As part of our focus on an educational and content-driven program, we have selected powerful speakers in management and leadership to share their passion; experience and expertise with you during Forward 2022.
As part of our focus on an educational and content-driven program, we have selected powerful speakers in management and leadership to share their passion; experience and expertise with you during Forward 2022.
Culture Chief @ Delivering Happiness
View detailsSunny is a founding member of Delivering Happiness co-founded by Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos.com), a master coach, and a global speaker. For over a decade, she’s been inspiring and impacting organizations around the world, bringing her expertise to 20 countries and hundreds of teams. She is leading the charge for more purposeful organizations that create better human experiences, leading to greater business results.
Twitter LinkedIn Session title: Humanity and Wholeness For High Performance
Session title: Beyond Happiness – Envision and Own a Culture where Everyone Thrives
Best-Selling Author & Chief Pay it Forward Officer @ DebCo HR LTD
View detailsDebra Corey is a highly experienced and award-winning HR leader, world-class speaker, consultant and four-time author who has been named as one of the top 101 global employee engagement influencers and HR Most Influential Thinkers. She’s had a varied career, working for global companies such as Gap Inc., Quintiles, Merlin Entertainments and Reward Gateway, where she developed and delivered HR strategies in a rebellious way, pushing the boundaries and challenging the status quo to truly drive employee engagement. She now acts as the Chief Pay It Forward Officer at DebCo HR, where she inspires and works with others to bring out their inner rebel and drive business change and employee engagement.
Twitter LinkedInSession title: Redesigning and Transforming Recognition Programs Fit for the Future
Best Selling Author; XING Top Mind 2019, 2020, 2021
View detailsFor a quarter of a century, Svenja has been dealing with changes in the world of work and business from the perspective of human resources and organizational development. Since 1998, she has written more than 25 bestselling books, countless articles and columns, but most importantly, she has worked with hundreds of companies on the organizational and management level and thousands of individual clients. For more than 12 years, her focus has been on training and supervision of leaders, teams and organizations. Founding her first academy in 2012, GmbH teamworks. Where they train people who work with groups to become team and organization designers.
Twitter LinkedInSession title: Connecting Dots, Connecting People – Cultural Transformation through Emotional Connection
Storytelling Keynote Speaker
View detailsFrancisco has always loved speaking, even before he had anything useful to say. He’s been telling stories in front of audiences for a decade, and even became a National Champion of public speaking. Today, he’s a keynote speaker and storytelling coach trusted by global organisations to inspire teams and individuals to communicate more effectively through intentional storytelling. He’s the author of “Bare: A Guide to Brutally Honest Public Speaking” and the host of The Storypowers Podcast.
LinkedInSession title: Storypowered Change: Gain Support, Overcome Resistance and Create Lasting Impact
Lateral Leadership Coach, Author & Trainer
View detailsAlex is a leadership expert, and over the past ten years, he has given hundreds of leadership workshops and helped countless people become more effective in their businesses – and their personal lives. After studying computer science and psychology in Berlin, he acted as an entrepreneur, Agile coach, and manager for various start-ups and corporations. For Alex, it’s a question of attitude. He supports you and your team in the daily challenges in our VUCA world. He partners with you in breaking old habits and playfully integrating new tools and practices into everyday life to achieve more. In his book “Jedership – Why leadership is everyone’s business,” he gathered his knowledge, tools, and personal stories so you can kick off being a leader even if you don’t have the formal power. No boring management blabla. Instead, personal stories and practical tips & tricks. That’s a promise!
LinkedInSession title: Lateral Leadership: Fostering Employee Engagement with no Formal Authority
VP People at Giant Swarm
View detailsAnna has been working with tech startups for the past 12 years and she’s seen the whole bandwidth from startup to corporate. In her work, she has built up broad People experience in different companies’ cultures and industries. Currently, she works as VP People for Giant Swarm. Anna is a trained and certified systemic coach and mediator. Her work focuses on organizational development, agile leadership, and remote work.
Twitter LinkedIn Session title: 32 is the new 40! How to Kill the Mental Model of the 40hrs Week – a Case Study
Session title: 32 is the new 40! How to Kill the Mental Model of the 40hrs Week – a Case Study
Agile coach, Trainer, Speaker, Mentor and Change Agent
View detailsAnton is an independent organisational mentor that flirts with Agile. He loves what he does, and the reason is simple: his passion is to make complex thought work less painful, more efficient, and in this way, to help people to be a little bit more happy. He has worked in a wide variety of companies holding a wide variety of positions: from garage startups to “bloody” enterprises; from a manual QA to a C-level position. He has a unique opportunity to observe how value could be delivered differently or NOT at all.
