has been an
inspirational mainstay among music artists worldwide.
This POV explores how Roland cultivates new ideas and products. It’s a great
example of Roland’s philosophy to “Inspire the Enjoyment of Creativity” and “Be
the Best Rather Than the Biggest”.
Watch Thom Holmes, music historian and author of the book Electronic and
Experimental Music: Technology, Music and Culture, as he shares leadership
insights and expertise on how Roland and electronic instruments shaped and
influenced the music that have entertained us for decades.
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Ellen Galinsky
President
Families and Work Institute
FIVE SKILLS FOR INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP
For over twenty-years, Ellen Galinsky has been studying what are called
executive function skills. Hundreds of studies have found that these skills are
predictive of achievement, health, wealth, and quality of life often more so
than IQ or socioeconomic status. They are more critical for school readiness
than IQ or entry-level reading or math, and are predictive of success throughout
the school years from preschool through university (again more so than IQ). The
importance of these skills doesn’t stop in childhood. There is abundant evidence
that EFs are crucial for success in getting and keeping a job, career
advancement, making and keeping friends, and marital harmony. Adults with better
executive function skills report that they are happier and have a better quality
of life. In this lively and interactive session, she will share research on
these skills, what they are, and how you can improve them.
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BIO:
Ellen Galinsky is the President of Families and Work Institute, where she’s
conducted some of the most comprehensive studies of the workforce and workplace.
She also serves as Chief Science Officer of the Bezos Family Foundation. Over
her career, her research has focused on the workforce-workplace, work-family,
youth voice, child-care, parent-professional relationship, and parental
development, She is currently at work on a book about adolescence called The
Breakthrough Years. Ellen is the author of the best-selling Mind in the Making,
more than 100 books/reports and 300 articles. Other highlights include serving
as a parent expert in the Mister Rogers Talks to Parents TV series; as child
care expert on Dr. T. Berry Brazelton’s TV series What Every Baby Knows; being
the elected President of the National Association for the Education of Young
Children (NAEYC); and being elected to the National Academy of Human Resources.
In 2018. the Work and Family Researchers Network established the ongoing Ellen
Galinsky Generative Researcher Award.
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Bob Safian
Host
Masters of Scale: Rapid Response podcast
LESSONS OF RAPID RESPONSE – SUCCEEDING IN THE AGE OF COVID
Our business reality has been permanently adjusted. The challenges of the “BC”
era—before coronavirus—were already acute, with intense competition,
generational and global pressures rising, tech-fueled uncertainties. But in
today’s “AC” world—after coronavirus—the pressures are even more acute, and the
stakes even higher. To succeed in this environment requires a new kind of
playbook.
Drawing on more than 150 intensive, in-depth interviews since the pandemic began
with the world’s top CEOs and business leaders, journalist and strategic adviser
Bob Safian offers a cohesive framework for addressing these unprecedented times.
Presenting clear, engaging and often-unexpected lessons, Safian delves into the
personal, practical learnings of leaders from Airbnb to Nike, GM to Verizon,
sharing memorable and often intimate stories of their in-the-trenches choices,
decisions and epiphanies. By bringing to life the insights that matter most,
this session illuminates how we must refine the equation for success to create a
better future.
Key Takeaways:
* • For all today’s dislocations, now is an ideal moment to inspire and reshape
a career, a team, an organization.
* • You can move faster and more flexibly than you think you can
* • Principle-based decisions should outweigh business-based decisions
* • Embracing the right mindset is the ultimate competitive advantage
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BIO:
Bob Safian is one of the most sought-after voices in modern business. From
hosting acclaimed podcast Masters of Scale: Rapid Response—which has identified
critical post-pandemic lessons across industries— to editorial leadership
positions at Fast Company, Time, and Fortune, Safian has been lauded as an
unparalleled source of insight on the future of global enterprise.
When Covid-19 struck, Safian was tapped to host Rapid Response, dedicated to
covering the real-time adjustments required in this time of uncertainty.
Safian’s guests have included scores of CEOs from Airbnb to Verizon, Delta to
GM, Marriott to Target, plus leaders in medicine, philanthropy, academia,
emerging tech and more. Cited by The New York Times as one of its “Podcasts for
the Pandemic Era,” Rapid Response gets millions of downloads each month. Through
his advisory firm The Flux Group, Safian also provides confidential strategic
advice to key Fortune 50 companies, global professional-services firms,
high-impact nonprofits and more.
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Andrew Lee
Talent Leader
THE SECRET TO DEVELOPING LEADERS
As organizations enter a post Covid environment many will find one area that
lacked focus over the course of the last two years was in the development of
their talent. Managers have awaken to a hyper competitive talent market where
every organization wants to attract and hire great leaders. These companies want
to hire someone who can come in on Day One and be spectacular! Unfortunately,
that is not the way 99% of hiring works and that thought process is unrealistic.
Hiring and development is not about hiring someone with a low ceiling;- hiring
is about bringing someone into your organization with a high ceiling. What if I
told you that there were key strategies and techniques you could use to ensure
that you not only hired, but developed leaders in your organization with high
potential and high output. Would that be of interest to you? We will discuss how
to attract and develop talent that will increase your organization’s
productivity and efficiency.
Key Takeaways will include:
* • A leader is someone who can encourage, inspire, affect, and drive business
results. Reporting structures mean little, but influence means everything.
* • Leadership development begins by attracting quality talent to your
organization.
* • In order to grow future leaders you need to make sure that you are taking
time to set up weekly or monthly check ins
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BIO:
Andrew Lee is an expert in the field of leadership strategies, talent management
and talent acquisition. With more than 15 years of management experience in
corporate functions and agency recruiting, Andrew has a unique perspective on
what it takes to win in the workplace.
Andrew is an accomplished thought leader and speaker who has delivered the
successful Ted Talk “How to Interview and Find a Rockstar.” He is a keynote
speaker and he serves on several advisory boards. Andrew is a Veteran and native
of Charlotte, N.C., where he currently resides with his wife Tiffany and their
three daughters Elizabeth, Isabelle, and Charlotte.
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Dr. Diane Hamilton
CEO
Tonerra
CURIOSITY: GETTING OUT OF STATUS-QUO THINKING
No matter what your role is or your responsibility, there are ways you can
identify and leverage the power of curiosity. Curiosity is more than just
question-asking; it is also about getting out of status-quo behaviors that might
have worked in the past but no longer serve us. In this presentation, you will
learn what value curiosity adds to you and your organization; you will find out
what inhibits it and how to get it back.
Key Takeaways:
* • The importance of curiosity and its tie to motivation, drive, and mindset
* • The cost of not incorporating curiosity into the core culture of an
organization
* • How other organizations have capitalized on curiosity
* • How curiosity is lost and how to get it back
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BIO:
Dr. Diane Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of Tonerra, which is a consulting and
media-based business. She is a nationally syndicated radio host, keynote
speaker, and the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business. She
has authored multiple books which are required in universities around the world,
including Cracking the Curiosity Code: The Key to Unlocking Human Potential, and
The Power of Perception: Eliminating Boundaries to Create Successful Global
Leaders. She is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® assessment, which is
the first and only assessment that determines the factors that inhibit curiosity
and the Perception Power Index, which determines the factors that impact the
perception process. Her groundbreaking work helps organizations improve
innovation, engagement, and productivity. Thinkers50 Radar chose her as one of
the top minds in management and leadership. Her work has been endorsed by some
of the most respected names in leadership.
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Daniel H. Pink
Author
THE POWER OF REGRET: FIRESIDE CHAT
Enjoy an intimate fireside chat and interview with #1 New York Times bestselling
author, Daniel Pink, as he will share key lessons from his newly released book,
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.
Drawing on fascinating research in social psychology, neuroscience, and
biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. He also
undertook two unprecedented research efforts of his own. One was the American
Regret Project, the largest public opinion sampling of American attitudes on
regret ever conducted. The other was the World Regret Survey, which has
collected individual regrets from more than 16,000 people in 105 countries.
These projects reveal a fundamentally new understanding of what people regret
and why that matters.
While previous research has focused on the domains of people’s lives (work,
family, health, education), beneath that surface is a deep structure of regret
that spans these domains— a hidden architecture of human motivation and
aspiration. Around the world and across cultures, people have the same four core
human regrets, and in The Power of Regret, Pink argues that these operate as a
“photographic negative” of the good life.
By understanding what people regret the most, we can understand what they value
the most. And by following the simple, science-based three-step process that he
sets out, we can enlist our regrets to work smarter and live better.
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BIO:
Daniel H. Pink is the author of seven books, including the forthcoming The Power
of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward (Riverhead, 2022). His other
books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well
as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books
have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold
millions of copies around the world.
Pink was host and co-executive producer of “Crowd Control,” a television series
about human behavior on the National Geographic Channel that aired in more than
100 countries. He has appeared frequently on NPR, PBS, ABC, CNN, and other TV
and radio networks in the US and abroad.
He has been a contributing editor at Fast Company and Wired as well as a
business columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. His articles and essays have also
appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic,
Slate, and other publications. He was also a Japan Society Media fellow in
Tokyo, where he studied the country’s massive comic industry.
Before venturing out on his own 20 years ago, Dan worked in several positions in
politics and government, including serving from 1995 to 1997 as chief
speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore.
He received a BA from Northwestern University, where he was a Truman Scholar and
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Yale Law School. He has also
received honorary doctorates from Georgetown University, the Pratt Institute,
the Ringling College of Art and Design, the University of Indianapolis, and
Westfield State University.
Pink and his wife live in Washington, DC. They are the parents of two recent
college graduates and a college freshman.
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Hilary Kinney
Director and Author
Marriott International
PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR PARENTS
Hilary Kinney delivered this excellent session on ‘Project Management for
Parents’ at IIL’s 2020 International Project Management Day Online Conference.
During the global pandemic, work and family spheres have become more integrated
as parents have struggled to manage remote work and online school for their
children. Project Management for Parents offers business principles to navigate
this new reality and help your home life go more smoothly even when the pandemic
ends. See project and change management techniques in a new light, learning how
they can streamline and optimize your daily life.
Key takeaways of this session:
* • The importance of scope definition and stakeholder engagement
* • The impact of constraints on family scheduling
* • Ways to realistically manage action items for your kids
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BIO:
Hilary Kinney is a project director with 17 years of experience at Marriott
International*. She is also an award-winning blogger and author of the new book
Project Management for Parents, providing resources for busy families to build
teamwork, get organized, and streamline life at home.
Her achievements range from deploying a customer recognition program across
7,000 Marriott properties globally to directing special projects from the
President’s office at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Hilary was proud to be
part of the team when The Ritz-Carlton achieved the top-ranked position in the
J.D. Power Luxury Hotel Guest Satisfaction Award for 7 out of 8 years.
Hilary earned a B.S. in Hotel Administration from Cornell University. She holds
a Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification from the Project
Management Institute, as well as a Change Management Certification from the
Prosci Change Management Leadership Center. Hilary lives in the Washington, D.C.
area, where she enjoys outdoor activities with her family. She provides
additional parenting resources at www.projectmanagementforparents.com.
*Views are her own and not those of Marriott International.
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Darrell Rigby
Partner and Director
Bain & Company
DOING AGILE RIGHT – TRANSFORMATION WITHOUT CHAOS
Darrell Rigby delivered this excellent session on “Doing Agile Right –
Transformation without Chaos” at IIL’s 2020 Agile & Scrum Online Conference.
The use of agile has exploded across the globe, and with this growth has come
dangerous myths – the idea that agile should reshape your organization
overnight, or that agile should be used in every function for all types of work.
Sadly, Agile Done Wrong leads to chaos.
Agile can indeed transform the work environments of even the largest and most
complex companies; it can make people’s jobs more rewarding and it can
turbocharge innovation. The key is balance – every organization must find its
optimal balance across a complex system, using agile methods to adapt its
leadership team, planning and budgeting cycles, talent system, business
processes and technologies.
Takeaways:
* • The greatest risk to agile today is that it becomes a fad; learn how to
combat this risk to support deep, enduring results with agile
* • Understanding how to build an agile operating model equips companies with
the ability to not just survive, but thrive in a world of unpredictable,
accelerating change and digital disruption – something companies are facing
now more than ever
* • Walk away with deep examples and practical approaches to address each
component of the organizational system: how does a C-level team change when
working in agile? How can planning and budgeting become agile? What is
required in an agile talent system? How can we transform bureaucratic
processes and technologies through agile?
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BIO:
Darrell Rigby is a partner at Bain & Company, based in the Boston office. He
leads the Global Innovation and Agile practices and is the former head of Global
Retail practice. Darrell joined Bain in 1978 and specializes in innovation and
retail growth strategies. Over the past 42 years, he has worked with many of the
world’s most successful companies.
A frequent speaker and writer on innovation and retail issues including agile
innovation, BothBrain innovation®, omnichannel retailing, winning in turbulence,
brand positioning and change management, he regularly speaks at management
conferences and has made media appearances on CNBC, CNN Moneyline and Bloomberg.
His research is widely published in the business pages of many US and
international publications, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street
Journal, BusinessWeek and the Financial Times.
He is the author of Winning in Turbulence (2009), and his next book, Doing Agile
Right, will be available in May 2020.
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Brandon Fargis
President
Fargis Consulting Group
LEADING MINDS, FUELING INNOVATION: LEADERSHIP IN AN INCREASINGLY NEURODIVERSE
WORLD
Brandon Fargis delivered this excellent session on “Leading Minds, Fueling
Innovation: Leadership in an Increasingly Neurodiverse World” at IIL’s 2020
Leadership & Innovation Online Conference
Neurodiversity is a biological fact—the normal diversity of the human brain—and
data suggests up to 1 in 4 individuals are Neurodivergent beyond that of a
societal “norm,” commonly labelled as ADHD/ADD, Autism Spectrum Disorder,
Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Anxiety Disorders, among others.
Some of the greatest innovators of our time were and are Neurodiverse; however,
many of today’s organizational cultures and leadership methods are not
supportive of the employment, retention, and development of Neurodiverse talent.
This means that many brilliant, innovative minds are inadvertently being kept
from the table of innovation, slowing the pace of progress.
In an increasingly Neurodiverse world, how can top leaders and organizations
ensure that ALL minds have a seat at the table of innovation? Join this session
to learn about the world of Neurodiversity and how you can lead mind-first
toward supporting innovation and well-being in your people, products, and
customers!
Key Takeaways:
* • The history of Neurodiversity and its influence in the world.
* • Reasons organizations should act now to ensure a competitive edge.
* • What it means to lead mind-first and how it empowers a healthier workforce,
a more inclusive culture, and more innovative products.
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BIO:
Brandon is a technologist, innovator, mentor, and self-professed troublemaker at
the helm of anything with sails.
As a native North Carolinian who grew up working on family farms, he never
envisioned himself as a future leader. This changed after a local textile
company provided the funding for a technology lab at his small-town school. He
was hooked and hasn’t looked back.
After being recruited out of college by a top technology company, he began
building his executive credentials at several of the top software and technology
companies in the world. Along the way he was a key player at a software start-up
and developed what he calls a “knack for scaling growth and transformation” that
he teaches, “cannot truly occur without a people-first approach to leadership.”
This background has fed his leadership philosophy and served as the bedrock of
his professional success.
As an MBA candidate with degrees in CIS and Psychology, and an array of
professional certifications in project management and agile methodologies,
Brandon now works with organizations to conduct ground-up transformations and
strategic organizational change.
As an advocate for Diversity, Inclusion and Equality he also speaks regularly
about Neurodiversity and how allowing ALL minds at the table of innovation is
vital to fueling innovation.
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Tricia Cleland Silva
Educator, Consultant, and Story Mediator
Metaphora International
LEADING CHANGE THROUGH COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING
Collective sensemaking starts with individual stories. Stories influence how we
construct our sense of self in relation to others and our social environment,
especially within the world of work.
The stories we tell ourselves at work, particularly during times of change,
impact our relationships and the collaboration with those who are engaged in the
same work activities. Stories that we take for granted as ‘common sense’ may not
resonate with others, leading to conflict and tensions.
This talk focuses on the development of collaborative practices at work through
stories: from sharing stories to exchanging experiences and collectively
building a common story.
Key Takeaways:
* • Creative skills and tools to think about leadership and strategy beyond
traditional rationalized planning
* • Understanding the role of sensemaking and narrative construction in times
of change
* • Exploring workplace identities through Collaborative Storytelling
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BIO:
Tricia Cleland Silva, PhD, is the co-founder of Metaphora International, a
management consultancy that combines education, research, and storytelling. She
is a published author and recently co-authored the book Making Sense of Work
Through Collaborative Storytelling: Building Narratives in Organisational
Change.
Tricia co-hosts an academic and practitioner podcast called Collaborative
Storytelling Cafe and gave a TEDx Talk in 2021 on “Meaningful and Inclusive
Workplaces Through Story”. Tricia holds a senior lecturer position for the
Master’s degree program in Health Business Management at Metropolia University
of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, where she teaches leadership, strategy
and management to health, IT, and business practitioners.
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Joe Hart
President & CEO
Dale Carnegie
UNLEASHING CREATIVITY: ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE, ENGAGEMENT AND DIVERSITY
Creativity has dominated the business landscape for the past two years. Agile
organizations met the moment and distinguished themselves from the competition,
cementing market share and propelling their brands into the forefront even
during a crisis.
In 2022, organizations and leaders are confronted with new uncertainty and
evolving challenges. Yet for innovation to continue and creativity to flourish
in a sustainable way, organizations need to have the right environment – the
right corporate culture.
Join Dale Carnegie’s President & CEO Joe Hart as he uncovers the keys to
developing a culture of creativity. Informed by a recent global workplace
research study, Joe will share why leaders and their organizations must be able
to articulate organizational purpose, have the skills to drive employee
engagement, and the attitudes and understanding to nurture a diverse and
inclusive workplace.
Key Takeaways for this session include:
* Understand the four phases of the creativity process leading to innovative
outcomes
* Learn the key drivers enabling creativity at the individual, team and
organizational level
* How to manage the “paradoxes of creativity”
* Why purpose, engagement and diversity stand out as critical drivers of
innovation
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BIO:
Becoming CEO of Dale Carnegie in 2015, Joe has continued to lead the effort that
has helped thousands of organizations and millions of individuals take
command—of their businesses, their careers, and their futures. Joe started his
career as a practicing attorney at two prominent firms where he focused on
contract-related litigation. In 1998, he joined The Taubman Company, developer
of regional shopping centers, becoming Development Director. In 2000, he
followed a dream and started a venture and angel-backed e-Learning company
called InfoAlly. In 2005, Joe sold InfoAlly and went on to co-found and become
president of AssetHealth.
