The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the "Soul Craftswoman" April Jefferson.
April is a master of curating spaces for exploratory conversation and together in this session we will unpack what's going on to spur the great resignation and how might we respond as individuals and as a collective.
Expect a mashup of liberating structures for this dialogue.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
⦁ A look at the complexity of the resignation surge now.
⦁ The changing needs of people working.
⦁ What might the future of work look like with this new learning?
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
April Jefferson is an independent coach, collaboration facilitator, experience crafter, game creator, and international speaker. She adds value to the world by guiding the journey to nourish oneself with generative engagement — enjoying harmonizing mindsets, crafting applied learning experiences, and holding space both in-person and online. April is best known for the transformation and curation of spaces that keep people at the centre.
These experiences include Future of Work 24 Hours, Women in Agile Open, the five-part Growing Racial Equity Series for Black Lives, and the clients, she has engaged with.
April has co-founded three active communities, sits on several boards, shared over 100 talks and workshops domestically and internationally.
She is a mentor and ambassador of many professionals and youth. Love, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven organically at the essence of every space and interaction of hers.
April strives to embody the moniker “Soul Craftswoman”.
The Future of Work Scotland team are very excited to be bringing you this session with the authors of Comic Agile, Luxshan and Mikkel, in conjunction with our friends at BCS Agile Methods Specialist Group.
The exact format and content of this event is yet to be confirmed with the authors. We have also put this to the Future of Work Scotland community, so if you have any thoughts or ideas please share them with us, at thefutureofworkscotland@gmail.com
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Explore the motivations and journey to the Comic Agile book
● Exploratory conversation around some common Agile adoption fails
● Discussions around why Agility is challenging in many enterprises
Here's some more on our awesome guests for this session:
Mikkel Noe-Nygaard holds an MA in Architecture with a background in sustainable buildings and a speciality in Communications Design, but has always been working with user experience in software. Mikkel designs both hyper-complex cloud-based expert tools and simple mobile applications with the same pride, and always puts the user first in aesthetic, efficient solutions. After 20 years of software enterprise experience, spanning diverse areas such as public health care and insurance, pension fund investments, tax and property registration and, at the time of writing, sustainable energy at Vestas, Mikkel has found his second calling as a cartoonist!
Luxshan Ratnaravi holds an MSc in Software Engineering and is an Agile Coach with the Danish financial software solutions provider Bankdata. He’s constantly on a mission of improving the status quo from his position between being an agile ideologist and a pragmatic problem-solver
Luxshan’s professional mission in life, which has taken him through jobs as, e.g., IT Business Analyst, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach, is to relentlessly improve companies by challenging their worn-out habits, reinforcing their purpose and helping them in continuously improving their practices through the awesome values, principles and practices from the agile space.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you this event with author of The Leadership Book Neil Jurd OBE.
In this session Neil explains a number of the key, simple and effective concepts from his highly regarded new book.
He explores leadership in its most simplest form and will cover areas such as asymmetric leadership, false leadership and leading with humility. We will ground this in the context of 'People' which Neil covers in Part Two of his book, as well as what it truly takes to lead teams and organisations.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. An understanding of the difference between leadership and management
2. How to build a more effective team
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Neil Jurd is a leadership thinker, author, and presenter.
His practice is based on experience gained as an officer in the British Army, both on active service and teaching leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His operational service included tours in Sierra Leone, Yemen, and Iraq,
Neil works with a wide ranging of clients, including the NHS, the University of Sheffield, Independent Living Fund Scotland, Wilson James and Virgin Media.
Neil founded and continues to be a trustee of the Michelle Jurd Trust, a charity which supports veterans and provides character building opportunities for young people, he is the volunteer Director of Army Cadet Force Initial Officer Training, an Honorary Teaching Fellow of Lancaster University and he was recently presented with a British Citizen Award.
Neil’s ‘The Leadership Book’ gets excellent reviews and is available in all UK bookshops. The commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst recently described it as the best leadership book he had read. Neil’s leadership videos are available on Leader Connect.
For a free example of the videos and to see Neil’s work please go to: https://leader-connect.co.uk/sample-sessions/
The future of work is: no jobs - Benjamin P. Taylor
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the wonderful Benjamin P. Taylor for this intriguing session.
Benjamin will be sharing some perspectives and speculation on the future of work:
• Contracting models and power dynamics
• ‘Gig work’ above and below the API
• Rights and exploitation
• A small diversion into the absurdity and mendacity of ‘IR35’
• Simplified taxation and Universal Basic Income
• The potential of DAOs
• Three parallel worlds of tribal identity, dependence, interdependence and (inter)independence
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Some new angles and combinations of future of work possibilities
● Discussion of what is important to hold on to or to obtain, and how to keep that focus
● Thinking about how parallel worlds are likely to emerge
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Benjamin found on social media as @antlerboy – has been in public service reform and organizational effectiveness for over 20 years, and is passionate about the systems | complexity | cybernetics field. He describes himself as business evolutionary and avid learner, all of which he traces back to science fiction, studying philosophy (with politics and economics) at Oxford University, and being an outsider despite his privilege.
