158. How to become an Authentic Leader

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.

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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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.

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! 

Tomasz Manugiewicz is the General Manager of Grand Parade Poland. An engineer at heart. A speaker by passion. He has delivered speeches at the largest European IT conferences, also as a keynote speaker. He has had presentations for brands such as Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Poland, Agile Tour London, Agile Central Europe, DevDays Europe, and many more.

He has been in the IT sector since 2006 . Tomasz worked as an Engineering Manager and, at the beginning of his path, when he was a Java developer Engineer, he helped to create the first Polish online banking systems. He also worked for international global corporations, including in the banking and ICT telecom sectors.

Tomasz is an Agile enthusiast and coach - conducted his first Agile Transformation in 2009. He is a co-author of the leadership book "The LiGHT BOOK2 - Leaders' insights for leaders based on true stories". At the AGH University of Technology, he is a lecturer, supporting young engineers on their way to the world of IT.

• Keynote Speaker at DevDays Europe 2022 conference

My proudest achievement is my daughter – Zosia

Besides that, I am proud that I had a chance to speak to 2500 + software engineers during Devoxx Poland conference.