OPEN LEADERSHIP NETWORK - Key Persons
After 25 years in IT and 10 years of Agile Coaching my current belief is that the most important thing to scale is engagement. There is no such thing as a successful change program without high levels of human engagement. Business Agility is about clarity of what you want to achieve and re-distributing authority throughout the organisation so the flow of decision making enables the flow of value. I believe Open Space Agility will help you achieve this.
Job Titles:
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( Clean Language )
- Workshop Co - Leader ( With Marian Way )
Caitlin is a pioneer in the domain of Clean Learning and the developer of Systemic Modelling™. She is the author of From Contempt to Curiosity, which details many of the innovative and transformational projects that she has led across the U.K. and beyond.
She has developed modeling methods from small scale group development to at-scale organizational culture-change programmes. She designs and delivers tailor made learning and development programs for addressing diversity, conflict, leadership, managing mergers, and creating learning organizations. Caitlin resides in the U.K. and teaches the Clean Language methodology worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Enterprise Coach
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( Open at Cox Automotive )
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
Dan Sloan is an Enterprise Coach and ‘ways of working' advocate at Cox Automotive, a global automotive services and software company focused on transforming the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars. This organization uses Open patterns and practices such as Open Space to foster employee engagement and high performing outcomes. In his role as Enterprise Coach, Dan helps orchestrate the ongoing application of Open principles while strengthening the capabilities needed to sustain a strategically aligned and adaptable enterprise in partnership with senior leaders, and the extended enterprise practitioner & coaching teams. Dan brings over 25 years of experience in a number of roles, including software product & engineering, business leadership, agile coaching, and organizational change.
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- Event MC & Workshop Leader ( SCRUM@SCALE and Inviting Leadership )
- Plenary Speaker, Workshop Leader, and Designer of the Open Leadership Symposium
- ScrumAtScale Trainer
Coaching executives and teams since 2006, DANIEL MEZICK is a ScrumAtScale Trainer, an expert on business agility, and an author of three books on organizational change. A frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences, Daniel's list of clients include Capital One, INTUIT, Adobe, CIGNA, Pitney Bowes, SIEMENS Healthcare, Harvard, and dozens of smaller enterprises.
His books include THE CULTURE GAME , which describes 16 specific patterns that extend Agile ideas across the organization, beyond software; the OPEN SPACE AGILITY HANDBOOK , which pioneered the Open Engagement Models concept for agile and digital transformations; and INVITING LEADERSHIP: Invitation-Based Change in the New World or Work™, which introduced the concept of Invitation-Based Change and introduced the domain of Authority Studies. INVITING LEADERSHIP published in 2018 and upon publication it reached #1 on the Amazon bestseller list in the Organizational Learning category.
Daniel's enterprise consulting practice is built upon the core concepts found inside these books. He conducts workshops based on these books, and also offers enterprise Agile coaching, Agile training programs for teams, and management consulting. You can learn more and contact him at www.DanielMezick.com.
Job Titles:
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
Darren is the Vice President of Enterprise Agile Coaching at Project Brilliant. As a senior transformation specialist, he has worked with executives and Agile teams for many years and has a breadth of experience in creating the conditions for agile and digital transformation in the private and public sectors. Darren is a pioneer in the practical application of Open patterns and practices to facilitate real agility in large organizations. He serves as a board member for the Agile Cincinnati and is also a co-organizer for Agile Ft. Wayne.
Job Titles:
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( Inviting Vision )
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( OpenSpace Agility )
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
Diana Williams is an agile and executive coach. She has over 8 years of experience delivering enterprise level Agile coaching to executive leaders, management and teams. She is a passionate learner and teacher, holding eight different certifications including the OpenSpace Agility Certified Trainer credential.
Her teams recognize significant productivity gains, improved quality, and better predictability. She is empathic with her teams and stakeholders, helping them achieve things they did not realize were possible.
When Diana is not coaching teams or leading projects, she helps lead Agile community as a Board member of Agile Indianapolis, and she is very family focused. She especially loves spending time with her grandchildren. As a mother and grandmother, she is an advocate for women working in technology.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Organizational Change Consultant
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
- Plenary Speaker Workshop Leader ( No Limits Self Management )
Doug Kirkpatrick is an organizational change consultant, TEDx speaker, executive coach, author, and educator. He recently released his third book, The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work, an Amazon bestseller with Forbes Books, and is Founder and CEO of D'Artagnan Advisors, helping companies embrace the future of work. A member of the Forbes Speakers network, he has served as a director on a number of boards including the Association for Talent Development (ATD), the world's largest talent development association with 35,000+ members in 120 countries, and the Leadership Institute for Development, Education and Research (LiDER) to develop leaders throughout the Americas.