He began in a frontline role and then became Adviser to Leader in a London borough council and a career in public service consultancy through PwC, Sector Projects (part of Capita).
He set up RedQuadrant, a network consultancy, in 2009 with the goal of transforming public services and disrupting consulting. In 2016, Benjamin established the Public Service Transformation Academy, a not-for-profit social enterprise which builds the capacity of public services to transform themselves.
Benjamin curates and shares everything to do with systems/complexity/cybernetics at the Systems Community of Inquiry, hosts and supports and engages with many social media groups and systems societies, and is a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society and a Director of Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the systems practitioner professional body. In that capacity, he has supported the development of the UK’s level seven (post-grad) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship. He is writing two systems thinking books, one for Routledge and one for Triarchy Press, and recording two podcasts: Transduction, the systems, cybernetics, and complexity podcast (I have come to sing songs to your cat), and Joy and Work: leading service transformation.
• Chief executive of the Public Service Transformation Academy, a not-for-profit social enterprise www.publicservicetransformation.org
• Managing partner at RedQuadrant, a networked consultancy www.redquadrant.com
• Director at Systems and Complexity in Organisation www.systemspractice.org, the systems
• Core member, Requisite Agility www.requisiteagility.org and member, the Open Eyes Collaborative
• Curator at systems community of inquiry www.syscoi.com
Choosing hybrid ways of working: a UK government case study - Andrew Pope
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The Future of Work Scotland team are pleased to bring you this intriguing session with Designing Collaboration consultancy co-owner Andrew Pope joining us from Australia.
Every team is different – building hybrid ways of work requires an approach that allows teams to make their own informed choices. This session shows both the game-based approach that allowed teams to make their own choices but also how to identify goals for hybrid working.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● How a UK government agency approached hybrid working practices for Microsoft Teams
● An understanding on some of the key issues and goal areas
● Learning some of the more popular techniques selected for hybrid ways of work
● Learning how a collaborative game-based approach allowed for problem discovery, overcoming blockers and solution development
Here's some background on our awesome guest speaker for this session:
Andrew is co-owner of consultancy Designing Collaboration in the United Kingdom and Australia, and advises large and medium-sized organisations throughout Europe and the USA on digital strategy and leadership, virtual team & community building, and how to leverage collaboration tools for business impact.
Andrew has recently been advising UK Government clients on their hybrid working strategy for Microsoft Teams and a global sciences firm on digital teamworking skills in Microsoft 365. He has also worked with some well-known organisations on their digital collaboration strategies as well as devising engagement programs. He also works as a facilitator, moderating future workplace peer groups across northern Europe.
Andrew is also co-author, with Alister Webb, of Designing Collaboration – a series of books, games and tools to boost digital collaboration, team and community building.
The Future of Work Scotland team are very excited to be bringing you this session with the authors of Comic Agile, Luxshan and Mikkel.
The exact format and content of this event is yet to be confirmed with the authors. We have also put this to the Future of Work Scotland community, so if you have any thoughts or ideas please share them with us, at hefutureofworkscotland@gmail.com
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Explore the motivations and journey to the Comic Agile book
● Exploratory conversation around some common Agile adoption fails
● Discussions around why Agility is challenging in many enterprises
Here's some more on our awesome guests for this session:
Mikkel Noe-Nygaard holds an MA in Architecture with a background in sustainable buildings and a speciality in Communications Design, but has always been working with user experience in software. Mikkel designs both hyper-complex cloud-based expert tools and simple mobile applications with the same pride, and always puts the user first in aesthetic, efficient solutions. After 20 years of software enterprise experience, spanning diverse areas such as public health care and insurance, pension fund investments, tax and property registration and, at the time of writing, sustainable energy at Vestas, Mikkel has found his second calling as a cartoonist!
Luxshan Ratnaravi holds an MSc in Software Engineering and is an Agile Coach with the Danish financial software solutions provider Bankdata. He’s constantly on a mission of improving the status quo from his position between being an agile ideologist and a pragmatic problem-solver
Luxshan’s professional mission in life, which has taken him through jobs as, e.g., IT Business Analyst, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer and Agile Coach, is to relentlessly improve companies by challenging their worn-out habits, reinforcing their purpose and helping them in continuously improving their practices through the awesome values, principles and practices from the agile space.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting award winning author, writer, teacher and ex-US Marine Don E. Vandergriff.
In this session, Don will explore bringing adaptability and mission command to the work place.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● How adopting mission command can be used to make a more empowered and adaptive workforce.
● The pandemic has encouraged decentralization, but the missing part is how to develop it? It does not require expensive technology or high end speakers (that actually works in the opposite way)
● How to develop people to enable it. In the book this can be translated into civilian centric methods to teach people how to be more adaptive and empowered
Here some more on our awesome speaker for this session:
Donald E. Vandergriff is considered an expert on Mission Command, Maneuver Warfare and Leader Development using the latest in Learning Methodologies. He is a noted speaker, award winning author, and teacher being named ROTC teacher of the year. He is also the author or editor of six other books and over 100 articles. He is also a retired Marine and Army officer having served 24 years in uniform, and another 12 years as a contractor, both overseas and in the US.
The Future of Work Scotland team are thrilled to be hosting this session with author of best selling "The Art of Creative Thinking", Rod Judkins.