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Carole Jean Whittington
Founder & Principal
Mind Your Autistic Brain
ACCESSING UNTAPPED TALENT AFTER THE GREAT RESIGNATION TO IMPROVE ENGAGEMENT &
RETENTION
Over 4 million positions were voluntarily vacated in July of 2021 leaving
companies scrambling to re-structure their remaining talent, scouring online job
platforms for potential candidates only to find a dwindling pool of applicants.
This pool was drying up faster than a puddle on August Asphalt, so many
companies turned inward to ensure the retention of staff and began raising wages
and increasing benefits.
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Microsoft and Google Cloud have an edge on employee
retention and recruitment going into 2022 that most companies are missing out
on. They all began tapping into a well-spring of employees overflowing with
skills not found in the “typical” applicant pool.
Key Takeaways:
* • Who this untapped pool of employees includes
* • The hidden talents these forward thinking companies are benefiting from
already
* • How to attract this talent to your company
* • The framework needed to retain this loyal and diverse group
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BIO:
She’s known as Social Autie throughout the Autism community and best recognized
for her unique methodologies, The Communication EcoSystem and The UnVeiling
Method. She is the Founder and Principal of Mind Your Autistic Brain and host of
its flagship talk show on both podcast and YouTube. Meet Carole Jean
Whittington, a late identified, ADHD-Autistic, who discovered at 39 years old
why life had been so confusing and such a struggle.
Today, she guides a global audience of healthcare service providers and business
professionals in how to bridge the communication gap between neurotypes. Carole
Jean uses her *NeuroDistinct perspective to share a common language from a place
of deep knowing and experience. She carefully combines this with relevant
science research and easy to implement strategies that won’t overwhelm or create
stress in your life. Her purpose is to present a variety of solutions and new
ways to approach your practice or business.
Carole Jean has been a featured writer for the International Institute for
Learning, a guest on The Grateful Leadership Podcast, Neurodiverse Love Podcast,
Peeling Back the Mask Podcast, What is Autism? YouTube Show, Alexis Autism
Acceptance Channel on Parenting as a Late Identified Autistic, AuSome Women’s
Series, Neurodiverging with Danielle Sullivan and a celebrated keynote speaker.
Carole Jean is a featured Guide on The Autastic Community where she hosts the
Rest is More Than Sleep Course. She is the soon to be published author of,
“Ladies Don’t Say Butt, The Social Struggles of a Late Identified ADHD-Autistic
Adult” and the upcoming ebook, “Autistic Burnout: The Burnout to Balance
Transformation for Late Identified ADHD-Autistics.”
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Tom Brazil
Chief Digital & Innovation Officer
Integrated Computer Solutions
DYNAMIC INNOVATION PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Due to the exponential pace of technological and societal change, organizations
using traditional methods for innovation management are finding it harder to
keep their innovation efforts in alignment with that change. The reason is
simple: as the rate of change increases, so does the amount of uncertainty about
the future – which prevents many organizations from harnessing that change to
their strategic advantage.
Future-Fit organizations, however, are shaping the pace of change to their
advantage by objectively managing more dynamic innovation portfolios. In this
session, Tom will guide you through some important mechanisms that any
organization can implement to help them to not only survive – but to thrive in
this age of uncertainty.
You will learn:
* • The relationship between strategy and the innovation portfolio
* • How future-fit leaders relentlessly challenge the status quo in an
objective manner
* • Key principles for effective dynamic innovation portfolio management
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BIO:
Tom Brazil is the Chief Digital & Innovation officer of Integrated Computer
Solutions (ICS), Inc. A lifelong innovator, Tom is a Certified Manager of
Innovation (CMI), a Certified Chief Innovation Officer (CMI-CIO), and a board
member of the International Association of Innovation Professionals
(www.iaoip.org). In 2019 he was appointed by ANSI to represent the United States
as an Innovation Management expert on the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for ISO
Technical Committee 279, charged with creating the ISO 56000 series of
Innovation Management standards. Tom is also a Gartner© Innovation Cohort,
advising Gartner Analysts on Innovation Management best practices, and a
contributing author to the Future-Fit Manifesto. He is also the author of the
book “Implementing an Agile Innovation Management System” and a contributor to
the renowned PMI expert Dr. Harold Kerzner for his book “Innovation Project
Management.”
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Hassan Osman
PMO Director & Author
Cisco Systems
HYBRID WORK MANAGEMENT: A FOUR-PART FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING AND LEADING A HYBRID
TEAM IN THE NEW WORKPLACE
Organizations around the globe are presented with the challenge of how to
structure and organize their teams. Back to the office, fully remote, or
somewhere in between? In this session, Hassan Osman, expert in virtual and
hybrid teamwork, will cover a four-part framework that will help you analyze,
plan, manage and evaluate your team’s hybrid work model effectively.
You will learn:
* • The main elements of a Hybrid Work Model
* • How to analyze your hybrid work arrangement from a job and employee
perspective.
* • How to run meetings that are productive for on-site and remote team members
* • How to define and evaluate the success factors of a hybrid work model
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BIO:
Hassan Osman is a Program Management Office (PMO) Director at Cisco Systems*
where he leads global virtual teams on delivering large and complex programs.
He is the author of several Amazon Bestselling books, including “Hybrid Work
Management,” “Influencing Virtual Teams,” and “Don’t Reply All.”
Before joining Cisco, Hassan was a manager at EY, where he analyzed failing
programs at Fortune 100 companies and recommended strategic plans to fix them.
He is a certified PMP, CSM, and ITIL, and blogs about managing remote teams on
www.thecouchmanager.com
*Views are his own and not those of Cisco.
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Sonali Mohapatra
Space Applications Lead
Craft Prospect
INNOVATION MINDSET OF A POLYMATH TO TAKE QUANTUM AND AI TO SPACE
In this talk, Dr. Sonali Mohapatra will discuss her journey and work covering
Innovation in Quantum and AI in the space industry. Sonali will talk a little
bit about the various other hats she wears as head of applications, her work in
marketing, publishing as a science writer, Chair of New Voices in Space to
promote diversity and inclusion in the UK Space sector, being a poet and the
founder and creative director of Carved Voices International Digital Magazine
and how she uses skills learnt in one role to add to her development in other
roles. Sonali will end with showcasing some brilliant work happening in the
space of early-stage quantum technologies, why Quantum and AI are the next big
technologies which combined with space will revolutionise human future and our
upcoming mission ROKS due to be launched in 2022.
Key Takeaways:
* • Utilising your varied interests to benefit your professional career
effectively
* • Effective leading in a start-up culture
* • Why do we need to take quantum and AI to space
* • Upcoming quantum and AI space mission by Craft Prospect
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BIO:
Dr Sonali Mohapatra is an expert in the Quantum and Space Sector. In her current
role, she is “Space Applications Lead” at the Space Engineering Company, Craft
Prospect with a mission to drive smart and secure space futures. With a PhD in
Particle Physics and Quantum Gravity and an interdisciplinary background in
quantum, optics and AI, Sonali works across the AI and Quantum verticals at
Craft Prospect, identifying innovative quantum and AI solutions for space,
driving strategy and business development and bridging the gap between
innovation and commercialisation. She is part of the upcoming mission ROKS –
which will be the first-ever CubeSat mission in the world to demonstrate AI
powered Satellite to Earth Quantum Key Distribution for future cybersecurity.
Sonali is also a science writer, speaker and the Chair of the New Voices in
Space Working Group of Space Scotland (SSLC) which focuses on equality,
diversity and inclusion in the UK/Scottish Sector building upon 9 years of
experience in the DEI sector. In 2020, she was awarded the RISE Entrepreneurship
award in India for founding the Migrant Support Travel Network which ferried
more than 20000 migrant workers back home during the Covid crisis. She is also
the founder of the queer/feminist magazine, Carved Voices. Her poetry
collection, Leaking Ink was published in 2016 and Sonali is currently working on
a couple of different manuscripts.
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Madelyn Blair, PhD
Principal
Pelerei LLC
RESILIENCE IS A DECISION — ARE COMPANIES READY?
Can an organization become more resilient? If the airlines were more resilient,
would they need to cancel so many flights at the height of the holiday season?
When supply chains stumbled, how does a retail furniture store keep customers
happy? This talk is based on Dr. Blair’s bestselling book, Unlocked: Discover
how to embrace the unexpected. All about nurturing resilience, the strategies
for individuals are translated into strategies for use with teams and
organizations. In today’s environment, being resilient is essential –
personally, professionally, and as an organization. Developing resilience
prepares for moments when the unexpected occurs. Examples will be offered.
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BIO:
Madelyn Blair is a speaker, author, TV host and resilience advisor. She
specializes in unlocking resilience for individuals and work teams needing to
meet today’s complex challenges with greater ease. Author of five books, her
most recent book, Unlocked: Discover how to embrace the unexpected became #1
bestseller. Her tv show, Unlocked, is shown weekly on e360tv. She was recently
awarded Renaissance Leader of 2021 by The Stone Register of New York. She has
global clients including Regional Chamber of Cincinnati, PwC, Merck
Pharmaceuticals, Huawei Technologies and more. She is a former Division Chief at
the World Bank and has run her own company for more than 30 years. Dr. Blair
holds a PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Tilburg, The
Netherlands. She is known for being a leader who has always brought her teams to
a higher level of productivity. For more see madelynblair.com.
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Craig Sampson
Innovation Leader and Educator
TBD Innovation
DESIGNING EXPERIENCES: WE ARE ALL INNOVATORS
We tend to think of ourselves and our businesses in certain categories – we each
operate in a particular role, in a department, in a company, in an industry. And
we create a wide range of “things:” products, services, technologies, platforms,
spaces, etc. And yet, if we use the lens of Human Centered Design, we can see
that we are all designers of human experiences.
With the experience of a designer and the voice of an educator, Craig Sampson
will introduce the methods and principles of Design Thinking which allow us to
understand these human experiences, and create better ones. Craig will bring
these concepts to life with a rich diversity of real-world innovation examples
which he has seen in his career.
Key learnings from this presentation:
* • Principles of innovation which can guide how you approach opportunities
* • A new 2×2 model for Design Thinking which will help you think deeper, and
bigger
* • A powerful framework for creating holistic innovations – TBD
* • Innovation examples (lots of them) to inform and inspire you
No matter our industry or our role, we can each design better experiences for
people – that includes our customers, our colleagues, and the world at large.
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BIO:
Craig Sampson is an innovator, advisor, leader, and educator. He is the founder
of TBD Innovation and a graduate design instructor at the Segal Design Institute
at Northwestern University.
Craig helps unlock the potential of technology, to create new value for business
through human-centered design. Craig enables new growth for companies ranging
from early-stage start-ups to large corporations by helping clarify purpose,
promoting a culture of innovation, identifying new opportunity spaces and
creating remarkable products, services, experiences, and businesses.
Craig spent much of his career at IDEO, founding and leading the firm’s Chicago
office, and later founding and leading IDEO’s Global Healthcare Practice. As
Chief Innovation Officer at World Kitchen, Craig led R&D, design, engineering,
and new product marketing for brands such as Pyrex and Corningware. Craig
received a BSME with honors from the University of Colorado, and a MSME with a
focus on Product Design from Stanford University.
At the Segal Design Institute, Craig created the course “Designing Product
Interactions,” which explores the frontiers of smart products and human sensory
experiences (the human side of IoT), and co-created the course “CPG Product and
Business Innovation Studio” which guides multidisciplinary student teams through
real-world innovation challenges provided by P&G.
Craig is a collaborative and natural change agent who inspires others, connects
the dots, and makes new dots.
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Matt Anderson, PMP, PMI-ACP, ICP-APO
Sr Director, Enterprise PMO
Greenway Health
BUILDING AN AGILE ORGANIZATION – AGILE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Senior and Middle Management (aka Executives) are often listed as impediments to
sustained agility, particularly at scale. Terms like the frozen middle are
popularized with limited information on how to effectively help these leaders
thrive in an agile environment. Using lessons learned from multiple agile
companies, participants will be exposed to a series of easy mantras that will
help build an agile mindset within leadership to build and grow a sustainable
agile culture and model.
Key Takeaways:
* • A list of values, inspired by the Agile Manifesto, on how to be an agile
executive
* ○ Outcomes over Deliverables
* ○ Leadership over Management
* ○ Partnership over Outsourcing
* ○ Resiliency over Optimization
* ○ Value Streams over Organization Structures
* • Scenarios in how they can apply this thinking in their day to day and
strategic planning
* • Direct to additional resources where they can gather more information
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BIO:
Matt Anderson has over 25 years in IT with the past 15 leading PMOs at various
organizations and driving Agile Transformation/Adoption efforts. Matt focuses on
helping organizations blend best practice project management, ITIL and agile
practices, directly managing portfolios valued over $500M annually to achieve
client and business outcomes.
Matt has worked with several agile think tanks including the Steve Denning
Learning Consortium and the Business Agility Institute, studying agile at scale
and how to drive true business agility beyond traditional IT.
Matt has been a regular speaker at global PMO and Agile conferences for more
than a decade.
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Barry Moline
President
BJM Solutions
HOW A CULTURE OF TEAMWORK CREATES ENGAGEMENT, HAPPINESS, AND HIGH PERFORMANCE
When people learn more about one another — by sharing stories about their
backgrounds and what’s going on in their lives — they begin to like each other
and find more common ground. And when they know their colleagues better, they
want to do a good job for each other. The results are better solutions in a
supportive environment. Barry shares the secrets – and the specific actions –
successful organizations use to swiftly build great teams.
Key takeaways:
* • Effective ways to build and strengthen workplace relationships
* • Secrets for building great teams and effective organizations
* • Engaging with people is key to building satisfying and successful careers
* • Connecting leads to your personal happiness
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BIO:
Barry Moline is a positive leader committed to helping you achieve at your
highest level. In his successful 25 years as a CEO, he has seen many people
struggle to collaborate and lead. Recognizing the widespread need to improve
teamwork and leadership, Barry investigated and discovered the keys that
best-practice organizations use to quickly collaborate and encourage staff to
grow productive workplace relationships. He is eager to bring this valuable
wisdom to your audience.
After 4 years of research, Barry wrote the award-winning book Connect!, where he
shares the secrets to successful teamwork, communication and leadership. He’s a
columnist on Forbes.com and appears frequently in the media, including NPR, The
New York Times, Washington Post, Authority Magazine and many more.
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Katrina Pugh
President and Lecturer
AlignConsulting and Columbia University
SMARTER INNOVATION: SIX DISCIPLINES FOR GETTING TO MARKET FASTER TOGETHER
Collaboration can inform where ideas come from, how they develop, and how they
impact economies and societies. We’ll review research, examples, and habits for
innovation using the prism of six collaborative innovation dimensions: bridging,
social integration, capability validation, industry assessment,
commercialization and the innovation ecology.
Key Takeaways Include:
* • Innovation requires discipline, not just serendipity.
* • Innovation is not a linear process. For example, we might start with a
unique capability, an analogy, a trusted network, or even an unrelated brand.
* • Our networks can be a cradle for innovation, but we must invest in
relationships and nexus skills.
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BIO:
Katrina (Kate) Pugh is an adjunct faculty member and the former Academic
Director of Columbia University’s Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS)
Master of Science program. She specializes in business strategy, open
innovation, collaboration, networks, and knowledge-driven business
transformation. Kate has over twenty years of consulting and industry experience
in the sustainability, financial services, health sciences, energy, information
technology, and international development sectors.
Kate was general editor and co-author of Smarter Innovation: How Interactive
Processes Drive Better Business Results (Ark Group, 2014), author of Sharing
Hidden Know-How (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, April 2011), and has published in the
Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Ivey Business Journal and
Review of Economics and Statistics.
https://sps.columbia.edu/faculty/katrina-pugh and
https://linkedin.com/in/katepugh
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Tendayi Viki
Associate Partner & Author
Strategyzer
LEADING INNOVATION
The pandemic has made evident that the best strategy for companies to navigate
out of crises and respond to disruption is to innovate. To achieve success with
innovation, companies should not just work on the occasional one-off project.
Companies need to design their processes and culture to drive innovation as a
repeatable process. Corporate leaders have an important role to play if
companies are to move beyond training teams on design thinking, lean startup and
agile. Without leadership support, most innovation programs are dead on arrival.
In this keynote, Tendayi Viki addresses questions such as: What is the best way
to lead innovation within established companies? How can leaders create the
right environment for the most innovative ideas to thrive? How do you lead teams
that are searching for, versus executing on, a business model? How can leaders
ask the right questions at the right time?
Key Takeaways:
* • Leaders need to have the right convictions about how innovation works, in
order to avoid innovation theatre.
* • Leaders cannot select the winning ideas on day one, leaders should create
the right context for the winning ideas to emerge.
* • Leaders should make decisions based on evidence of traction, before
investing in scaling an innovative idea.
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BIO:
Tendayi Viki is an author and corporate innovation expert. As Associate Partner
at Strategyzer, he helps companies innovate for the future while managing their
core business. He has written three books; Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate
Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. He previously served as Director of
Product Lifecycle at Pearson, where he co-developed an innovation framework that
won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New
York. Tendayi was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2021 and
was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to
watch. He is also a regular contributor at Forbes.
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Louria Lindauer
Founder / Agile & Leadership Coach
Success Agility LLC
BE A BETTER INCLUSIVE LEADER
The world is changing. And what sets innovative and fast-paced companies apart
is their vision, awareness, and adaptability at all levels of leadership. It’s
time that as people and as leaders, we create space for sustainable and
empowered environments and results.
In this session, we will discover the formula Culturally Intelligence +
Emotional Intelligence = Inclusive Leadership. Inclusive Leadership creates
adaptive leaders, organizations, and teams, leading to higher profitability,
customer satisfaction, improved quality and have a more harmonious culture.
Diverse groups of multi-diverse people create excellence. In collaborative team
cultures, the value of diverse backgrounds and perspectives is fully realized.
There’s a sense of collective belonging in an empowering environment, new ideas
and brilliant thinking come alive. All with sustainable results.
Key Takeaways for this session include:
* • Learn the components of Cultural Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and
Inclusive Leadership
* • Foster an empowered environment where people’s talents are fully utilized
and where all voices are heard
* • Explore cultural values to create diversity of thought within teams.
* • See how you can improve productivity and retention
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BIO:
For the past 25 years, Louria has empowered and created People First
Environments, where talents are celebrated and voices matter. As an
international Executive Agile & Leadership Coach, she utilizes her mastery of
coaching, facilitation, teaching, and mentoring.
Louria Lindauer creates pathways for people to see beyond their failures to
discover and live their purpose with courage and immense passion! Additionally,
she has lived every role in an Agile organization from software engineer,
marketing to organizational change, and strategy coach. Therefore, allowing her
the understanding and empathy to reach, hear, guide and inspire others to
victory and live beyond their failures.
