Speaking

I have a million stories (slight exaggeration) and I use them to make complex ideas approachable and sticky. I invite audience participation to foster engagement and insights.

I talk about leadership, leadership at all levels, organizational change, team-based learning, and other topics that I’m passionate about.

Speaking

I have a million stories (slight exaggeration) and I use them to make complex ideas approachable and sticky. I invite audience participation to foster engagement and insights.

I talk about leadership leadership at all levels, organizational change, team-based learning, and other topics that I’m passionate about.

Past Talks

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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great!

Google Tech Talks January 25, 2007 Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as “post-mortems”) are only...

Six Rules for Change

AgileByExample 2017 Conference

Change by Attraction

Agile Singapore, 2020 Often people try to change other people by imposing processes, pushing, prodding, even punishing them. But that’s not the only way. You can bring change by attracting...

Creating the Conditions for Change @AgileIBM

Change is often much slower than hoped for, and more painful than anticipated. In the end, you may be left with feelings of frustration and dismay rather than the benefits...

Leaders At All Levels

Traditional definitions of leadership emphasize position, formal authority and power, vision, heroics. Those definitions might have been sufficient in another time. Organizations that need to respond to a fast-changing environment...

Micro Shifts Macro Results

It may seem paradoxical that something small leads to something big. Yet this is the case. Big changes can feel like an existential threat and cause major disruption. Tiny changes,...

People and Patterns

Esther Derby keynote deals with how a human deals with patterns, she provides the audience with tools that help them understand the patterns in your organization and how to shift...

Self-Organizing Agile Teams: An Overview – USI

“Selforganizing agile team” may be the most over-used, misunderstood, vague, and misleading term of the decade. So what is a self-organizing agile team? How are self-organizing teams different from other...

Get in Touch

I speak at several conferences each year, both in person and remote. Contact me to discuss a keynote or in-house talk.

If my schedule permits, I’m also happy to join community-led meetups for Ask Me Anything sessions.

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