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The following people will inspire us at the unFIXcon with impulses, cases, workshops and other formats.

Inspiration

The following people will inspire us at the unFIXcon with impulses, cases, workshops and other formats. 

Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo

Creator of unFIX
Henriette Wienges

Henriette Wienges

The Elephant in the Room
Maarten Dalmijn

Maarten Dalmijn

Dalmijn Consulting
Eckart Zitzler

Eckart Zitzler

HSLU
Rebecca Eltgen

Rebecca Eltgen

BKK·VBU
Fernando Esparza

Fernando Esparza

Merck Group
Jürgen Dittmar

Jürgen Dittmar

cocondi
Markus Dechert

Markus L. Dechert

Accso – Accelerated Solutions
Kim Nena Duggen

Kim Nena Duggen

embarc
Joachim Nuszkowski

Joachim Nuszkowski

diconium
Jaana Rasmussen

Jaana Rasmussen

Rasmussen Consulting
Felix Handler

Felix Handler

Transform REPLY
Tina Dreisicke

Tina Dreisicke

The unFIX Company
Jens Thiemann

Jens Thiemann

The unFIX Company

Carolin Adler

Coaching - Change - Communications
Andreas Ollmann

Andreas Ollmann

Ministry Group
David Cummins

David Cummins

Ministry Group
Miquel Rodriguez

Miquel Rodríguez

Netmind
Feral Rizvi

Feral Rizvi

Rakuten
Susanne Ringen

Susanne Ringen

ICH&WIR
Gunnar Harde

Gunnar Harde

adesso SE
Rune Ulvnes

Rune Ulvnes

CoWork AS, TLT Institute
Patwardhan Sharmila

Sharmila Patwardhan

Deutsche Bank
Robert Briese

Robert Briese

Lean Sherpas
Dominic Runge

Dominic Runge

Capgemini Invent
Parag Walimbe

Walimbe Parag

Dr. Javier Gomez Mata

Javier Gomez Mata

Kadri Pirn

Kadri Pirn

The unFIX Company
Stefan Mintert

Stefan Mintert

Kultura GmbH
Lisa Schwanner

Lisa D. Schwanner

Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH
Christian Kolbe

Christian Kolbe

Comsysto Reply
Katie Clark

Katie Clark

Comsysto Reply
Jakub Karolak

Jakub Karolak

Ørsted
Marco Heimeshoff

Marco Heimeshoff

Heimeshoff IT & KanDDDinsky
Gabor Daher

Gabor Daher

unFIX Applications
Joe (Jochen) Krebs

Joe Krebs

INCREMENTOR, Agile Kata

MODERATION

Henriette Wienges

Henriette Wienges

The Elephant in the Room

Organizer

Ministry Group

Partners

The unFIX Company
Transform Reply
embarc Software Consulting GmbH
COOKIE OPTIONEN

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Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo

The unFIX Company

As an author, speaker, and founder, Jurgen is helping creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers. He also offers the unFIX model for designing versatile organizations focused on continuous innovation and better human experience.

Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes, he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, or… Dutch guy.  He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle.

Jurgen can help you upgrade the design of your company with more engagement and faster results; He can show you how to become an agile business with better software; He shows you how to creatively manage your company; And he can inspire professionals with a purpose, advocating work-life integration for creative people. Jurgen is CEO of Happy Melly and the unFIX Company and he is co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network.

Moderation

Henriette Wienges

Henriette Wienges

The Elephant in the Room.

Henriette Wienges loves system thinking and a structure-oriented approach toward organizations. Over and over again she is amazed, at how structures define a great part of the “what”, the “how” and sometimes even the “if” of our work, while helping us to understand our environment, and make it strategically manageable and efficient. And yes – of course, she is working agile and human-centered. Henriette is an experienced systemic Agile and Flight Level Coach. She is the founder of The Elephant in the Room.

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Maarten Dalmijn

Maarten Dalmijn

Dalmijn Consulting

Maarten is a consultant, speaker and trainer. He helps teams to beat the feature factory all over the world.  Millions of practitioners have read his best-practice articles on Agile, Scrum and Product Management. He specializes in helping companies to build empowered teams that can discover better ways of delivering value.

