The following certified Agile Kata Pro trainers provide live in-person or live online Agile Kata certification trainings world-wide. Feel free to reach out to any of the trainers below for a private Agile Kata training at for your company. The certified trainers are also a good starting point for Agile Kata coaching services.
If you are interested in becoming an Agile Kata Pro trainer, please check out this train-the-trainer process.
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Joe Krebs (USA)
Joe is the Creator of the Agile Kata and this Agile Kata Pro certification program. He is a life-long learner, host of the Agile.FM podcast, author, and a certified trainer who certifies Scrum Master, Agile Coaches and Agile Leaders.
Joe has delivered an agile curriculum to thousands of professionals around the globe. His quest for helping organizations to change to a new way of working is directly connected to the creation of the Agile Kata.
Joe founded Incrementor, an agile coaching, training and talent company back in 2009. Three years. in a row, Incrementor made the prestigous INC 5000 ist.
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John Coleman (UK)
John Coleman, founder of Orderly Disruption, Thinkers360 top 10 agility thought leader, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer, co-author of Kanban Guide and Prokanban.org Professional Kanban Trainer, LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer, founder and host of Xagility™️ and Daily Flow podcasts. John is an active agility chef, executive agility guide, and product manager. John is a Flight Levels Coach, ProKanban Professional Kanban Trainer, Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer including Nexus, LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer.
John is the creator of Kanplexity™ & Xagility™ and the co-author of Kanban Guide. He hosts the podcasts Xagility™ & Agility Island.
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Shirley Santiago (Philippines)
Dr. Shirley Santiago is an accomplished Trainer, Agile Coach, and founder / CTO at Agile Code Consulting Co. She has 23 years of extensive experience and has been practicing professional Scrum for over 15 years.
She is a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Transformation Coach and a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer influencing product development across different organizations in Asia Pacific.
She obtained her Doctor of Communications degree from the University of the Philippines. She focuses on organizational communication and agility, helping organizations in adopting an agile mindset and maximizing value delivery to customers.
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Don McGreal (USA)
In his role as VP of Learning Solutions at Improving, Don McGreal is a hands-on agile consultant and instructor. He is the co-author of the best-selling book: The Professional Product Owner.
Don is a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer who has authored and taught classes for thousands of professionals around the globe. Don also co-created. TastyCupcakes.org, a comprehensive collection of games and exercises for accelerating the adoption of agile principles.
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Ralph Jocham (Switzerland)
Ralphs is a speaker, author, coach, trainer and agile since 1999. He builds upon international professional product development experience in Germany, UK, US and Switzerland.
Ralph transitioned from software engineering to enterprise change agent. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, a Management 3.0 Facilitator and Agile Kata Trainer.. He is also author of the best selling 'The Professional Product Owner' book and founder of effectiveagile.com
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Rolf Irion (Germany)
Since 2016, Rolf is a freelance trainer and facilitator, independently accompanying medium sized organisations on their agile journey.
He is an accredited trainer for the Kanban Method (AKT) since 2019 and has trained numerous Scrum Masters (CSM) and Product Owners (CSPO) as a co-trainer (CSP) according to the Scrum Alliance curriculum. The Agile Kata Pro Training (AKP) rounds up his offering perfectly.
Rolf is also an active and curious member of the agile community. He founded the Agile Meetup Leipzig and co-founded the Agile Barcamp Leipzig
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Rikard Skelander (Sweden)
Rikard is a Professional Scrum Master at Trygg-Hansa, one of the largest insurance companies in Sweden.
He has 15 years experience working in software engineering in different roles, mainly as a tester and test lead but also - of course - as a Scrum Master.
He's also a former high school teacher and a seasoned martial arts practitioner and instructor.
He lives in Umeå, Sweden and is proficient in teaching in English as well as Swedish.
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Nagesh Sharma (India)
Nagesh Sharma is driving Business Transformation as a Scrum.org PST I Flight Levels Guide I ProKanban Trainer I eduScrum Trainer | Forbes Coaches Council I Co-Founder & CEO at Flowsphere | Indian School of Business | Doctoral Scholar @ GGU.
With a wealth of experience in large enterprise transformations to a Lean and Agile approach.
Nagesh is an expert in organizational dynamics and helpingborganizations transform into a Lean Agile Digital Enterprise . His Lean Agile knowledge and experience, coupled with exceptional coaching and training abilities, make him the perfect guide to help individuals, teams, and organizations harness Agile as a competitive advantage.
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Derek Lane (USA)
After years of fumbling around with fire and smoke, Derek Lane has in recent years found his calling as a BBQ Life Coach and a practitioner of all things BBQ. In a completely unrelated but parallel universe, Derek has also been known to successfully ply both the art and science of BBQ to the Lean/Agile/Growth Mindset, Software Craftsmanship, Servant Leadership, and Organizational Culture Change in ways scientists and mental health professionals are just now beginning to contemplate the full impact of!
Derek has held every role involved in technical product development including developer, architect, product owner, lean/agile/product coach, consultant, VP of product development, director of technology, and CTO. Striving to find efficient, productive, and fun ways to build products that customers cannot live without, as well as empower highly functioning teams of all kinds, has taken Derek on a journey that has led him to explore topics not often considered part of these fields. Themes like game theory, learning theory, improvisational comedy, psychology, and linguistics among others, have helped Derek to investigate new ways to convey concepts, values, and answers to challenging questions in the ever-changing landscape of product development.
He is also the creator of the 20-Day Agility Challenge and the co-creator of Scrum-The Board Game.
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Jim Hannon (USA)
Jim Hannon is an Enterprise Agile Coach, trainer and educator. He has designed, developed and conducted hundreds of technical, project management Agile and soft skills workshops for numerous corporations, financial services companies, consulting firms, and more. Mr. Hannon teaches project management in the master's program at Boston University. In addition to corporate and university classes, he conducts company-wide seminars on project and agile management and is a frequent guest speaker at business functions, conferences, and universities.