Success Agility LLC, creates the know-how to change chaos into sustainable
customized solutions for non-profits, small to fortune 500 companies. Louria’s
unique and diverse experience allows her insights into the mindset and skillset
of the vertical slice (team, program, and executive level) of an organization to
co-create sustainable culture change, shared vision, streamlined processes, and
increased employee engagement in an ever-changing environment.
Louria fell in love with coaching when she took her first Agile Coaching course
which lead her to co-active coaching and becoming a Co-Active Leadership
Faculty. Coupled with her passion and ability to lead with courage, love, big
laughter, play, faith, connection, creativity, and making the impossible
possible. Overall, Louria is fiercely committed to unleashing greatness, success
and happiness in business and people’s lives.
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Jana Eggers
CEO
Nara Logics
THE MOST CRITICAL INGREDIENT TO SUCCESSFUL AI USE: YOUR ORGANIZATION
With AI, the focus is most often on the data and technology required. This talk
will focus on what AI needs from your organization to be successful. The
requirements covered will be:
* • Lead and support roles that drive AI
* • Processes you’ll need for success
* • Obstacles that you’ll need to clear
* • How to drive goal clarity
We’ll go through success and failure stories from multiple companies to set you
up for success.
What You Will Learn:
* • Roles and processes to define
* • Skills to find and build
* • Matching projects and goals
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BIO:
Jana Eggers is CEO of the neuroscience-inspired, artificial intelligence
platform company, Nara Logics. Eggers started her career as a research scientist
at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research in conducting polymers led her
to supercomputing and AI research. This work fuels her passion for deploying the
latest high-end technology to solve the most challenging business problems,
including supply chain optimization at MIT start-up PTCG (bought by American
Airlines); early internet search engine efforts at CMU-developed Lycos; advanced
multi-lingual natural language processing at MIT start-up Basis Technology
(licensed by Google and Amazon); and global mass customization networks at
German start-up Spreadshirt (licensed by Coca Cola, Warner Brothers, Nissan).
She continues to be active in AI research with a focus on applying the right
algorithms for the problems being solved. Her current work – with Nara Logics
co-founder, Dr. Nathan Wilson – focuses on bringing the latest neuroscience
research to take AI’s perception capabilities into decision making with
explainability.
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Marsha Acker
CEO
TeamCatapult
HOW DARING TO DIALOGUE IMPROVES PERFORMANCE AND CREATES A CULTURE OF AGILITY
The single greatest predictor of success is the way we are having or not having
conversations, and if we can learn to be more intentional in how we invite,
cultivate, participate, and facilitate conversations there will not be any
challenge that an organization cannot skillfully navigate in order to produce
effective outcomes.
But what if our conversations are stuck or ineffective? What if conversations
break down instead of generating new collective thinking? We’ll look at
conversations and how to use the structure of the conversations to harvest the
intelligence that already exists, and the daring role leaders play in creating a
space for dialogue in order to greatly change the nature of the discourse.
Key Takeaways include:
* Four actions that everyone can take to foster better conversations
* Understand the impact of monologue vs dialogue on culture
* Three ways for leaders to engage in better dialogue starting today
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BIO:
Marsha Acker is an executive leadership and team coach whose passion and
expertise is helping leaders and their teams identify and break through stuck
patterns that get in the way of high performance. She is the author of the
book The Art and Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration
with Agile Teams.
Marsha founded TeamCatapult, a coaching and change leadership firm, in 2005. She
has over 20 years of experience designing and facilitating organizational change
initiatives. She believes that facilitation and coaching skills are 21st century
leadership skills required for leaders as they learn to lead agility across the
organization and develop their teams. She is a track founder for
the ICAgile Agile Team Coaching track and Enterprise Coaching track.
Marsha is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), Certified Professional
Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Professional Certified Coach (ICF-PCC), Organizational
and Relationship Systems Coach (Center for Right Relationship), Dialogix –
Certified Structural Dynamics Interventionist, ICAgile Certified Expert Agile
Team Coaching and ICAgile Expert in Enterprise Coaching.
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Pammy Subramony
Associate Group Director, Head of Submissions and Operations
Clinical and Quantitative Pharmacology (CPQP), R&D, AstraZeneca
Keith Wilson
Senior Trainer/Consultant
IIL
ASTRAZENECA – EMBARKING ON AN AGILE JOURNEY
Pammy Subramony and Keith Wilson delivered this session on “AstraZeneca –
Embarking on an Agile Journey” at IIL’s 2021 Agile & Scrum Online Conference.
Part 2, originally planned to be featured on IPM Day 2021 as well, has been
delayed until a future IIL Conference. Stay tuned for that!
The term ‘Agile Transformation’ is commonly used within teams and organizations
who are looking to become more adaptable in their work. But how to go about this
transformation is a tough question.
In Part 1 of this exclusive series, we will join AstraZeneca as they embark on
their Agile Journey. The session will be led by Pammy Subramony, Associate Group
Director, Head of Submissions and Operations, Clinical and Quantitative
Pharmacology, R&D at AstraZeneca, and Keith Wilson, Sr. Trainer and Consultant
at IIL.
What You Will Learn:
• How to assess the current Project Management situation
• The expected benefits and potential challenges of transitioning to Agile
• An overview of different Agile practices
• Defining a strategy for the Agile Journey
BIOS:
Dr. Pammy Subramony has 15 plus years of experience and leadership from early
development to commercialization managing programs in biologics, device
combination products and small molecules ranging from start-up to large
pharmaceutical companies.
Keith Wilson has over 25 years of successful coaching, training, management, and
consulting experience globally with over 100 happy clients. He has extensive
Agile Training/Coaching experience and makes Agile work for his clients.
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Lindsay McGregor
Author and Co-Founder
Vega Factor
Neel Doshi
Author and Co-Founder
Vega Factor
THE SCIENCE OF PERFORMANCE
The concept of performance takes up a central place in our world. It is one of
the key metrics in our lives and has a prominent place, even at an early age. It
is considered in school, sports, relationships, work, and of course, projects.
In this session, we’ll leverage history, current events, experiential learning,
and science to explain what performance is, what drives it, and most
importantly, what that means for you and any person at work.
We’ll consider a number of experiments, designed to drive value against today’s
challenges. From creating “intensity without pressure” to encouraging every
colleague to play a “game of impact”, attendees will leave with a foundation
from which to thoughtfully tweak their own operating models, performance, and
experience.
BIO:
Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi are the co-founders of Vega Factor and
co-authors of the bestselling book, Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest
Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation.
Previously, Lindsay led projects at McKinsey & Company, working with large
fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, universities and school systems. She received
her B.A. from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard. In her spare time she loves
investigating and sharing great stories.
Neel was previously a Partner at McKinsey & Company, CTO and founding member of
an award-winning tech startup, and employee of several mega-institutions. He
studied engineering at MIT and received his MBA from Wharton. In his spare time,
he’s an avid yet mediocre woodworker and photographer.
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Liliana Cerilo
Head of Strategy, Exploratory
Google
INNOVATION AS A WAY TO EMBRACE CHANGE
We’ve entered a very disruptive time that has generated the condition for
breakthrough innovation as a way to overcome the status quo and the danger of
becoming obsolete. Across industries, we are seeing global companies forced to
adapt by finding new business models and methods for survival, ensuring business
continuity, or serving their customer needs. For this reason, innovation matters
now more than ever.
In this talk, Liliana Cerilo will discuss bringing innovative solutions to life.
She’s the Head of Strategy at an innovation team at Google called Exploratory,
whose mission is to build transformational solutions that solve her largest
global brand partners’ most critical business challenges.
In this discussion, Liliana will share 5 tried and tested fundamentals to
successfully and consistently launch innovative solutions. She will challenge
you throughout her talk to think outside the box, forget about your title and
its core responsibilities, and truly focus on what it takes to be an innovator.
Key Takeaways:
• The impact of having a vision
• What it means to think strategically
• How to allow space to be innovative
• The importance of cross team collaboration
• Find the entrepreneur in you – not taking no for an answer
BIO:
Liliana has been with Google for 9 years. As Head of Strategy for the
Exploratory, Liliana is building technology-driven business innovation
partnerships with the world’s largest brands. Working with product teams across
Google and Alphabet, these partnerships leverage groundbreaking innovation to
solve critical business challenges and help future-proof against evolving
industries.
Prior to joining Google, Liliana had a combined 12 years experience working in
U.S. advertising agencies in both the Mainstream and Multicultural markets in
Miami and New York. She has led insight generation and strategy development for
top blue chip clients across various categories. Some of them included Heineken,
Heineken Light, Wendy’s, IKEA, CitiFinancial, Verizon Wireless, MINI, Molson
Canadian, Miller Light, Burger King, Wheat Thins, Planter’s Peanuts, among
others.
As an advocate for diversity and inclusion, Liliana was one of the pioneers for
the Latinas at Google Summit, which brought together more than 500 Latinas from
across the company to network, bond and expand their workplace community. This
has now expanded to be a network of over 1K members. Outside of the workplace,
Liliana serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Beauty Bus Foundation,
she enjoys international travel, playing tennis, riding her bike, swimming and
trying new and exciting food with family and friends.
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Frank Ryle
Trainer
International Institute for Learning (IIL)
GIANTS’ SHOULDERS – MAKING PROJECT CONNECTIONS
All projects are a journey to towards a goal. All projects share the
characteristics of being a temporary endeavor with a uniqueness of scope or
environment that makes them very different from operations type work.
The temporariness of the project requires that we manage time – that valuable
resource that will consume and surprise us if we don’t manage it well.
A project schedule is our representation of future time – or future memories –
that we build together to provide us with confidence, guidance and measuring
points along the journey.
A well-built schedule requires three key ingredients:
i) An agreed scope representing the requirements of the stakeholders
ii) Estimates of task durations by the performers
iii) Solid connections between the tasks – Dependencies and sequencing
This session and exercise will focus on that third element – the connections. It
is no more or less important than the other two. However it does often provide
an opportunity for conversations that can be referred to as ‘storming’ – in the
Tuckman/Jensen model of Team Development
(Forming/Storming/Norming/Performing/Adjourning).
The game is designed to provide an opportunity to practice and improve our
ability to identify connections/ associations/links between famous individuals
from the Arts, Science and
Craft worlds. We can use the same skill and ability to identify connections/
dependencies/ sequences between our project tasks.
BIO:
Frank has almost 20 years of experience in the construction and manufacturing
industries, as well as ten years of practical project / program
managementexperience throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, on
projectsvarying from five people to 400 people and from $5 million to $1.2
billion. Since 2002, Frank has trained hundreds of project leaders on project
management best practices
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Gregory L. Robinson
Program Director, James Webb Space Telescope
NASA, Science Mission Directorate
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE – LEADING LARGE COMPLEX GLOBAL PROJECTS
The James Webb Space Telescope will explore every phase of cosmic history – from
within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early
universe, and everything in between. Webb will reveal new and unexpected
discoveries, and help humankind understand the origins of the universe and our
place in it. This mission, scheduled for a December 18, 2021 launch, is a
collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency. We
discuss the motivating science questions that required the development of the
observatory, highlight the technologies, and project management challenges and
lessons learned encountered during the development of this large complex global
project.
Although Webb is arguably an unparalleled engineering and technological feat, we
explore the critical role of project management in making the world’s largest
space telescope a success. As NASA and the space industry are moving swiftly to
new approaches, new systems, and far more commercial exploration (often referred
to as “new space”) than previously imagined. We also explore how acquisition and
project management are evolving towards that future.
BIO:
Mr. Robinson is currently the Program Director of the James Webb Space Telescope
(Webb). His focus is development efficiency, management processes, contractor
performance, and mission success. Formerly the NASA Science Mission Directorate,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs; ensuring high performance during
development and operations of 114 Science flight projects.
Mr. Robinson held the position of Deputy Director of NASA’s John Glenn Research
Center, consisting of 3,200 employees, where the scope spans research and
technology, aeronautics, science spaceflight, and human spaceflight. He served
as NASA’s Deputy Chief Engineer for several years where he led engineering and
program and project management strategy, policy, implementation rigor, and
performance management. He was intricately engaged with the last 21 shuttle
launches post Columbia Shuttle accident, as well as numerous satellite
developments and launches.
Mr. Robinson also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Systems at NOAA’s
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, leading the
acquisition and management of all satellite systems. He spent 11 years in
various leadership positions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Mr. Robinson has over 30 years of engineering, program and project management,
and senior executive leadership at NASA
Mr. Robinson served as faculty at the George Washington University, Department
of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering.
He received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award in 2013, and the
Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award in 2007.
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Karl Smedley
Programme Manager / Deliverer
Fujitsu
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INTRODUCING AGILE
“Don’t throw your baby out with the bath Water(fall)”. This is not a deep
conversation about Agile v Waterfall or where to use them (that is for other
talks and much deeper thinkers /agile purists). Instead, this talk acknowledges
that the world we are living in is complex, where every delivery is different
and not binary, i.e., Agile or Waterfall.
This talk is aimed at “Non Agilists” and focuses on how they shouldn’t be scared
of agile and that it isn’t about throwing away everything you have learnt from
delivering in a more traditional/Waterfall way. It is about building on them and
embracing the true mindset and heart and soul of Agile.
The key takeaways of the session include:
• An introduction to some of the basic concepts of agile and which to focus on
first
• How to start your journey from “Non Agilist” to a person that can deliver
irrespective of environment
• Some of the real-life examples and approaches that have been successfully used
kick start the journey for both individuals and teams
BIO:
Karl has been successfully delivering projects and programmes for 20 years.
These have predominantly been non software development led and therefore have
mainly utilized traditional waterfall methodologies (PRINCE2 / MSP certified).
When Agile starting to gain more popularity outside of pure software development
in the mid 2010s, Karl was initially sceptical of how it effective it would be
outside of software development and how this would impact Project/Programme
Managers. However, once he realised that Agile from a purist sense doesn’t have
to be applied that is when he truly embraced Agile and began to understand how
the key concepts and mindset of Agile when overlaid alongside traditional
methodologies can develop a powerful delivery approach.
Karl now sees himself more of a “Deliverer of anything” rather than just a
pigeonholed Project/Programme Manager. Karl is a Certified SAFe® 5 Program
Consultant and uses his experience and knowledge to help train and coach others
on how to embrace Agile.
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Kaihan Krippendorff
CEO
Outthinker Strategy Network
DRIVING INNOVATION FROM WITHIN: A GUIDE FOR EMPLOYEES AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERS
Kaihan Krippendorff delivered this excellent session on “Driving Innovation from
Within: A Guide for Employees and Organizational Leaders” at IIL’s 2021
Leadership & Innovation Online Conference.
“Innovation” brings to mind the maverick entrepreneur who quits their job, at
unimaginable odds, to build a business on their own. But this entrepreneurial
story is a myth. As a successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO,
Kaihan Krippendorff argues that intrapreneurs – employees who incubate new
businesses within corporations – have had a far greater impact on the world.
Nearly all of the most transformative innovations over the past three decades,
from e-mail and the Internet to DNA sequencing and MRI scans, were introduced by
employees who did not quit their jobs but instead took the challenge of
innovating from within.
Drawing on five years of in-depth research of hundreds of successful innovators
and Intrapreneurial Intensity, as well as insights from thought leaders, C-suite
leaders, business unit leaders, and front-line employees, Kaihan will share
exclusive insights from his book, Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for
Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2019).
Kaihan will unveil the most critical internal focus areas for driving innovation
and moving your organization forward into the future. He will share specific
tools, frameworks and techniques used by successful innovators to manage and
unlock the value of employees’ ideas to increase corporate innovation levels and
deliver bottom-line results. Participants will have actionable next steps to
transform their organization by testing and scaling fresh ideas that generate
value and growth. They will leave feeling inspired and empowered, ready to take
on the future.
In this inspiring keynote, you will learn about:
• The IN-OVATE Framework
• The seven barriers of internal innovation and how to overcome them
• The six characteristics of Internal Innovators
• The seven steps to build an agile innovation team
• How to disrupt your competition without disrupting your business
• What it takes to lead an innovative organization and drive transformation
• How to shift your organizational mindset and culture
• How to build a wave of internal support for growth, innovation and creativity
by reinforcing the idea that innovation is possible, attainable, and ultimately
actionable
BIO:
Kaihan Krippendorff has made a commitment to helping organizations and
individuals thrive in today’s era of fast-paced disruptive technological change.
He began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy
and innovation consulting firm Outthinker, whose growth strategies and
innovations have generated over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world’s most
recognizable companies including BNY Mellon, Citibank, L’Oréal, Microsoft, and
Viacom. He is a best-selling author of five books, most recently the Edison
Award nominated Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal
Entrepreneurs.
Kaihan is a member of the prestigious Thinkers50 radar group – A global
selection of the top 30 management thinkers in the world to look out for.
Thinkers50 also recognized Kaihan as one of the 8 most influential innovation
thought leaders in the world considering him for a Distinguished Achievement
Award in Innovation – given to the person in the world that has contributed the
most to the world’s understanding of innovation in the past two years.
Amidst his dizzying schedule of keynote speeches, consulting projects, ongoing
research and writing, Kaihan still finds time to teach at business schools
throughout the US and internationally (including NYU, FIU, and UA). Regularly
featured in major business media outlets, Kaihan is an advisory board member of
multiple national and international companies.
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Louria Lindauer
Founder & Agile & Leadership Coach
SuccessAgility LLC
OUR UNCONSCIOUS BIAS AND MICROAGGRESSIONS: CREATING CULTURE SELF-AWARENESS IN
YOU AND YOUR WORLD
Louria Lindauer delivered this excellent session on “Our Unconscious Bias and
Microaggressions: Creating culture self-awareness in you and your world” at
IIL’s 2021 International Project Management Day Online Conference.
Everyone is unique, and we all see and interact differently with the world
around us. Our upbringings, our relationships, our communities, and the culture
that we are a part of are just some of the elements that influence our worldview
and our own cultural bubble.
Most people have some understanding of unconscious bias, but the
term “microaggression” may be less known to some. When heading into this
presentation, it is relevant to keep in mind that due to our cultural
bubbles, we all hold unconscious biases within us and that many of us have
displayed microaggressions towards others. What is also true is that, most
likely, everyone has been on the receiving end of such behavior whether you
realize it or not.
This session will set you up to become more aware of your own (and
others’) unconscious biases and microaggressions through words, thoughts, and
impact – and how You can take action. Examining the communities where we
live and the organizations where we work, we will discover how to recognize and
handle the intentional and unintentional biases that prevail all around us to
help contribute and create a safer personal and work environment.
We will learn:
• What is unconscious bias?
• What is a microaggression and is it really micro?
• Where do unconscious bias and microaggressions come from?
• Cultural self-awareness starts with you and your world
• Microaggression Giver: Being responsible for your impact
• Microaggression Receiver: When to talk about it or walk away?