Maarten is a frequent speaker at Fortune 500 companies, government organizations and international industry conferences. He has worked with many award-winning start-ups and scale-ups. Maarten is an ambassador and editor at Serious Scrum, the largest Scrum publication on Medium.

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Eckart Zitzler

Eckart Zitzler

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)

Eckart Zitzler has been Vice-Dean and Head of Research of the Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology since 2019. Before joining the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, he held different research and management positions at ETH Zurich and the University of Teacher Education Berne. As a computer scientist by training, his particular interest today is on organization design and organizational development in the context of universities.

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Rebecca Eltgen

Rebecca Eltgen

BKK·VBU

Rebecca believes in taking the road less traveled by, being open to successes and failures, and learning from both. As an Agile Coach with a love for Brazil and Ultimate Frisbee, she brings a unique and systemic perspective to her work. Rebecca’s journey started with a degree in Latin American Studies. She enjoyed a successful teaching and training career in Norway and Berlin before discovering her passion for Agile Coaching. She now helps organizations navigate the complexities of Agile methodologies and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Rebecca’s approach is rooted in her love for learning, collaboration, and human connection, and she has earned a reputation as a trusted and respected mentor. Whether on the field or in the boardroom, Rebecca is always eager to challenge herself and those around her to reach new heights.

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Fernando Esparza

Fernando Esparza

Merck Group

Fernando is a tech-fan, father of two, runner, morning guy; he is curious, pragmatical, and has 10+ years living in another country, and is fluent in four languages.

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Jürgen Dittmar

Jürgen Dittmar

cocondi

Jürgen 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” and agile organizational development, he works primarily with executives in various companies and management levels.

In addition, he is considered one of the most experienced trainers and representatives for Management 3.0 and unFIX.

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Markus Dechert

Markus L. Dechert

Accso – Accelerated Solutions

Markus started his career as a software engineer. He sees himself as a custom tailor for digital solutions – and that includes organization as well as software. Early on, he discovered the joy of helping people develop better forms of collaboration. For many years, he has been consulting, coaching, training and supporting teams and leaders in their efforts to create people-centric, effective organizations. With the knowledge and extensive practical experience from Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Nexus, Management 3.0 & Co, he gives his clients a jump start and enables them to adapt the approach that is right for them.

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Kim Nena Duggen

Kim Nena Duggen

embarc

As an organizational architect in the field of new work, self-organization and (IT) strategy, Kim is in her element when she works with people who want to do something themselves instead of making do with theory or sample solutions. Depending on the situation, Kim changes into the role of consultant, coach or trainer. Experiences from job stations in process management, as a trainer in EAM, RE, soft skills, new work, and as an elected board member of a self-organized cooperative, as well as further education in coaching and conflict management and growing up in two cultures, have laid a broad foundation to develop organizations both externally and internally.

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Joachim Nuszkowski

Joachim Nuszkowski

diconium

Joachim Nuszkowski works as an Agile Coach at diconium. He enjoys helping people work well together and uses methods from agility, moderation, facilitation, and organizational development. As a Scrum Master, he works with individual teams and coaches a group of teams in a scaled agile environment. Most important to him is a trusting environment where people can work together at eye level.

In addition, he has served in international production and project management positions in shipbuilding, aircraft, and railway companies, such as Thyssenkrupp Marine System, Diehl Aviation, and Evac GmbH. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Joachim coaches American Football and soccer teams in his free time.

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Jaana Rasmussen

Jaana Rasmussen

Rasmussen Consulting

Jaana is an agile coach, executive coach, systemic organizational consultant, and story developer. She works for companies and public organizations and is a lecturer for leadership and storytelling at different universities. Jaana loves to enable people to work more with more fun, creating connections between humans and developing learning journeys. She is a passionate networker and lives in Hamburg.

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Felix Handler

Felix Handler

Transform Reply

As one of the co-founders of Transform Reply, Felix is helping companies implement sustainability in the workforce by transforming companies with a special focus on people and their needs.

