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Innovation Games® Trained Facilitators

The Innovation Games Company has trained some of world’s best facilitators, market researchers and Agile product experts how to plan, facilitate, and post-process the results of Innovation Games®. These facilitators can help you in any and all of these phases of the games, design custom experiences for your team, and can guide you through your Innovation Games® project.

Click on the facilitator links to learn more about their experience. We’re happy to make a personal introduction. For fun, you can check out some of the photos of the facilitators in action at the end of this message.

Facilitators Organization Articles/Writings about Innovation Games
Marit Abrahamsen CCP Games
Luis Aburto Scio
Shauna Acker SolutionsIQ
Sandy Adam
Noel Adams Clearworks
Lyssa Adkins Coach of Agile Coaches Lyssa wrote about her experience with the games here.
Khurram Ahmad ISOE
Fabrice Aimetti Fabrice’s Personal Website For the Francophiles, check out Fabrice’s retrospective on the Innovation Games class he took in Paris.
Robert Allen One Step at a Time Agile One Step At a Time Agile
Daniel Alm Praemoneo
Igor Altman OpenView Venture Partners Igor expounds on Innovation Games usefulness for product teams in this post.
Vince Alvarez Independent Purchasing Cooperative
Dísa Anderiman Sprettur Marimo
Monique Anderson VSP
Robert Anderson Adobe
Chika Ando
Markus Andrezak Mobile.International
Skip Angel BigVisible
Dan Arkind Job Score
Elaine Astilleros
Janice Aston TransCanada
Alan Atlas Scanbuy, Inc.
Anne Bakstad Clearworks
Elizabeth Baidoo VSP
Richard Barrett Creative Sharepoint
Brent Barton Sterling Barton – Agile Consulting Sterling Barton hosted a session on Buy a Feature at Agile Open NW 2010.
Tarang Baxi Thoughtworks
Tina Bean Visistat
Joseph Beckenbach Beckenback and Associates, LLC
Elís I. Benediktsson Landsbankinn, The National Bank of Iceland
Jenn Bennett Cisco
Jennifer Berkley Insight Advantage
Daniel Berne Design4Brand
Scotty Bevill Bevill Edge Consulting Check out the video Bevill Edge created for Knowsy.
Hörður Birgisson Betware
Sigurður Bjarnason Islandsbanki
Eymundur Björnsson Islandsbanki
Alla Block Thoughtworks
Thomas Bookhamer Bookhamer, LLC
Robin Borough Omnikron Systems
Mario Botelho Virtue, Inc.
Alexandre Boutin Agile to You Alexandre writes about his awesome experiencein our Paris Master Class.
Russ Boyte VSP
Brian Bozzuto BigVisible Brian details his experience with Innovation Games and Collaborative Play in this recent post.
Karen Brady Cisco
Jeff Brand Cisco
Jeff Brantley Enthiosys
Dennis Britton Agile Quality Consulting
Stacia Broderick Agile Evolution
Mary Brodie Gearmark and Quickoffice
Denise Brosseau Well-Connected Leader
Roger Brown Moonrise Consulting
Rowan Bunning Scrum with Style
Scott Burleson Strategyn, Inc.
Alan Bustamante Seapine Software
Steve Calde Cooper
Laura Caldie Richardson The Innovation Games® Company
Bob Camel Avaya
Tami Cardenas
Jennifer Lee Carlson Cisco
David Carter Roche Pharmaceuticals
Tami Carter The Innovation Games® Company
Julie Chickering Rally Software
David Chilcott Outformations
Achala Chwodhari HP
Rod Claar Effective Agile Development LLC
Jonathan Clark Jonathan Clark & Partners
Chris Clark Creative Sharepoint
Ant Clay 21apps Ant writes about his experience with Innovation Games at at LocalGovCamp in the UK.
Jenna Cline Cisco
Corry Clybouw AGFA Healthcare
Greg Cohen 280 Group
Susan Cook
Deb Colden Deb Colden Executive Coaching
Daniel Coldicott Creative Sharepoint
Jens Coldewey IT-Agile
Ken Collier KWC Technologies Inc.
