43. How to build a culture of Agile Change

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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Holger has over 20 years of experience advising and managing Business and IT organisations, direct management of teams with over 30 resources, change implementations with over 23,000 affected end users, and multi-million £ programmes across multiple sectors, mainly in financial services.

He is a subject expert adviser in operational governance, strategy execution (change/portfolio management), business and IT alignment, operating models including programme/project management, PMO/EPO, financial management and SDLC/SAFe/Agile and cost reduction.

Holger has delivered successfully global transformation programmes in complex multinational organisations. He provides Thought Leadership for corporate portfolio management, e.g. his own capability maturity assessment model.

In addition Holger brings his experience to life through training and workshops focusing on Portfolio Management Lifecycle and Prioritisation.

He is an accomplished author whose articles include:

• Portfolio Management and the PMO - PMO Learning
• Why is Portfolio Prioritisation so important for the PMO? - PMO Learning
• “The Mystery of the Waterfall Methodology” | by Holger Heuss | The Pinch | Nov, 2021 | Medium

Holger enjoys his professional life tremendously, but his proudest achievement is to be a father to his daughter.

Farah is a Digital Project Manager & Agile change lead with 10 years of experience. She developed strong skills in project & product management, communication and teams empowerment in complex, fast-paced and multicultural environments. Knowledge sharing and training is Farah's passion. 

Since 2015, Farah has provided trainings in Project Management (Waterfall / Agile), I&T Governance and Design Thinking in France, Canada and Switzerland for people coming from different sectors: bank & insurance companies, NGOs, energy, consulting and IT companies, public services, railways, aviation, telecoms

Farah's proudest accomplishment is being confident enough to create her own company specialized in consulting and training (Project management, I&T Governance and Design Thinking) for young and senior professionals, along with being able to expand it to the North African region. 

David is highly engaged in projects as a practitioner, coach and mentor to project managers and project sponsors. His practical and controlled approach in difficult project situations has helped many project managers work through key project bottlenecks.

David's project experience has been built up over 30 years across a wide range of sectors including Finance, the public sector, utilities and healthcare. David has managed projects across EMEA and has an in-depth experience dealing with business change projects. High profile and highly time sensitive projects have been a focus of his career and he is acutely aware of the need for project manager to be expertly controlled communicators.

Proudest Achievements?

• David is very proud of the feedback that he gets from training and particularly proud from L&D team in Dublin City University that said it was the best training ever.
• David has also started to relearn Artificial Intelligence and machine learning after a 30-year absence, including completion of a scholarship program in it.

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!