A passionate Scout, OKR aficionado and Champion for the Future of Work, Felix aims to combine the best of those worlds by using OKR to empower teams and people, including intrinsic motivation and storytelling to create a cohesive approach. He comes from a background of Agile Coaching and has consulted both corporates and startups before now founding his own with Unfix methodologies about which experiences he will talk at the conference.

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Tina Dreisicke

Tina Dreisicke

The unFIX Company

Tina is an Agile Learning Professional with roots in Education Science and Design Thinking.

With over ten years of experience with international clients, she is an excellent addition to the unFIX Core Team, where she acts as the Captain of the Content Crew.

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Jens Thiemann

Jens Thiemann

The unFIX Company

Jens is a part of The unFIX Company. He is captaining the unFIX Ignition crew, which helps companies apply the unFIX model within their organizations. He also participates in other crews, such as the partnership, the customer experience, and the model crews.

During his studies in computer science, Jens founded his first company. He has over twenty-five years of experience with medium-sized companies with flat hierarchies and international, matrix-organized corporations. Accordingly, he has practical know-how in the functional and disciplinary management of individual teams up to business units with over a hundred employees.

With his growth mindset, he is also a management 3.0 practitioner, which has equipped him with additional tools and practices. During the unFIXcon, Jens will be facilitating a workshop and is a go-to person for all questions about unFIX.

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Carolin Adler

Carolin Adler

Carolin Adler is an independent consultant for transformation and change management, leadership communication, and business & executive coaching. As an executive in global companies for many years, she shaped topics around (agile) transformation, change, and communication.

Today, Carolin passionately accompanies and manages sustainable change processes in diverse organizations, enabling real transformation. In doing so, she works on all levels (systemic, team, and individuals), with many questions, listening, and a great mix of methods. She shares her experiences and enjoys connecting inspiring people with each other.

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Andreas Ollmann

Ministry Group

As owner and CEO of Ministry Group, Andreas believes that companies need different forms of work organization to survive in the digital age. That’s why he works together with his partners and his team to make Ministry Group a little better every day.

Andreas likes to share his experiences with New Work – as a moderator, speaker, coach and consultant. He regularly leads discussion groups on the topic of digital transformation and, due to his multi-layered experience in this area, is also a sought-after discussion partner for various media such as brandeins, Werben & Verkaufen, NDR, HORIZONT and Capital.

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David Cummins

David Cummins

Ministry Group

For over 10 years, David Cummins has accompanied the personal and organizational development, agile working, and self-organized teams in the Ministry Group as owner, managing director, mentor and coach.

Now he also accompanies other entrepreneurs, leaders, HR and change teams in leadership development and organizational transformation. With Ministry’s consulting crew, David seeks new opportunities to inspire and help organizations on the path to what he calls a Creating Organization, utilizing the approaches of Impeccable Leadership, Agility, and the unFIX model.

David is an official unFIX Diamond Partner.

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Miquel Rodriguez

Miquel Rodríguez

Netmind

Miquel Rodríguez is an experienced trainer, consultant and speaker who has dedicated his career to helping organizations get the most out of their IT projects and teams. As Consulting Director at Netmind, he works with large enterprises to lead organizational improvements and agile transformations.

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Feral Rizvi

Feral Rizvi

Rakuten

Feral is a result-oriented Agilist with over eight years of experience in technology, having worked with large eCommerce companies in Japan and Canada. Currently, Feral is standardizing product delivery in the Conversational AI Section at Rakuten. Having lived in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and Japan, Feral brings a unique perspective in coaching diverse teams. Outside work, Feral enjoys traveling the world, practicing Japanese pottery, and hitting the boxercise gym. 

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Susanne Ringen

Susanne Ringen

ICH&WIR

Susanne Ringen is an experienced coach for organizational development and leadership. Her major approach Tight-Loose-Tight originates in Norway, where she is partly living. She is founder of ICH&WIR where she combines systemic thinking with theories and ideas from New Work, modern leadership, communication theories and mindfulness – and even surfing. She is host of the German podcast “Führungsfragenkarussell”. She prefers working in natural environments and combines it with surfing, hiking or meditation.