Crawford Comeaux Fibercorps
Jay Conne Jay Conne Consulting
Diana Connolly Aera Energy
Alan Cooper Cooper
Crystal Cortez Visistat
Mark Cosby Avaya
Romain Couturier Exakis
Barry Cowen Cisco
Serge Craeghs A.C.A IT solutions
Bill Crandall Clarify LLC
Pamela Creason Green Axle
Mark Crowe VersionOne
Paul Culling VersionOne
Adam Dale Creative Sharepoint
Tanya Daniel VSP
Raj Datta Datta & Associates
Manish Dave Cisco
Oswald de Riemaecker Advanced Biological Laboratories
Jurgen De Smet AGILEMinds
Michael DeCleene Thoughtworks
Sandra de Gelder Elsevier
Mike DePaoli VersionOne
Wouter Dewanckel TenForce
Steven Diebold www.stevendiebold.com
Susan DiFabio Independent Consulting
Henry Dixon
Steve Dodds
Eric Donkers Cisco
Eileen Doyle
Angelika Drach Angelika Drach’s Website
Darci Dutcher
Frédéric Dufau-Joel Samse
Paul Dunay Networked Insights Paul Dunay wrote in his blog Buzz Marketing for Technology about his experience in the class and how he believes Innovation Games can be used to solve real world marketing problems.
Mike Dunham Scio
Pat Duran Pat Duran Consulting
Pam Dyer SolutionsIQ
Robin Dymond Innovel, LLC
James Eccles Creative Sharepoint
Eva Einarsdóttir Islandsbanki
Josh Ellis VSP
Sheryl Ehrlich Adobe
Adrian England Creative Sharepoint
Carl Erickson Atomic Object LLC
Charlotte Ersmarker Axis Communications
Lisa Michelle Eugene
Nir Eyal
Julia Feng
Jesse Fewell Moving Beyond Management Jesse writes about his experience in the “most awesomest, super-cool, rock-my-world training class on collaborative problem-solving” (ahem! that would be Innovation Games!) here.
Nikita Filippov SrumTrek
Christoph Fixl AGFA Healthcare
Bill Fleck San Diego Shade
Myla Ford Aera Energy
Cory Foy Cory Foy LLC.
Ken France ATSC
Julia Francis SolutionsIQ
Greg Frazer
Sudhir Frederick Thoughtworks
Kelly Freitas VSP
Julia French Avaya
Mike Frier
Nancy Frishberg MSB Associates
Ryan Fullmer Thoughtworks
Mei Lin Fung Institute for Service Organization Excellence
Michael Gaines Yahoo!
Lisa Michelle Galley Galley Eco Capital
Pedro Galván Software Guru
Svava Garðarsdóttir Teris
Israel Gat The Agile Executive Israel writes about the “mojo” of Innovation Games here.
Brian Gegan VSP
Eric Geipel VSP
Remy Genin
Yann Gensollen Agile Partners
Preeti Gholap Nilitopi Consultancy
Scott Gilbert Enthiosys Inc.
Brian Glover Accept
James Glueck Milestone Technologies, Inc.
Francine Gordon F Gordon Group
Cef Gonzalez
Ellen Gottesdiener EBG Consulting
Bill Gough
Fred Gouwerok WPG Uitgevers
Sasha Grinshpun
Guðmundur Gauti Guðmundsson Betware
Ernest Guzman City of San Jose, CA
Andrew Graves
Peter Greberg TAT, The Atonising Tribe
Peter Green Adobe Systems
Vanessa Greenlee VSP
Domingo Guerra Owner, Markcom International MEXICO
Jessica Guglielmino VSP
Mayank Gupta Global Logic Inc.
Laura Haggerty Alcatel-Lucent
Lane Halley LiquidNet Lane Halley, a former lead designer at Cooper Design writes about why she asked me to teach a two-day class at cooper and her experience of taking the class and using the games in her consulting.
Kaliya Hamlin Independent Researcher
Ulf Hannelius Aneega AB
Kip Harkness City of San Jose
Bob Hartman Agile For All
Matthew Hately Macadamian
Mary Hausladen Consultant at Grameen Foundation
John Heintz Gist Labs
Julie Heiser Adobe
Paul Henderson Clarify LLC.
Chet Hendrickson Hendrickson XP
Húni Hinrichsen CCP Games
Helen Hobson
Jim Holland Principal Consultant, Mission Creek Partners Jim wrote about his experience with Innovation Games here.
Steve Holt VSP
Stefan Huber IT-Agile
Teicko Huber Focus to Grow Teicko Huber, owner of Focus to Grow writes about how Innovation Games can help small business owners conquer new marketshere.
