Cosima is an experienced independent coach, consultant and trainer with a proven track record in a variety of industries (automotive, finance & banking, healthcare, travel & tourism).

Having a strong background as developer and people lead in software engineering, over the last 9 years, Cosima enhanced her portfolio with solid coaching skills and BSc studies focused on I/O and Health Psychology.

Cosima cares more about systems thinking than local optimization, she is a runner, a passionate “community gardener” and she’s living her motto: respect & adapt – to achieve more TOGETHER.

Diana Larsen is a co-founder, chief connector, and principal mentor at the Agile Fluency® Project.

Diana co-authored the books Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; Five Rules for Accelerated Learning.

She co-originated the Agile Fluency® model and eBook, The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile.

From 1993-2019, she guided Agile transitions and self-organizing team development for FutureWorks Consulting.

Now, through Agile Fluency Project’s programs for training, mentoring, and supporting agile coaches and consultants, Diana shares the wisdom she’s gained in over 30 years of working with leaders, teams, and organizations.

• Dynamic, purpose-driven leader; passionate about organizational transformation and business agility
• Thought leader and trusted partner; established reputation for building relationships, trust, and respect; reshaping cultural values in the work environment to better align with changing requirements
• Entrepreneurial minded, focused on strategy, execution and outcomes; taking advantage of opportunities as they arise and keeping the organization moving forward during times of uncertainty
• Adaptable, flexible and able to lead through change

Most recently, I served as CEO and Chief Product Owner at Scrum@Scale LLC, — a joint venture between Scrum Alliance and Scrum Inc. In our second year of operation, we were proud to have more than 100 trainers, and 4,000 practitioners across the globe. Prior to Scrum@Scale, I served as Managing Director of Scrum Alliance, and together, with a team of passionate professionals, we turned the organization from surviving, to thriving, and grew the community by more than 150%, serving more than 400,000 members. As VP of Community at Scaled Agile, my team and I delivered a platform that allowed the community to grow by more than 12,000 new members per month, serving more than 300,000 members and achieved an NPS of 55.

Before joining the agile community, I started my career in Information Technology. Beginning with TD Bank and Esso Chemical as a software developer, then honing my systems administration skills at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a global information technology services company, where I found my passion for project and program management and leading teams to succeed.

Experience Craftswoman & Mindset Harmonizer that Nurtures the Journey to Nourish Yourself

I lead with empathy and courage while partnering with others to help unlock their full potential. Believing the path to authentic growth and change begins with invitation and a people centered approach. Favoring a blended mindset of agile, lean, design thinking, open space and improvisation when engaging. I value connecting people to ownership of their needs and goals. You may find me facilitating, coaching organizations, speaking at and organizing conferences, supporting boards, active in local meetups, working on social change as a Design Action Lab partner, mentoring youth, or designing business games.

Sharing over 50 Talks & Workshops at over 20 conferences domestic and international such as the annual Agile Alliance conference, Agile & Beyond, Path to Agility, Agile Games, Toronto Agile Tour, Lean Agile KC, Coach Camps, Open Spaces, Women In Agile and more.

Background in management consulting with Deloitte New York City and graduate studies in Clinical Social Work (Psychotherapy) from New York University.

Extensive experience in Product Management with startups using lean and agile.

Passionate about product development and helping teams execute at speed and do twice the work in half the time/cost.

Trained directly with Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum and love working with companies to deliver productivity increases.

Franziska Wiebel is a freelance trainer and coach with a focus on Scrum, resilience, and Agile mindset.

With her work, she aims to set sustainable impulses to develop and strengthen a productive, healthy and resilient work environment in which appreciation, self-development, creativity and true team spirit are driving forces.

Franziska is a certified business trainer and coach, PSM I/II, PSPO I and more, and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology. She is based near Frankfurt/M.

Deepika is an eager and enthusiastic agile leader who enjoys to build diverse high performing organizations and inspire them to perform their best.

For the last years, while leading various multi-disciplinary, cross-border BizDevOps squads her focus has been to enable them deliver to their purpose in a passionate and sustainable way.

Deepika studied Engineering in Information Technology (IT), started her career as a software developer, and over the last decade has been leading multiple projects and business units at different Banks in US and Europe.

Awarded by her company the title of ‘Woman of the Year’ in Technology in 2015. Since then Deepika has been actively coaching multiple female talents and recently also joined the TEDx Amsterdam Women team to empower women in all walks of life.

I have always looked around me and saw things that could be improved upon. That is why continuous improvement resonates with me so strongly….. our would that be because of my struggle with perfectionism?

With experience in almost every role available in product development on three continents I’m able to understand the challenges organizations face when dancing with uncertainty. Using that understanding I can help them overcome obstacles along their way.

From academics, to consulting, entrepreneurship and product management. Now working with the latest and greatest in clean-tech. Always on the lookout for my next big challenge.

A summary of how to get your team together and ignite the bonding. Pure magic. Together with you I would apply the following to make it work:

#playful learning
#visual thinking and drawing
#structured and creative working methods

I would aim for a re-design of the interaction among ourselves. Aim for playful interaction. Cos play is the language we all once learnt to speak.

