Qualified Instructors

Scotty Bevill

Bevill Edge®
Bloomington/Normal, IL

Scotty is a speaker, certified coach and trainer whose focus is on business strategy and performance leaning, product development and project management agile adoption, as well as customer relationship management as it pertains to understanding the customer’s role in the product development process. With over 18 years of experience in supply-chain, IT and project management, in both commercial and government contracting, Scotty helps bridge the gap between business goals and objectives and quantitative technical needs. He has a passion for using serious games to solve real world problems, is an Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor and Trained Facilitator, and CEO and founder of Bevill Edge®, a PMI Registered Education Provider.

Thomas J. Bookhamer

Bookhamer LLC
New York, NY

Thomas is an Agile Principal Coach, Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor and Trained Facilitator. Hosting serious games, coaching on and offshore, and providing learning tools to achieve high levels of success is what drives him. {Effective Coaching} + {Serious Games} = “Winning Solutions”. Thomas has twenty plus years of experience bringing business stakeholders, technical teams, communities, and project sponsors together in collaboration around diverse solutions. This allows him to be very effective when combined with the added success of Innovation Games®.

Jonathan Clark

Jonathan Clark & Partners
Utrecht, Netherlands

Jonathan Clark teaches Innovation Games courses and designs and produces Innovation Games engagements across Western Europe as part of his work as an independent advisor on strategy and Innovation. Jonathan’s 20 years experience in technology and international publishing gives him deep understanding of running customer-centric businesses. He brings energy and enthusiasm into everything he does. Jonathan’s particular skill is to help people see things from new perspectives and to inspire them to make things happen.

Ant Clay

21apps
Coventry, UK

Ant Clay is Chief Strategy Officer at 21apps and is an Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor, Trained Facilitator and one of a new breed of ‘business technology consultants’. Working with clients to innovate and align technology investments to organizational outcomes whilst changing the way they work through the use of facilitation, visualization, Serious Games and organizational storytelling. Known to ask clients repeatedly “Why?” until they breakdown and admit “they just don’t know”. Ant consults, coaches and speaks on a range of topics including SharePoint, collaboration and innovation technology platforms, Governance, business aligned technology solutions and delivers a number of innovative training and workshop sessions.

Jesse Fewell

Excella Consulting
Washington, DC

Mr. Fewell is a writer, speaker, and trainer for Excella Consulting. A leader in the advancement of management practices, he is the founder of the PMI Agile Community of Practice, PMI’s component dedicated to Agile Project Management. Recently, he helped design the PMI-ACP agile certification program. In addition to speaking for Agile, Scrum, and PMI conferences, he has collected a broad array of experiences in several sectors such as National Security, Aerospace, GIS, Stock Multimedia, Telecom, and Hospitality. Currently, he is the Managing Director for offshore agile projects at RippleRock India. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and Innovation Games Qualified Instructor (IGQI).

Michael Gaines

Gaines Consulting
San Francisco, CA

Through facilitation and coaching, Michael Gaines helps clients address needs around innovation, strategy, change management, leadership and team development. He began his career as an instructor and business development manager at Outward Bound, where he delivered leadership development programs for such clients as Coca-Cola, Home Depot and Cox Enterprises. Michael has been a partner with St. Charles Consulting Group, as well as VP of Organizational Consulting with Right Management Consultants. He was also founder of Pacific Performance Alliance, an organization of independent consultants and Stanford University Engineering professors focused on developing high performing management teams. Michael’s operational experience comes from his first career as a Production Manager for Bill Cosby and Carsey Werner Productions and later for NBC Sports and Turner Broadcasting.

Luke Hohmann

The Innovation Games® Company
Mountain View, CA

Luke Hohmann is the founder and CEO of The Innovation Games® Company. The author of three books, Luke’s playfully diverse life experiences have uniquely prepared him to design and produce serious games. Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior.

AgileBill Krebs

Agile Dimensions

Park geek and part people person, AgileBill Krebs has worked as a developer, performance engineer at IBM, consulting firms, online education and in the Healthcare Industry. He’s used and taught Agile methods since 2001 to more than 1,000 engineers and managers worldwide. He’s presented at agile conferences and user groups since 2002.

Bill combines certifications and qualifications in Scrum, Myers-Briggs, Innovation Games® and Virtual Worlds to specialize in tools for distributed teams. He blogs for PMI Voices and founded the Distributed Agile Congress global user group. He also works to support the Virtual Ability community for people with disabilities.

Lowell Lindstrom

The Oobeya Group
Chicago, IL

Lowell Lindstrom is the founder of The Oobeya Group, a Chicago-area services company that helps organizations spread the successful use of lean/agile techniques to all teams and functional areas. He is among the early pioneers in Agile software development, having launched the industry’s first agile-focused service offerings while at Object Mentor in 1999. He is a three-time Chair of the Agile Alliance conference (Agile 20xx), co-founder of the Agile Project Leadership Network and past Managing Director of the Scrum Alliance. Lowell has been leading the development of software products for over 25 years having held diverse roles from software developer to Product Manager to Sales Manager. Lowell earned a BSCS and MM from Northwestern University.

Michael Sahota

Agilitrix
Toronto, Canada

Michael Sahota is very serious about getting astonishing business results through play. Effective games, simulations and facilitated exercises create a space where we can unleash our creativity and enjoy the safety provided by the play frame. As a coach, trainer and facilitator working in Toronto, Canada, Michael loves to share the benefits of Innovation Games® as well as StrategicPlay® with Lego® SERIOUS PLAY® and other games on TastyCupcakes.org. His dream is of creating companies that people find more rewarding.

Jason Tanner

Enthiosys
Research Triangle, NC

Jason Tanner is the president of Enthiosys, an agile product management consulting firm. He joined Enthiosys in 2008 and has 18+ years of professional experience with software companies, a telecommunications company and the Marine Corps. His expertise spans agile software product management, product marketing, business planning, partner management, project management and leadership. Jason is an active member of the Agile User Group in Research Triangle Park, the Triangle Product Management Association in Raleigh, NC and the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development. He holds a BS degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from Cornell University and a MBA with a concentration in entrepreneurship from Duke University.

Maarten Volders

AGILEMinds
Belgium

Maarten Volders is an experienced trainer, coach, entrepeneur, innovator, blogger and futurist with a deep understanding of systems thinking, organizational learning, agile (lean, kanban, scrum, xp), serious games, business model innovation, product and service management. He’s also the founder of AGILEMinds.

Andrew Woodward

21apps
Shrewsbury, UK

Andrew Woodward is a developer by heart, with a wealth of experience in mentoring and leading agile teams. He has taken this learning and experience and expanded it with emergent thinking, dialog mapping, and serious games enabling him to really help organizations understand the rationale behind decisions and ask the tough question ‘Why’ and how to measure the benefit. Through his enthusiasm and application Andrew has promoted innovative techniques to the SharePoint community and has been awarded Microsoft MVP award for his community contributions. He is also founder of 21apps.