Have you ever desperately needed to come up with an idea but suffered from creative block and sat staring at a blank sheet of paper? Tried to think up solutions to a problem, but the flash of inspiration never came? Are your ideas are good but never brilliant? Make Brilliant Work shows people how to achieve creative success despite limitations in their talent, skills, or knowledge. The talk will leave you with 5 essential tools to overcome these obstacles, blocks, and blind spots and fulfil your true potential.
In Make Brilliant Work, you will learn from cutting-edge research in art and design, psychology, and science. The book explores a range of case studies to show how success is not the result of talent or intuition but practical, step-by-step processes. Apply these to your life and work to achieve your goals.
Many of the successful creative people you'll meet in the book failed at school, lacked natural talent, were not exceptionally gifted, or fired from their day jobs. But their methods produced brilliant work and led to international success – and they will work for you, too. Achieving brilliant work is no longer due to talent, information, or skill but about overcoming inner and outer blocks and generating great ideas. Make Brilliant Work is a route map of radical new paths to success. You will leave with essential tools to overcome obstacles, blocks, and blind spots.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● How to get ideas. How to create new ideas whenever you need them.
● Transform mediocre work into brilliant work.
● Learn from cutting edge research how to make your work more successful.
● Producing brilliant work is not about talent but overcoming inner and outer blocks
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Rod Judkins is a writer, creative innovation consultant, and university lecturer. His book, Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self and The Art of Creative Thinking, were bestsellers and translated into many languages. His latest book is Make Brilliant Work.
He has delivered workshops and talks to numerous businesses worldwide, including Apple, Google, Samsung, The Royal Free Hospital London, Bombay Sapphire and many others. He has lectured on art, design, and creative process at Central St Martin's College of Art, for over twenty years. His international reputation as an alternative thinker has seen him lecturing on platforms as widely placed as University College London, ESCP Europe, the University of Navarra (Spain), the University of Namur (Belgium).
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the one and only Daniel Mezick, as our final event of 2021.
2022 is sure to be the year of "patterns over practices."
Patterns liberate you and your organization from the tyranny of rigid practice frameworks.
Patterns can be expressed through any number of practices.
Healthy, proven patterns point your organization in the right direction *from the very beginning* and produce the quick ROI that is so essential to momentum and success.
In this session, Daniel Mezick will introduce you to the Eight Liberating Patterns of Open Business Agility.
These 8 patterns are now being used worldwide to generate authentic and lasting business agility.
You can see the evidence with these nine (9) executive testimonial videos here:
So-called "business agility" is actually almost impossible without a focus on patterns, because success with business agility is actually *more difficult to achieve* than software agility.
A focus in patterns over practices is what wins this game.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. Why these 3 patterns are essential for scaling change: Explicit Agreement, Boundary Management and Clarity of Authorization
2. How Whole Group Process builds Common Knowledge, which are 2 additional and key patterns necessary for scaling improvement
3. Where and when to use the Leadership Invitation pattern
2021 is the year of patterns over practices. You'll exit this session with a PDF toolkit that will help you implement all of the ideas presented in this presentation:
-- The Scrum Checklist for Executives
-- The READY FOR AGILE Checklist for Teams and Stakeholders
-- The Authority Circle, a Whole-Group activity
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Coaching executives and teams in Agile since 2006, Daniel Mezick leads Improving Agility. Daniel has guided dozens of organizations in the art and science of Agile improvement. An author and co-author of three books on organization change, Daniel is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and events.
Daniel Mezick is the originator of OpenSpace Agility, an engagement model for enabling authentic and lasting organizational improvement. He is also an Advisory Board member and co-Founder of The Open Leadership Network, a certification body and community of practice dedicated to implementing Open patterns and practices inside business enterprises worldwide.
The Eight Liberating Patterns of Open Business Agility - Daniel Mezick
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the one and only Daniel Mezick, as our final event of 2020.
2022 is sure to be the year of "patterns over practices."
Patterns liberate you and your organization from the tyranny of rigid practice frameworks.
Patterns can be expressed through any number of practices.
Healthy, proven patterns point your organization in the right direction *from the very beginning* and produce the quick ROI that is so essential to momentum and success.
In this session, Daniel Mezick will introduce you to the Eight Liberating Patterns of Open Business Agility.
These 8 patterns are now being used worldwide to generate authentic and lasting business agility.
You can see the evidence with these nine (9) executive testimonial videos here:
So-called "business agility" is actually almost impossible without a focus on patterns, because success with business agility is actually *more difficult to achieve* than software agility.
A focus in patterns over practices is what wins this game.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. Why these 3 patterns are essential for scaling change: Explicit Agreement, Boundary Management and Clarity of Authorization
2. How Whole Group Process builds Common Knowledge, which are 2 additional and key patterns necessary for scaling improvement
3. Where and when to use the Leadership Invitation pattern
2021 is the year of patterns over practices. You'll exit this session with a PDF toolkit that will help you implement all of the ideas presented in this presentation:
-- The Scrum Checklist for Executives
-- The READY FOR AGILE Checklist for Teams and Stakeholders
-- The Authority Circle, a Whole-Group activity
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Coaching executives and teams in Agile since 2006, Daniel Mezick leads Improving Agility. Daniel has guided dozens of organizations in the art and science of Agile improvement. An author and co-author of three books on organization change, Daniel is a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences and events.