Twitter LinkedInSession title: Why Does Happiness Matter When a Big Enterprise Tries to Launch a Startup
Business Innovation Lead and Design Thinking & Agile Coach at PwC Österreich
View detailsBernadette Fellner studied information technology and design at the University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria. She has a multifaceted background in innovation, culture design, foresight thinking, digital solution building and agile ways of working. She is currently the business innovation lead for PwC Austria, where she works with clients at the heart of digital transformations – Metaverse technologies being the newest edition in this field – where she brings together business, tech, customer- and employee centricity as well as ethical considerations. She is also a university guest lecturer on the topic of digital business models and a trained beekeeper in her spare time.
LinkedInSession title: Tech for Good: How Ethical Considerations Help us Build a Happier and more Desirable Future
LEAN & Agile Coach
View detailsIlija Popjanev is an HR expert, Facilitator & Agile Coach passionate about developing people and organizations and getting measurable results. After spending 15 years in the corporate world working for General Motors, British petrol and Good year, he moves in the training industry, helping organizations, teams and people to implement Lean-Agile culture and mindset. He is using an experimental learning approach full of interaction, fun and gamification.
LinkedInSession title: Coaching Teams to High Performance!
Facilitative Leadership & Business Agility | Official Miro Expert | Doctoral Researcher
View detailsAs a Facilitative Leadership & Business Agility advisor, Isman helps leaders and teams get better at working together by co-creating workplace effectiveness through Actionable Leadership, Culture Development and Self-Organisation. His focus is on equipping emerging leaders and people managers with group and team facilitation skills that are critical for constantly evolving and complex workplaces. A Strathclyde MBA, Isman’s professional credentials include ICAgile Accredited Instructor, Official Miro Expert Partner and Emergenetics Certified Associate, accredited in psychometric assessment and coaching. While Singapore-based during this pandemic, his virtual consulting, coaching and facilitation work has enabled globally distributed client organisations, including those across the African, Asian and European continents and the Middle East, to engage, learn and grow together as a team.
LinkedInSession title: Facilitative Leadership: Leading in the Moment and Managing for Sustainable Workplace Happiness
Leadership and Culture Coach @ kutura.digital
View detailsJens Thiemann, a Management 3.0 facilitator and a founding member of the Management 3.0 Community, holds a degree in computer science and has more than twenty years of experience in various management roles and company sizes, national and international. His practical know-how is based on both technical and disciplinary leadership of individual teams up to business units with over a hundred employees. Jens has founded and started IT companies. He has advised and supported more than 100 clients, including many medium-sized companies and international operating enterprises.
LinkedInSession title: How to Destroy Happiness at Work
CEO - Cocondi - Agile Leadership and Agile Organizational Development
View detailsJürgen Dittmar is an organizational psychologist, systemic management consultant and “Agile Consultant and Coach”. With his company „cocondi“, he has been successfully advising and supporting companies in the introduction and optimization of better leadership principles and more agile structures and approaches since 2011. Focusing on the topic of “Agile Leadership”, he works primarily with executives in various companies and management levels. Jürgen is considered one of the world’s most experienced trainers and representatives for Management 3.0 with over 200 “Management 3.0” workshops and more than 2000 participants. He has also been hosting the monthly Management 3.0 Stammtisch Munich, a community with more than 1500 members since 2012.
Twitter LinkedInSession title: Clean Out for Happiness – Addressing Inconsistencies and Ambiguities in Organizations
Founder and Managing Director - Teal Thrives GmbH
View detailsJürgen Mohr, Management 3.0 facilitator since 2016, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Trainer, and Management Consultant, advises and supports organizations on their Agile transitions on project level as well as organizational level. Educated as an astrophysicist, he started working in IT in 1995. In 2008, when graduating an MBA in General Management, he summarized the status quo of the currently ongoing societal change in his master thesis and came in first contact with the science Happiness Research. Since then, he is researching the mutual influence of societal, organizational, and personal development in our fast-changing world within complex environments, based on his practical experience within dozens of organizations. In 2015 he became self-employed and in 2019 he eventually founded his own consulting company Teal Thrives GmbH as an experiment, running a modern, self-organized and purpose-driven organization.
