"You are the Architect of your Own Life"

Arie is a pragmatic who embeds his pragmatism in structure, discipline and common sense. He has done this from his early days in the health care and the military forces up to where he is today. This eventually led to being one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto and expert in the area of Agile transformations, Agile Project Management, team facilitation, Agile techniques and business involvement.

He has developed models for organizational competencies, the transformation process, coaching types and other topics which facilitate an Agile transformation, a not so easy job. He is nr 1 publication is the Agile transformation framework IATM. He has created a team around him of highly skilled Agilists with various profiles, from technical development coaches to psychologists, to support the human and organizational aspects of the transformation.

Believe in his team, facilitating them to reach for their best combined with client and end user involvement has his focus when he speaks, presents, demonstrates and lectures about Agile as thought leader of Wemanity, thought leader of EXIN, thought leader of IFAAI, lecturer at Universities or presents at conferences.

Arie is IATM Gold+ certified, Certified professional facilitator, DSDM certified.

Senior executive, Agile practitioner and Agile coach, all in the wrapping a registered accountant with an MBA.

Natasia is a heavy duty expert, able to help organizations forward. She understands how to combine very senior responsibilities with innovation and helping an organization forward.

Next to deep understanding how to run a large company (she has been for years on the Executive board of one of the largest companies in South Africa with a huge financial annual responsibility), she is able to handle this in the Agile world today. She developed for example the Agile Business Continuity model.

She developed for example the Agile Business Continuity model which helps organizations surviving in todays dynamics in a way that provides overview, insights and opportunities.

Finally, she has been involved in the world of education, working at the university of Johannesburg, helping students in their growth by providing deep experience and excellent guidance.

Natasia is known for her social and commercial skills and deep understanding of the responsibilities on the senior executive level. Those skills help her to connect and empathise easily which opens ways to help individuals and teams forward.

Business psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in shaping the success among leaders, employees and teams across local and international corporations. Operating many roles, such as Executive Coach, HR Project Manager, Trainer. Expert in employee performance review and leadership development in Talent Acquisition process. Executive Coach and Accredited Coaching Supervisor – first Polish woman accredited by Coaching Supervision Academy (UK) (acc. EMCC, ICF ap.), possess certifications also from ICC and Zen Coaching.

She is a member of global coaching team in global consulting potentate The Center for Creative Leadership (Global TOP5 Leadership Education).

Ahe authored Polish adaptation of Full Supervision in Coaching Spectrum Model (FSM, CSA) and SFERA Model (SPACE).

Honorary VP of The International Society for Coaching Psychology. Co-author, content manager and post-graduate studies supervisor in Akademia Profesjonalnego Coachingu,

Business Practitioner, creator of training company Mindstream Ltd., providing wide array of accredited Project and Process Management Training. Her business acumen stems from managerial experience as Project Manager and Department Head. She managed product introduction, delivered training and marketing for established products. She lead projects in IT, marketing and education.

She is a qualified trainer with years of practical practice, having well over 4500 people in the training rooms. She specializes in training and lectures on project management and management overall. She is accredited in PRINCE2, AgilePM, Change Management, Value Management and Management 3.0.

She proudly holds the role of PM and MBA lecturer in Collegium Da Vinci (Poznan), Wyższa Szkoła Administracji i Biznesu (Gdynia), Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Wyższa Szkoła handlowa (Wrocław) oraz Uczelnia Łazarskiego (Warszawa).

Her areas of expertise include:

• Project Management, following internationally accepted approaches,
• Agile Organizational Management,
• Management 3.0,
• Communication and team work,
• Change Management,
• Business psychology