Welcome our speakers!
Dr Klaus LeopoldAuthor of "Rethinking Agile"; Founder of Flight Levels Academy
Dr Klaus Leopold, computer scientist, Kanban pioneer and creator of the Flight Levels Model, has many years of experience as a top management consultant. He advises companies worldwide on how to act agile on the market. Klaus is author of the bestseller Rethinking Agile, Practical Kanban and co-author of the standard work Kanban Change Leadership.
Klaus regularly speaks at renowned Lean and Agile conferences worldwide and was awarded the Brickell Key Award for „outstanding achievement and leadership“ in San Francisco in 2014. He is co-founder of the Flight Levels Academy and he publishes his current thoughts and experiences in the world of Flight Levels and organisational development on his blog www.LEANability.com. You can follow Klaus on Twitter at @klausleopold.
Alla Weinberg Keynote Speaker on Psychological Safety · Author of "A Culture of Safety" ·
Alla wants to live in a world where every person feels safe, that they belong, and that they matter at work. She believes loving our work is a human right, not a privilege for the lucky few.
As a leadership coach and culture designer, Alla has worked with large enterprise organizations as well as small businesses to create work environments that people love. She is a professionally certified coach specializing in leadership and organizational coaching.When she is not coaching, you can find her facilitating workshops, dancing, meditating, and taking yet another personal development class.
Kuba PerlakAgile & Design Thinking Coach
Agile Coach and Design Thinking Coach trying to humanise the workspace. Supporting people in creating a learning organisation where value is fouled by empathy and driven by transparency, inspection and adaptation. A certified trainer and facilitator.Lifelong learner, hobbyist scientific researcher. Actively participate in Agile communities. Runs, reads philosophy, travels, and tries to understand contemporary art in his free time.
Magdalena FirlitProfessional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org
Magdalena Firlit is a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer. She also serves as an Agile Consultant, university lecturer (Agile leadership), mentor, life and business coach. Magdalena has had over 19 years of professional experience and 14 years in an IT environment. She has been teaching people professionally since 2014 and specializes in Agile transformations and support for business during a change. She provides courses and workshops related to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and soft skills. Magdalena is a speaker at conferences, meetups, and workshops. Additionally, is the co-organizer the first Liberating Structures meetup in Poland, Kraków.
Johannes Schartau
I am an Agile Coach, international speaker, complexity and integral thinker, Liberating Structures user, and Zombie Scrum fighter. I am also the co-author of the "Zombie Scrum Survival Guide" together with Christiaan Verwijs and Barry Overeem. Out now as part of the Professional Scrum Series at Addison-Wesley.
Marsha AckerLeading Change: The Key to Unlocking the Elusive Promise of Agility
Marsha Acker, CPF, CPCC, PCC, is the founder and CEO of TeamCatapult, a respected and sought-after leadership development firm that equips leaders, at all levels, to facilitate and lead sustainable behavioral change. She partners with leaders and leadership teams to clarify their desired change, develop communicative competence, and think together - accessing their collective intelligence to bring about change.
Marsha is an executive and leadership team coach, author, speaker, facilitator, and the host of Defining Moments of Leadership Podcast. Marsha’s unparalleled at helping leaders identify and break through stuck patterns of communication that get in their way of high performance. She is known internationally as a facilitator of meaningful conversations, a host of dialogue and a passionate agilest.
She is the author of The Art and Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams and Build Your Model for Leading Change: A guided workbook to catalyze clarity and confidence in leading yourself and others and the host of the Defining Moments of Leadership podcast.
Marsha has over 28 years of experience designing and facilitating organizational change initiatives. She believes facilitation and coaching skills are invaluable 21st-century leadership skills - required for leaders as they learn to lead agility across the organization.
Artur Margonari
Artur Margonari is passionate about Agile, which he applies daily in his personal life. He works as Agile Coach, Trainer, and Facilitator at InspirationOwl Belgium and has more than 10 years of experience in practicing and helping organizations to be more Agile, to form powerful teams, and to deliver great products and services. Having worked as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master in different departments and in various environments/core businesses, he was able to learn a bit more about the end to end flow and product cycle, with a 360° view.
He invests his free time organizing the Agile Tour Brussels, Agile Consortium Belgium Conference (previously), and meetups. His essence can be represented by Mahatma Gandhi’s saying: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Hobbies & passions: music (listening and playing), archery, martial arts, fast learning, and traveling.