LinkedInSession title: How Management 3.0 supports the Non-Profit Organization Action for Happiness Germany Being Successful in Spreading Happiness
Head Of Engineering @ Demodesk
View detailsKadri has a computer science degree with long experience in project management and leadership. She was Engineering Manager in Pipedrive during the transition from scrum teams to Pipedrive Agile Framework, and contributed to the principles of Tribes, Guilds; Missions and Launchpad; different roles, and self-management. Her leadership philosophy is transparency and internal drive – she believes that by providing valid context and trust for any person, they can be the best self and thrive for the company’s success for the best. Today she is working as Head of Engineering in Demodesk – a German SaaS startup to provide virtual assistance for remote sales.
LinkedInSession title: How Providing Freedom of Choice Enables People and Organizational Growth
CEO & Facilitator Happiness Coach @ Management 3.0
View detailsKatharina William is the CEO (Chief Engagement Officer) of Management 3.0. While this title might inspire pictures of power and sole responsibilities, the delightful reality in Management 3.0’s non-hierarchical team is that all management tasks are distributed between the team members. Besides making all stakeholders happy, she also takes the role of Facilitator Happiness Coach. There, she takes care of the growing community of Management 3.0 facilitators by supporting and coaching them to achieve their vision of success. “Growing up” in a traditional corporate environment at Deutsche Bahn, Germany’s leading railway company, she left her corporate career path after working as an in-house Senior Change Management Consultant. A sabbatical and consulting work for small and mid-sized businesses made her doubt traditional management styles and turn to agile leadership principles. What she didn’t lose on this way was her deep belief in a systemic thinking and coaching approach that she sees as a perfect fit for the principles of Management 3.0.
LinkedInSession title: Finding Happiness in Hybrid Work
Agile coach at Wemanity and Management 3.0 facilitator
View detailsMarc believes in the power of people; the ability to achieve amazing things through true collaboration! Unfortunately, too often that power is diminished or blocked by unsupportive corporate structures and cultures. As Agile and leadership coach Marc supports people to transform the way they organize and manage work, creating cultures and structures that support engaged employees to create value for companies, customers, and society.
LinkedInSession title: Building Psychological Safety
Expert in Business Processes & Agile Culture
View detailsMichal Shlomy is an expert in organization processes following the agile mindset. Michal has over 20 years of experience in project and product management, leading change in global technology corporations. Michal leads Agile coaching in organizations and start-up companies, she coaches leaders and teams for adopting agile practices. Her activities shortening schedules, increasing operational efficiency and brings to reality an optimal organizational culture. Michal is an Industrial and management engineer, PMP certified and TAB facilitator. Michal lectures in the Israeli academy.
LinkedInSession title: Agile Dynamics Management – Public Sector Institutions and what is in Between them
Courseware Coordinator and Head of Marketing @Management 3.0
Author and Founder of Art of Teams
View detailsRalph van Roosmalen is devoted to helping teams create value while experiencing happiness at work. With more than 24 years of experience in international management roles—such as scrum master, agile coach, VP software development, and change manager—Ralph is author of the book Art of Teams and founder of The Art of Teams community, former CEO of Management 3.0, and speaker. He is the author of many blog posts and books, like Doing It—Management 3.0 Experiences and 40 Ideas to Spice Up Your Retrospective.
LinkedInSession title: Conflicts, a curse or a blessing?
Coach, Facilitator & Trainer @ SystemicAgility.com & StrongSuits.com
View detailsRyan is a systemic agility coach who has coached, facilitated and trained hundreds of managers, coaches and teams to collaborate, innovate, and work more effectively and joyfully together while transforming themselves and their organisations to be more adaptable in this complex and non-linear world. He is the owner of Systemic Agility, a training and consulting organisation in the areas of Enterprise Agility Transformation, Team Agility Coaching, and Agile Product Development & Innovation. He is also the owner and a facilitator and trainer of StrongSuits®, a systemic team and organisational strengths development tool, based on the latest insights from modern psychology, which uses cards and games to get people talking about their strengths and communication styles, how they might get in their own way, and how to work more effectively together.
