Past Events

2017

The Power of Coaching – Enabling transformative change in yourself and others @ Back to School Meetup – 20 June 2018, London, UK

Professional Coaching – Making It Playful and Solutions Focussed @ Aginext – 23 March 2018, London, UK

Unleash Your Play Brain – Play Your Way Towards a Happier Adulthood @ Booster 2018 – 16 March 2018, Bergen, Norway

2016

Play at Work – Releasing human potential through play (registration opens on 24 August at 6 pm BST) hosted by Adventures with Agile: 7 September, London, UK

Unleash Your Play Brain @ XT16: 6 October at Millbrook, Buckinghamshire, UK

Unleash Your Play Brain @ Agile in the City Bristol: 3-4 November, Bristol, UK

Play at Work – Releasing human potential play hosted by British Computer Society, 13 December, London, UK

BCS SPA: 26-29 June, London, UK. Keynoting at the first ever “SPA Jam: Discover what agile feels like” as part of uke troupe The Lost and Foundlings (watch the video performance here)

Agile Manchester: 11-13 May, Manchester, UK. Co-presenting “The Journey of Leadership” with Kamila Piorowska

Lean Kanban Days: 18-19 April, London, UK. Presenting “Amplify Your Performance with The Five-Minute Coach”

QCon London: 7-9 March, London, UK. Track host for Modern Agile Development – Revisiting Agile today and tackling challenges we are seeing in the wild

2015

BCS SPA: 1 July, London, UK. “The Power of Hope: Getting You from Here to There”

BCS SPA: 29 June, London, UK. “The Practice of Play: Re-igniting Your Passion to Dream, Believe and Achieve”

Agile Manchester: 7 May, Manchester, UK. “The Power of Play: Making Good Teams Great”

London Lean Kanban Day: 20 April, London, UK. “The Power of Play: Making Good Teams Great”

Playcamp London: 24 March, London, UK. “The Power of Play: Making Good Teams Great”

QCon London: 4 March, London, UK. “The Power of Hope: Getting You From Here to There”

2014

Agile Tour London: 24 October, London, UK. “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Why Me?” – an Agile Fairytale

Agile Cambridge: 1 – 3 October, Cambridge, UK. Keynote “The Power of Play: Making Good Teams Great” on 2 October. Presentation available here. Video recording: “The Power of  Play: Making Good Teams Great”

Darefest London – Spark the Change: 3 – 4 July, London, UK. Co-presenting “Tribal Leadership: Create the place where you long to belong”

BCS SPA: 29 June – 2 July, London, UK. Co-presenting “Bounce: How to Develop Your Resilience in a Changing World” with Lauren L’ecaros

2013

Agile Tour London 2013: 1 November, London, UK. “The Emperor’s New Clothes: Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations”

2012

Mini SPA 2012: 12 November, Nottingham, UK. Presenting “Tribal Leadership – Creating the place where you long to belong”

TEDxMiltonKeynes on Communities, Connections and Conversations: 22 September, Milton Keynes, UK. Presenting “Enterprise Gardening – Transforming your workplace into the place where you long to belong”

BCS Agile Methods SIG: June 14, London: “The Emperor’s New Clothes – Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations”

BCS SPA: 1 – 4 July, London, UK. “Tribal Leadership – Creating the place where you long to belong” plus “What floats my boat”

XP2012: 21 – 25 May, Malmö, Sweden. “Tribal Leadership – Creating the place where you long to belong” on 22 May

GOTO Conference Copenhagen: 21 – 23 May, Copenhagen, Denmark. “The Power of Play – Transforming Work Through Play” on 23 May

LSUG (London Scrum User Group): May 9, London. “The Power of Play – Making Good Teams Great”

Play4Agile: 17 – 20 February, Rückersbach, Germany. Played a whole bunch of games including a couple of Agile Fairytales: “Mirror, Mirror… Why Me?” and “The Emperor’s New Clothes – Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations” plus “The Power of Play”

2011

Oredev 2011: 7 – 11 November, Malmö, Sweden: Presenting ‘The Power of Play – Making Good Teams Great‘

XP Days Benelux: 1 – 2 December (Mechelen, Belgium): Presenting ‘Tribal Leadership – Create the Place Where You Long to Belong‘

Agile 2011: 8 – 12 August (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) – Co-presenting ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes – Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations’ with Jenni Jepsen from goagile.dk

BCS SPA: 12 – 15 June, London, UK. Co-presented ‘Agreeing on Business Value’ withPascal Van Cauwenberghe

Mini XP Day 2010: 1 April, Belgium. Co-presented ‘Agreeing on Business Value’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

OxfordJam: 20 March – 1 April, Oxford, UK. My first social enterprise conference as a participant!

International Institute of Business Analysis – UK Chapter: 3 March Derby, UK – Repeat presentation at IIBA ‘Agile in a Nutshell‘ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3. Event hosted by Rolls-Royce

TedX Granta: 15 Febuary, Cambridge, UK. My first TedX event as a participant!