Doug began his career in the manufacturing sector, principally with The Morning Star Company, a world leader in the food industry, as a financial controller. He now engages with Open Leadership Network, Great Work Cultures, Semco Style Institute, Center for Innovative Cultures, Responsive, Business Agility Institute and other vibrant organizations and leaders to co-create the future of management. His previous books include Amazon bestsellers Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization and From Hierarchy to High Performance: Unleashing the Hidden Superpowers of Ordinary People to Realize Extraordinary Results.
Doug Kirkpatrick speaks and consults on self-management throughout North America and around the world. He also shares the message of organizational innovation through his best-selling books Beyond Empowerment and From Hierarchy to High Performance, via his TEDx talk, and numerous articles and posts. His newest book from Forbes Books, The No-Limits Enterprise, launches July 23rd, 2019. Gartner Research Director Mark McGregor wrote that "Doug is a leading expert in the field of organizational design."
Doug Kirkpatrick served as the first financial controller for Morning Star, now the world's largest tomato processing company. The founder introduced the startup team to the core principles of self-management, which they immediately adopted. At Morning Star, Doug learned that organizational self-management is real, it works and it drives superior business performance.
In 2008, Doug Kirkpatrick co-founded the Morning Star Self-Management Institute, with the mission of instantiating organizational self-management principles with effective education, tools, and practices.
After studying industrial engineering and psychology, Dr. Miriam Sasse focused on the self-optimization of project teams and work processes. She currently works as an agile coach and transformation consultant at Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA / arvato Systems. She is a certified business coach and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy, especially Schematherapy according to J. Young. Her focus is on making psychological perspectives and techniques understandable and applicable for engineers and computer scientists. Areas of application are resilience, crisis and change management - in classical projects, agile teams and transformations. An author, Miriam is the co-author of both the German-language OPEN SPACE AGILITY HANDBUCH and the German-language OPENSPACE AGILITY KOMPAKT.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( the Agile Open Practitioner )
- the Agile Open Practitioner
With over 20 years of experience in a wide range of industries and roles, Heidi brings a pragmatic approach to her work leading transformation in organizations through the use of Open methods. Heidi is currently Director of Agile Transformation at Tenable, a cybersecurity firm based in Maryland.
A passionate and vocal champion of the Open movement, Heidi trains and speaks at events and conferences worldwide. She also co-hosts a very popular virtual-video meetup series for Agilists you can learn more about and sign up for, at www.coachingagilejourneys.com. Her forthcoming book is The Agile Open Practitioner: Growing High Performing Teams.
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- Trustee and Former Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute of Complexity Science
Job Titles:
- Director of Both Clean Learning
- Expert
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( Clean Language )
- Workshop Co - Leader ( With Caitlin Walker )
Marian is an expert in delivering complex ideas to diverse audiences. She has taken the genius work of David Grove around Clean Language and developed a series of learning modules that bring Clean Language to a worldwide audience.
Marian is a director of both Clean Learning and Training Attention UK, world leaders in Clean applications for corporate, educational and community development. She has authored or co-authored three books on the use of Clean Language for personal and corporate transformational change.
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- Conference Keynote & Workshop Leader ( Promise Theory )
- Opening Keynote and Workshop Leader
- Professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College
Mark Burgess is a theoretician and practitioner in the area of cooperation and information systems, whose work has focused largely on distributed information infrastructure. He is known particularly for his work on Promise Theory, a theory of high-performance based on autonomous agents at scale. Promise Theory describes the interactions between autonomous agents within a system. It provides a semi-formal language for modelling intent and its outcome, which results in a chemistry for cooperative behavior.
Mark Burgess is emeritus professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College, Norway. He works as an advisor on science and technology matters all over the world.
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- Open Space Facilitator & Master Class Instructor
Mark an Agile coach, certified trainer, and author of two books organizational change. He focuses on explaining and then implementing invitation, opt-in, and pull when coaching Agile to executives, teams and organizations. Mark has been training, coaching, and launching Agile teams since 2013 and has over 20 years' experience developing software solutions.
In 2015 he co-authored The OpenSpace Agility Handbook, which describes an engagement model for leveraging invitation and Agile principles when implementing organizational change. See www.OpenSpaceAgility.com for more information.
In 2018 he co-authored Inviting Leadership, a tutorial and reference guide for making the shift from leadership delegation, to leadership invitation. See www.InvitingLeadership.com for more information.
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- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( Thrivability )
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
I am a consultant, facilitator, author and researcher. My work centers around "thrivability" - a set of perspectives and practices based on a view of organizations and communities as dynamic, self-organizing living systems. With this understanding, we recognize that we can create the fertile conditions for life to thrive at every level - for individuals, for organizations as living ecosystems, for customers, community and biosphere.