Stephan Huez Bull
Julie Hughes VSP
Cesar Idrovo CesarIdrovo.com
Martin Ingemar Persson Martin tweeted and posted pictures about how much he loved the Innovation Games class at OreDev 2010here
Daði Ingólfsson Sprettur Marimo
Mark Interrante Rackspace
Zubin Irani cPrime
Darrell Ireland Creative Sharepoint
Scott Jacobs Harvest Consulting LLC.
Sharon Jacobson VSP
Jean-François Jagodzinski Agile Essence
Emil Jandourek
Ola Janson Kollaboratoriet
Kara Jariwala HP
Mikko Jarvilehto
Brent Jensen BestBrains
Kasper Jensen TeliaSonera
Joan Jerome-Conne Five Star Quality Care
Pooja Jhunjhunwala Ajoop Media
Billy Johal Creative Sharepoint
Carl-Otto Johansson MBT
Hlynur Johnsen Betware
Eliel Johnson Charles Schwab
Angie Jones VSP
Nanna Jónsdóttir Islandsbanki
Jim Judge Cambridge Consultants Jim Judge writes about how Innovation Games can help you find your “Innovator’s Edge” here.
Oana Juncu SFEIR Groupe
Tim Kadom Thoughtworks & Skiptree
Reena Kapoor Conifer Consulting
Johan Karlberg JayWay
Robin Karol Innovation Guides
Tom Kealey Volvo IT & Softhouse
Clinton Keith Clinton Keith Consulting Clinton blogs about his experience in our Innovation Games class and details how the games can be used in agile game development.
John N. Kelly
Gerry Kirk Agile Change Agent Gerry wrote about his experience with the San Jose Budget Games here.
Russell Kirk Grey Convergence
Yvonne Kish
Christine Kohl-Zaugg BluBubble
David Koontz
Aaron Kopel
Jonathan Korman Cisco
Jens Korte Syndato
Doreen Kostel Pro-Telligent
Alek Kozlov Devtraining OÜ
Ed Kraay Thoughtworks
AgileBill Krebs Agile Dimensions LLC.
Mara Krieps Pivotal Product Management
Navneet Kumar Global Logic Inc.
Shyam Kumar
Agnes Labbe People in action
Mitch Lacey Mitch Lacey & Associates
Kelly Lambing Independent Researcher
Sebastian Lang AGFA Healthcare
Ellen Lapham
Diana Larsen FutureWorks Consulting
Philippe Launay AGFA Healthcare
Charlotte Layland VSP
Michael Lee Cisco
Grant Leibbrandt
Shari Levin
Brian Levy LeanDog
Robert Lewkovich
Wee Yen Lim
Lowell Lindstrom Oobeya Group Lowell’s tweet just after his class.
Steven “Doc” List Neudesic
Yifan Lu VSP
Deborah Ludewig DJL Corporate Law
Minh Ly Creative Sharepoint
Salim Madjd
Patricia Mandarino Thoughtworks
Mike Mangelson VSP
Koen Mannaerts Delaware Consulting
Paul Mantey NetApp
Femke Markus Spring Associates
Maria Matarelli Bevill Edge Consulting Check out the video
John Matthesen Related Concepts
Harry Max
Tobias Mayer Agile Thinking
Rachel McBrearty Cisco
Andrea McCabe Andrea McCabe
John McCabe
Brett McCallon Charles Schwab
Elizabeth McClellan
Tim McCollum Cisco
Cindy McCown
Tim McCoy Cooper
Mark McGregor Bloor Research
Alan McKellar HP
Jeff McKenna Serena Software eff McKenna, Chief Agile Evangelist, Serena Software, writes about his experience taking our two-day class on Innovation Games here.
Nancy McKereghan ResultWorks
Sharon Meaney Cisco
Armond Mehrabian Agile Management Consultant and Coach
Stijn Menue Euricom
Linda Merrick Pivotal Product Management
Stani Meredith Games for Democracy
Greg Meredith Games for Democracy
Gilles Mergoil Neoxia
Lupi Messenger Thoughtworks
Aaron Miller Visistat
Jennifer Milligan VSP
Judith Mills CDC Software
Michael J. Miracle
Aarti Mittal Cisco
Adam Monago Thoughtworks
Phil Montgomery Consultant Phil Montgomery, a celebrated product strategy, marketing, and product management professional, writes about his experiences with the games at here.