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Gunnar Harde

Gunnar Harde

adesso SE

Gunnar Harde has been working at the interface between software development, requirements engineering and agile transformation for 25 years. The graduate physicist and certified Scrum Professional (CSP-PO) most recently worked as Senior Project Manager at the automotive think tank AQI and advised the industry and the Automotive Industry Association (VDA) in particular on issues of agility and cybersecurity management. Today, as Managing Consultant at adesso SE, he shapes agile transformation in product management and requirements engineering in eHealth projects.

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Rune Ulvnes

Rune Ulvnes

CoWork AS, TLT Institute

Rune is a Norwegian speaker, advisor, and systems thinker working on leadership and culture development for companies and teams that need to work on complex problems. Since 2010 Rune has worked with Tight Loose Tight leadership, a model that has spread widely among Norwegian leaders and companies. Rune has a background both as a product developer and a business developer for Telco and Media, and in the last 15 years, he has helped companies become more agile.

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Patwardhan Sharmila

Sharmila Patwardhan

Deutsche Bank

Sharmila Patwardhan is working at the Deutsche Bank as VP Agile Coach. She is an agilist and lifetime learner. She proudly calls herself a system thinker with a visual thinking hat. She loves the creative aspect of visual thinking and continues her learning journey by leading significant transformations at the Deutsche Bank.

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Robert Briese

Robert Briese

Lean Sherpas GmbH

Robert is a coach, consultant, and trainer in agile and lean product development and the founder and CEO of Lean Sherpas GmbH. As one of only 25 certified Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) Trainers worldwide, he works with individuals, teams, and organizations on adopting agile and lean development practices and improving organizational agility through cultural change. Robert has worked with (real) start-ups (Penta), Corporate Start-Ups (Ringier, Yello), and also big organizations (SAP, BMW, Adidas) to create an organizational design and adopt practices that allow faster customer feedback, learning, and greater adaptability for change. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and regularly gives training in Large-Scale Scrum.

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Dominic Runge

Dominic Runge

Capgemini Invent

Dominic is a Workforce & Organization practice manager and leads the Organization, Purpose & Strategy team at Capgemini Invent Austria. As a trained software developer and passionate organizational architect, he supports companies in becoming better, faster, and more customer-centric in their organization and product development.

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Parag Walimbe

Walimbe Parag

Walimbe Parag is an Agile coach originally from India. He has close to a decade of experience in Agile coaching and about 20 years of total IT experience in the healthcare/MedTech, publishing, software, finance, banking, social networking, and dating industry. He has lived, studied, and worked in Germany for close to eight years in the past and has successfully done Agile transformation of multiple large organizations on three continents. He is a programmer at heart with a master’s degree from Hamburg. He has held various leadership roles, including Agile transformation lead, program, and portfolio management. He is especially proud of his role as chief architect for a clinical decision support system. Traveling as a hobby has taken him to about 91 cities in 17 countries.

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Dr. Javier Gomez Mata

Javier Gomez Mata

Javier is a freelance Lecturer and Facilitator who was born in Mexico. He has a broad knowledge of traditional management and Design Thinking. Since 2010, his goal has been to understand the relationship between these two “camps,” and he has concluded that they represent different views of the same base. He illustrates this through a “theory of everything” perspective. His long-term goal is to develop and popularize the basis for Non-Linear Management globally. Said management should not be limited to for-profit corporations but include NGOs, communities, and societies.

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Kadri Pirn

Kadri Pirn

The unFIX Company

Kadri Pirn is an experienced software engineering lead. She has worked in several companies in Estonia and internationally, like Ericsson, Pipedrive, and Demodesk. Today, she is part of the unFIX Core Team, where she is the Captain of the Community Crew. Kadri is known for her fervor in rallying her team to achieve broader objectives while maintaining a people-first approach. She is a strong advocate for dynamic team structures and the principle of role rotation. Away from her professional commitments, Kadri indulges her creative side through Improv theatre, an interest she’s nurtured for three years. The games and mindset she’s adopted from Improv have had a significant positive influence on her day-to-day life.

