Jurgen Appelo is pioneering management to help 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.

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.

Since 2008, Jurgen writes a popular blog at NOOP.NL, offering ideas on the creative economy, agile management, organizational change, and personal development.

He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations, and the book How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management.

His most recent book is called #Workout, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients.

Katherine Kirk is a highly experienced independent Agile/Lean Consultant and international conference speaker.

Her primary area of expertise lies in co-discovery and insight facilitation through exploring and combining eastern and tribal philosophy to find practical answers to tough, on-the-ground issues, specifically involving contextually driven edge-cases and the cultural interaction between hierarchical management and Agile/Lean teams.

After gaining a first class BSc (Hons) in computing she completed post graduate studies in software engineering at University of Oxford and currently enjoys being an active participant of a community of Lean and Agile practitioners in Europe who explore and challenge the status quo through experimenting and collaborating.