Paula Moore
Petri Morko Invicor Ltd
Valerie Morris SolutionsIQ
Gerhard Müller TNG Technology Consulting
Lisa Mullinaux HP
Sondra Munson VSP
Rob Myers Agile Institute and Agile Cooperative
Cuan Mulligan Betfair Cuan Mulligan writes about his experience in the Innovation Games Practitioner class here.
Carlton Nettleton Look Forward Consulting
Daniel Neumann NeuManagement, LLC
Todd Napier Principal, Penway Consulting Group LLC
Dr. Oliver Nickel
Jean M Nitchals
Anne Nock
Andie Nordgren CCP Games
Anna Nordström
Kevin O’Connell Cisco
Þórir Ólafsson Islandsbanki
Lauren Olson NBC
Jackie Omotalade School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Emilio Osorio CEO, Sistemas Humanos
Aðalsteinn “Alli” Óttarsson CCP Games
David Palmer VSP
Joel Palmer Games for Democracy
Margrét Pálsdóttir Islandsbanki
Dhaval Panchal SolutionsIQ
Birgit Panzram ScrumCenter
Jingoo Park Nahsun Insight, Inc.
Lynden Pater Creative Sharepoint
Justin Paterno Stock Twits®
Pat Patterson Avaya
Jeff Patton Agile Product Design
Ryan Peel Hastings Mutual Insurance Company
Matt Perez Nearsoft
Ludovic Perot PIA, People in Action
Ulf Persson Spelkultur
Lisa Peterson School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Sallee Peterson Sallee Peterson Consulting
Tom Peterson
Mickey Phoenix SolutionsIQ
Giovanna Pico Markcom International MEXICO
Michal Pisarek Habanero Consulting
Laura Powers Agile Learning Labs
Edward Pratt
Elif Pratt ThoughtWorks
Jonathan Propp Red House
Ken Pugh Net Objectives
David Putnam Stock Twits®
Brian Rabon Brain Trust Consulting Group
Margrét Dóra Ragnarsdóttir Siminn
Susanna Rahkamo
Lisa Raineri
Darian Rashid Agile Ethos
Anu Ramaswamy Empatica Systems Anu details how Innovation Games can help you decide “what” to build in this blog post.
Anders Ramsay ThoughtWorks
Pavani Reddy Lexis Nexis
Eike Reinel TNG Technology Consulting
Victor Reyes
Van Riper
Marc Robberecht AGFA Healthcare
Andi Roberts Andi Roberts, Facilitator, Coach, Trainer
Simon Roberts
Patricia Roller
Arne Roock IT-Agile
Stefan Roock IT-Agile
Ray Ross Memory Lane (formerly Classmates.com)
Joseph Rossi VSP
Joe Rossano E-gineering
William Rowden SolutionsIQ
Michael Rozenberg Softhouse
Kenny Rubin Innolution
Diane Rudrow
Pétur Orri Sæmundsen Sprettur Marimo
Ágúst Sæmundsson Landsbankinn, The National Bank of Iceland
Leon Sabarsky BCBSNC
Michael Sahota Agilitrix Check out Michael Sahota’s video about his experience doing Product Box in the Innovation Games Master Classhere.
Anders Samuelson TeliaSonera
Alex Sanchez Logicstudio
Mike Sanchez Cisco
Marvin Sanders Logitech
Bob Sarni
Stephen Sato Sato & Partners
Johnny Scarborough Global Logic Inc.
Joseph Scherer IT-Agile
Amy Schneeberger Avaya
Eric Schoenfeld ThoughtWorks
Brett Schuchert Object Mentor
Cassandra Seelemeijer Cassandra Seelemeijer
Joshua Seiden
Alan Shalloway Net Objectives
Dhiraj Sharda Yahoo!
Debby Shepard Cisco
Doug Shimp Consultant, CST Doug Shimp, a noted Agile/Scrum Coach and Trainer, writes about his experience taking our two-day class on Innovation Gameshere.
David Sheriff
Petar Shomov Sprettur Marimo
Amy Shriber
Marion Sievers Lexis Nexis
Andrea Simon Simon Associates Management Consultants
Andrew Simon Simon Associates Management Consultants
Chris Sims Agile Learning Labs
Anders Sixtensson Softhouse
Mattias Skarin Crisp
Michele Sliger Sliger Consulting
Don Smith VSP
Steve Smith Avaya
Sheila Sokol Eagle Applied Sciences
Nello Spiteri BrightSparks Innovation
Terri Spratt NavTeq
Margeir St. Ingólfsson Hugsmidjan
Bryan Stallings SolutionsIQ
Kevin Steffensen Overstock.com
Linda Stegeman
Ásta Lilja Steinsdóttir Islandsbanki
Robert Stephenson
Chris Sterling Sterling Barton – Agile Consulting Sterling Barton hosted a session on Buy a Feature at Agile Open NW 2010.