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Stefan Mintert

Stefan Mintert

Kutura GmbH

Since Stefan began his career as a consultant more than 25 years ago, he has witnessed many poor management decisions and frustrated employees. When he was in the management role himself, he also found that the job was not easy. His role models turned out to be uninspiring and unknowledgeable. For this reason, he ceased 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 like Agility, Management 3.0, Lean Startup, unFIX, Happiness at Work, Blue Ocean Strategy, Feedback as a Competitive Advantage, Stress in Teams, Successful Worplace culture. But in a nutshell, it’s always about helping people thrive and grow within the context of their work. For him, the most exciting area of research is discovering how to engage management in the required transformation.

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Lisa Schwanner

Lisa D. Schwanner

Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH

Lisa is an experienced expert in change management and transformation. As a business psychologist and systemic organizational consultant, she specialized in accompanying changes eleven years ago. She loves to look at an issue from different perspectives and knows change from various roles such as trainer, consultant, product owner, scrum master, and agile coach. Lisa is passionate about the employee experience in changes, and a systemic approach matters most to her.

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Christian Kolbe

Christian Kolbe

Comsysto Reply

Christian’s skills as a Consultant, Software Engineer, and Scrum Trainer as well as his passion for people and self-organizing structures, paved his way to becoming one of the managing Partners of Comsysto Reply, who has specialized in the agile development of custom software solutions for companies facing challenges in digital transformation for years. His teams support their clients in building digital products from discovery to production across all domains, focusing on sustainability and the smart grid. We embrace a unique culture and continuously experiment to improve our organization.

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Katie Clark

Katie Clark

Comsysto Reply

Katie is a Software Developer and Agile Trainer at Comsysto Reply. Over the past five years, she has been involved in complex projects in various domains ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to fresh food supply chains.

“Great software products can only be developed as a team!” is her motto, that is why she focuses on fostering a collaborative team culture, an agile mindset, and implementing processes that are continuously evolved and adapted within the team. Similarly, on a company level, she promotes transparency and self-organization to improve her organization continuously.

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Jakub Karolak

Jakub Karolak

Ørsted

Jakub has been Agile his entire professional life. He knows no other way and truly loves what he does. He thrives in an environment that enables self-organization. He likes to bend the rules and create working conditions that suit teams individually. He brings his whole self to work and encourages people around him to do the same.
He is a Scrum Master at Ørsted, Poland, enabling the world to run entirely on green energy.

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Marco Heimeshoff

Marco Heimeshoff

Heimeshoff IT & KanDDDinsky

Marco Heimeshoff is a trainer, speaker, and software developer from Germany. He is the organizer of KanDDDinsky, a conference about Domain-driven Design and the art of business software, and co-founded the German DDD community in 2013 and VirtualDDD.com in 2019.

Between consulting companies around the globe and building healthcare software, you’ll find him speaking at conferences about DDD, socio-technical systems, and first principles.

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Gabor Daher

Gabor Daher

unFIX Applications

Gabor has been an enthusiastic techie over the past decade. He has been part of various projects/products, both as a developer and as a product manager, which made him grow to become a happy generalist. Otherwise, Gabor is always busy building some fun things, whether software, hardware, teams, or something in between. He is currently the only member of the unFIX Applications Base, a joint venture under the unFIX umbrella, where he creates digital tools that make unFIX even more scalable.

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Joe (Jochen) Krebs

Joe Krebs

INCREMENTOR, Agile Kata

Joe is the Creator of the Agile Kata and this www.agilekata.pro certification program. He is a life-long learner, host of the Agile.FM podcast, author (www.agilekatabook.com), and a certified trainer who certifies Scrum Master, Agile Coaches and Leaders. Joe has delivered an agile curriculum to thousands of professionals around the globe. His quest for helping organizations to change to a new way of working and agile ways of thinking is directly linked to the creation of the Agile Kata, a universal agile change management pattern. Joe founded Incrementor, an agile coaching and training company located in New York back in 2009. Three years in a row, Incrementor made the prestigous INC 5000 ist.

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