Concepts & Tools

Concepts and tools for working with the rest of the organization.

Michael Wallace - Global Agile Coach
Global Financial Services Firm

Nice way to learn about change together with other interesting people.

Adam Killander - Agile Coach
Adaptiv

Energizing, safe environment.  You can work with 13 separate partners in 2 days.

JoAnne Brandstedter - Agile PMO

A hands-on workshop with brilliant facilitators / teachers that gives you insight and courage about how to approach your challenges.

Jennie Mårtensson - Business Developer
Lantmȁteriet

Understand any organization

Years of research in complex fields distilled into an applicable set of principles and toolkits. This workshop will allow you to understand any organization and put in place the work to improve it.

Aldric Giacomoni - Director of Engineering
Stash Invest

Taking a systems view to complex organization problems (without going to crazy).

Paul Tevis - Coach
Appfolio

If you have a chance to participate in Esther and Don’s workshops, do not hesitate and go for it. The style of learning throughout the workshop was amazing with its simplicity yet undoubtedly difficult to establish in such short period of time that two days gives us. The setup of the physical space not as much as the emotional comfort that their approach just emitted on its own. They have set up the emotional space for us to be as open as possible and vulnerable yet at the same time have the feeling of safety. I have not experienced that style of knowledge sharing/exchange in a long time. So much information was shared and exchanged without the feeling of material heavy session. It was all done through carefully thought out exercises that almost seemed to mask that this was learning and it didn’t feel like a torrent of data poured on my head, even that it was 😉 

Konrad Hajdukiewicz - Senior Agile Consultant
Centare

Excellent for expanding your tool box. Lots of practical experience with using the models and tools.

Cliff Hazell - Coach

Multi-faceted

Sometimes (most times) the problems we face are multi-faceted and complex. The workshop gives tools to pause & observe, analyze the system & determine what experiments you want to take.

Lynn Woody - IT Release Manager
John Deere

Great material, superb instructors, inspiring and most of all helpful!!

Gôran Bakken - Awesome Tester
House of Test

Fireside Chat

Powerful / Pragmatic / Contemplation / Experiential Learning

Like a fireside chat / mountain retreat with Esther & Don.

Learning with the best of the best.

Mark Biro - Business Consultant
Nationwide

Collaboratively improve a system

A series of ideas and techniques to collaboratively improve a system.

Nick Korbel - Development Manager
Pampered Chef

* So many tools to use!
* Ways to influence/work with people
* Not about Agile or Scrum 🙂

Valerie Morris - Agile Coach/Sr Program Mgr

A great mix of theory and practice. Exercises use each attendee’s issues and contest, leading to real-life changes and actions which are easily begun.

Doug Kinney - Associate Director, Engineering
Best Buy

It was such an intimate setting and a great collaborative learning experience.

Charlie Sweet - Application Development Team Lead
Baird

The workshop will introduce a bunch of useful tools when you are in the position of implementing a change in an org.

Jim Petersson - Head of Dev
SBAB