138. How to grow your business by measuring the right things

Phoenix, United States

Educating and coaching leaders, professionals and teams are Mart’s passion and is what he has been doing for nearly three decades. Mart works for INTERPROM, a coaching, consulting, training and education firm. Examples of areas he has specialized in are business relationship management, service management, information security management, and project and change management. He is looking forward to sharing his experience with you and to answering your questions.

Mart's proudest achievement: An achievement I’m looking back it is organizing, along with 20 passionate volunteers, a decade long, the annual Arizona ITSM Summit. A one-day event visited by 250+ local ITSM enthusiasts. And sponsored, year-after-year, by 20+ loyal vendors, including Forrester Research and Gartner.

Laurie Bowman is a trainer and mentor with Synchrony Projects, he is passionate about sustainable project planning, risk management and control. With over 3 decades of experience in helping organizations navigate complex projects, Laurie's focus is on supporting individuals and organizations to uplift their capability so they can deliver successful and sustainable projects

Laurie's professional achievements: 

• Registered Professional Engineer (Environmental Engineering)  
• Chair of Engineers Australia’s Ethics Working Group
• Accredited trainer for APMG and AACE International

Laurie's proudest achievement is raising his son, Zac.

After 20+ spent in many roles in the Information Technology industry Luca decided to start his own company, named E-quality Italia, whose purpose is to have a positive impact on Italian organisations by training and coaching their leaders. Luca works as a trainer and coach himself; he is the only Italian coach for the Getting Things Done® methodology, and is one of the few accredited trainers in Italy for BRMP® and CBRM® qualifications. Luca's proudest achievement is the reputation of his small company, both in Italy and abroad.

Falko helps leaders double the effectiveness of their teams in a matter of weeks. In the best case, this can be done without hiring new employees or reorganizing.

This can be achieved by different approaches that can be combined in a way putting value creation in the spotlight. To mention a few: making work visible, getting things done, team topologies, the art of business value, coaching habit and moving from a project to a product or even service mindset.

• https://vempio.de/podcast/ Podcast “DevOps from your ears straight to the brain” mostly in German language but with quite a few English episodes, too.
• Trainings in cooperation with DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association)
  • DASA DevOps Professional - Specify and Verify – DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) co-author
  • DASA DevOps Certification Program (devopsagileskills.org) as trainer
• Trainings with colleagues of vempio
  • English: DevOps Basics, Scaling DevOps, DevOps in Embedded Systems, DevOps Value Streams
  • German: DevOps Grundlagen, DevOps in der Praxis, Skalierung von DevOps, DevOps Wertströme
• First graduate and best of class in Engineering IT Master at University Magdeburg

Imtiaz is currently a trainer focused on Business Analyst and Project Management courses. He also mentors junior Business Analysts who are on the UK Business Analyst Apprentice scheme and speaks at conferences including Agile on the Beach and the IIBA Conference in South Africa in 2022. 

Imtiaz's proudest achievement has been supporting junior business analysts in their professional development, increasing their skills level, helping them to be more confident BA’s and achieving success in their career, including pay rises and promotions.