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- Expert
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( Agendashift )
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
Mike Burrows is an expert in implementing outcome-oriented business strategy and agile/digital transformation. He is the pioneering formulator of Agendashift , an engagement model based on Open principles. He has authored three books for decision-makers with budget authority for agile and digital transformation, Kanban from the Insid e , Agendashift and Right to Left.
Mike Burrows has been honored with awards like Brickell Key award for his community contribution and service to the business and project management community. He and his team at Agendashift help organizations in keeping their strategy and vision aligned with the culture of continuous transformation and co-creation.
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- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( OpenSpace Beta
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
NielsPflaeging is a passionate advocate for a "new breed" of leadership and profound change in organizations. He is the formulator of Beta. Beta or BetaCodex is an organizational design framework, or organizational model created in 2008 by Niels and others. It built upon the pioneering work of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT). Beta is a mindset that is based upon a set of 12 principles which are opposed to the principles of "Alpha" ("command-and-control", "management"/"Taylorism"/"pyramid, steered organization"). The Beta principles were derived from case study research in the early 2000s, and enriched with insights from organizational theory, systems theory, social psychology, and business sciences. www.BetaCodex.org
OpenSpace Beta is a model for engagement and Very Fast Organizational Transformation formulated by Silke Hermann and Niels Pflaeging. OpenSpace Beta is designed for manifesting rapid and lasting improvement in enterprise-level performance.
His latest book is the OpenSpace Beta handbook - an introduction to an entirely new way of bringing about organizational change. As a consultant, Niels has been strongly involved in transformational change projects for organizations both in Europe and the Americas, since 2006. Expect to be surprised, inspired, and invited to reflect on both the practice and theory of agile, performance systems, organizational design, and change.
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- Executive
- Acting Like an Executive Coach )
Peter is an executive coach and Scrum trainer located in Berlin, Germany. He has co-delivered Scrum education with Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland over 30 times across Germany and the European Union. Within the Scrum Events network, Peter is a co-chair of SCRUM DAY, Germany's oldest and largest Scrum conference. Scrum Events established eduScrum Germany in 2016, where Peter is an active team member.
Peter worked more than ten years as stage actor and acting coach. He has trained hundreds of actors how to discover their most vibrant personality onstage. As an executive coach specializing in Scrum, he now helps other coaches to develop their presence and have more impact.
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- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( FAST AGILE )
- Plenary Speaker and Workshop Session Leader
Ron will tell you his life purpose is to "unleash the human spirit in the workplace." He loves all things software and nurturing business/development harmony in particular.
His agile and Extreme Programming journey started in 2002, and over the years he has built strong technical skills and a deep understanding of agile methods. He has put this to use in several roles during his career: developer, development manager, and agile coach.
In 2014 Ron had an epiphany of a new way of working. A way that makes self-organization inescapable rather than just paying lip service to the concept. This method aligned with his vision and has been his passion ever since.
Job Titles:
- Business Agility Coach
- Expert
- HEIMGARTNER - Plenary Speaker and Workshop Leader
- Plenary Speaker & Workshop Leader ( FailAgility )
Teaching and coaching Scrum for over 12 years, Stacia is a Business Agility Coach, a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) & Coach, a noted authority on Scrum, and an author of The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook. Stacia was one of the very first Certified Scrum Trainers in the USA, taught by Ken Schwaber himself.
Stacia is an expert on enabling high-performance business agility through the application of Open principles. Her forthcoming book FailAgility provides a set of guidelines and specific step-by-step advise on what to do, and what not to do, when the goal is enterprise-wide improvement.
Stuart holds all of the Scrum Alliance's guide-level credentials including Certified Agile Leadership Educator, Certified Scrum Trainer, and Certified Enterprise Coach. Thriving workplaces are Stuart's passion. Being much more financially successful, they will be our future. Stuart's merely helping those who want to achieve it sooner.
Having initiated radical transformation from within two organisations and having coached and mentored people at all levels in many more, Stuart has a wealth of experience of both personal and organisational transformation.
Over the past 20 years he has observed the patterns and trends of organisations attempts at agile/digital transformations and now devotes most of his time to educating and coaching holistic approaches to change, both at an organisation-wide level and with the complementary agile leadership skills for individuals.
Stuart is a keynote speaker, a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, founder of the Agile Singapore Conference, and a member of OpenLeadershipNetwork.com. Link: LinkedIn
Victor is an Enterprise Coach and a seasoned practitioner of the Open patterns and practices. An expert on Scrum, he is passionate in helping people and organisations achieve success through lasting, positive change. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and an accredited coach trainer with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), where he delivers world-class coach training to leaders of the future.