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Johannesbourg, South Africa

Specialising in building digital age capabilities in organisations using an innovation and business agility method called ADapT. Johann’s focus is practical skills development, using workshops, training, coaching, and consulting to enable people to transform organisations. He helps organisations solve problems, grow people, facilitate difficult change, dream, scheme, and most importantly do. 

He is one of the lead authors of VeriSM™ Unwrapped and Applied and the architect of Agile ADapT™ - was also involved in  the development of COBIT5, ASM, ISO20000 and ISO38500. Awarded itSMF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. Selected as top 25 Thought Leaders by HDI in 2021. Seleceted at Top 25 Thought Leaders in Agile and in Customer Experience by Thinkers 360 in 2021.

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Waseem serves Tecknologia and their clients to achieve their strategic objectives through his leadership, management and excellent training delivery skills. 

Waseem is proud to hold Accredited trainer and consultant status for the following APMG-International qualifications:

• Agile Project Management
• Agile Programme Management
• APMG Change Management
• Agile Change Agent

In addition, Waseem also holds qualifications in a range of certifications including PMP, MSP, PRINCE2 Agile, PRINCE2, Business Continuity.

His proudest achievement is continuing to serve the professionals in-need across the globe with free trainings, coaching and guidance, using the Tecknologia platform.

Malini is a highly experienced Business Relationship Manager who specialises in nurturing high-performing BRMs and teams. She is regularly invited to deliver keynotes and presentations at professional and academic forums in Australia, USA, UK and India. Her personal BRM story titled 'Walk Fast, Walk Far' has been described as "the most impactful presentation" at BRMConnect 2017, Sydney. In her spare time she writes about food, culture and relationships.

Malini facilitates APMG accredited Business Relationship Management certification courses through ITSM Hub.  

• Featured in the BRM Institute’s global list of Top Business Relationship Managers in 2019 and 2020
• 5 Global Excellence Awards, BRM Institute
• Service Excellence Award, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria Australia

Malini has written Begin the day with a tomato - Creating connection and belonging within a team and one of her proudest achievements in recent times has been supporting her team to achieve six Hall of Fame inductions in 2021! 

Julian is the Director of Training in Project Management for Thought Nation, providing training in AgilePM and Praxis Framework certifications. Julian is a PM generalist who has worked in many different industries from utilities to mining to local government to large IT service delivery corporates. In the last 5 years Julian has been focusing on certification training for project management practitioners from fundamentals to mid-level to senior project management professionals.  

• PMP – Since 2005
• AgilePM – Practitioner and Trainer
• Praxis Framework – Practitioner and Trainer

Julian's proudest achievement is working on the reconstruction of 88 villages, 6 schools and 2 bridges in Northern Iraq after the 1st Gulf War, achieved in just 18 months.

Although partly retired, Adrian is Head of Governance and Trustee of MyMelanoma, a new cancer research organisation. He is author of various works, notably the book Agile Beyond IT, adviser, coach, visiting lecturer and writer on organisational and project management agility.

Adrian is a 35 year project professional in 11 commercial industries and the public sector, in the UK and abroad.

Now a Fellow of the Association of Project Management, he has been an active member since the early ‘90s, especially in programme, portfolio and stakeholder management, governance, agility and a diversity champion.

• Fellow of the Association of Project Management
• Author of Agile Beyond IT and Agile Beyond IT LinkedIn newsletter
• Co-author of the Gower Handbook of programme management management (1st Edition)
• Co-author of APM Guides on Directing Agile Change and Agile assurance
• Lead author for programme management for APM BoK7
• Contributor to UK government standards for programme and portfolio management and PMOs. 

Adrian's proudest achievement is publishing Agile Beyond IT which brings together over a decade of research, 35 years of experience and learning by himself and others into the adaptation of agility to the project profession as a whole.