LinkedIn Session title: Play to your strengths with StrongSuits
Session title: Playing to your Strengths in the Workplace to Achieve Happier and more Productive Teams
Agilist
View detailsSahin is your expedition guide on your journey to become a future-proof leader, offering a wealth of experience and expertise! He’s an officially licensed Management 3.0 Facilitator and a Management 3.0 Community founding member with extensive experience in building agile systems and creative organizations in the VUCA world. His main focus and expertise are in the Management 3.0 virtues and how to apply them in Agile- and Authentic Leadership styles, Shared Leadership Teams (Senior Management), Agility in HR, designing organizations for continuous Innovation and better Human Experience with unFIX and Agility Flight Levels. He has broad expertise in agile organizational design, industry knowledge from the gaming industry, banking, insurance, reinsurance, pharma, medical technology, real estate, consulting companies, and startups, and academic knowledge from psychology, philosophy, business economics, literature.
LinkedInSession title: Authentic Leadership – The Currency of our Time
Global Lean Change Agent, Change Hacker and Lean Change Community Lead
View detailsI am a Global Change Hacker and Lean Change agent who 1) influences organisational culture through artful interventions 2) explores how to nudge change forward by understanding and valuing different perspectives 3) believes and lives with being comfortable with uncertainty and complexity in the VUCA world today. I am passionate about co-creating change with businesses, leadership, teams and individuals across the organisation with HR, Contracting, Business, IT and the like. I help businesses, leadership, teams and individuals build an adaptive growth mindset and on-board them on a path to agility; agility that allows them to respond and adapt in the VUCA world today. I have more than 22 years of experience and have been instrumental in leading change transformations globally across Singapore, Poland, the Nordic countries, Europe, UK and India with technology, insurance and financial sector organizations such as the DBS Bank, Nordea Bank Danmark.
Twitter LinkedIn Session title: Management 3.0 Essentials
Session title: Lean Change Management: The Essentials
Leadership and Culture Coach @ kutura.digital
View detailsSince he began his career as a consultant more than 25 years ago, Stefan has seen a number of poor management decisions and frustrated employees. When he was in the management role himself, he found that the job was not easy. His role models were uninspiring and clueless themselves. For this reason, he refrained from managing his people and began to involve them. That was the beginning of a long, satisfying, and still ongoing search for ways to manage companies and teams in a way that gives all employees a chance to work together on something inspiring and fulfilling. His repertoire today includes topics such as agility, management 3.0, lean startup, happiness at work, blue ocean strategy, feedback as a competitive advantage, stress in teams, successful workplace culture. But in a few words, it’s always about helping people thrive and grow within the context of their work. His most exciting area of research is how to engage management in the required transformation.
LinkedInSession title: How to Destroy Happiness at Work
Founder NüWorks GK - Japan
View detailsStefan is from Germany and has been living in Japan for over 10 years. In 2012 he learned about Agile and became a Product Owner. His life changed when he took a Management 3.0 workshop in 2015. Returning to Japan, he introduced Agile and Management 3.0 into a Japanese company. He learned that changing an organization is not that easy. And after one year he got fired from the project as top-management lost interest in the new ideas. But he was only discouraged for a short time and created his own company NuWorks in 2016 and became the first Management 3.0 facilitator in Japan. With the help of a group of early adopters he introduced Management 3.0 to Japanese companies and became also a Lean Change Management facilitator. Nowadays, there are more than 20 Management 3.0 facilitators in Japan and the organizations adopting Management 3.0 are increasing.
Twitter LinkedIn Session title: The State of Management 3.0 in Japan – Complexity and Change Management in the Land of the Rising Sun
Session title: The State of Management 3.0 in Japan – Complexity and Change Management in the Land of the Rising Sun
Deputy Director General@ The Education Authority at Sheba Medical Center and TAB - Certified Facilitator
View detailsVered specialized in the management of multinational training and education projects, including running P&L units, Cultural and Educational programs, Projects related tocustomer retention, Events, Conferences, Entrepreneurship projects, etc. Vered has extensive experience in project management in Israel and internationally, Commercial and financial understanding of projects , Team–leading capabilities and employee recruitment in accordance with the organization’s goals and Extensive experience in business development, entrepreneurship, and breaking into new market segments.
LinkedInSession title: Agile Dynamics Management – Public Sector Institutions and what is in Between them