BIO:
For the past 25 years, Louria has empowered and created “People First
Environments”, where talents are celebrated and voices matter. As an
international Executive Agile & Leadership Coach she utilizes her mastery of
coaching, facilitation, teaching and mentoring to breathe life into ‘just
surviving’ organizations to thriving.
Louria Lindauer creates pathways for people to see beyond their failures
to discover and live their purpose with courage and immense passion!
Additionally, she has lived every role in agile organization from software
engineer, marketing to organizational change and strategy coach. Therefore,
allowing her the understanding and empathy to reach, hear, guide and inspire
others to their victory and live beyond their failures.
Success Agility, her company, creates the know-how to change chaos into
sustainable customized solutions for non-profits, small to fortune 500
companies. Louria’s unique diverse experience allows her insights into the
mindset and skillset of the vertical slice (team, program and executive level)
of an organization to co-create sustainable culture change, shared vision,
streamlined processes, and increased employee engagement in an ever-changing
environment.
Louria fell in love with coaching when she took her first agile coaching course
which lead her to co-active coaching and becoming a Co-Active Leadership
Faculty. Coupled with her passion and ability to lead with courage, love, big
laughter, play, faith, connection, creativity, and making the impossible
possible. Overall, Louria is fiercely committed to unleashing greatness, success
and happiness in business and people’s lives.
Superpowers:
• Funny, Courageous and Speak the Truth – the Elephant in the Room! Not afraid
to tell the Emperor he has no clothes
• Loves and Excels at Brainstorming Innovative Ideas & Strategic Creative
Solutions
• Spark Brilliant and Productive Conversations with Powerful Questions &
Perspectives
• High Intuition and Emotional Intelligence to see beyond the words and to the
true “why” of the person or group
• Remote Working, Master Facilitator, Agile Coaching & Mentoring
• Plus, Authentic, Competitive, Empathetic, go-getter with high Emotional
Intelligence
• She sees beyond the impossible to THE POSSIBLE!
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Dominic Price
Work Futurist
Atlassian
LESS PROCESS, MORE GUIDANCE. TIPS FOR EFFECTIVELY SCALING GREAT TEAMS.
Dom Price delivered this excellent session on “Less process, more guidance. Tips
for effectively scaling great teams” at IIL’s 2018 Agile & Scrum Online
Conference.
The lone genius is dead. EY reports that 90% of organisations are solving
problems so complex, that they need teams. Dom Price, Head of R&D and Work
Futurist from Atlassian joins us to share his personal experiences in helping
Atlassian scale over the last 5 years, and be more nimble, adaptive and
relevant, than ever before. He’ll share why they decided to take on team work,
how they did it, and even let us in on some of the pitfalls along the way. This
isn’t a session on theory. Dom will share practical insights, from Atlassian,
and from over 100 other organisations where they’ve shared their way of working.
BIO:
Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has
reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC.
Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, the home of the most intelligent t-shirt
wearers in business. As resident Work Futurist, Dom is the in-house “Team
Doctor” helping Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective. Dom
helped pioneer Atlassian’s Team Playbook and has a deep passion for
understanding the future of work and the changes we need to make today.
He has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and
a Director of Deloitte.
A keen traveller, Dom has traversed over 50 countries so far, but after 17 years
on these shores, he calls Australia home.
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Dr. Harold Kerzner
Senior Executive Director
International Institute for Learning (IIL)
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOMORROW’S IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATION
The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are
looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the
future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This
group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to
tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation,
project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in
delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the
future-ready organization.
A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive
panel:
• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid
digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s
organizations
BIO:
Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. is Senior Executive Director at the International
Institute for Learning (IIL). He is a globally recognized expert on project
management and strategic planning, and the author of many best-selling textbooks
including Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for
Managing Innovation Projects (Wiley, 2019).
He has a MS and Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the
University of Illinois and an MBA from Utah State University. He is a prior Air
Force Officer and spent several years at Morton-Thiokol in project management.
He taught engineering at the University of Illinois and business administration
at Utah State University and for 37 years taught project management at
Baldwin-Wallace University.
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Lyssa Adkins
Coach, Facilitator, Teacher and Inspirer
LyssaAdkins.com
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOMORROW’S IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATION
The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are
looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the
future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This
group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to
tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation,
project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in
delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the
future-ready organization.
A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive
panel:
• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid
digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s
organizations
BIO:
Lyssa Adkins’ career is split into two eras: 14 years as a project manager and
15 years as an agilist. Even though she had all that experience prior to
encountering agile, nothing prepared her for the power and simplicity of agile
done well. As a PMO leader (twice!) Lyssa knows that the transition to agile can
be rocky – she’s been through it herself.
Lyssa is an internationally recognized agile thought leader and speaker. Her
book, Coaching Agile Teams, is still a top ranked book years after publication.
She co-founded Agile Coaching Institute (ACI) which has equipped over 10,000
people in the must-have skills and mindset shifts of excellent agile coaching.
Since transitioning ACI to its new home at Accenture, Lyssa has focused on
coaching transformation leaders and facilitating group work sessions that unknot
the gnarly, multi-department impediments that agile reveals. As a certified
organization systems coach and integral facilitator, and as a deeply experienced
agilist, Lyssa possesses the skills to help organizations move through the
difficult problems to benefit from the full promise of agile.
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Deepa Prahalad
Author, Design Strategist
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOMORROW’S IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATION
The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are
looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the
future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This
group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to
tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation,
project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in
delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the
future-ready organization.
A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive
panel:
• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid
digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s
organizations
BIO:
Deepa Prahalad is an author and innovation consultant. She has worked with
start-ups and large multinationals, and co-authored the book, Predictable Magic:
Unleash the Power of Design Strategy to Transform Your Business, which was
selected by Fast Company as one of the “Best Design Books of the Year”. She
writes frequently for Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, Businessweek
and other magazines.
Deepa is an elected member of the International Academy of Management and was
ranked #34 on the inaugural Thinkers 50 India list. She was recently selected by
leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith into his “100 Coaches Program” from over
16,000 global applicants.
Deepa speaks on innovation and design strategy at leading companies and business
schools such as Harvard and USC and mentors leading social entrepreneurs. She is
active on several Advisory Boards including the Global Peter Drucker Forum,
Mifos (financial inclusion), ArogyaWorld and ModRoof, an innovative, sustainable
roofing company in India.
Deepa is also a Board Member for South Asian Art collection at the San Diego
Museum of Art and designed the newly created House of India Museum in Balboa
Park. She has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of
Michigan and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Author, Professor & Thought Leader
Strategy Implementation Institute
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOMORROW’S IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATION
The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are
looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the
future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This
group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to
tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation,
project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in
delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the
future-ready organization.
A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive
panel:
• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid
digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s
organizations
BIO:
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is a leading expert in project management and strategy
implementation, the creator of concepts like the “Project Economy” and the
“Hierarchy of Purpose.”
His work has been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas
into Practice.” He is the author of the recently published Harvard Business
Review Project Management Handbook, as well as Lead Successful Projects, The
Project Revolution, and The Focused Organization.
Antonio has been teaching the value of project management to senior leaders for
more than two decades at Duke CE, Instituto de Empresa, Solvay Business School,
and Vlerick. Antonio has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BNP
Paribas, and GlaxoSmithKline. Former Chairman of the Project Management
Institute, he is the founder of Projects & Co and co-founder of the Strategy
Implementation Institute. He is a member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches. You
can follow Antonio through his LinkedIn Newsletter – Lead Projects Successfully
or his website.
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Dr. Al Zeitoun
Panel Moderator
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOMORROW’S IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATION
The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are
looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the
future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This
group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to
tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation,
project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in
delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the
future-ready organization.
A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive
panel:
• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid
digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s
organizations
BIO:
Dr. Zeitoun is a Future of Work, business optimization, and operational
performance excellence thought leader with global experiences in strategy
execution. His experiences encompass leading organizations; delivering their
Enterprise Digital and Business Transformation; guiding fitting frameworks
implementations; and using his empathy, engineering insights, and collaboration
strengths to successfully envision new business models and execute complex
missions across diverse cultures globally.
In his position as the Executive Director for Emirates Nuclear Energy
Corporation, Abu Dhabi, UAE, he was responsible for creating the strategy
execution framework, achieving transformation benefits, governance excellence,
and creating the data analytics discipline necessary for delivering on the $40B
complex country energy mission roadmap.
At the McLean, USA HQ of Booz Allen Hamilton, Dr. Zeitoun strategically
envisioned and customized digitally enabled EPMO advisory, mapped playbooks, and
capability development for clients’ Billions of Dollars strategic initiatives.
Furthermore, he led the firm’s Middle East North Africa Portfolio Management and
Agile Governance Solutions.
With the International Institute for Learning, Dr. Zeitoun was a senior leader
and global trainer and coach. He was instrumental in driving its global
expansions, thought leadership, and operational excellence methodology to sense
and shape dynamic ways of working across organizations worldwide. He speaks
English, Arabic, and German and enjoys good food, travel, and volunteering.
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Kursten Faller
Kursten Faller
Midgard
SURPRISES AND ADVENTURES IN VIRTUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Prior to 2020, project teams were slowly starting to virtually deliver projects
and with the onset of COVID-19, this progress to virtual delivery has become
more the norm rather than the exception. As teams are no longer able to work in
traditional ways, there has been pressure to be agile and adapt quickly to
ensure changing business outcomes are achieved.
Our project teams have had to adapt and apply the right approaches in this new
environment. Discipline and agility in best practices application has become
increasingly important to ensure project delivery is adapted and focused on
delivering the benefits our organizations need to thrive. We will explore
learnings that have come from this adventure as part of an overall journey to
continue to successfully deliver projects virtually.
Key Takeaways:
• Learnings from transitioning to virtual project delivery
• How best practices improve virtual project delivery
• Opportunities to explore for continual improvement
BIO:
Kursten started his career working with some of the largest consulting firms in
Canada. Despite their decades of experience and experienced personnel, these
massive firms still struggled to deliver projects successfully. As he witnessed
this time and time again, Kursten wondered: why is this such a difficult
problem? With no obvious answer in front of him, he set out on a journey to find
out why.
He began studying the top performers in the firms he worked with and took
advantage of every opportunity to develop his knowledge. He got better at his
craft, but still struggled to achieve the team performance he knew was possible.
Finally, he realized he never would achieve that top performance where he was.
Going to the next level required a level of agility and risk-taking the typical
consulting firm simply didn’t possess.
So, it was time to break free from those rigid models and start anew. And thus,
Midgard was born. Starting his own company allowed Kursten to experiment with
new methodologies and new organizational structures. His team implemented and
combined practices from PMI, Axelos, Agile Leadership, Prosci, Vital Smarts, and
others to create a holistic set of best practices. Midgard’s team is encouraged
to take risks and experiment with new perspectives and approaches because
they’ve been given permission to fail. They all know that failure leads to
growth.
Kursten has invested tens of thousands of dollars into the individuals on his
team, teaching them the industry’s best practices. And the results are paying
off. Midgard has established itself as a significant player in Saskatchewan’s
consulting world and they’re now looking outward. With this foundation of
skills, talent, and organizational structure, Midgard is primed for expansion.
Today, Midgard works with public and private organizations to help achieve their
goals, from single projects to large-scale transformational change. They can
help some of the most rigid and traditional organizations become more agile and
progressive. Midgard’s clients achieve their strategic goals more predictably
while allowing them to drive more value through their investments.
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Paul Dandurand
Founder & CEO
Pie
HYBRID AGILE/WATERFALL EASY AS PIE
Attend this session to get a quick introduction to the differences between
Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project methods. Then learn how Pie, a visual
project and process tool, takes a unique and simple approach to helping you go
from waterfall to agile and using the two in the same project as a hybrid model.
Key takeaways include:
• Learn about the differences between waterfall, agile, and hybrid projects
• Learn how to set up a project structure for a hybrid projects
• See the unique approach that Pie takes with helping you migrate to hybrid
agile and how to simplify a complex Scaled Agile SAFe model for your projects
and programs
BIO:
Paul Dandurand is the founder and CEO of PieMatrix Inc (Pie). Paul started Pie
to help businesses improve project results with repeatable processes combined
with agile that improve over time while making it easy for team member adoption.
Prior to Pie, he was co-founder of FocusFrame, a systems testing services firm,
which was sold to Hexaware. Previously, he was with Siebel Systems (now Oracle)
in Amsterdam. And he started his project management experience with Ernst &
Young (EY) in San Francisco. Paul enjoys photography, learning the cello,
skiing, and hiking. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of
California at Berkeley.
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Ludwig Melik
CEO
Planbox
Gillis Jonk
Strategy and M&A
Kearney
THE NEXT PARADIGM SHIFT: FROM AGILE TO FUTURE-FIT
The nature of work, new technologies, emerging trends, best practices and
regulations are evolving exponentially and in unexpected ways. If the past two
decades weren’t proof enough, then the last year alone reminded us that change
doesn’t come knocking at our door: it bashes it down, leaving us little or no
time at all to pivot accordingly.
Disruption comes in many ways, shapes and forms, but the result is always the
same: a shock to the system. Now more than ever, organizations need to adopt a
proactive mindset that empowers their employees, partners, and community to
fearlessly navigate through turbulent times and into uncharted space at warp
speed.
The Agile Manifesto revolutionized work and created an incredible following 20
years ago. Now, the “Future Fit Manifesto” proposes a new strategic approach to
collaborative work that builds on the Agile movement. This manifesto provides
expert guidance to organizations that want to take control of their own destiny
to explore new possibilities, to seek new frontiers, and to boldly create new
futures.
Join us on this one-of-a-kind journey to discover:
• What it means to be “Future-Fit”
• The values you must embrace to adopt a Future-Fit approach
• Insights from Gillis Jonk, Strategy and M&A at Kearny on how to practically
apply the Future-Fit Manifesto values to your strategy and operations
• The steps your organization needs to take toward becoming Future-Fit
BIOS:
As a visionary thought leader and passionate technology advocate, Ludwig has the
opportunity to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world
every day. Ludwig is the founding author of the “Future-Fit Manifesto” and the
CEO of Planbox, the world’s top-ranked agile innovation management platform, and
IdeaConnection, a world-class open innovation expert solver network. Sharing
enterprise innovation success stories, design thinking methodologies and agile
work processes are some of his ardent talking points. With 20+ years of
experience in the project portfolio management and innovation management market,
Ludwig looks to help organizations positively transform their work culture to
create sustainable growth and ongoing success by galvanizing employee engagement
and by igniting creative ideation.
As a seasoned strategy consultant and business innovator, Gillis supports
organizations and executives turning fundamental and disruptive change into
competitive advantage. He works across industries and is an expert in business
and value chain strategies, foresight, and helping build collective confidence
to pursue audacious and game-changing plays at industry value chain scale.
Gillis is the author of numerous articles and co-author of The Future of
Strategy: A Transformative Approach to Strategy for a World that Won’t Stand
Still (McGraw-Hill, 2015), and Iconic – How to Create a Virtuous Circle of
Success (LID, 2016).
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Langdon Morris
CEO
InnovationLabs
CREATING THE MOST VALUE WITH PROJECT MANAGEMENT METRICS
This talk will provide guidance for participants who want to implement or
improve the metrics they use for project management. The discussion will focus
on important distinctions to keep in mind, including the key difference between
a project which is tackling something brand new, vs. a project which is only
execution oriented, as these will be best served by different types of metrics.
It will also look at qualitative versus quantitative metrics and describe when
to use which, present a formula for Project Management Effectiveness with the
associated metrics, and explain the new ISO 56000 innovation management
standard.
Key Takeaways:
• A decision tree structure that shows how to think about project management
metrics
• Project Leader Perspective vs. PMO Perspective
• Qualitative vs. Quantitative Metrics and the top ones to use
• The Project Management Effectiveness Formula
• Dashboards for the PMO
• The New ISO 56000 Innovation Management Standard
BIO:
Langdon is an award-winning innovator and world-renowned innovation consultant,
best-selling author, and acclaimed keynote speaker. He is Senior Partner at
InnovationLabs LLC, where he leads the firm’s global innovation consulting
practice with a wonderful variety of clients in business, government, and
non-profits.
Recent clients include Accor, Airbus, Bayer, France Telecom/Orange, ING,
Ingersoll-Rand, Kaiser Pemanente, Leidos, L’Oreal, National Board of Medical
Examiners, Stanford Health Care, Total Oil, UNICEF, US Navy, US Coast Guard, and
many others.
Langdon is recognized as one the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on
innovation, and his original and ground-breaking work has been adopted by
corporations and universities on every continent.
He has completed his Master’s Degree in Urban Development at the London School
of Economics in May 2021.
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Mário Trentim
Sr. Trainer
IIL
P3O®: ARE WE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS?
To stay relevant, Project Management Offices need to reinvent themselves,
finding new ways to help organizations achieve strategic objectives through
agile project execution. The rise of Agile poses new challenges to organizations
in terms of governance, resource allocation, capacity planning, portfolio
selection, and prioritization.
This presentation will teach you how to define and implement PMO functions and
structures using AXELOS’ P3O® model (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Offices).
You will also learn how to combine PRINCE2® and Agile to balance adaptability
and governance.
Key Takeaways:
• Gain a greater understanding of the P3O model
• Learn from real-life scenarios how to adopt hybrid project management
combining PRINCE2 and Agile
BIO:
Mario Trentim is passionate about volunteerism and has been helping nonprofit
and professional communities since his youth. He has served and continues to
serve at national and international Boards of Directors since 2014, including
PMWB.org, PMIEF.org, ITAEX, and more.
Mr. Trentim is currently the Head of Governance and Performance at TRENTIM
Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner company he founded in 2014. He expanded the
company in Brazil and abroad, focused on project management services, citizen
development, and digital transformation to customers in Latin America, Europe,
Africa, and the Middle East. Mr. Trentim is also CEO at the PMO Global Alliance,
responsible for strategic planning, innovation, and global partnerships.
A former military officer (1999-2014), Mr. Trentim holds BSc and MSc degrees in
Engineering, and he is concluding his Ph.D. in Project Management. He is also an
MBA professor at top Business Schools, and he published nine books about project
management in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
In 2014, he was the recipient of the prestigious PMIEF Harold Kerzner Award for
his contributions to advancing the project management profession. Mr. Trentim
also received the Meritorious Service Medal from the Air Force. Among other
awards and recognition, Mr. Trentim is a Microsoft Regional Director and a
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for five consecutive years.
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Dr. Willis H. Thomas
Trainer and Speaker,
IIL
REDUCING AND PREVENTING HUMAN ERROR IN PROJECTS
“To Err is Human.” This partial quote by Alexandre Pope reminds us that not all
errors can be avoided. However, in some cases, the ripple effect caused by a
human error can have huge consequences, resulting in billions or even trillions
of dollars in lost revenue.