Joe Sterne Innovation Games Joe loved the tools so much he decided to work for us!
Åsa Stridsman Astra Zeneca
Seema Sud Yahoo!
Tamara Sulaiman Applied Scrum
Kristin Sulpizio
Ola Sundin Softhouse
Per Sunesson Ayond AB
Mark Svorinic Guru Associates
Bradley Swanson
Ravi Tadwalkar Cisco
Wako Takayama
Susan Takalo
Erik Talboom AGILEMinds
Angeline YY Tan Agilemeister and Gang
Perry Tancredi Product Management Entrepreneur
Manu Tandon Thoughtworks
Jason Tanner President, Enthiosys Inc.
Michael Tardiff SolutionsIQ
Michael Tarnowski Plays-In-Business.com
Jesper Thaning BestBrains
Tom Thayer
Debi Thomas Debi Thomas Online
Gaylyn Thompson Aera Energy
Sean Tierney Grid7 Sean Tierney writes about how Innovation Games helps you identify “What you don’t know you don’t know”.
Doreen Tim IT-Agile
Niels Tindbaek Enfatico
Vanessa Toy Ernst & Julio Gallo
Thierry Trepied SFEIR Groupe Thiery posted this picture of the Innovation Games class in progress.
Felix Tsai
John Christopher Turner Thoughtworks
Nathalie Udo Projectway
Scott Underwood
Stijn Van den Enden A.C.A IT solutions
Edwin van der Geest Incentro
Duran Van der Westhuizen Rackspace
Wim Van Hoye Euricom
Frederic Vandaele TRASYS
Jacqueline Vanover Donovan Data Services (DDS)
Bob Vincent VersionOne
Mike Vizdos Consultant, CST
Maarten Volders AGILEMinds
Ngoc Diem (Tiffany) Vu Cisco
Derek Wade Consultant, CSM, CSP
TR Waldron
Raj Wall Metanalogy Raj Wall, owner of Metanalogy,writes about using the Innovation Game Remember the Future to help a client develop requirements for a system here. Raj also writes about his experience in taking theclass.
Mark Waterhouse NetApp
Marcel Wegermann IT-Agile
Richard Westman
Dina Whelan Rally Software
Angela Wick
Cristoffer Wiker 6ton creative
Megann Willson Panoptika
Steve Willson Panoptika
Lisa Winters
Paul Witkay Alliance of CEOs
Marcus Wittwer oose Innovative Informatik
Henning Wolf IT-Agile
Tony Wolf Rackspace
Jenny Wong ThoughtWorks
Andrew Woodward 21apps
Dana Wright http://www.take-action.com/
Monica Yapp SolutionsIQ
Elena Yatzeck Thoughtworks Read about Elena’s experience with
Innovation Games and why you should try them here.
Jim York FoxHedge Ltd.
Jeff Yuille HP
Sharon Young Zynx Health Incorporated
Facilitators: Innovation Games® for Agile Teams Organization Articles/writings about Innovation Games®
Vince Alvarez Independent Purchasing Cooperative
Wayne Barker El Paso Corp.
Scott Burleson Strategyn Inc.
Alan Bustamante Seapine Software Alan writes about “Facilitating Product Development through Innovation Games – Part One” here. Part 2 of the blog post is here. And finally, you can find the Seapine Agile Expedition – “Are We There Yet? Doneness Criteria” eBook here.
Bryan Campbell BMC Software Inc.
Ceferino Gonzalez
Dera Gray
Robbie Mac Iver Mac Iver Group
Craig McCrary
Yogesh Parmar BMC Software Inc.
Regina Twine
Ayanna VanSluytman AVS Marketing Consultants

Jeff Patton and Luke Hohmann discuss some of the finer points of leveraging Innovation Games in Agile projects:
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Alan Cooper and Luke Hohmann review how Innovation Games can be leveraged in the design process:
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Jeff McKenna presents his “product box” to fellow facilitators:
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Johnny Scarborough demonstrates great Observer focus:
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