Agile People

Adaptability - an Agile People Principle with Tamara Molinas.

Gustavo Couto is an engineer by education, consultant and instructor by profession. At the beginning of his professional life, he had the opportunity to work in large companies and with leaders from different countries. It was during this trajectory that he found his passion: to inspire and empower people.

A few years ago, he decided to quit a steady job to follow his dream: to structure a consulting firm that could bring innovation to Brazil and empower more people from different walks of life and background, all over the world.

Gustavo is a keynote speaker, MBA Professor, author of the book, Essential Guide for New Entrepreneurs, and is co-author of the Agile People Manifesto. In his work, he focuses on innovation, agile, design thinking, management and people development. He built his expertise in companies located all over Brazil and abroad.

Agile People

If you'd like to find out more about Agile People, you can follow/search at the following:

• Website: Agile People - Business, HR and Leadership
• YouTube: (35) Agile People - YouTube
• Podcast: agile-people.captivate.fm/episodes or platform of choice (Spotify, Google, Apple, Amazon etc.)
• LinkedIn: Agile People : Overview | LinkedIn

Thank-you so much for watching, listening and we hope your curiosity has been suitably piqued to want to get involved.

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Purpose & Meaning - an Agile People Principle with Gustavo Marques Couto

Bala is co-founder and managing partner of FutureXeed, based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

He is passionate about Leadership and Systemic coaching, facilitating leaders and teams to co-create awesome work cultures and collaborative intelligence and enabling positive organizational transformations. He comes with many years of corporate experience as International HR Director and other senior HR Leadership roles in high-tech, telecommunications and other industries in Europe and Asia.

He is a certified consultant, coach and facilitator in Organizational Values and Culture Transformation, Leadership Team facilitator, Trainer in ICAgile HR, ICAgile Leadership and Agile People Coach and Facilitates Digital Transformation & DevOps simulations. He is a certified SAFe DevOps practitioner and co-author of the Agile People Manifesto. He is pursuing his Professional Coaching Certification (PCC) accredited by International Coaching Federation (ICF) and on his way to becoming a Senior Practitioner with European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

Agile People

If you'd like to find out more about Agile People, you can follow/search at the following:

• Website: Agile People - Business, HR and Leadership
• YouTube: (35) Agile People - YouTube
• Podcast: agile-people.captivate.fm/episodes or platform of choice (Spotify, Google, Apple, Amazon etc.)
• LinkedIn: Agile People : Overview | LinkedIn

Thank-you so much for watching, listening and we hope your curiosity has been suitably piqued to want to get involved.

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Bala is co-founder and managing partner of FutureXeed, based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

He is passionate about Leadership and Systemic coaching, facilitating leaders and teams to co-create awesome work cultures and collaborative intelligence and enabling positive organizational transformations. He comes with many years of corporate experience as International HR Director and other senior HR Leadership roles in high-tech, telecommunications and other industries in Europe and Asia.

He is a certified consultant, coach and facilitator in Organizational Values and Culture Transformation, Leadership Team facilitator, Trainer in ICAgile HR, ICAgile Leadership and Agile People Coach and Facilitates Digital Transformation and DevOps simulations. He is a certified SAFe DevOps practitioner and co-author of the Agile People Manifesto. He is pursuing his Professional Coaching Certification (PCC) accredited by International Coaching Federation (ICF) and on his way to becoming a Senior Practitioner with European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

In this episode, we have the fantastic Michele Stone interviewing the nomadic inspiration that is Michaela Broeckx on her chapter of the Agile People Principles book on 'Optimizing for the Whole'.

Michele resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has over 25 years of experience building teams, mentoring individual contributors, managers, and executives in methodologies and principles that foster a culture and ownership. Michele is a successful and award winning entrepreneur with a focus on working with leaders to nurture a healthy, dynamic, collaborative Agile transformation of their teams and organization. She collaborates with global thought leaders to further the conversation about the need for change on how we approach our work. Michele and her husband James are contributing authors to The Agile People Manifesto.

Her passion is helping people deliver excellent value while loving what they do!

Michaela is a mom, a sister, a daughter, a wife...

...and she's also a spirited Agile/Lean coach and Agile Trainer, gifted with a natural flair for interpersonal & intercultural communication, and with an extensive track record in the a great variety of industries. She's an Agile People HR facilitator as well as an enterprise transformation coach, working for various customers for Ordina Belgium. Throughout her career, she took on various other roles, like HR Project Lead, corporate trainer, team performance coach, practise manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and consultant. Apart from that, she leads a not for profit initiative that supports schooling and health projects in Bihar, India (Anandvzw).

And what she loves about Agile, is that it focuses on the human connection. To tackle challenges and cleverly respond to change, we must combine our collective brains and join our efforts to optimize for the whole.

Agile People

If you'd like to find out more about Agile People, you can follow/search at the following:

• Website: Agile People - Business, HR and Leadership
• YouTube: (35) Agile People - YouTube
• Podcast: agile-people.captivate.fm/episodes or platform of choice (Spotify, Google, Apple, Amazon etc.)
• LinkedIn: Agile People : Overview | LinkedIn

Thank-you so much for watching, listening and we hope your curiosity has been suitably piqued to want to get involved.

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Optimize for the Whole - an Agile People Principle with Michele Stone and Michaela Broeckx.

Wouter is co-founder and managing partner of FutureXeed, based in his home country, The Netherlands.

Passionate about helping individuals, teams and organizations accelerate their (Agile/SAFe/Digital/DevOps/HR) transformation, Wouter uses practical examples from his work as an independent consultant having helped various global companies in their organization journey.

He brings new insights combining his Agile Certifications, and industrial engineering background, and the deep international HR expertise having held various end-responsible international HR roles at the VP level and as a member of business management teams.

Co-author of the Agile People Manifesto, Wouter is an active member of the Agile People global community, keeping each other up to date on the edge of developments in this field.

Agile People

If you'd like to find out more about Agile People, you can follow/search at the following:

• Website: Agile People - Business, HR and Leadership
• YouTube: (35) Agile People - YouTube
• Podcast: agile-people.captivate.fm/episodes or platform of choice (Spotify, Google, Apple, Amazon etc.)
• LinkedIn: Agile People : Overview | LinkedIn

Thank-you so much for watching, listening and we hope your curiosity has been suitably piqued to want to get involved.

This is me practicing my Swedish: tack så mycket

Wouter is co-founder and managing partner of FutureXeed, based in his home country, The Netherlands.

Passionate about helping individuals, teams and organizations accelerate their (Agile/SAFe/Digital/DevOps/HR) transformation, Wouter uses practical examples from his work as an independent consultant having helped various global companies in their organization journey.

He brings new insights combining his Agile Certifications, and industrial engineering background, and the deep international HR expertise having held various end-responsible international HR roles at the VP level and as a member of business management teams.

Co-author of the Agile People Manifesto, Wouter is an active member of the Agile People global community, keeping each other up to date on the edge of developments in this field.