This is also true for projects. One small mistake, especially when it remains
undetected, can lead to substandard project results. Therefore, reducing and
preventing human error is critically important to project success. But how can
this be done?
Key Takeaways
• Why it is critical to reduce and prevent human error
• What factors contribute to reducing and preventing human error
• Where you can find Resources on reducing and preventing human error
• How we can work better together to prevent and reduce human error
• Which techniques are useful for reducing and preventing human error
BIO:
Dr. Willis H. Thomas is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified
Performance Technologist (CPT) who has been involved in Human Resources and
Training in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry since 2003. His
experience includes working in the area of Drug Products (DP) and Active
Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) manufacturing in Kalamazoo, MI; Quality
Assurance in Vaccines R&D in Pearl River, NY; Pharmacy Benefits Management in
Irving, TX; Clinical Research in Arlington, VA; and generics and branded
pharmaceuticals in Lake Forest, IL.
Willis actively publishes articles in journals, blogs and newspapers and speaks
at pharmaceutical and life sciences conferences on an international basis on
topics such as training and development, human error reduction and prevention,
business of quality, data integrity, good documentation practices, evaluation
(i.e., return on investment and return on quality), project management, risk
management, change management, inspection readiness, and cybersecurity.
Since 2003, he has focused on enhancing the domain of Project Evaluation and has
recognized global award-winning publications from PMI (Cleland Award) and APEX
for Publication Excellence. He has been a trainer for IIL since 2009 and is a
college professor in the Greater Chicago area.
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Paul Dandurand
Founder & CEO
Pie
HYBRID AGILE/WATERFALL EASY AS PIE
Attend this session to get a quick introduction to the differences between
Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project methods. Then learn how Pie, a visual
project and process tool, takes a unique and simple approach to helping you go
from waterfall to agile and using the two in the same project as a hybrid model.
Key Takeaways Include:
* • Learn about the differences between waterfall, agile, and hybrid projects
* • Learn how to set up a project structure for a hybrid projects
* • See the unique approach that Pie takes with helping you migrate to hybrid
agile and how to simplify a complex Scaled Agile SAFe model for your projects
and programs
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BIO:
Paul Dandurand is the founder and CEO of PieMatrix Inc (Pie). Paul started Pie
to help businesses improve project results with repeatable processes combined
with agile that improve over time while making it easy for team member adoption.
Prior to Pie, he was co-founder of FocusFrame, a systems testing services firm,
which was sold to Hexaware. Previously, he was with Siebel Systems (now Oracle)
in Amsterdam. And he started his project management experience with Ernst &
Young (EY) in San Francisco. Paul enjoys photography, learning the cello,
skiing, and hiking. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of
California at Berkeley.
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Ludwig Melik
CEO
Planbox
THE NEXT PARADIGM SHIFT: FROM AGILE TO FUTURE-FIT
Nature of work, new technologies, emerging trends, best practices and
regulations are evolving exponentially and in unexpected ways. If the past two
decades weren’t proof enough, then the last year alone reminded us that change
doesn’t come knocking at our door: it bashes it down, leaving us little or no
time at all to pivot accordingly.
Disruption comes in many ways, shapes and forms, but the result is always the
same: a shock to the system. Now more than ever organizations need to adopt a
proactive mindset that empowers their employees, partners, and community to
fearlessly navigate through turbulent times and into uncharted space at warp
speed.
The Agile Manifesto revolutionized work and created an incredible following 20
years ago. Now, “The Future Fit Manifesto” proposes a new strategic approach to
collaborative work that builds on the Agile movement. This manifesto provides
expert guidance to organizations that want to take control of their own destiny
to explore new possibilities, to seek new frontiers, and to boldly create new
futures.
Join us on this one-of-a-kind journey to discover:
* • What it means to be “Future-Fit”
* • The values you must embrace to adopt a Future-Fit approach
* • Insights from Gillis Jonk, Strategy and M&A at Kearny on how to practically
apply the Future-Fit Manifesto values to your strategy and operations
• The steps your organization needs to take toward becoming Future-Fit
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BIO:
As a visionary thought leader and passionate technology advocate, Ludwig has the
opportunity to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world
every day. Ludwig is the founding author of the Future-Fit Manifesto and the CEO
of Planbox, the world’s top-ranked agile innovation management platform, and
IdeaConnection, a world-class open innovation expert solver network. Sharing
enterprise innovation success stories, design thinking methodologies and agile
work processes are some of his ardent talking points. With 20+ years of
experience in the project portfolio management and innovation management market,
Ludwig looks to help organizations positively transform their work culture to
create sustainable growth and ongoing success by galvanizing employee engagement
and by igniting creative ideation.
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Tom Kruse
Director, Worldwide Advocacy
Business Relationship Management Institute
HOW TO BECOME THE TCHAIKOVSKY OF YOUR ORGANIZATION
Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky is perhaps one of the most famous composers and
conductors in history, known for his productions of Swan Lake and The
Nutcracker. What established him as one of the greats was his ability to draw
the best from the people in his orchestras to make every project a masterpiece.
Like Tchaikovsky, you are in a unique role as a Project Manager to bring out the
best in your partners within your organization. You can foster a culture of
innovation and purpose by building great relationships across functions. In this
presentation, you will learn how to become more strategic in your role through
business relationship management, and how to evolve your organization by
cultivating the relationships around you.
Key Takeaways:
* • Learn how to become both tactical and strategic in your PM role
* • Understand how to evolve the network of relationships in your organization
* • Use specific tools to connect relationships to results
* • Feel empowered to cultivate the relationships around you
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BIO:
Tom Kruse is an aspiring grateful leader who believes in the power of trusting
and authentic relationships. Having traveled to over 25 countries, he has
witnessed how every single one of us is connected by the same basic human needs.
He currently works for Business Relationship Management Institute, cultivating
relationships to help organizations satisfy their purpose. He has written and
edited over sixty tactical & thought-piece articles covering a wide array of
topics including Emotional Intelligence, Business Relationship Management, AI,
DevOps, Agile, and human connection. In his current position, he leads a group
of professional leaders in the development of Relationshipism at BRM Institute.
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Keith Wilson
Keith Wilson
Senior Trainer/Consultant
International Institute for Learning (IIL)
ASTRAZENECA – EMBARKING ON AN AGILE JOURNEY
The term ‘Agile Transformation’ is commonly used in many teams and organizations
who are looking to become more adaptable in their work. But how to go about this
transformation is a tough question.
Join AstraZeneca as they embark on their Agile Journey, in Part 1 of this
exclusive series. The session will be followed by a Q&A with the speakers.
What You Will Learn:
* • How to assess the current Project Management situation
* • The expected benefits and potential challenges of transitioning to Agile
* • An overview of different Agile practices
* • Define a strategy for the Agile Journey
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BIO:
Keith Wilson (IIL) has over 25 years of successful coaching, training,
management, and consulting experience globally with over 100 happy clients. He
has extensive Agile Training/Coaching experience and makes Agile work for his
clients.
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Pammy Subramony
Pammy Subramony
Associate Group Director, Head of Submissions & Operations
Clinical & Quantitative Pharmacology (CPQP), R&D, AstraZeneca
ASTRAZENECA – EMBARKING ON AN AGILE JOURNEY
The term ‘Agile Transformation’ is commonly used in many teams and organizations
who are looking to become more adaptable in their work. But how to go about this
transformation is a tough question.
Join AstraZeneca as they embark on their Agile Journey, in Part 1 of this
exclusive series. The session will be followed by a Q&A with the speakers.
What You Will Learn:
* • How to assess the current Project Management situation
* • The expected benefits and potential challenges of transitioning to Agile
* • An overview of different Agile practices
* • Define a strategy for the Agile Journey
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BIO:
Dr. Pammy Subramony (AstraZeneca) has 15 plus years of experience and leadership
from early development to commercialization managing programs in biologics,
device combination products and small molecules ranging from start-up to large
pharmaceutical companies.
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“ULTRA-FAST, ULTRA-EFFICIENT, ULTRA-FUN”
Wikispeed is a record-holding manufacturer of ultra-efficient cars using
Scrum. Wikispeed founder Joe Justice blogged his Scrum-based efforts, achieving
global reach while building his team and reputation. Wikispeed brings in a car
in pieces and builds it in a day using scrum. Their designs were used by
the U.S. military, Toyota, and Bosch, and in industries like medical, pharma,
and aerospace.
Using their innovative and record-holding methods, Wikispeed offers businesses
and organizations the chance to learn
Scrum through “Build-a-Thon’s.”. Wikispeed also provides college-level
volunteers and interns with hands-on experience applying Scrum to the hardware
industry through the EduScrum program, with the hopes of creating
better workers, and better people overall.
Produced by: d.b.Roderick
Edited by: Ross Boughton
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SURVIVING THE ODDS
THE IMPACT OF COVID ON SMALL BUSINESSES
The COVID 19 Pandemic’s catastrophic impact on the world’s public health,
devastated the global economy, disrupted the business
landscape, and forced closures around the globe. In the United States, those
struck hardest were small, mom-and-pop entrepreneurial businesses that are
historically recognized as the foundation for America’s business paradigm. Only
weeks after the pandemic’s onset, and prior to the availability of government
aid through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,
small businesses were already experiencing extensive disruption. However,
businesses like the Bel Aire Diner, a staple in the Queens community since 1965,
and Lavender Blues, a successful dance/music studio in Brooklyn, have found
creative and innovative ways to “survive the odds” during the pandemic.
Intentionally or not, these small business entrepreneurs are using various Agile
Techniques to keep their businesses viable.
Produced by Min Dai & d. b. Roderick
Editor: Ross Boughton
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David Nour
CEO
The Nour Group, Inc.
CURVE BENDERS: HOW STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS CAN POWER YOUR NON-LINEAR GROWTH IN
THE FUTURE OF WORK
David Nour delivered this excellent session on “Curve Benders: How Strategic
Relationships Can Power Your Non-linear Growth in the Future of Work” at IIL’s
2021 Leadership & Innovation Online Conference.
In the future of how we’ll work, live, play, and give, 15 Forces will create
dramatic headwind, tailwind, or turbulence in our lives and careers. Learning
their relevance is no longer optional; it’s a necessity.
For most people, learning is linear – they learn, then they apply. We believe
when it comes to relationships, a different lens is needed. Time and again,
people enter our lives that dramatically alter our lives’ direction and
destination. I call enablers of this adaptive and accelerated non-linear
growth Curve Benders.
So, who are your Curve Benders, and how do you find them? More importantly, how
do you become one in the lives of others? And how can the Curve Bending mindset
unlock the next level of enterprise value creation and profitable growth?
Join bestselling author, senior leadership advisor, executive educator and coach
David Nour as he shares key insights from his 11th book, Curve Benders, at the
intersection of the future of work, strategic relationships, and non-linear
growth.
Key Takeaways
* Understand the 15 Forces that will impact the future of how we’ll work, live,
play, and give.
* Evaluate Your Personal Market Value and the key investments you must make to
enhance it in 2021 and beyond.
* Apply the Growth Grid to address your most complex innovation challenges and
growth opportunities.
* Get introduced to the Path to your Curve Benders and Curve Benders Road
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BIO:
A senior leadership/board advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling
author, David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on
applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained
innovation, and lasting change. The author of eleven books, including
bestsellers Relationship Economics® (Wiley), and Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press),
as well as the forthcoming Curve Benders (Wiley, 2021), Nour serves as a trusted
advisor to global clients and coaches corporate leaders. He is an adjunct
professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and Vanderbilt
University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and was named to the Global
Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professionals list. A Forbes Leadership contributor on
the Future of Work, and an Inc. contributor on Relationship Economics, Nour’s
unique insights have been featured in a variety of prominent publications,
including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Huffington
Post Business, Entrepreneur, and Knowledge@Wharton. He’s also the host of the
popular Curve Benders podcast.
Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited
family ties and no fluency in English. He graduated from Georgia State
University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to earn
an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He
resides in Atlanta, GA, with his family. Learn more at www.NourGroup.com.
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Lyssa Adkins
Agile & Leadership Coach
TENWOMENSTRONG
CREATING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S BUSINESS AGILITY STRATEGY
Lyssa Adkins delivered this excellent session on “Creating Your Organization’s
Business Agility Strategy” at IIL’s 2020 Leadership & Innovation Online
Conference.
Optimally, your organization’s business strategy and business agility strategy
are completely coupled together, one seamlessly supporting the other.
Practically, what many organizations experience today is a tug-of-war between
their business strategy and this thing called “business agility.” Or, a lack of
business agility strategy altogether, leaving the business strategy more
susceptible, and even fragile, when unforeseen changes inevitably occur.
Organizations that create more business agility capability have the chance to
harness change for good, and even thrive. Yet, we are in the early days of
business agility and not many organizations are reaping these benefits. We need
a way to think about business agility, coupled with business strategy, so that
we can live into the reality of harnessing change for good.
This session will expose you to a recently published body of work, Domains of
Business Agility, which serves as a model for creating business agility
strategy. Think of it as a skeleton, or a thinking tool. Used this way, the
model allows leaders to answer the question, “How much business agility do we
need in various parts of our organization as a seamless support to our overall
business strategy?”
In this session, Lyssa Adkins, author of Coaching Agile Teams and
Agile/Leadership Coach, leads you through the key steps for creating such a
business agility/business strategy. We’ll explore a path from the
beginning (“Why do we need agility and how much?”) through to the continuing
process (“How can we reap the benefits of experiments to grow our agility
capability?”). Throughout, Lyssa brings her expertise in organizational culture,
change and coaching to help you think about how you would practically enact a
similar strategy process in your own organization.
Takeaways
* A model of the domains of business agility to use as a thinking tool for
creating business agility strategy.
* A process, a series of work sessions and conversations, to forge a powerful
business agility/business strategy.
* Practical considerations for what is genuinely possible in your
organization.
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BIO:
Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She loves it when
groups “sing.”
Her current client focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams
through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Helping them
unknot difficult, multi-department impediments is her definition of happy.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a
founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG WomeninAgile programs.
For years, Lyssa has been a passionate player in the Agile Coaching profession.
In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute and currently serves as
President Emerita as well as co-leads ACI’s competence-based coaching
curriculum. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams, which is still a top-10
Agile book years after publication.
Lyssa likes to explore facilitating intense conflict, societal change,
organizational change, the benefits and costs of being human in the workplace,
agile coaching, agile transformation, adult human development, human systems
dynamics, the role of nature, and books of all sorts. She tends toward a balance
of the provocative and practical, and likes to make sure she really listens to
someone’s question before responding.
Lyssa holds an alphabet soup of certifications: Certified Enterprise Coach
(CEC), ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC), Project Management
Professional (PMP), Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach
(ORSCC) and Certified Integral Facilitator (IF). She is also a trained
Co-Active Coach and Leader.
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Hassan Osman
PMO Director and Author
Cisco Systems
INFLUENCING VIRTUAL TEAMS: 5 BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESS
Hassan Osman delivered this excellent session on “Influencing Virtual Teams: 5
Best Practices for Success” at IIL’s 2020 IPM Day Online Conference.
In a new reality, distributed teams have become the norm in many organizations,
but this also comes with unique challenges that teams need to cope with. In this
session, Hassan Osman, an expert in working remotely, will cover tips and
tactics about how you can effectively manage your team members while they work
from home.
In this session, you will learn:
* The number one reason why virtual teams fail
* How to communicate more effectively with your team
* Tactics that will help you assign and delegate work in a remote environment
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BIO:
Hassan Osman is a Program Management Office (PMO) Director at Cisco Systems*
where he leads global virtual teams on delivering large and complex programs.
He is the author of several Amazon Bestselling books, including Influencing
Virtual Teams and Don’t Reply All.
Before joining Cisco, Hassan was a manager at EY, where he analyzed failing
programs at Fortune 100 companies and recommended strategic plans to fix them.
He holds PMP, CSM, and ITIL certifications and blogs about managing remote teams
on www.thecouchmanager.com.
*Views are his own and not those of Cisco
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WHAT PMI COURSES DOES IIL CURRENTLY OFFER AND IN WHAT MODALITY?
IIL offers PMP, PMI-ACP, CAPM, PBA, PfMP courses in Traditional, Virtual and
On-Demand settings.
WHERE CAN I LOCATE INFORMATION ON COURSE DURATION, PREREQUISITES, PRE-WORK AND
EXAM INFORMATION FOR A SPECIFIC PMI WORKSHOP?
The course descriptions found on our website contain all of the needed
information.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICING?
Course materials include a workbook and practice questions; supplemental
materials are available for purchase.
HOW ARE COURSE MATERIALS SENT TO ME?
Depending on the course and the modality, you will either receive hard copy
workbooks or access to an electronic download.
CAN I TAKE A PMI CERTIFICATION WORKSHOP AND NOT TAKE THE EXAM?
Yes. You will receive a certificate of completion if you take the IIL course but
must register through PMI for the exam to earn the certification.
WILL I RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION AT THE END OF THE WORKSHOP?
Yes, a Certificate of Completion will be issued after the course.
WHAT IS IIL’S PMP GUARANTEE?
* You must attend the entire program and meet PMI’s requirements for becoming a
PMP.
* You must take the PMP Exam within 30 days after finishing the IIL program.
* If you fail the Exam you are asked to email your status to us in order to be
eligible to take IIL’s 12-hour PMP Prep course including a live coach FREE OF
CHARGE or to negotiate for a refund based on all accepted paperwork.
Documents to send to IIL are:
* Date that you completed the IIL certificate program (proof will be needed
that you participated in all sessions)
* Date that you sat for the Exam
* Status report showing that your Exam Score
* When taking IIL’s 12-hour PMP Prep course you must take the Exam within 30
days to continue to be eligible for a full refund of the 35-hour PMP
Certification Prep course.
WHO ADMINISTERS THE PMI CERTIFICATION EXAMS?
PMI administers the exams.
WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE NEW PMP EXAM?
The new exam is comprised of:
* 180 questions (the previous exam was 200) but the same number of questions
will be scored
* 230 minutes to complete the exam
* One additional break for a total of two 10-minute breaks for computer-based
tests. No scheduled breaks for paper-based exams.
* Questions will be a combination of multiple-choice, multiple responses,
matching, hotspot and limited fill-in-the-blank. See prototype questions to
learn more.
WHAT ARE THE GENERAL EXAM FACTS FOR PMI WORKSHOPS?
The exams are taken through PMI. Participants apply, register and pay PMI
directly
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO TAKE THE EXAM?
Your PMI certification application is valid for one (1) year from the date of
approval. If you allow your eligibility to lapse, you must re-apply
CAN I TAKE THE EXAM AT A LOCAL TESTING CENTER?