I have spent my entire career in the tech sector, and I’ve learned that the secret to achieving your goals is teamwork, strategic thinking, and leadership.

I started my career in 1983 with the Xerox Corporation and a year later joined the HP Computer Group in New England, I spent more than 20+ years, traveling the world, and working for various HP Business units in the United States and Europe in Computer Hardware, Analytical instrumentation, Software, and IT Best Practice Training;

I have an entrepreneurial spirit, so, I co-founded TransGlobal Distributors, a full-service Marketing & Distribution company in 2009. In 2013, joined ITpreneurs as their WW Channel Marketing Manager and then Head of Marketing in 2017. I am a Founding member of the Lean IT Association (LITA) and a Founding member of the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA), I became the Managing Director in 2017.

In 2019, I became the CEO of Instruqt, our mission is to change the face of learning.

Susanne Mühlbauer is Agile Coach, Systemic Business Coach and Team Coach.
She is working passionately with people, teams and organizations to help them to be successful using agile ways of working.
She works with joy and personal engagement focusing on change, leadership, success, purpose and rethinking. Pragmatic and solution-focused approaches are especially important to her.

She benefits from many years of experience in project management, development of complex products/ systems and dealing with people in different industries. She has worked as a consultant, scrum master, project manager, business analyst,
requirements engineer and leader/ executive.

Agile consultant / Scrum Master at DRIVE Consultancy

As an Agile consultant in big organizations such as banks and government I help to deliver software faster.
I’m specialist in optimizing processes with subjects as technique, process and people in mind. While optimizing different processes in the last years I gained a lot of experience with self-selection of teams.

During self-selection it’s important to create teams from people with different personalities

With my positive attitude, a healthy dose of energy and enthusiasm I can easily bring people together to achieve goals together. As doing so I help people and teams to make every subject negotiable.

First of all, let me introduce myself:

My name is Isabella Malicki and I am a Polish/Swedish who spent most of her life in the UK and the Netherlands.

I have an academic background in clinical psychology and psychotherapy, as I initially set out to become a psychotherapist. Around four years ago I did a drastic turn and got involved with IT sales instead and I have now worked as an account manager and new business lead for companies such as Oracle and Marval.

As much as I love my job, I have not abandoned my past of psychology studies, and my passion for feminism combined with my own experience in a male dominated industry has led me to hold various workshops at relevant conferences around the world. My goal is to help women with feeling strong in who they truly are and confront/explore unhealthy ideals when it comes to modern feminism.

Last year I held the popular workshop Stop apologising and Start negotiating at Women in Tech in Amsterdam (RAI). The workshop was about how we as women in male oriented industries can become more successful by promoting healthy feminism and support between women by holding an honest dialogue with ourselves and focus on inner strength and courage.

As a combination of the feedback I received and learnings from working in IT sales in various countries and cultures, I now would like to hold a speech called I don’t support women, I support the woman.

If you could have personnel who are healthier, more creative, motivated and productive; where collaboration is enhanced and commitment to your company brand is increased, would you say YES!?

As a (online) well-being transformer for thriving people and (work)spaces, I’ve learned that happiness@work (a.k.a. work pleasure) is not an oxymoron! It’s essential to help your employees to become the best version of themselves. It’s not a state of ‘jumping for joy’; it’s the sum total of 4 pillars called PERK: Purpose, Engagement, Resilience, and Kindness.

How? By sharing seriously fun but practical, science based tips, tools, knowledge & strategies, so people and their companies can flourish. Employees learn resiliency skills and develop ‘stress hardiness’ for when LIFE happens. Emotional toxicity is NOT good for you, your colleagues or the organization’s health.

Using the KVC App to measure well-being, an analysis of employee wellbeing can be initiated. Results (data) drive the approach. I believe in collaboration and co-creation, both internally within an organization and with external partners. Please see some of my partnerships in the Experience section or www.creatingwaves.nl.

Through interactive (online) group trainings and workshops, 1:1 and team coaching, and a variety of skills and expertise offered by my partners, the best combination of expertise is offered.

I am certified as: Stress Counselor | Happiness @ Work Coach | Foundations of Positive Psychology Univ. of Penn & Science of Well-being Yale Univ. (Coursera)| Skogsfloating Trainer | Sleep coach | NLP Master Practitioner | HeartMath Resiliency Coach. All add to my mastery of the skills needed to thrive.
And I love to present on these topics for groups large & small!

My early career, with a specialty in cardiovascular diagnostics as a Military Nursing Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, has further supported me.

My belief? With the proper knowledge & tools, we all can improve our resiliency to what life brings onto our path AND thrive in life.

My goals?

1. Creating waves of personal well-being awareness, so that the individual within an organization makes the right choices for themselves. Sometimes a ripple can have far-reaching effects.
2. Ensuring that inclusive leadership occurs in my life-time!

Values and strengths which represent who I am include: dependable; perseverance; honest; resilient (of course!); humor; love of learning; curious; equality; grateful

#livingfrommyheart (while being navigated by my brain!)