Mr. Hannon has published numerous articles on projects, agile and process management, and leadership. Jim Hannon received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Suffolk University, a Master's in IT from Capella University, and a Master's in Business Administration from Framingham State. Mr. Hannon is also a EdD student. Mr. Hannon's career includes over twenty years of project management experience before his current work as a consultant, trainer and educator. He holds a PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, teaches the PMP Prep course at BU CPE, Certified Agile Coach, Certified Agility Health facilitator, CSP, CSPO, CSM, trainer with Scrum from Scrum Alliance and a certified Scrum @Scale , Register Scrum Trainer, Registered Agile Leadership @ Scale from Scrum Inc.
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Hussam Ahmad (Norway)
Hussam is a senior coach and instructor with around 3 decades experience from the global IT industry. He has contributed to ground-breaking technological innovations at both large and smaller companies in the world.
Hussam helps companies create business value by orchestrating teams, getting people to work together towards common goals and reducing waste and delays.
He is a lifelong learner and team player with humility and passion for; lean-agile leadership and methodology, authorship, sharing, fostering community, a strong desire to collaborate and grow with others.
Hussam has established the first agile specialty coffee roastery, Yalla yalla kaffe, in Norway where new agilists are being born and lots of Agile Meetups take place.
Hussam teaches in addition to Agile Kata, courses within different deciplines like Portfolio management, Architecture, Software engineering, Scrum and Product Management.
Specialties: Lean Agile Coaching, guidance and change management, design of sustainable teams, Software engineering.
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Joanna Plaskonka (Poland)
Joanna possesses over 13 years of extensive experience across diverse industries, encompassing telecommunications, IT, banking, robotics, and academia. Her educational background is rooted in Control Engineering and Robotics, and she achieved a PhD with honors in Robotics.
Joanna's career began in Software Configuration Management, where she found her love for helping people create better processes and useful products. This discovery changed the direction of her career. In 2010, she started learning about Scrum and Agile mindset, which still influence her work today. In her work, she is constantly looking for lightness, efficiency, and a focus on value.
Currently, Joanna wears multiple hats as a Professional Scrum Trainer, Business & Learning Coach, and Consultant. Her overarching mission is to make a positive impact on both individuals and organizations, while consistently striving to provide the most exceptional learning experiences possible. She leverages a variety of techniques, including traditional training, immersive classes, mentoring, coaching, and consulting, to help achieve this mission.
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Jim Sparks (USA)
Jim is a professional Scrum Master and Agile Coach with experience in the IoT, software, shared services, supply chain, and HR spaces. He founded Transcending Agility to get back to the basics of business agility – finding better ways of delivering value to your customers as effectively and efficiently as possible.
He is a Professional Kanban Trainer with ProKanban.org and his background in data fits perfectly into my obsession with all things Flow and Flow metrics.
Jim relentlessly seeks ways to help teams improve and he believes most agile teams are set up for failure because the environment is not enabled for their success. He has a focus on teaching teams how to grow, thrive, and exceed expectations in spite of these environments.
Great teams are no longer enough. The world demands exceptional.
Random facts about him. He likes pirates. Yes, arrrrrrrr, pirates. He believe rum is the reason they didn’t rule the world. He likes comic books, Marvel not DC, and Harry Potter. He shares his office with 2 turtles and 10 fish and the occasional visit from a canine or two. He has been told his superpower is positivity and that he has entirely too much energy first thing in the morning. Jim believes that it is amazing that you can learn about leadership by watching your kids.
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Dave Horecny
Dave is an accomplished Trainer, Coach, Transformation Leader, and IT Director passionate about building high value-creating teams with integrity and skill. He has a master’s degree focusing on group dynamics, a doctorate in transformational leadership, more than 20 years of agile experience, and is certified in scrum, kanban, business agility, scaling agile, coaching, team facilitation, Lego Serious Play, and product ownership.
Dave was initially trained in scrum by Ken Schwaber in 2004 and has been an advocate for better ways of working ever since. His journey includes roles as Director of Quality Assurance at MSNBC, Senior Director at Microsoft, Director of the Center for Enablement at PetSmart, Agile Consultant at Travelers Insurance, Senior Lead Agile Coach at Wells Fargo, Trainer for LurnAgile, and Senior Agile Coach at The Standard.
Wherever you are on your agile journey, Dave can help you put the pieces together.
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Lukas Hufnagel (Austria)
Lukas is a Professional Scrum Master and Agile Coach at BearingPoint.
Having recently joined the ‘dark side’ of consulting, he has previously gathered almost 10 years of experience working with agile teams and organisations across the banking, consumer goods, hotel and performing arts industry.
He is passionate about developing compelling narratives for change and sharing those passionately in the organisations he works in.
Lukas is based in Austria and is currently splitting his time between Salzburg and Vienna.
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Aleksandar Drenovac (Serbia)
Aleksandar is an Enterprise / Business / Team Agility and Operational Excellence professional with 17+ years of experience in different service industries; both on the Business and IT side.
He brings expertize in Performance Improvement, Digital Transformation and Management Systems Development, as a Lean Six Sigma Professional, Kaizen Facilitator, Digital Transformation Expert, KPIs Professional, OKRs Professional and Certified Coach for Agile Kata, Toyota Kata, Kanban, Organizational and Team Development.
Also, he has been seasoned consultant, trainer and coach in areas of Agility, Lean, Business Improvement, Portfolio/Project Management, Process/Quality/Change Management and Leadership Development.
His approach is based on a positive practice of system + people + data/evidence driven improvement.