All PMI exams are offered by Pearson VUE Testing Centers. Most PMI exams are
also available online. Please see here for additional information.
WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC DETAILS OF MY EXAM?
This information can be found at www.pmi.org/
HOW DO I RECEIVE MY CERTIFICATION FROM PMI?
Your certificate will be mailed to you by PMI. You should receive your
certificate package within 6-8 weeks from the date you pass the exam.
HOW DO I APPLY FOR PMI CERTIFICATION
You can apply on the PMI website.
For tips on completing the PMP application, watch this video
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Louria Lindauer
Founder / Agile & Leadership Coach
Success Agility LLC
FROM RESISTING AGILE TO YES, AGILE!
If you’re working in an Agile environment, the following might sound familiar:
You feel trapped in an environment where there’s constant resistance – and no
way out. Everyone is looking for a magic pill to quickly fix issues and
get answers. There are toxic behaviours, resistance, and it feels like you’re
always fighting to help.
If you recognize any of the above, then you may be in an ‘Agile
Wrong’ environment!
Are you ready for change for yourself, your teams, and your organization as a
whole? Then buckle up and let’s move from the ‘Agile Wrong’ environment
to ‘Yes, Agile! Where have you been all my life?’
Key Takeaways:
* Recognize when you are in the wrong environment and what to do about it
* Take a deep dive into organizational and team cultures and how to enter them
as an Agile Coach
* Make sense of the language and actions of different culture systems, their
capabilities, and how to move teams from one system to the next.
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BIO:
For the past 25 years, Louria has empowered and created People First
Environments, where talents are celebrated and voices matter. As an
international Executive Agile & Leadership Coach,she utilizes her mastery of
coaching, facilitation, teaching, and mentoring.
Louria Lindauer creates pathways for people to see beyond their
failures to discover and live their purpose with courage and immense passion!
Additionally, she has lived every role in an Agile organization from software
engineer, marketing to organizational change, and strategy coach. Therefore,
allowing her the understanding and empathy to reach, hear, guide and inspire
others to victory and live beyond their failures.
Success Agility LLC, creates the know-how to change chaos into sustainable
customized solutions for non-profits, small to fortune 500 companies. Louria’s
unique and diverse experience allows her insights into the mindset and skillset
of the vertical slice (team, program, and executive level) of an organization to
co-create sustainable culture change, shared vision, streamlined processes, and
increased employee engagement in an ever-changing environment.
Louria fell in love with coaching when she took her first Agile Coaching course
which lead her to co-active coaching and becoming a Co-Active Leadership
Faculty. Coupled with her passion and ability to lead with courage, love, big
laughter, play, faith, connection, creativity, and making the impossible
possible. Overall, Louria is fiercely committed to unleashing greatness, success
and happiness in business and people’s lives.
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Dawn Nicole McIlwain
Co-Founder & Agile Transformation Leader
BrandDisco LLC
THE AGILE MINDSET: MOTIVATING VS. MANDATING CHANGE
Agile Transformations can be hard on teams if not properly managed and
oftentimes, people who don’t readily embrace an Agile mindset are vilified and
accused of sabotaging the initiative.
Yet studies show these problems tend to stem from leadership’s unawareness of
what motivating factors enable their teams to be most receptive and responsive
to change, resulting in many teams not having the data and security needed
up-front to embrace change in the most effective ways.
Through this talk, we’ll offer you key tips and techniques to overcome these
challenges:
By attending this session you will:
* Learn the hidden reasons some struggle to embrace an Agile Mindset!
* Find out how to discover what types or data, security and context your people
need to embrace change more quickly!
* Discover new ways to motivate your people toward a continuous Agile mindset,
from the start!
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BIO:
Speaker and Author, Dawn Nicole McIlwain, ICP-ACC, SAFe 5.0, CSPO, PSM, CSM, is
an actively practicing Certified Enterprise Agile Coach with over 8-Years
experience leading enterprise Agile Teams to success. As a Certified Agile Coach
with over 23 years in corporate leadership, Dawn Nicole and her team creates and
delivers coaching programs, techniques & tools used by corporations, City
Governments and U.S. Military Officials with a national footprint.
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Dawn Nicole McIlwain
Co-Founder & Agile Transformation Leader
BrandDisco LLC
THE AGILE MINDSET: MOTIVATING VS. MANDATING CHANGE
Agile Transformations can be hard on teams if not properly managed and
oftentimes, people who don’t readily embrace an Agile mindset are vilified and
accused of sabotaging the initiative.
Yet studies show these problems tend to stem from leadership’s unawareness of
what motivating factors enable their teams to be most receptive and responsive
to change, resulting in many teams not having the data and security needed
up-front to embrace change in the most effective ways.
Through this talk, we’ll offer you key tips and techniques to overcome these
challenges:
By attending this session you will:
* Learn the hidden reasons some struggle to embrace an Agile Mindset!
* Find out how to discover what types or data, security and context your people
need to embrace change more quickly!
* Discover new ways to motivate your people toward a continuous Agile mindset,
from the start!
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BIO:
Speaker and Author, Dawn Nicole McIlwain, ICP-ACC, SAFe 5.0, CSPO, PSM, CSM, is
an actively practicing Certified Enterprise Agile Coach with over 8-Years
experience leading enterprise Agile Teams to success. As a Certified Agile Coach
with over 23 years in corporate leadership, Dawn Nicole and her team creates and
delivers coaching programs, techniques & tools used by corporations, City
Governments and U.S. Military Officials with a national footprint.
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Sara Murdock, Ph.D.
Global People & Culture Leader
THE NEW AI: AGILITY AND INCLUSION
We have so many terms to describe People & Culture strategy, yet confusion about
what works is skyrocketing. This talk goes over the key distinctions between
Inclusion, Belonging, and Psychological Safety… plus how to use Agile as a lens
to put these concepts into action. Starting with the basics and climbing into
best practices for future-proof change management,
This talk is for leaders, strategists, and practitioners — anyone working with
or curious about the links between DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion, and
belonging), business agility, and strategic change management.
Key Takeaways:
* Understand the differences between Psychological Safety, Inclusion, and
Belonging
* Receive helpful ideas your company can use today
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BIO:
Sara is a global DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) leader who
advises, speaks, publishes, consults, and teaches around the world and across
sectors.
Sara delights in translating complex research and cutting-edge practices into
accessible and fun formats that everyone can benefit from. Her specialty is
bridging ideas into tangible action steps that leaders can use today, while
creating impeccable, future-proof strategies for the long term. She serves as a
thought partner to leaders across industries and loves helping organizations of
all sizes transform their cultures, programs, products, and visions into DEI&B
powerhouses. Her unique take on organizational culture is built upon systems
change for a more just and rich ecosystem from which to operate, iterate, and
evolve. Sara specializes in strategy lifecycle from systems mapping to visioning
to strategic decision making to implementation to iteration, all in service of
exceptional culture for maximum impact.
Sara has earned many credentials–a Ph.D. in Social Impact in Intercultural
Programs, MA in Organizational Design and Change Management, and BA in both
American Culture and Dance Performance–but she is most proud of coaching 6,000+
people ages 17-70+ from classrooms to boardrooms to community
centers. Her community impact includes Co-Chair of the Leadership Program for
Anti-Defamation League, United Nations consultative Delegate through the
Economic and Social Council, and as a Social Impact Fellow for The Coaching
Fellowship for women leaders. She’s also an avid dancer and teaches movement
classes when schedules allow.
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Scott Ambler
Vice President and Chief Scientist, Disciplined Agile
Project Management Institute (PMI)
STUCK ON YOUR AGILE JOURNEY? BECOME A LEARNING ORGANIZATION
Although the adoption of an agile framework may be a good first step on your
improvement journey, your real goal is to become a learning organization.
Learning organizations are capable of developing their own fit-for-purpose Way
or Working (WoW), which may be a hybrid of approaches, that enables them to
out-compete others. The Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit teaches you what agile
frameworks will not – how to choose the approach for the situation that you
face, continually learn, and ultimately improve your WoW. DA includes
improvement techniques for individuals, teams, cross-team collaborations, value
streams, and your enterprise. Knowing how to improve, and doing so effectively,
is what enables you to become a learning organization.
Learning objectives:
* Understand what a learning organization is and why you need to become one
* Discover improvement techniques for all levels of your organization
* Explore how to apply the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit to improve your
continuous improvement strategy
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BIO:
Scott is the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project
Management Institute. Scott leads the evolution of the Disciplined Agile
(DA) toolkit and is co-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit as well as
the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies. He is an
international keynote speaker and co-author of several books including Choose
Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Refactoring
Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3rd
Edition. Scott blogs regularly at ProjectManagement.com and he can be contacted
via PMI.org.
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Scott Ambler
Vice President and Chief Scientist, Disciplined Agile
Project Management Institute (PMI)
STUCK ON YOUR AGILE JOURNEY? BECOME A LEARNING ORGANIZATION
Although the adoption of an agile framework may be a good first step on your
improvement journey, your real goal is to become a learning organization.
Learning organizations are capable of developing their own fit-for-purpose Way
or Working (WoW), which may be a hybrid of approaches, that enables them to
out-compete others. The Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit teaches you what agile
frameworks will not – how to choose the approach for the situation that you
face, continually learn, and ultimately improve your WoW. DA includes
improvement techniques for individuals, teams, cross-team collaborations, value
streams, and your enterprise. Knowing how to improve, and doing so effectively,
is what enables you to become a learning organization.
Learning objectives:
* Understand what a learning organization is and why you need to become one
* Discover improvement techniques for all levels of your organization
* Explore how to apply the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit to improve your
continuous improvement strategy
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BIO:
Scott is the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project
Management Institute. Scott leads the evolution of the Disciplined Agile
(DA) toolkit and is co-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit as well as
the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies. He is an
international keynote speaker and co-author of several books including Choose
Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Refactoring
Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3rd
Edition. Scott blogs regularly at ProjectManagement.com and he can be contacted
via PMI.org.
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Sara Murdock, Ph.D.
Global People & Culture Leader
THE NEW AI: AGILITY AND INCLUSION
We have so many terms to describe People & Culture strategy, yet confusion about
what works is skyrocketing. This talk goes over the key distinctions between
Inclusion, Belonging, and Psychological Safety… plus how to use Agile as a lens
to put these concepts into action. Starting with the basics and climbing into
best practices for future-proof change management,
This talk is for leaders, strategists, and practitioners — anyone working with
or curious about the links between DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion, and
belonging), business agility, and strategic change management.
Key Takeaways:
* Understand the differences between Psychological Safety, Inclusion, and
Belonging
* Receive helpful ideas your company can use today
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BIO:
Sara is a global DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) leader who
advises, speaks, publishes, consults, and teaches around the world and across
sectors.
Sara delights in translating complex research and cutting-edge practices into
accessible and fun formats that everyone can benefit from. Her specialty is
bridging ideas into tangible action steps that leaders can use today, while
creating impeccable, future-proof strategies for the long term. She serves as a
thought partner to leaders across industries and loves helping organizations of
all sizes transform their cultures, programs, products, and visions into DEI&B
powerhouses. Her unique take on organizational culture is built upon systems
change for a more just and rich ecosystem from which to operate, iterate, and
evolve. Sara specializes in strategy lifecycle from systems mapping to visioning
to strategic decision making to implementation to iteration, all in service of
exceptional culture for maximum impact.
Sara has earned many credentials–a Ph.D. in Social Impact in Intercultural
Programs, MA in Organizational Design and Change Management, and BA in both
American Culture and Dance Performance–but she is most proud of coaching 6,000+
people ages 17-70+ from classrooms to boardrooms to community
centers. Her community impact includes Co-Chair of the Leadership Program for
Anti-Defamation League, United Nations consultative Delegate through the
Economic and Social Council, and as a Social Impact Fellow for The Coaching
Fellowship for women leaders. She’s also an avid dancer and teaches movement
classes when schedules allow.
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Erin Bolk
Sr. Scrum Master
National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL)
SHOWING UP TO BE YOUR BEST EVERY DAY
Your Organization is Agile…YAY! You are working in a prescribed framework
(Scrum, Kanban, etc.) …YAY! You are a part of a Dynamic team…YAY! You are all
set and running as a defined High Performing team…NO! So, what is in the way?
Eri will help answer that, it isn’t just a team problem.
Through her experience in Agile environments, Erin realized many organizations
check all the boxes for implementing agile, but forget the most important which
are the behaviors. Over the years, Erin has started to focus on the behaviors
needed in an agile environment. In this session you will look at questions like:
what gets you excited? What makes you frustrated? What motivates you? How are
you showing up? Are you owning your day or renting it? And why reflecting on
these matters!
Erin will provide tools that we will use to identify personal behaviors and
statements that you will be able to use not only within your profession, your
team, your organization, but also in your daily life outside of the office.
Are you ready to show up to be your best?
Learning Outcomes
* Uncover behaviors needed in an Agile environment.
* Tools that can be applied immediately after the session to help uncover
challenges, strengths and possibilities
* Taking time to be introspective.
JUGGLING YOUR COMPETENCE ON YOUR WAY TO PERSONAL AGILITY
Everyday, we have the potential to get thrown into different scenarios and
opportunities. We are constantly juggling our established skill set with new
skills.
In this talk, Erin Bolk will talk about the different stages of learning, how
you might move through them and how to intentionally recognize where you are in
the learning curve. We will also take time to look at how we can help our team
members by meeting them where they are.
As we go on this personal journey, Erin will offer tools to use for you and how
they can be adapted to be used within your team. This session is a fun way to
learn more about you and who you are! And how you develop within your dynamic
team.
The goal of this session is to highlight the process we go through as we are
introduced to new things. As a part of this goal, Erin will be highlighting our
personal growth as well as the growth of those around us.
Learning Outcomes
* Have different learning models to utilize and reference as they interact
daily with work and life.
* Understand where we are in our learning process affects our decisions.
* Learn how to Juggle!
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BIO:
Erin is an active agilist in all aspects of her life. Her official agile journey
started in the 2000’s when she was introduced to Agile and Scrum, but it has
been how she has approached work and life for as long as she can remember.
Through the years, she has occupied every role on a Scrum team, Leaderhip roles,
Chief Product roles and Enterprise Agile Coach roles. She has been lucky to have
worked with and trained with some of the leading agilists in the Agile
community. Through the extensive Agile specific and Professional Coach training,
she has been to bring her learnings back to organizations and insert them in her
personal life.
Erin’s belief is that we all have greatness and uncovering that greatness in
herself and others is her passion. Through her journey as a coach, she has
modified her own behaviours, changed how she parents her daughters and how she
continues to build relationships that surround her.
Erin currently resides in Centennial, Colorado with her husband and 2 daughters.
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Erin Bolk
Sr. Scrum Master
National Guardian Life Insurance Company (NGL)
SHOWING UP TO BE YOUR BEST EVERY DAY
Your Organization is Agile…YAY! You are working in a prescribed framework
(Scrum, Kanban, etc.) …YAY! You are a part of a Dynamic team…YAY! You are all
set and running as a defined High Performing team…NO! So, what is in the way?
Eri will help answer that, it isn’t just a team problem.
Through her experience in Agile environments, Erin realized many organizations
check all the boxes for implementing agile, but forget the most important which
are the behaviors. Over the years, Erin has started to focus on the behaviors
needed in an agile environment. In this session you will look at questions like:
what gets you excited? What makes you frustrated? What motivates you? How are
you showing up? Are you owning your day or renting it? And why reflecting on
these matters!
Erin will provide tools that we will use to identify personal behaviors and
statements that you will be able to use not only within your profession, your
team, your organization, but also in your daily life outside of the office.
Are you ready to show up to be your best?
Learning Outcomes
* Uncover behaviors needed in an Agile environment.
* Tools that can be applied immediately after the session to help uncover
challenges, strengths and possibilities
* Taking time to be introspective.
JUGGLING YOUR COMPETENCE ON YOUR WAY TO PERSONAL AGILITY
Everyday, we have the potential to get thrown into different scenarios and
opportunities. We are constantly juggling our established skill set with new
skills.
In this talk, Erin Bolk will talk about the different stages of learning, how
you might move through them and how to intentionally recognize where you are in
the learning curve. We will also take time to look at how we can help our team
members by meeting them where they are.
As we go on this personal journey, Erin will offer tools to use for you and how
they can be adapted to be used within your team. This session is a fun way to
learn more about you and who you are! And how you develop within your dynamic
team.
The goal of this session is to highlight the process we go through as we are
introduced to new things. As a part of this goal, Erin will be highlighting our
personal growth as well as the growth of those around us.
Learning Outcomes
* Have different learning models to utilize and reference as they interact
daily with work and life.
* Understand where we are in our learning process affects our decisions.
* Learn how to Juggle!
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BIO:
Erin is an active agilist in all aspects of her life. Her official agile journey
started in the 2000’s when she was introduced to Agile and Scrum, but it has
been how she has approached work and life for as long as she can remember.
Through the years, she has occupied every role on a Scrum team, Leaderhip roles,
Chief Product roles and Enterprise Agile Coach roles. She has been lucky to have
worked with and trained with some of the leading agilists in the Agile
community. Through the extensive Agile specific and Professional Coach training,
she has been to bring her learnings back to organizations and insert them in her
personal life.
Erin’s belief is that we all have greatness and uncovering that greatness in
herself and others is her passion. Through her journey as a coach, she has
modified her own behaviours, changed how she parents her daughters and how she
continues to build relationships that surround her.
Erin currently resides in Centennial, Colorado with her husband and 2 daughters.
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Joe Justice
CEO
Wikispeed
AGILE AT TESLA – THE MISINFORMATION THAT YOU CAN’T APPLY AGILE TO HARDWARE
What is it like to work in 3 hour sprints? How does any company deploy 27
changes per week in hardware, or more? What is a team size like when you are
moving that fast? What about certification, and how does testing fit in such
short sprints?
The speed of New Product Development and New Product Introduction is related to
the agile management of the enterprise and the agility of the manufacturing
processes. The CEO’s of Volkswagen, Bosch, Toyota, and Tesla all agree that
speed of change is top priority. Joe Justice, inventor of eXtreme Manufacturing
and operator of Agile@Tesla.com during their largest stock price rise, will show
exactly how agile manufacturing is conducted. Joe will discuss the benefits and
hurdles to hardware agile and he will display the steps to implement from
executive, management, design, engineering, test, factory floor, and more.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn how increase speed, quality, and efficiency at the same time.
* Understand how to increase happiness, willingness, respect, and enthusiasm in
engineering and manufacturing culture.