Daniel Mezick is the originator of OpenSpace Agility, an engagement model for enabling authentic and lasting organizational improvement. He is also an Advisory Board member and co-Founder of The Open Leadership Network, a certification body and community of practice dedicated to implementing Open patterns and practices inside business enterprises worldwide.
Learning To Unlearn: A skill for all in a fast-changing world - Stephen Dowling
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting Stephen Dowling, CEO of ETM based in Australia.
Today we are facing unprecedented levels of disruption with constant challenges to adapt & evolve. Do we think what has got us here will get us to where we need to go in the future?
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken us all to our foundations. It has poured accelerant on the adoption of digital technologies, and our ways of interacting & working together.
Whether we like it or not our reality has fundamentally changed, and it will continue to change. To survive & thrive we must be open & willing to continually evolve & adapt. To unlearn and relearn whenever it’s needed. Knowledge & skills can become obsolete if our reality changes.
If we continue to rely on prior experience and achievements, old behaviours and thinking that worked well in the past, but now due to changing circumstances, it no longer applies, then we are in grave danger of becoming outdated, and this could happen faster than we think!!
We all get that we need to continually learn, but our bigger challenge is UNLEARNING, letting go of the past!
“The only thing more difficult than starting something new in an organisation, is stopping something old”. Russ Ackoff
To do this what we need is a simple repeatable and actionable system, which can help us to UNLEARN and RELEARN systematically & repeatedly when it’s needed.
Is ‘LEARNING to UNLEARN’ now a foundational skill for the future?
In this session we will explore this topic. Why we strongly believe this is the case? And if so, how do go about doing it on a more continual and regular basis?
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● To understand what unlearning is and why it’s now SO important.
● To get introduced to a new way of seeing.
● To understand our simple but very powerful 3 step ‘Cycle of Unlearning’ system.
● To be inspired & be ready to have a go at applying our ‘Cycle of Unlearning’ to a particular challenge they currently have
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Stephen is a passionate educator, sense maker, problem solver and simplifier.
In Australia (& worldwide) Stephen is considered to be a thought leader in the business transformation space, along with being a leading educator in the areas of unlearning, agile, lean and ‘fit for purpose’ delivery approaches.
Stephen has more than 20+ years of experience within the delivery space. As a Project Leader he has successfully delivered many different types of projects, the largest being a complex upgrade of a US$2bn ERP system for a large US Pharmaceuticals company, across 17 countries in Europe, which at the time was considered to be the most complex project ever undertaken.
Stephen is a regular international speaker at conferences and industry events and his guiding motto is: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein.
Atlassian – Dom Price (Work Futurist) Talking about Stephen Dowling ETM:
7 Rules for Positive Productive Change - Esther Derby
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting Esther Derby, a longstanding leader in the global Agile community.
What if we didn’t drive change, but nurtured it instead? What would it feel like, how would people experience it? In this session Esther will share some ideas about how to make organizational change a more positive, productive experience.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Understand the value of creating the conditions for change.
● Understand why it is so important to honour the past when you look to the future.
● Understand why patterns so often do not change.
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Esther Derby draws on four decades of experience leading, observing, and living organizational change. She works with a broad array of organizations. Her clients include both start ups and Fortune 500 companies.
Based on experience and research, her approach blends attention to humans and deep knowledge of complex adaptive systems.
Esther has been called one of the most influential voices within the agile communities when it comes to developing organizations, coaching teams, and transforming management. Her work over many years has influenced coaches and leaders across many companies.
Esther started her career as a programmer. However, over the years she’s worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant, manager, and team leader. From all these perspectives, one thing was clear: individual, team, and even organizational success depends greatly on the work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, she’s spent the last twenty-five years helping companies shape their environment for optimum success.
Her formal education includes an MA in Organizational Leadership and a certificate in Human Systems Dynamics.
Organisational Wellness and The New Challenge to Leadership - Chris O'Rourke
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the awesome Chris O'Rourke, co-founder at Affinity.
We are in the midst of two macro changes in business and society – the first, the global shift to remote work and the second, an increasing acknowledgement and challenge of mental illness and burnout in the workplace. As a result of these changes, organizations and leaders will need to adapt and reinvent across every aspect of their business, from talent to technology to education. Our speaker, both a globally recognized COO and a Certified Personal Trainer, has developed an innovative and practical human centered framework that positions social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual, and physical wellness as a means to navigate this time of change. His approach drives the strategic thinking and planning to drive organizational wellness and focuses on building a better normal, not simply a new one.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● A practical framework for driving organizational change
● A human centered change management toolkit for individuals and organizations
● An understanding of the new leadership responsibilities during this period
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Chris O'Rourke has transformed businesses globally and has helped hundreds of senior executives build stronger teams and more effective strategies. He has led projects for Fortune 50 companies including Salesforce, Oracle, Kimberly Clark, Mastercard, Bank of New York Mellon, and others throughout Europe, Asia, South Africa, and North and South America.
