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The Future of Work Scotland team are excited to be supporting the Agile20reflect festival with a look at the "Future of Agile"

This session will see two of our past guest speakers return to engage in a lively debate on where Agile goes from here. What could the future hold?

Come join us in and hear the thoughts of three respected Agilists who have made great contributions to how the industry has continued to evolve over the last 20 years.

Our panel will include:

Johanna Rothman:

Johanna is a speaker, consultant and author of many books including managing product development and From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver (with Mark Kilby). Johanna joined us in April 2020 alongside Mark to share her insights on going from co-located to dispersed teams.

Johann is known as the “Pragmatic Manager" and provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development. We love hearing Johanna's insights and are delighted to welcome her back!

Lyssa Adkins:

Lyssa has not previously been a guest speaker with us but she really needs little introduction. A recognised coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer.

To quote Lyssa "I believe that Agile is a brilliant, emergent response to help us thrive in our ever-increasingly complex, changeable and interconnected world. My current focus is coaching Leadership Teams and Boards of Directors to take up the Agile transformation that is theirs to do -- on both a personal and group level. For many years I have been a passionate contributor to the discipline and profession of Agile Coaching and have trained thousands of agilists in the knowledge, skills, and mindsets needed to coach teams and organizations to get full benefits of Agile"

Lyssa is of course the author of Coaching Agile Teams which is still a best seller 10 years later. We are thrilled that she has agreed to join our panel discussion and share her thoughts with our community.

Tobias Mayer:

Tobias joined us for a brilliant session in October 2020 where he facilitated a discussion on "The Now of Work" amidst the challenges of the global pandemic and all the upheaval it brought for our work and lives.

Tobias Mayer is an explorer of human relationships, writer, mentor, teacher and speaker. He is committed to the liberation of the corporate workplace, and to that end, spends a lot of time thinking, talking and writing on personal responsibility, grassroots initiative and confronting the status quo. Tobias is the author of the 2013 book 'The People's Scrum', and the upcoming audiobook 'The State of Work'.

Website: tobiasmayer.uk
Events List: tobiasmayer.uk
The People’s Scrum Audio: tobiasmayer.uk

We are delighted he is making a return to share his valuable insights.