* Find out about Joe’s complete New Product Development and New Product
Introduction outline for agile hardware
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BIO:
Joe applied agile to automotive manufacturing in 2006, founding Team WIKISPEED,
and set 4 world records. Joe has designed and built 14 race and road-legal cars
himself, some designed and built in as short as 27 minutes. Joe Justice has
worked in Toyota, VW, and Tesla. He has also built some small houses, and some
robots. His method of cross-training CAD, CAM, CFD, FEA, procurement, Machine
Shop, Composites Shop, Test, and user testing has earned global recognition as
the WIKISPEED method. Joe has facilitated hundreds of online courses and
online keynotes, and operated Agile@Tesla from the company headquarters.
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Roy Schilling
Senior Agile Coach/Trainer
IIL
THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF SCALING AGILE
At some point your organization is going to start thinking about scaling Agile.
But when is the right time to do this? If you have teams that are challenged,
scaling too soon will just make small problems bigger problems. There is also
the challenge of deciding how to scale. There is a plethora of scaling
frameworks available, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, but
which one is right for you? How do you decide? This session will help you make
sense of the choices, timing and elephant traps involved with scaling Agile.
Key Takeaways:
* Understand why scaling agile is needed
* Gain insight in the key challenges of scaling agile
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BIO:
For over 15 years, Roy has been working with organizations to build
high-performing teams and organizations using Agile and Lean methodologies. Roy
is an experienced Agile coach and trainer with strong technical and leadership
qualifications with more than 30 years of experience in strategic planning, team
development, project and product management and systems engineering strategies.
Roy has a proven ability to successfully analyze an organization’s critical
issues, identify deficiencies and opportunities, and develop innovative and
cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness and effectiveness. Roy
has worked in numerous industries including Government, Financial services,
Insurance, and Manufacturing.
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Leila Rao
President
AgileXtended
COMPASS FOR AGILITY: LEVERAGING AGILITY FOR BUSINESS PROBLEM-SOLVING
Join Leila Rao as she introduces the Compass for Agility. This 90-day iterative
approach is a pragmatic and personalized method, enabling organizations to build
the capacity and culture for responding to challenges and opportunities. It
provides a structure for organizations to explore what’s working and what isn’t
in their ecosystem to successfully and sustainably build the capability for
continuous learning and improvement. The Compass helps with addressing “wicked”
business problems set apart by one key variation: agile is the “how”, not the
“why”. Enhancing business agility is a fortunate by-product of directly
resolving pain points because agile serves as the means, not the end.
Empower your organization to orient itself by its unique needs and values so
that you can continually create customized maps as you chart your own journey in
volatile and uncertain terrains.
Takeaways:
* Explore the difference between pursuing agile and leveraging agility for
business problem solving
* Leverage lean-agile thinking and practices to deliver tangible, sustainable
value in 90 days
* Expand organizational fluency for problem-solving so that we can more
effectively address current as well as emerging challenges
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BIO:
Leila Rao is an organizational transformation consultant, with more than fifteen
years of experience in guiding organizations through Agile transformations and
other cultural change efforts.
Her specialty is combining principles from multiple disciplines, such as design
thinking and Lean Six Sigma, along with Lean-Agile principles to create
customized solutions that amplify value and deliver alignment between business
activities and strategic organizational outcomes.
Leila is the creator of the Compass for Agility framework, and the author of the
book with same title. The book explores the multi-disciplinary approach that
enables organizations to shape their own compass as they aim to adapt, innovate
and thrive in challenging environments.
Additionally, she is now applying the same expertise and her own experiences to
increase the value and visibility of women through self-organization, collective
empowerment and structural realignment as the co-founder of Lean In Agile.
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Rob Zuber
CTO
CircleCI
SHIFTING LEFT UNTIL WE SHIFT RIGHT
Pablo Picasso famously said to “learn the rules like a pro, so you can break
them like an artist.” For over 20 years, the principles of agile and lean
software development have been reshaping our industry with incontrovertible
positive impact. However, as is so often the case with guiding principles, there
are cases where the original intent has been lost and replaced by simplified
patterns that sometimes prevent us from making the right decisions.
In this talk, CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber will look at the guiding principles and
original intent of agile practices to illustrate that the next frontier of
testing in production may seem counterintuitive on the surface but, when done
well, is a natural evolution of agile.
Attendees will:
* Develop a better understanding of the principles that led to specific
practices in agile development
* Recognize how advancement beyond planning work, such as devops and CI/CD
evolved from these principles
* Make decisions about where and how to apply these practices in their
own work
* Apply scenario planning to minimize cost and risk while maximizing value
delivery in their own business
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BIO:
Rob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, and
three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its
Series E funding and delivered on product innovation at scale while leading a
team of 150+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.
Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous
integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired
by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social
marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company
that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was
acquired by Appconomy in 2011.
Rob holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from Queen’s University in
Kingston, Ontario, and lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two
children.
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Jorgelina Bross-Puglisi
Trainer & Consultant
IIL
MAXIMIZE YOUR ROI WITH VALUE STREAM MAPPING
How can we provide greater value to our customers while eliminating delays,
improving quality and reducing cost?
Customers seek to pay for products and services that meet their needs and using
Value Stream Mapping, a company can identify which activities deliver true value
to the customer, and continuously optimize these activities.
Embracing Value Stream Mapping brings value to the forefront of every decision a
team makes, and well-defined value streams keep the entire team focused on the
ROI throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Do you know what is the value-added time of your processes? Understanding your
processes’ efficiency can help you increase ROI and accelerate time to market.
In this session, we will look at best practices, examples and tools to implement
and profit from Value Stream Mapping.
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BIO:
Jorgelina is an accomplished industrial engineer, project manager, and
consultant with solid international experience in various industries. She has
conducted numerous projects in more than 15 countries in Latin and North
America, Europe, and Asia. She is a results-oriented leader, with excellent
communication and facilitation skills.
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Aaron Bjork
Principal Group Program Manager
Microsoft
THE INTERSECTION OF AGILE AND CULTURE
Most accept that agile methods and practices work… but how do you apply them at
scale without stifling the creativity, autonomy, and energy of your teams?
Listen as Aaron Bjork describes the importance of organizational culture in
scaled agile implementations. Aaron will share stories from his experiences at
Microsoft and provide practical advice for how to intersect agile and culture in
your organization and teams.
Key takeaways:
* Learn why culture and agile are not mutually exclusive.
* Learn practical ways to strengthen the agile mindset on your teams.
* Learn ways to identify where culture is interfering with agile adoption.
* Learn what has/hasn’t worked during Microsoft’s agile transformation.
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BIO:
Aaron Bjork is a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft where he leads the
Azure IoT Central product team, focused on simplifying IoT at scale. Before
joining Azure IoT in April of 2019, Aaron led various product investments for
the Azure DevOps suite of services, including agile project management,
reporting, analytics, and work management.
Aaron is a 19-year Microsoft veteran who has spent his career building tools to
promote and encourage team productivity. Aaron is a recognized Agile thought
leader and speaks regularly with companies around the world about improving
their culture and practices.
Aaron joined Microsoft in 2002 working as a software engineer and development
lead on the Visual Studio product line. Before joining Microsoft, Aaron worked
for various startups in the Seattle area. Aaron is passionate about Agile,
DevOps, and IoT and has a strong desire to see organizations improve their
practices and culture.
Aaron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of
Washington. When he’s not writing code, you’ll find him doing projects with his
family on their hobby farm or working to lower his handicap on the golf course.
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Tyler Spindel
Agile Program Lead
Capital One
SCALING WITH SIMPLICITY: HOW TO ELIMINATE COMPLEXITY IN LARGE AGILE PROGRAMS
As agile thought leaders debate if agile at scale is really “agile,” many of us
who work in the trenches understand that scaling is sometimes necessary. We work
in legacy environments and on complex codebases that require coordination. Our
organizations may be working towards independent teams and a microservices
architecture, but even the migrations required to get there demand scaling. This
talk will help participants reduce complexity in scaled organizations and
simplify their program framework.
Attendees will receive actionable recommendations to help them execute more
efficiently starting today. With a heavy focus on eliminating dependencies and
effective planning, the presentation will help attendees bring simplicity to
even the most complex scaled programs. Interspersed through the presentation
will be real-life examples of successes and failures so attendees can understand
how to put ideas into action. Attendees will also receive tips on influencing
leadership to adopt these recommendations, empowering them to drive sustainable
change.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
* How to simplify a program’s operating model
* Tips for eliminating dependencies and managing through dependencies that
can’t be cut
* How to overcome two problems no amount of planning can solve for: bad
requirements and unstable priorities
* Strategies to reduce the impact of prioritization changes
* How to influence the change necessary to build a better managed program
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BIO:
Ever since a 15-year-old Tyler Spindel learned an 89.6% rounds up to an “A,” he
has been passionate about achieving results while doing the minimum amount of
work necessary. Tyler has made a career out of that philosophy, helping programs
achieve their business goals by staying lean and keeping things simple.
As an agile leader who supports organizations of over 23 teams, Tyler has helped
audiences improve their agile program management skills since 2018. His guidance
has enabled programs to: improve commitment reliability from 60% to 95%,
eliminate 200 hours/month of non-productive tasks, and streamline meetings to
increase development time by 250 hours/month. Tyler has taken his program
management knowledge to the community as well, volunteering for local civic
organizations and serving on Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College Alumni Board.
Tyler is a proud dad to a 5-year-old aspiring Disney princess, and curious 1
year old twins. Back when he had free time, he could be found at the pool
swimming, coaching, and singing out of tune between sets. Check him out on
LinkedIn to chat more about Agile.
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Susan Parente
Principal Consultant
S3 Technologies, LLC
THE GRATEFUL AGILE LEADER
Grateful Leadership is an excellent match for Agile methods! With daily
stand-ups, iteration retrospectives, and iteration review meetings, we have many
opportunities to acknowledge our project stakeholders! A key part of being a
performing team is valuing our team members while providing value to our
clients.
Join Susan Parente as she demonstrates that Grateful Leadership is a style of
leadership that speaks to the fundamentals of acknowledgment and gratitude for
team members, what they do, and how they contribute! And she helps build a
persuasive case that Grateful Leadership should be a key part of Agile
projects!
Key takeaways:
* How being an Agile Leader is being a Grateful Leader
* Incorporating an attitude of gratitude with team members and customers
* Acknowledging team accomplishments, courage, and creativity
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BIO:
Susan Parente is a Principal Consultant at S3 Technologies, LLC and a University
Professor at multiple Universities. Mrs. Parente is an author, mentor and
professor focused on risk management, traditional and Agile project management.
Her experience is augmented by her Masters in Engineering Management with a
focus in Marketing of Technology from George Washington University, DC, along
with a number of professional certifications. Ms. Parente has 23+ years’
experience leading software and business development projects in the private and
public sectors, including a decade of experience implementing IT projects for
the DoD.
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Marcel Greutmann
VP Cloud Advisory Europe
IBM
AGILE LEADERSHIP & ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION: WHY IT WORKS
Enterprises are evolving to become Agile Organizations to thrive in an
unpredictable, rapidly changing environment. They evolve continually and embrace
uncertainty and ambiguity. These modern Agile organization require a new kind of
leadership which is fundamentally different from traditional mindsets. The Agile
Leader has a Learning and growth mindset, an ability to inspire purpose with
empathy and foster collaboration at an individual & Team level and instills
outcome oriented self-direction.
Transformation in large Enterprises are longterm journeys. Agile Leadership is
fundamental to sustain over time and keep pivoting with outcomes that matter.
Embedding new ways of working, Enterprise Design Thinking, Customer centricity
and other movements will make Change the norm instead of the exception. This
requires the formation of Teams with a DNA to continuously adopt best
practices.
Marcel will share his Enterprise Transformation perspective from having worked
in Technology with many Clients in Europe and Asia throughout two decades. He
will be sharing personal insights grounded in real-life stories about what works
and what doesn’t. His personal journey in agility and lessons
learned will inspire you for your own way forward.
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BIO:
Accomplished Senior Executive with a wealth of experience in building,
integrating, transforming and leading services organizations on a truly global
scale. Hands-on multicultural understanding from running businesses in Asia,
Europe and the US. Transforming busines models with multinationals as well as
local companies across many Industries. Embodies Agile Leadership and Design
driven thinking to accelerate Digital Transformations in today’s Cloud-enabled
world.
Marcel is currently leading the Cloud Advisory Business for Europe, Middle East
and Africa. Enabling clients on their journey to Cloud with a team of senior
Cloud Advisors across all European Markets. Driving Client’s success through
expertise in Hybrid Multi-Cloud, Application Modernization, Cloud Technology and
Agile Transformation. He is accountable for the Practice growth and P&L in
Europe.
Most recently, Marcel was the European Leader for IBM’s Cloud Solutioning and
Engagement team. Working with IBM’s signature clients achieving value with their
cloud transformation programs. Leading a squad of Europe’s best Cloud Engineers
with deep expertise in every aspect of Cloud and Technology transformation. In
2018, leading the Hybrid Cloud Transformation Program for a Global Automotive
firm working with IBM-Cloud and Services teams and various non-IBM Cloud
providers in Europe, the US and China.
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Paul Wilkinson
Business Development Director
GamingWorks
DEVOPS WILL FAIL, UNLESS…
DevOps, the latest hot topic in the IT world, promises faster, more frequent,
higher quality software releases. However, according to Paul and his research,
many initiatives fail!
In this session, Paul reveals why these initiatives fail and will offer guidance
for helping you prevent these from happening. The reasons are taken from his
organization’s global findings based on research with more than 400 teams having
participated in the Phoenix Project business simulation workshop. Paul
highlights that DevOps is not something you can ‘implement’ or ‘install’. So how
can you ensure that your DevOps initiatives will succeed? In this presentation,
Paul will reveal 3 top critical success factors taken from organizations who are
delivering significant, sustainable value from their DevOps investments. Sharing
with you top takeaway actions that teams commit to after attending the
simulation workshops. Attend this session to learn why DevOps has become an
‘imperative’ for survival for many organizations to support and enable their
Digital Transformation. For many CEO’s ‘failure is NOT an option’!
Participants of this session will:
* Understand why DevOps is critical for many organizations
* Learn the 3 success factors to delivering sustainable value from DevOps
investments
* Learn about practical actions teams can take from simulation workshops
Your CEO expects you to come back and make DevOps succeed!
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BIO:
Paul has been actively involved in ITSM for more than 40 years in a variety of
roles from operations, to development to IT management. He was also actively
involved in the development of ITIL Practitioner which introduced the Guiding
principles to align ITIL to a more Agile way of working. Paul is Business
Development Director of GamingWorks, the company that developed the
internationally renowned ‘Apollo 13 – an ITSM case experience’ ITSM simulation
game, the ‘Phoenix Project’ DevOps simulation and most recently
the MarsLander simulation which can be used to support ITIL®4 training and
culture change. He was also co-author and developer of the ‘ABC of ICT’ (The
Attitude, Behavior and Culture of ICT) publications, having conducted ABC
workshops and simulation workshops with delegates representing more than 5000
organizations world-wide.
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Marsha Acker
CEO
TeamCatapult
HOW DARING TO DIALOGUE IMPROVES PERFORMANCE AND CREATES A CULTURE OF AGILITY
The single greatest predictor of success is the way we are having or not having
conversations, and if we can learn to be more intentional in how we invite,
cultivate, participate, and facilitate conversations there will not be any
challenge that an organization cannot skillfully navigate in order to produce
effective outcomes.
But what if our conversations are stuck or ineffective? What if conversations
break down instead of generating new collective thinking? We’ll look at
conversations and how to use the structure of the conversations to harvest the
intelligence that already exists, and the daring role leaders play in creating a
space for dialogue in order to greatly change the nature of the discourse.
Key Takeaways include:
* Four actions that everyone can take to foster better conversations
* Understand the impact of monologue vs dialogue on culture
* Three ways for leaders to engage in better dialogue starting today
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BIO:
Marsha Acker is an executive leadership and team coach whose passion and
expertise is helping leaders and their teams identify and break through stuck
patterns that get in the way of high performance. She is the author of the
book The Art and Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration
with Agile Teams.
Marsha founded TeamCatapult, a coaching and change leadership firm, in 2005. She
has over 20 years of experience designing and facilitating organizational change
initiatives. She believes that facilitation and coaching skills are 21st century
leadership skills required for leaders as they learn to lead agility across the
organization and develop their teams. She is a track founder for
the ICAgile Agile Team Coaching track and Enterprise Coaching track.
Marsha is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), Certified Professional
Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Professional Certified Coach (ICF-PCC), Organizational
and Relationship Systems Coach (Center for Right Relationship), Dialogix –
Certified Structural Dynamics Interventionist, ICAgile Certified Expert Agile
Team Coaching and ICAgile Expert in Enterprise Coaching.
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Tyler Spindel
Agile Program Lead
Capital One
SCALING WITH SIMPLICITY: HOW TO ELIMINATE COMPLEXITY IN LARGE AGILE PROGRAMS
As agile thought leaders debate if agile at scale is really “agile,” many of us
who work in the trenches understand that scaling is sometimes necessary. We work
in legacy environments and on complex codebases that require coordination. Our
organizations may be working towards independent teams and a microservices
architecture, but even the migrations required to get there demand scaling. This
talk will help participants reduce complexity in scaled organizations and
simplify their program framework.
Attendees will receive actionable recommendations to help them execute more
efficiently starting today. With a heavy focus on eliminating dependencies and
effective planning, the presentation will help attendees bring simplicity to
even the most complex scaled programs. Interspersed through the presentation
will be real-life examples of successes and failures so attendees can understand
how to put ideas into action. Attendees will also receive tips on influencing
leadership to adopt these recommendations, empowering them to drive sustainable
change.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
* How to simplify a program’s operating model
* Tips for eliminating dependencies and managing through dependencies that
can’t be cut
* How to overcome two problems no amount of planning can solve for: bad
requirements and unstable priorities
* Strategies to reduce the impact of prioritization changes
* How to influence the change necessary to build a better managed program
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BIO:
Ever since a 15-year-old Tyler Spindel learned an 89.6% rounds up to an “A,” he
has been passionate about achieving results while doing the minimum amount of
work necessary. Tyler has made a career out of that philosophy, helping programs
achieve their business goals by staying lean and keeping things simple.
As an agile leader who supports organizations of over 23 teams, Tyler has helped
audiences improve their agile program management skills since 2018. His guidance
has enabled programs to: improve commitment reliability from 60% to 95%,
eliminate 200 hours/month of non-productive tasks, and streamline meetings to
increase development time by 250 hours/month. Tyler has taken his program
management knowledge to the community as well, volunteering for local civic
organizations and serving on Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College Alumni Board.
Tyler is a proud dad to a 5-year-old aspiring Disney princess, and curious 1
year old twins. Back when he had free time, he could be found at the pool
swimming, coaching, and singing out of tune between sets. Check him out on
LinkedIn to chat more about Agile.