Chris is the co-founder and COO at Affinity, a global strategic design consultancy for challenger brands.
Chris also runs the New York City and Washington DC Chapters of the Chief Operating Officer Business Forum where he leads discussions and workshops on topics including Change Management, Navigating Uncertainty, and Defining Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting McChrystal Group Partner Gerry Osborne.
In this session Gerry will be exploring the question is transitioning to the Hybrid Working context a matter of strategy, or communication… or both, and if both which comes first?
This discussion will focus on why the modern information environment demands that we place communications at the heart of organisational transformation and strategy and summarise the 3 components of communications that we must consider to make sure that what we say and do is not just received, but believed.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Hybrid Working – the Belief Battlespace.
● Components of effective communication – Content, Reach and Rhythm
● How to place communications at the heart of strategy
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Gerry Osborne is a partner in McChrystal’s London Office, where he is responsible for the delivery of all European operations and the development of new business. He leads client engagements across all capability pillars and is an internationally renowned public speaker on the Team of Teams approach, strategic communication, and leadership. Gerry is McChrystal Group’s specialist advisor in Strategic Communications.
Prior to joining McChrystal Group, Gerry led government and defence business development in the World’s largest independent Communications network, M&C Saatchi, and ran his own consultancy firm providing Strategic Communications research and advice to NATO. He has led the delivery of government and security behavioural change programmes in the Baltic States, South Caucuses and Middle East and published his own approach to placing communications at the heart of strategy for the Georgian Government in 2016.
Previously Gerry served in the British Army as an information operations specialist within the UK Ministry of Defence, commanding officer, special forces helicopter pilot, defence attaché and senior leadership instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His service record stretches across Europe, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Canada and Australia. Gerry holds a Master of Arts in Military Studies from Cranfield University and a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies from the University of Wales. He is an alumnus of the Windsor Leadership Trust and an advisory board member for the Georgian Centre for Strategy and Development.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the awesome Ben Ford.
In this session, Ben will lead an exploration of Col. John Boyd's OODA loop. What it really is, and what it means for us in a technology industry that’s moving faster than ever.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● OODA - the algorithm of ADAPTATION
● The algorithm of Situational AWARENESS
● Mission Command - the algorithm of ACTION
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Ben learned to code on an amphibious assault ship in 2003 while serving in the Royal Marines. Since then he’s worked in tech across many industries. He’s recently come full circle, and now translates military principles to tech companies to enable them to operate more effectively in the chaotic new world we find ourselves in.
Paid to Think: Enterprise Thinking learning triangles - David Goldsmith
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting David Goldsmith, author of Paid To Think.
David covers a wide range of subjects and has an impressive resume and portfolio spanning more than 30 years.
In this session David will do a deeper dive on acquiring new knowledge, different levels of learning and the five enterprise thinking learning triangles.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. An overview of Enterprise Thinking (ET)
2. The different levels of learning in the context of ET
3. ET's 5 Learning Triangles
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
David Goldsmith is President and Co-founder of the Goldsmith Organization (New York and Hong Kong), a consulting firm solving big challenges while servicing executive clients globally; Co-founder of Buzd, LLC, a firm in which he is a patent holder for technological applications and products related to artificial intelligence, cell phone applications, battery technologies, and consumer products; and Founder of the Project Moon Hut Foundation, an over six-year effort with NASA (Silicon Valley) to improve life on Earth through the accelerated development of an earth-and-space based ecosystem. He also was Chief Officer of Strategy for N2 Global Solutions, a company specializing in SuperGrid and IOT technology for use in advanced smart city development for the future; Co-founder and former Chief Officer of Strategy of ecosystem.AI, a predictive analytics and visualization company that finds hidden value in market and organizational complexity relation-ships through identified patterns and spatial trends to reveal how business and organizational ecosystems change over time; Chief Strategy Officer and Partner in CoMo Global SA (Luxembourg) a software company with expertise in managed back end solutions for market networks and fully automated invoicing though to reconciliation for large enterprises; and an adviser and stakeholder in several cutting-edge start-ups from around the world.
David is the recipient of the Hollywood Producers’ first Global Visionary Disruptor Award for his work with the Project Moon Hut Foundation, and together David and Lorrie Goldsmith earned their Literary Achievement award for their book, Paid to THINK: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your Future. David earned New York University’s Excellence in Teaching Award during his 12 years as professor, has received accolades and recognitions for his business achievements, and was named by Meetings Magazine as one of its 26 Hottest Speakers.
Behaviour Driven Development – from soup to nuts - Seb Rose
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the wonderful Seb Rose.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an agile approach to delivering software that has been around for well over a decade. It was created to help developers care about quality, morphed into a collaboration approach, and found widespread mis-adoption as a test automation technique.
In this session Seb will explain how BDD is intended to work, what value it delivers when done well, and why much BDD in the workplace falls short.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● enumerate the three core practices of BDD
● explain the difference between BDD and test automation
● argue that collaboration and learning are at the heart of successful software development
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
A Consultant, Coach, Trainer, Analyst, and Developer for over 30 years.
