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.

Maxime Bonnet

Objet Direct
Lyon Area, France

Maxime is a Scrum master, Scrum instructor and agile coach working for Objet Direct. He has worked in the IT industry for almost fourteen years, mainly in object oriented architectures and Web applications. Starting as a project leader, he discovered Agile Unified Process and quickly been interested in the agile movement. Maxime is really interested in helping people to get the best out of their work; he uses gamestorming as a powerful tool in various project phases.

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

Soulsailor Consulting Ltd
Coventry, UK

Ant Clay is the Director at Soulsailor Consulting Ltd. 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.

Deb Colden

Deb Colden Executive Coaching
Sunnyvale, CA

Deb Colden is an independent strategy consultant and executive coach and a veteran of the high tech industry with extensive experience in management and cross-organizational leadership roles. Described by clients a “high-energy, thought-provoking, actionable and empowering,” Deb specializes in helping leaders and teams achieve aggressive goals in less time and with greater focus. She is known for her pragmatic, business and customer-focused approach and frequently uses Innovation Games® with her own clients.

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).

Cory Foy

8th Light
Tampa, FL

Cory is a passionate software developer and technical leader with over 15 years of experience managing and leading software teams around the globe. Cory has been most active as a member of the agile software community where he has been involved with Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban and Software Craftsmanship, and has spent many years transitioning organizations to think differently about their work through Lean and Agile principles. In addition to his work in the agile community, Cory worked for Microsoft as a Senior PFE helping some of Microsoft’s largest customers in the US and Europe. He is also a frequent conference speaker, having presented at conferences such as Agile 20xx, XP2010, SCNA, TechReady, MIX and many others. He is also involved in the local community helping start or run many user groups, and has spent many years incorporating Innovation Games into clients and teams.Cory resides just north of Tampa, FL with his wife and two beautiful girls. In his spare time, Cory is a musician and enjoys fresh and saltwater fishing.

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.

Ulf Hannelius

Aneega AB
Stockholm, Sweden

Ulf Hannelius is the founder and CEO of Aneega AB, a market research and strategy consultancy based in Stockholm, Sweden. Before starting his consultancy, Ulf spent 10+ years in academia doing research and coordination within the fields of molecular biology, human genetics and cancer. He is a strong believer in the power of perspectives and how rigorous analytics can be combined with engaging serious games to help organization realize the full potential of complex organizational change, product and service development initiatives. Ulf has a PhD in molecular biology from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and an Executive MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is an Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor and a certified Scrum Master.

Bob Hartman

Agile for All Denver/Centennial, CO

Bob Hartman, known as “Agile Bob” is President of Agile For All, LLC. He brings over 30 years of experience developing software to every client engagement. He is one of small number of people to be certified by the Scrum Alliance as both a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) as well as being recognized by Mike Cohn as a Mountain Goat Software Authorized Trainer. In other words, he knows how to get the job done in an agile way, and he is also able to help others do it well. His experience in the software industry spans nearly every role including tester, developer, product manager, project manager, director and vice president. This experience allows him to approach every problem holistically which is part of why he loves Innovation Games! Read his blog at www.agilebob.com or see him at one of his many speaking engagements or public classes.

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.

Teicko Huber

Focus to Grow
Minneapolis, MN

Teicko Huber is the founder and CEO of Focus to Grow, a demand generation agency in Minneapolis, MN. As an Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor, Teicko focuses on teaching others in the sales process engineering and marketing automation community how to leverage Innovation Games to maximize the value they bring to their customers. Focus to Grow specializes in increasing sales velocity by helping their clients achieve success with inbound marketing, sales 2.o and cutting-edge market research.

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.

Mark McGregor

MWD Advisors
Birmingham, UK

Mark is a speaker, Certified Coach, NLP Master Practitioner and trainer, who believes in helping people become the best that they can be. He achieves this through a variety of speaking and training programs, all designed to help you “think differently” Mark has shared with audiences around the globe to critical acclaim and trained thousands of professionals. With numerous published books and papers Mark is a sought after coach, facilitator and workshop leader. He has worked in sales, marketing and product management and so brings great breadth and depth to his clients. His belief is that through Innovation Games clients can unleash the hidden potential in people and work smarter in an ever-competitive world. Currently he serves as a Principal Analyst with MWD Advisors, a European based advisory firm, where he researches and reports on process improvement and organizational change.

Cesario Ramos

Agilix
Netherlands

Cesario Ramos is the founder of AgiliX Agile Consulting, where he works as a Agile coach and Professional Scrum Trainer. He enjoys helping people improve their ways of managing and developing software products. He is a frequent speaker and writer on agile topics at conferences and meetups and the initiator of the Bathtub conferences where people can share and learn together online and free on Scrum, Agile and Lean thinking. Cesario has more then 12 years of experience in the IT industry, acting in roles varying from agile coach and trainer to lead architect and product manager. His coaching and training experiences on Product ownership, Scrum en Leadership with his solid background on development enable Cesario to combine theory with hands-on experience and examples in his trainings. You can read more about Cesario Ramos at www.agilix.nl.

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.

Steve Sato

Sato+Partners
Camas, WA

Steve is the founder of Sato+Partners, a management consulting and organization development firm specialized enabling design and innovation groups to be more effective and efficient. Steve works with executives, directors and their teams to build design and innovation capability though project-related learning–so clients produce business results while building new capability. Previously, Steve was in Hewlett-Packard’s Corporate Design group and led a team responsible for building experience design capability across the company. Steve was formerly at Doblin Group and Accenture.

He has a Masters in Design from the Institute of Design at IIT, Masters of Engineering Management from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Illinois. See www.satopartners.com for further details.

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.

Derek Wade

Kumido Adaptive Strategies
Chicago, IL

Derek W. Wade is a collaboration expert and team coach at Kumido Adaptive Strategies. His passion for helping teams apply group-centered models — and his 14 years of experience across a broad range of industries — have enabled him to improve many group efforts, especially those leveraging distributed teams. Derek is the author of Multidimensional Management: Avoiding Calcification or Fragmentation on Distributed Teams (with J. Puopolo) and Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture (with Scott Barnes).

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.