BACK TO HOME
Rob Zuber
CTO
CircleCI
SHIFTING LEFT UNTIL WE SHIFT RIGHT
Pablo Picasso famously said to “learn the rules like a pro, so you can break
them like an artist.” For over 20 years, the principles of agile and lean
software development have been reshaping our industry with incontrovertible
positive impact. However, as is so often the case with guiding principles, there
are cases where the original intent has been lost and replaced by simplified
patterns that sometimes prevent us from making the right decisions.
In this talk, CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber will look at the guiding principles and
original intent of agile practices to illustrate that the next frontier of
testing in production may seem counterintuitive on the surface but, when done
well, is a natural evolution of agile.
Attendees will:
* Develop a better understanding of the principles that led to specific
practices in agile development
* Recognize how advancement beyond planning work, such as devops and CI/CD
evolved from these principles
* Make decisions about where and how to apply these practices in their
own work
* Apply scenario planning to minimize cost and risk while maximizing value
delivery in their own business
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BIO:
Rob Zuber is a 20-year veteran of software startups; a four-time founder, and
three-time CTO. Since joining CircleCI, Rob has seen the company through its
Series E funding and delivered on product innovation at scale while leading a
team of 150+ engineers who are distributed around the globe.
Prior to CircleCI, Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Distiller, a continuous
integration and deployment platform for mobile applications acquired
by CircleCI in 2014. Before that, he cofounded Copious an online social
marketplace. Rob was the CTO and Co-founder of Yoohoot, a technology company
that enabled local businesses to connect with nearby consumers, which was
acquired by Appconomy in 2011.
Rob holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science from Queen’s University in
Kingston, Ontario, and lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two
children.
BACK TO HOME
Paul Wilkinson
Business Development Director
GamingWorks
DEVOPS WILL FAIL, UNLESS…
DevOps, the latest hot topic in the IT world, promises faster, more frequent,
higher quality software releases. However, according to Paul and his research,
many initiatives fail!
In this session, Paul reveals why these initiatives fail and will offer guidance
for helping you prevent these from happening. The reasons are taken from his
organization’s global findings based on research with more than 400 teams having
participated in the Phoenix Project business simulation workshop. Paul
highlights that DevOps is not something you can ‘implement’ or ‘install’. So how
can you ensure that your DevOps initiatives will succeed? In this presentation,
Paul will reveal 3 top critical success factors taken from organizations who are
delivering significant, sustainable value from their DevOps investments. Sharing
with you top takeaway actions that teams commit to after attending the
simulation workshops. Attend this session to learn why DevOps has become an
‘imperative’ for survival for many organizations to support and enable their
Digital Transformation. For many CEO’s ‘failure is NOT an option’!
Participants of this session will:
* Understand why DevOps is critical for many organizations
* Learn the 3 success factors to delivering sustainable value from DevOps
investments
* Learn about practical actions teams can take from simulation workshops
Your CEO expects you to come back and make DevOps succeed!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BIO:
Paul has been actively involved in ITSM for more than 40 years in a variety of
roles from operations, to development to IT management. He was also actively
involved in the development of ITIL Practitioner which introduced the Guiding
principles to align ITIL to a more Agile way of working. Paul is Business
Development Director of GamingWorks, the company that developed the
internationally renowned ‘Apollo 13 – an ITSM case experience’ ITSM simulation
game, the ‘Phoenix Project’ DevOps simulation and most recently
the MarsLander simulation which can be used to support ITIL®4 training and
culture change. He was also co-author and developer of the ‘ABC of ICT’ (The
Attitude, Behavior and Culture of ICT) publications, having conducted ABC
workshops and simulation workshops with delegates representing more than 5000
organizations world-wide.
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Leila Rao
President
AgileXtended
COMPASS FOR AGILITY: LEVERAGING AGILITY FOR BUSINESS PROBLEM-SOLVING
Join Leila Rao as she introduces the Compass for Agility. This 90-day iterative
approach is a pragmatic and personalized method, enabling organizations to build
the capacity and culture for responding to challenges and opportunities. It
provides a structure for organizations to explore what’s working and what isn’t
in their ecosystem to successfully and sustainably build the capability for
continuous learning and improvement. The Compass helps with addressing “wicked”
business problems set apart by one key variation: agile is the “how”, not the
“why”. Enhancing business agility is a fortunate by-product of directly
resolving pain points because agile serves as the means, not the end.
Empower your organization to orient itself by its unique needs and values so
that you can continually create customized maps as you chart your own journey in
volatile and uncertain terrains.
Takeaways:
* Explore the difference between pursuing agile and leveraging agility for
business problem solving
* Leverage lean-agile thinking and practices to deliver tangible, sustainable
value in 90 days
* Expand organizational fluency for problem-solving so that we can more
effectively address current as well as emerging challenges
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BIO:
Leila Rao is an organizational transformation consultant, with more than fifteen
years of experience in guiding organizations through Agile transformations and
other cultural change efforts.
Her specialty is combining principles from multiple disciplines, such as design
thinking and Lean Six Sigma, along with Lean-Agile principles to create
customized solutions that amplify value and deliver alignment between business
activities and strategic organizational outcomes.
Leila is the creator of the Compass for Agility framework, and the author of the
book with same title. The book explores the multi-disciplinary approach that
enables organizations to shape their own compass as they aim to adapt, innovate
and thrive in challenging environments.
Additionally, she is now applying the same expertise and her own experiences to
increase the value and visibility of women through self-organization, collective
empowerment and structural realignment as the co-founder of Lean In Agile.
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Jorgelina Bross-Puglisi
Trainer & Consultant
IIL
MAXIMIZE YOUR ROI WITH VALUE STREAM MAPPING
How can we provide greater value to our customers while eliminating delays,
improving quality and reducing cost?
Customers seek to pay for products and services that meet their needs and using
Value Stream Mapping, a company can identify which activities deliver true value
to the customer, and continuously optimize these activities.
Embracing Value Stream Mapping brings value to the forefront of every decision a
team makes, and well-defined value streams keep the entire team focused on the
ROI throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Do you know what is the value-added time of your processes? Understanding your
processes’ efficiency can help you increase ROI and accelerate time to market.
In this session, we will look at best practices, examples and tools to implement
and profit from Value Stream Mapping.
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BIO:
Jorgelina is an accomplished industrial engineer, project manager, and
consultant with solid international experience in various industries. She has
conducted numerous projects in more than 15 countries in Latin and North
America, Europe, and Asia. She is a results-oriented leader, with excellent
communication and facilitation skills.
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Joe Justice
CEO
Wikispeed
AGILE AT TESLA – THE MISINFORMATION THAT YOU CAN’T APPLY AGILE TO HARDWARE
What is it like to work in 3 hour sprints? How does any company deploy 27
changes per week in hardware, or more? What is a team size like when you are
moving that fast? What about certification, and how does testing fit in such
short sprints?
The speed of New Product Development and New Product Introduction is related to
the agile management of the enterprise and the agility of the manufacturing
processes. The CEO’s of Volkswagen, Bosch, Toyota, and Tesla all agree that
speed of change is top priority. Joe Justice, inventor of eXtreme Manufacturing
and operator of Agile@Tesla.com during their largest stock price rise, will show
exactly how agile manufacturing is conducted. Joe will discuss the benefits and
hurdles to hardware agile and he will display the steps to implement from
executive, management, design, engineering, test, factory floor, and more.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn how increase speed, quality, and efficiency at the same time.
* Understand how to increase happiness, willingness, respect, and enthusiasm in
engineering and manufacturing culture.
* Find out about Joe’s complete New Product Development and New Product
Introduction outline for agile hardware
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BIO:
Joe applied agile to automotive manufacturing in 2006, founding Team WIKISPEED,
and set 4 world records. Joe has designed and built 14 race and road-legal cars
himself, some designed and built in as short as 27 minutes. Joe Justice has
worked in Toyota, VW, and Tesla. He has also built some small houses, and some
robots. His method of cross-training CAD, CAM, CFD, FEA, procurement, Machine
Shop, Composites Shop, Test, and user testing has earned global recognition as
the WIKISPEED method. Joe has facilitated hundreds of online courses and
online keynotes, and operated Agile@Tesla from the company headquarters.
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Aaron Bjork
Principal Group Program Manager
Microsoft
THE INTERSECTION OF AGILE AND CULTURE
Most accept that agile methods and practices work… but how do you apply them at
scale without stifling the creativity, autonomy, and energy of your teams?
Listen as Aaron Bjork describes the importance of organizational culture in
scaled agile implementations. Aaron will share stories from his experiences at
Microsoft and provide practical advice for how to intersect agile and culture in
your organization and teams.
Key takeaways:
* Learn why culture and agile are not mutually exclusive.
* Learn practical ways to strengthen the agile mindset on your teams.
* Learn ways to identify where culture is interfering with agile adoption.
* Learn what has/hasn’t worked during Microsoft’s agile transformation.
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BIO:
Aaron Bjork is a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft where he leads the
Azure IoT Central product team, focused on simplifying IoT at scale. Before
joining Azure IoT in April of 2019, Aaron led various product investments for
the Azure DevOps suite of services, including agile project management,
reporting, analytics, and work management.
Aaron is a 19-year Microsoft veteran who has spent his career building tools to
promote and encourage team productivity. Aaron is a recognized Agile thought
leader and speaks regularly with companies around the world about improving
their culture and practices.
Aaron joined Microsoft in 2002 working as a software engineer and development
lead on the Visual Studio product line. Before joining Microsoft, Aaron worked
for various startups in the Seattle area. Aaron is passionate about Agile,
DevOps, and IoT and has a strong desire to see organizations improve their
practices and culture.
Aaron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of
Washington. When he’s not writing code, you’ll find him doing projects with his
family on their hobby farm or working to lower his handicap on the golf course.
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Richard Kasperowski
High Performance Team-Building Expert
TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT: A STUNNINGLY QUICK INTRODUCTION
“The job of QA is not just to do testing — it’s to build quality in.”
How often have you heard that sentence? And how often has it been followed up
with solid practices for actually building quality in?
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is one of the foundational practices of
high-quality product development. Popularized nearly 20 years ago, TDD is an
important skill for high-quality software development. If you want it to be
easier to build high-quality code, then you need to understand TDD.
In this hands-on session, we’ll learn by doing. Richard will facilitate a coding
dojo, a safe place to learn and practice the skills of test-driven development.
We’ll mob-program together on a coding kata — an easy programming problem — to
learn TDD, refactoring, clean code, code smells, and more — all in the pursuit
of technical agility, business agility, and a great product that people love. To
follow along, bring your laptop and development environment.
You’ll leave with an introduction to solid new skills, including:
* Test-driven development (TDD)
* Extreme Programming (XP)
* Refactoring and refactoring patterns
* Code smells
* Mob programming
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BIO:
Richard Kasperowski is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team
building and high-performance teams. Richard is the author of two
books: High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide
to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming book High-Performance Teams: Core
Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence. He leads clients
in building and maintaining high-performance teams that get great
results using the Core Protocols, Agile, and Open Space Technology. Richard
created and teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University,
and he co-teaches the Spark! innovation fellowship at Boston University. Learn
more at kasperowski.com.
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Richard Kasperowski
High Performance Team-Building Expert
TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT: A STUNNINGLY QUICK INTRODUCTION
“The job of QA is not just to do testing — it’s to build quality in.”
How often have you heard that sentence? And how often has it been followed up
with solid practices for actually building quality in?
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is one of the foundational practices of
high-quality product development. Popularized nearly 20 years ago, TDD is an
important skill for high-quality software development. If you want it to be
easier to build high-quality code, then you need to understand TDD.
In this hands-on session, we’ll learn by doing. Richard will facilitate a coding
dojo, a safe place to learn and practice the skills of test-driven development.
We’ll mob-program together on a coding kata — an easy programming problem — to
learn TDD, refactoring, clean code, code smells, and more — all in the pursuit
of technical agility, business agility, and a great product that people love. To
follow along, bring your laptop and development environment.
You’ll leave with an introduction to solid new skills, including:
* Test-driven development (TDD)
* Extreme Programming (XP)
* Refactoring and refactoring patterns
* Code smells
* Mob programming
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BIO:
Richard Kasperowski is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team
building and high-performance teams. Richard is the author of two
books: High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide
to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming book High-Performance Teams: Core
Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence. He leads clients
in building and maintaining high-performance teams that get great
results using the Core Protocols, Agile, and Open Space Technology. Richard
created and teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University,
and he co-teaches the Spark! innovation fellowship at Boston University. Learn
more at kasperowski.com.
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Pam Dukes
Senior Agile Coach and Trainer
Signify Health
ELITE AGILE TEAMS AND SPORTS TEAMS – WHAT MAKES THEM GREAT?
We often hear that sports teams and agile teams are not the same. They are more
alike than you think. Elite teams have something in common that might surprise
you.
Where does the ability to be a great teammate come from? Why are some better at
it than others? What is that secret sauce that all high performing teams have
mastered?
In this session, you will learn:
* The key areas to help accelerate teamwork!
* One method to achieve your goals and enhance your influence.
* The underlying thread that high performing teams have in common!
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BIO:
Pamela Dukes is a Hall of Fame and Olympic athlete who is focused on helping
teams through servant leadership and self-reliance strategies. She is passionate
about learning and helping others as a coach, trainer and mentor.
She has been a featured speaker at several Agile and Lean conferences and loves
sharing her experiences with others. With over 20 years in the technology
industry, she uses Agile practices and her experience with high performing teams
to improve team productivity and deliver high value products. Her superpowers
are her optimism, empathy and finding ways to view and conquer challenges while
motivating those around her.
She is a proud graduate of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. At
Stanford, she majored in Sociology with a focus in Organizational Behavior and
has earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s of Arts. She has also earned several
certifications in Agile methodologies and is a Certified Harada Method Trainer.
Her volunteer work includes a board position on High Tech High Heels. She also
mentors those who request her assistance and conducts goal setting classes using
the Harada Method periodically. She donates yearly to a couple of scholarships
at her high school, Freehold Township High School. Her proudest and favorite
role is as mom to Alexander.
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Susan Parente
Principal Consultant
S3 Technologies, LLC
THE GRATEFUL AGILE LEADER
Grateful Leadership is an excellent match for Agile methods! With daily
stand-ups, iteration retrospectives, and iteration review meetings, we have many
opportunities to acknowledge our project stakeholders! A key part of being a
performing team is valuing our team members while providing value to our
clients.
Join Susan Parente as she demonstrates that Grateful Leadership is a style of
leadership that speaks to the fundamentals of acknowledgment and gratitude for
team members, what they do, and how they contribute! And she helps build a
persuasive case that Grateful Leadership should be a key part of Agile
projects!
Key takeaways:
* How being an Agile Leader is being a Grateful Leader
* Incorporating an attitude of gratitude with team members and customers
* Acknowledging team accomplishments, courage, and creativity
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BIO:
Susan Parente is a Principal Consultant at S3 Technologies, LLC and a University
Professor at multiple Universities. Mrs. Parente is an author, mentor and
professor focused on risk management, traditional and Agile project management.
Her experience is augmented by her Masters in Engineering Management with a
focus in Marketing of Technology from George Washington University, DC, along
with a number of professional certifications. Ms. Parente has 23+ years’
experience leading software and business development projects in the private and
public sectors, including a decade of experience implementing IT projects for
the DoD.
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Roy Schilling
Senior Agile Coach/Trainer
IIL
THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF SCALING AGILE
At some point your organization is going to start thinking about scaling Agile.
But when is the right time to do this? If you have teams that are challenged,
scaling too soon will just make small problems bigger problems. There is also
the challenge of deciding how to scale. There is a plethora of scaling
frameworks available, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, but
which one is right for you? How do you decide? This session will help you make
sense of the choices, timing and elephant traps involved with scaling Agile.
Key Takeaways:
* Understand why scaling agile is needed
* Gain insight in the key challenges of scaling agile
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BIO:
For over 15 years, Roy has been working with organizations to build
high-performing teams and organizations using Agile and Lean methodologies. Roy
is an experienced Agile coach and trainer with strong technical and leadership
qualifications with more than 30 years of experience in strategic planning, team
development, project and product management and systems engineering strategies.
Roy has a proven ability to successfully analyze an organization’s critical
issues, identify deficiencies and opportunities, and develop innovative and
cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness and effectiveness. Roy
has worked in numerous industries including Government, Financial services,
Insurance, and Manufacturing.
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Marcel Greutmann
VP Cloud Advisory Europe
IBM
AGILE LEADERSHIP & ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION: WHY IT WORKS
Enterprises are evolving to become Agile Organizations to thrive in an
unpredictable, rapidly changing environment. They evolve continually and embrace
uncertainty and ambiguity. These modern Agile organization require a new kind of
leadership which is fundamentally different from traditional mindsets. The Agile
Leader has a Learning and growth mindset, an ability to inspire purpose with
empathy and foster collaboration at an individual & Team level and instills
outcome oriented self-direction.
Transformation in large Enterprises are longterm journeys. Agile Leadership is
fundamental to sustain over time and keep pivoting with outcomes that matter.
Embedding new ways of working, Enterprise Design Thinking, Customer centricity
and other movements will make Change the norm instead of the exception. This
requires the formation of Teams with a DNA to continuously adopt best
practices.
Marcel will share his Enterprise Transformation perspective from having worked
in Technology with many Clients in Europe and Asia throughout two decades. He
will be sharing personal insights grounded in real-life stories about what works
and what doesn’t. His personal journey in agility and lessons
learned will inspire you for your own way forward.
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BIO:
Accomplished Senior Executive with a wealth of experience in building,
integrating, transforming and leading services organizations on a truly global
scale. Hands-on multicultural understanding from running businesses in Asia,
Europe and the US. Transforming busines models with multinationals as well as
local companies across many Industries. Embodies Agile Leadership and Design
driven thinking to accelerate Digital Transformations in today’s Cloud-enabled
world.
Marcel is currently leading the Cloud Advisory Business for Europe, Middle East
and Africa. Enabling clients on their journey to Cloud with a team of senior
Cloud Advisors across all European Markets. Driving Client’s success through
expertise in Hybrid Multi-Cloud, Application Modernization, Cloud Technology and
Agile Transformation. He is accountable for the Practice growth and P&L in
Europe.
Most recently, Marcel was the European Leader for IBM’s Cloud Solutioning and
Engagement team. Working with IBM’s signature clients achieving value with their
cloud transformation programs. Leading a squad of Europe’s best Cloud Engineers
with deep expertise in every aspect of Cloud and Technology transformation. In
2018, leading the Hybrid Cloud Transformation Program for a Global Automotive
firm working with IBM-Cloud and Services teams and various non-IBM Cloud
providers in Europe, the US and China.
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