Seb has been involved in the full development lifecycle with experience that ranges from architecture to support, from BASIC to Ruby. He’s a BDD advocate with Smart Bear, helping people integrate all three practices of BDD into their development process and ensuring that appropriate tool support is available.
Regular speaker at conferences and occasional contributor to software journals. Co-author of the BDD Books series "Discovery” and "Formulation" (Leanpub), lead author of “The Cucumber for Java Book” (Pragmatic Programmers), and contributing author to “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly).
He blogs at cucumber.io/blog and tweets as @sebrose.
AMA about Team Fluency: Enabling Best Fit for Teams and Business - Diana Larsen
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The Future of Work Scotland team are very excited to be bringing you this amazing Ask Me Anything event with the industry leader that is Diana Larsen, co-author of the seminal text Agile Retrospectives.
Come join us for a dialogue with Diana Larsen, author, coach, consultant, speaker, start up founder, and sojourner in the many various fields of Agile. We'll focus on your specific, real-time questions, challenges, dilemmas and issues about all aspects of the Agile Fluency Suite (Model, Diagnostic, Improvement Cycle, and more). She will also be open to discussing retrospectives, teams, agile, adoptions, lift offs and team chartering, the future of work, managing & leading agility, complexity, team learning environments, and more. There will be only a few prepared slides, followed by a spontaneous Q&A about real challenges you face today. Invite her to discuss whatever is top of your mind! We'll get through as many topic areas as possible between networking and close. It's sure to be insightful.
For a background on Agile Fluency materials and ideas, view the short video, read the free downloadable eBook, find resources on our website, and/or sign up for the newsletter:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Clear answers to your questions about the relationship between software teams and business outcomes
● Deeper understanding of applying the Agile Fluency Model and organizational investments
● A lively perspective on the 20+ year history of Agile approaches
● Ideas about becoming the best Agile coach/consultant you can be
Diana Larsen co-founded Agile Fluency® Project* with James Shore in 2015. Through the Agile Fluency Project’s programs, Diana shares the wisdom she’s gained in over three decades of working with leaders, teams, and organizations.. For agile coaches, consultants, and leaders in the Agile Fluency community, she serves as Chief Connector, as well as coach, mentor, and consulting partner.
In her books, talks, and work with corporate clients, Diana has contributed to both foundations and extensions of Agile thought. Diana co-authored the books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Lift off: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; and Five Rules for Accelerated Learning. Most recently she co-authored and offers a free eBook, The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile, available on the agilefluency.org website.
*Agile Fluency is a registered trademark of Agile Fluency Project. LLC
Diversity in Practice - for Leaders, Mentors and Coaches - Sile Walsh
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting organisational development specialist, Sile Walsh
In this session, Sile will share her insights into what diversity looks like in practice.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. Understand inclusion from a practice perspective.
2. Learn the 3 essential techniques that support you being more inclusive straight away.
3. Understand the number one barrier to inclusion – globally
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Sile specialises in strategic leadership and organisational development.
She is experienced in coaching senior leaders and middle managers across sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education, technology and commerce within Ireland and internationally.
Sile has over ten years of experience working with individuals, teams and organisations supporting change management, leadership development, inclusion and diversity, and organisational development programmes.
Sile is committed to being inclusive in her work and supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds to reach their potential; this includes people who experience systemic barriers in society. She is a PhD researcher focusing on the role of coaching psychology in inclusive leadership within private organisations.
Sile has an international client base and speaks on leadership, inclusion, and coaching psychology. Sile guest lectured with University College Cork on both the masters in Organisational Psychology and Personal and Management Coaching, is on the committee for Coaching Psychology with the Psychological Society of Ireland and is a senior board member for a private organisation providing services on behalf of government agencies.
She holds numerous relevant coaching and academic qualifications:
PhD Coaching Psychology, Canterbury Christchurch University (Currently in progress)
MSc in Personal and Management Coaching, University College Cork
HDip in Coaching Psychology, University College Cork
Organisational Participatory Management
Leadership in the Community
Critical Reflection Practice (a supervision model)
Diploma in Adult psychology, Kilroy’s College
Professional Coaching
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting author of "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile", Allan Kelly.
Agile has lost its shine, "corporate agile" has stripped away all the fun, passion, excitement and learning. Adding OKRs just makes it worse: a reinvention of top-down management by objective with added metrics to mislead and distort reality. Such OKRs are little more than a return to command and control.
That is what this former OKR cynic thought, but after using OKRs with multiple teams he got a surprise: they work. Used right OKRs fit well with agile.
OKRs offer the tantalising prospect of reawakening agile's radical side, aligning management with teams, improving communication and resolving the tyranny of the backlog.
In this presentation Allan Kelly will share his journey from cynic to enthusiast and explain how to use OKRs to bring out the best in agile.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● The two strains of the agile virus
● How OKRs allow a different approach to agile working and what to do with the backlog when using OKRs
● Why OKRs need to be bottom-up approach to goal setting
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Allan Kelly wants software professionals to enjoy more fulfilling and satisfying work. He advises teams and managers on using agile approaches to improve the way work is organised and requests are made. Happier people and better ways of working make for more effective companies, greater value and competitive advantage.