Agile Community Event: 12 January, Copenhagen, Denmark – Co-presented ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes – Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations’ with Jenni Jepsen. The event was organised by BestBrains.dk

2010

XP Days Benelux: 25 – 26 November, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Conference co-chair with Vera Peeters. Co-presented “The Emperor’s New Clothes: Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations” with Jenni Jepsen and “Agreeing on Business Value Using Systems Thinking” with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

International Institute of Business Analysis – UK Chapter: 14 October London, UK. Presented ‘Agile in a Nutshell‘. Event hosted by Credit-Suisse. Watch it on YouTube: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (made available by Simon Ward)

Agile 2010: 9 – 13 August, Florida, USA. Co-presented “Pinocchio: On Becoming a Lean Leader” (Tuesday, 10 August 13.30 – 15.00 in Southern Hemisphere IV/V) and “Agreeing on Business Value Using Systems Thinking” (Wednesday, 11 August 09.00 – 10.30 in A-2) with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Deep Agile 2010: 15 – 16 May, Boston, USA. Presented “The Yellow Brick Road – Agile Adoption Through Peer Coaching” and “The Bottleneck Game – Process Improvement with the Theory of Constraints”

SPA 2010: 16 -19 May 2010, London, UK. Co-presented “Pinocchio – On Becoming a Lean Leader” and “Resolving Conflicts Without Compromise” both with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Agile France 2010: 31 May – 1 June 2010, Paris, France. Presented in French “The Yellow Brick Road – Agile Adoption Through Peer Coaching”

Mini XP Days Benelux: 26 April 2010, Eindhoven, Holland. Co-Conference Chair with Vera Peeters. Presenting  “The Yellow Brick Road – Agile Adoption Through Peer Coaching” (About the conference in previous years)

Turku Agile Day Conference: 17 – 18 March 2010, Turku, Finland. Keynote session “Pinocchio – On Becoming a Lean Leader” with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and co-presented “Timeboxed Thinking” with Staffan Nöteberg

XP Day Suisse: 29 March 2010, Petit-Lancy, Geneva. Co-presented an Agile Fairytale: “The Yellow Brick Road – Agile Adoption Through Peer Coaching” and “Agile Project Management” with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

2009

XPDay London: 7 – 8 December 2009, London. Ran The Yellow Brick Road – Agile Adoption through Peer Coaching as a 60-minute Open Space session

XP Days Benelux: 23 – 24 November 2009, Mechelen. Presented an Agile Fairytale: The Yellow Brick Road – Agile Adoption through Peer Coaching and also co-presented The Toyota Way Management principles to sustain Lean and Agile with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

ScanAgile: 15 – 16 October 2009. Co-presented The Toyota Way Management principles to sustain Lean and Agile with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Agile 2009: 24 – 28 August 2009, Chicago. Co-presented with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe The Bottleneck Game and The Business Value Game

Integrating Agile: 18 June 2009, Hoofddorp (Holland). Co-presented The Toyota Way Management Principles for Making Lean and Agile Endure with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

XP Day France: 25 – 26 May 2009, Paris. Co-presented The Business Value Game and Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Why Me? with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Mini XP Days Benelux: 11 May 2009, Mechelen. Co-presented The Business Value Game with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and Vera Peeters

BCS SPA: 5 – 8 April 2009, London. Co-presented The Business Value Game with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and Vera Peeters

XP Day Suisse: 30 March 2009, Geneva (v.f.). Co-presented ‘Les Cinq premiers pas pour devenir vraiment agile‘ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

2008

XPDay London: 11 – 12 December 2008, London. Co-presented ‘Real Options: The Final Frontier’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

XP Days Benelux: 20 – 21 November 2008, Eindhoven. Co-presented ‘The Business Value Game’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and Vera Peeters and ‘Mirror, Mirror on theWall…Why Me?’ with Pascal

AYE: 2 – 6 November 2008, Phoenix. Ran Birds-of-a-Feather session on ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Why Me?‘ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Agile Business Conference: 23 – 24 September 2008, London. Ran Birds-of-a-Feather session on ‘The Business Value Game’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Agile 2008: 4 – 8 August 2008, Toronto. Co-presented bilingually in French and English ‘Les neuf cases pour bien comprendre son client’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Why Me?‘ with Pascal plus a tryout of ‘The Business Value Game‘

Université du SI: 2 – 3 July 2008, Paris. Co-presented ‘The Theory of Constraints: I’m not a bottleneck! I’m a free man!’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

XPDay France: 5 – 6 May 2008, Paris. Co-presented ‘Les neuf cases pour bien comprendre son client‘ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Agile North Mini Conference: 26 April 2008, Manchester. Co-presented ‘Real Options: The Final Frontier’ with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

SPA 2008: 16 – 19 March 2008, St Neots. Co-presented 3 sessions – (1) ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…Why Me?‘ with Chris Cooper-Bland, (2) ‘Real Options in a Nutshell’ with Chris Matts and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe and (3) a Birds-of-a-Feather session on ‘Teamwork Techniques’

2007

XPDay London: 19 – 20 November 2007, London. Co-presented ‘The Yellow Brick Road: Agile Adoption Through Peer Coaching’ with Duncan Pierce