Involving The Other Half of the Room

Do you often attend meetings or events where participation is only left to half the room while others sit quietly waiting for it to be over? Organizational habits across the globe have unintentionally implemented tactics that exclude people and are anti-collaborative. As a group, we will explore the use of liberating structures as an answer to this problem. Learn different ways to facilitate so that the outcome involves every mind in the room. Come prepared to participate in this interactive session.

Todd is a Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org and VP of the Agile Innovation Practice at Itero Group, LLC. He has practical experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer, and Agile coach on a variety of technical and creative projects across a multitude of industries. He presently coaches and trains enterprises and teams across the United States on the Scrum framework, enterprise Agile transformation, and professional software development. On the technical side, he has development experience mostly in the Microsoft .NET technology stack but considers himself a tinkerer with Java and Python.

Outside of work, Todd is an avid CrossFitter and holds his CrossFit Level 1 Trainer certification which he uses to train people at a local gym.

Refreshments will be sponsored by Teksystems.

Agenda:

6:30-7:00 Refreshments and networking
7:00-8:00 Presentation by Todd