His wide experience of the challenges faced in software development underpins his advice, coaching, training and writing.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Metaphors, Org Culture, and Your Story - Erin Randall
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the awesome Erin Randall with a brand new talk.
Metaphor is …. everywhere. It’s pervasive, sneaking in when we least expect it. This is all well and good, but what is it, why do we need it? Why do we want to use metaphors, be it with organizations, teams, or individuals? Because of this:
Metaphor doesn’t just help us to describe, it helps us to understand.
Metaphor can help us to step out of rigid, traditional thinking and into new ways
In this interactive session, we’ll explore what metaphor is, its impact on organizations’ narratives and values, and see three different ways to help organizations get more comfortable in using metaphor. You’ll leave with new insight, new practices, and new ways of thinking about organizational culture.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. Remember what metaphors are and how we use them (and we do - a lot!)
2. Identify organizational metaphors and why they are so powerful.
3. Learn three methods to help your organization experiment with metaphor.
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Erin is a veteran organizational, agile, and coactive coach, serving organizations through agile implementations and transformation, restructuring teams, and executive team reboots. For over ten years, she has partnered with organizations, leaders, executive teams and boards, and other coaches from around the world, including at companies such as IBM, Charles Schwab, and more. Through her work with her coaching and consulting practice, Ad Meliora Coaching, she helps organizations shift to collaborative, creative work and getting things done. Her goal is simple: happy people doing great work.
Erin splits her time between Austin, Texas, and rural Montana. She can often be found in bookstores, on hiking trails with her dogs, or at one of the Agile Coaching Circles (she’s one of the co-founders). Connect with her on LinkedIn or experience coaching for yourself by booking a session at www.admelioracoaching.com.
Unboxing Exformation (an Agile Learning Practice) - Francis Laleman
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting the wonderful Francis Laleman.
Francis will facilitate a workshop in (roughly) two parts, and no, it doesn’t start with the why. Much rather, on the contrary. Getting off with a round of activities and conversations, deep-diving into experiments and quick fails, a certain pattern emerges - a placeholder for learning outcomes.
After this: what have we done? How did we get here? What was this for? - - and an attempt to categorize, contextualize, understand – and, perhaps, see how this pattern can serve the Agile, learning organisation.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Discover unconventional facilitation methods for cooperative learning
● Understand how exformative learning upturns the conventional approach to education and to L&D – and delivers better results
● Peer-to-peer learning and guidance about how you too can use this approach in your work as a SM, PO, Agile coach, facilitator, teacher, trainer,
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Originally a traveller and a teacher of Sanskrit and Buddhism.
A husband, father, painter, photographer, gardener, storyteller, writer, train-the-trainer, workshop facilitator.
An unconventional educationalist, working a/o with outsider art (art brut), forum theatre, conceptual art, and other forms of art-based learning.
A designer of learner experiences.
A certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner.
Teaches Scrum, scrums teaching. builds communities, inspired by the Agile Movement.
Author of “Resourceful Exformation” (a book on learner experience design and facilitation) available from Amazon.
Diversity in Practice - for Leaders, Mentors and Coaches - Sile Walsh
Description changed:
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting organisational development specialist, Sile Walsh
In this session, Sile will share her insights into what diversity looks like in practice.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
1. Understand inclusion from a practice perspective.
2. Learn the 3 essential techniques that support you being more inclusive straight away.
3. Understand the number one barrier to inclusion – globally
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Sile specialises in strategic leadership and organisational development.
She is experienced in coaching senior leaders and middle managers across sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, education, technology and commerce within Ireland and internationally.
Sile has over ten years of experience working with individuals, teams and organisations supporting change management, leadership development, inclusion and diversity, and organisational development programmes.
Sile is committed to being inclusive in her work and supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds to reach their potential; this includes people who experience systemic barriers in society. She is a PhD researcher focusing on the role of coaching psychology in inclusive leadership within private organisations.
Sile has an international client base and speaks on leadership, inclusion, and coaching psychology. Sile guest lectured with University College Cork on both the masters in Organisational Psychology and Personal and Management Coaching, is on the committee for Coaching Psychology with the Psychological Society of Ireland and is a senior board member for a private organisation providing services on behalf of government agencies.
She holds numerous relevant coaching and academic qualifications:
PhD Coaching Psychology, Canterbury Christchurch University (Currently in progress)
MSc in Personal and Management Coaching, University College Cork
HDip in Coaching Psychology, University College Cork
Organisational Participatory Management
Leadership in the Community
Critical Reflection Practice (a supervision model)
Diploma in Adult psychology, Kilroy’s College
Professional Coaching
How Servant Leadership can be relevant to you - Frank Verbruggen
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting experienced Agile practitioner Frank Verbruggen.
Do you think servant leadership primarily means that your boss should let you do whatever you want? That their primary job is to serve you?
You are wrong.
In this session Frank will help put servant leadership into a perspective that makes sense. Both for developers and leaders.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
- The use of terms like Agile, Servant Leadership and the likes
- The most frequent big problem in organizations
- What do Leaders contribute
- Solving the problem
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Frank is a Developer / Scrum Master / Architect / Manager with a preference for tangible results.
He authored a paper on process efficiency with Jeff Sutherland.
