About Me
I work to enhance team and organizational adaptability by facilitating skill development, mentoring, and leadership coaching. I support teams and individuals in improving collaboration and achieving sustainable growth through mentoring, coaching, and guidance. My background spans product development, software engineering, business management, and coaching.
I leverage various tools, including frameworks for adaptive work, conversational facilitation techniques (such as Liberating Structures), Open Space facilitation, and professional coaching. With 20 years of experience, I specialize in guiding teams and organizations toward more effective collaboration and value creation using technology.
I explore AI as a powerful enabler for agility, helping teams respond faster to change, especially within digital applications and information systems.
My heart lies in creating products, from initial idea to product management, development, launch, and growth.
The most important accreditations I hold are Certified Team & Enterprise Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer.
Articles and Materials
Here you can find a selection of my articles, presentations, and other materials:
Event and conference organization
Re-Evented is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing new approaches to work, particularly within Agile, Lean methodologies, and organizational transformation. As a board member, I contribute to its mission of fostering knowledge exchange and innovation. Re-Evented provides a platform for experimentation with event formats, including workshops, courses, and learning journeys through the Re-Evented Academy.
We aim to make learning opportunities accessible to everyone. We focus on building communities through inclusive events like Open Space gatherings, coaching retreats, conferences, education, and workshops, encouraging participation and collaboration in the learning process.
Speaking engagements
Since 2015, I've delivered workshops and talks at Agile and Lean conferences, including Agile Tour, XP Days Benelux, and Scrum Gatherings.
My sessions cover Agile Coaching, Product Management, Leadership, Sociocracy 3.0, and Lean Startup, providing valuable insights for teams and individuals. Through interactive talks and hands-on sessions, I inspire collaboration and practical application of lean and organizational agility principles.
I regularly present at conferences, offering either talks or interactive workshops. If you're looking for a speaker, let's discuss your needs and what would be most valuable for your audience.
Link to previous presentations (slideshare).
Example topics:
- AI-enabled Agility: Leverage the future now.
- Agility through Scrum: Practical examples.
- Business Agility: Why it matters and how to achieve it.
- Business Resilience: Sustaining adaptability in unpredictable times.
- Flow: Hands-on simulation.
- Journey of Agile Coaching: What it looks like.
- Leadership: servant and host leadership
- Lean Startup: Hands-on simulation.
- Lean UX: Avoiding the "build trap."
- Liberating Structures: Facilitation techniques (hands-on session)
- Personal Agility: How to focus on what truly matters.
- Retrospectives: Conducting meaningful and impactful retrospectives.
- Scrum for non-IT Teams: Applying Scrum outside of software.
- Sociocracy 3.0: Effective collaboration at any scale.
- Team Growth: Using the "Team Growth" canvas.
Community contributions
Overview of contributions since 2015
Organizing and community leadership
- Scrum Alliance Volunteer & Regional Scrum Gathering Organizer (2022-2024)
- Board Member, Re-Evented (since 2017)
- Co-Organizer, XP Days Benelux Conference (2015-2024)
- Host, Agility Humanity Podcast (2020-2021)
- Board Member, Agile Consortium Belgium (2020-2023)
- Organizer, Agile Belgium Meetup (2015-2020)
- Organizer, Liberating Structures workshops (2018-2021)
- Organizer, Sociocracy 3.0 (Brussels) Meetup (2017-2019)
- Organizer, Leancamp Brussels unconference (2017)
- Dutch Translation of the ScrumMaster Checklist
Key topics and expertise
- Agile Team Growth (including Team Growth Canvas with Philippe Vandessel)
- Agile Coaching (Agile Coaching Growth Wheel, Agile Coaching Ethics)
- Leadership development
- Facilitation Techniques (Liberating Structures)
- Sociocracy 3.0
- Lean/Agile Product Discovery and Development (Lean Startup, Lean UX)
- Agile Simulations (Innovation Games, Lean Startup Boardgame)
- Modern Agility
- Product Development
- Product Management
- Scrum
List of events I spoke at
- Agile 2021 (Agile Alliance) (2021)
- Agile By Example (2015)
- Agile Consortium Belgium Congress (2023, 2020, 2019)
- Agile Tour Brussels (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2015)
- Agile Tour London (2017, 2016)
- Agile Tour Vilnius (2021, 2020)
- Agile20Reflect Festival (2021)
- BA & Beyond (2019)
- Darefest (2016)
- Lean Kanban Benelux (2016)
- Mini XP Days Benelux (2023, 2022)
- Scrum Alliance Global Gathering (2016)
- Scrum Day Europe (2017)
- XP Days Benelux (2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
- XP (2020)
List of meetups I spoke at
- Agile Belgium Meetup (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
- Agile Consortium Belgium Inner Circle (2018)
- Agile Dojo Meetup (NL) (2016)
- Agile Kitchen (iLean) (BE) (2023, 2022)
- Agile Luxembourg Meetup (2018)
- Agile Tuesday Meetup (BE) (2016)
- Heart of Agile Meetup (BE) (2019)
- iLean Meetup (BE) (2016, 2018)
- JOIN conference (BE) (2018)
- Lean Startup Belgium (2017)
- Liberating Structures (BE) Meetup (2019)
- Sociocracy 3.0 Meetup (BE) (2018)
- Teal 4 Teal Meetup (2020, 2018) (BE, NL)
Past talks/workshops by title
- Agile (consent) decision-making
- Agile Coaching Ethics (with Shane Hastie)
- Agile Coaching Growth Wheel
- Agile Team Growth (Team Growth Canvas) (with Philippe Vandessel)
- Create products with an impact
- Effective collaborative decision-making with Sociocracy 3.0
- Emergent wisdom from individuals and their interactions (with Artur Margonari)
- Explore your personal growth
- From developer focus to a product-based mindset (VRT case) (with Tim Van Lier)
- Happiness for teams (with Dieter Dehaes)
- Heart of Agile (with Soledad Pinter)
- Host Leadership
- Introduction to Sociocracy 3.0 and Consent-Decision-Making (with Jef Cumps)
- Lego Serious Play workshop
- Lean Startup simulation (with Playing Lean)
- Lean UX workshop: Cross-functional product design
- Practices for effective meetings, proposal forming, and decision making
- Product discovery
- Product Owner as Facilitator and Collaborator (with Kris Philippaerts)
- Pulling in practices from Sociocracy 3.0 (with Geneviève Loriaux)
- Rejuvenate your meetings! (with Liberating Structures)
- The question today isn't: "Can we build this?" but "Should we build this?"
- Experiential learning session: An Integral view on Agile (with Johannes Schartau)