He dives deep into difficult topics and presents a simple coherent story of why it works.
The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be hosting author of Improving Agile Teams, Paul Goddard.
As a keen improviser himself, Paul has been tested through these times on how to adapt and pivot during uncertainty. Paul will share some of his thoughts on how the improv principles and practices he teaches have helped both himself and the teams he coaches through the lockdown period - and maybe even have some fun with some short-form improv games for the online attendees!
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● An understanding that improv is embracing change (not about being funny)
● More confidence around being creative
● Techniques to enhance collaboration
● Some easy online games to play with agile teams
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Paul is the founder of Agilify, has been an active Certified Scrum Trainer since 2006, and also became only the fourth UK-based Certified Enterprise Coach in 2011.From developer to ScrumMaster, and from ScrumMaster to Agile Coach he has been working with agile development teams since 2000.
Paul’s book “Improv-ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints To Unlock Creativity” brings together two of his passions; coaching agile teams and improvisational theatre. The principles and practices are so closely linked, he uses them every day of his working and personal life. A regular speaker at agile conferences worldwide, Paul is also a long-standing member and contributor to the agile community.
The Psychology of Coaching – The Hard Stuff, not the Soft Stuff
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The Future of Work Scotland team are delighted to be bringing you this exciting session with Kim Morgan, CEO of Barefoot Coaching Ltd.
Kim Morgan will explore some of the key principles which make coaching more transformational than transactional.
These will include:
• How transformation occurs and how coaching should be more than just a “cosy chat”
• The importance of high emotion and creativity in coaching
• Understanding the psychology of motivation – associating everyday behaviours with long-term outcomes
• The coach as an “Empathetic Provocateur” and the coach as an instrument of change
• Dynamic listening to ignite the mind
• Starting with the end in mind and presupposing success
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● Some simple coaching approaches to take away and use immediately
● An understanding of some key coaching principles
● An opportunity to experience coaching in action
Here's some background on our awesome guest speaker:
Kim Morgan is a sought-after conference speaker on all aspects of coaching and coach education, leadership, psychology and change management.
With over 30 years’ experience of people development, across all sectors of public and private business, Kim draws extensively on her experiences of what universally works to make great leaders, successful individuals, productive teams, happy families, outstanding organisations and brilliant coaches.
Kim is CEO of Barefoot Coaching Ltd - one of the UK's leading suppliers of coaching and coach training - and an ICF Master Certified Coach. She is a monthly columnist for Psychologies Magazine, author of The Coach's Casebook: Mastering The Twelve Traits That Trap Us (2015) and, The Coach's Survival Guide (2019). Kim is also a regular contributor to the media on everything from entrepreneurship and women in business to coaching skills for parents and family life.
Knowledgeable, entertaining and always at the forefront of the coaching industry.
The People Success Pyramid - Dr. Charlie Cartwright
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The Future of Work Scotland team are thrilled to be hosting CEO of People Success Labs, Dr Charlie Cartwright.
In this session we will explore:
What is the common denominator in every business challenge? Understanding it and successfully navigating this area is the key to creating positive business outcomes. The People Success Pyramid is that key.
Learning Objectives:
What can our attendees expect to take away from the session?
● The primary motivator for employee engagement.
● What human beings want most at work?
● How to create outstanding results consistently.
Here's some background on our amazing guest speaker for this session:
Dr. Charlie Cartwright is the founder of People Success Labs, a consulting firm based in the Kansas City area whose sole purpose is to bring out the best in leaders & their teams.
Dr. Charlie is also the creator of the “People Success Formula”.
It is the result of a three decades long meta-analysis into what drives human behaviour. His research clearly illuminated the path to unlocking human potential.
“If you want to move mountains, first you must move people. Then those people will move the mountains.” – Dr. Charlie
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/events
The People’s Scrum Audio: tobiasmayer.uk/tps
We are delighted he is making a return to share his valuable insights.
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 four 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/events
The People’s Scrum Audio: tobiasmayer.uk/tps
We are delighted he is making a return to share his valuable insights.
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 four 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 four respected Agilists who have made great contributions to how the industry has continued to evolve over the last 20 years.
Our panel will include:
Daniel Vacanti:
Dan is a 25-plus year software industry veteran who has spent most of his career focusing on Lean and Agile practices.
In 2007, he helped to develop the Kanban Method for knowledge work and managed the world’s first project implementation of Kanban that year. He has been conducting Lean-Agile training, coaching, and consulting ever since. In 2011 he founded ActionableAgileTM (previously Corporate Kanban) which provides industry-leading predictive analytics tools and services organizations that utilize Lean-Agile practices.
In 2015 he published his book, “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability”, which is the definitive guide to flow-based metrics and analytics. In 2017, he helped to develop the “Professional Scrum with Kanban” class with Scrum.org. Daniel holds an M.B.A. and regularly teaches a class on lean principles for software management at the University of California Berkeley.
Dan joined us in Aug 2020 for his brilliant session on estimation, "When will it be done?". We are big fans of Dan and super excited that he will be joining this discussion.
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/events
The People’s Scrum Audio: tobiasmayer.uk/tps
We are delighted he is making a return to share his valuable insights.
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