Business Agility Meetup Berlin

Thoralf's PA suggested the following abstract:
Agile Coaches “no longer exist”? Good. The Agile Manifesto never asked for role titles—it asked for people who do the work and help others do it. This talk explores why the old coaching identity is fading and what replaces it: outcome-makers, capability growers, and organizational gardeners who improve flow without ceremony. We’ll look at how to stay relevant when job labels evaporate, how to create pull instead of push, and how to amplify agility where it matters: in the work, with real teams, every day.

About our speaker:

Marcelo Lopez
Leadership through service. Something I've practiced throughout my careers is to help mentor and encourage new engineers. A goal of any leader should be to help develop the leaders of tomorrow.

A colleague and friend of mine used the following in his emails, and I find it so true, I use it as well to this day, "Those who will not risk, cannot win." - John Paul Jones

Try. Assess. Learn. Adapt.

Specialties: Thinking of solutions outside the norm. Having been exposed to various industries and organizations from within ( internal employee ) and without ( as a contractor ), you gather tools to solve problems for one circumstance, from another. Applying them, is a skill I've tried to hone.

About our hosts:

Gregory Keegan
I am Enterprise Agile Coach with 16+ years of experience supporting agile transformations, leadership development, and cultural change across sectors like FinTech, MedTech, and public institutions. I’ve worked with organizations like the European Central Bank, Siemens, and Sanofi to foster business agility and build high-performing teams. My work blends agile expertise (Scrum, LeSS, Business Agility) with a growing focus on AI integration—thanks to a recent “AI for Business” certification. I’m passionate about helping organizations become agile and intelligently adaptive in a changing world.

Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German. Reach out for speakerships.

Move beyond to-do lists and dashboards — and start using AI to think, synthesize, and prioritize like a high-leverage PM.

About our speaker:

Rich Theil is an experienced product and technology leader based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently the Founder of Product Forge, a company dedicated to helping product organizations understand customer needs and accelerate product execution. Since December 2023, he has focused on providing tools that enhance product strategy and collaboration.

Prior to this, he founded Agile+AI in June 2023, where he assists Agile professionals in transitioning to AI-enabled methodologies, aiming to reduce the time to working software by 50%.

From February 2018 to January 2024, Rich served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Noble Foundry, where he specialized in building scaled Agile organizations and improving collaboration to exceed business goals.

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Gregory Keegan
I am Enterprise Agile Coach with 16+ years of experience supporting agile transformations, leadership development, and cultural change across sectors like FinTech, MedTech, and public institutions. I’ve worked with organizations like the European Central Bank, Siemens, and Sanofi to foster business agility and build high-performing teams. My work blends agile expertise (Scrum, LeSS, Business Agility) with a growing focus on AI integration—thanks to a recent “AI for Business” and ICA-FAI certifications. I’m passionate about helping organizations become agile and intelligently adaptive in a changing world.

// updated to 22 Jan 2026, due to availability

Dhaval will cover "Adopting the Product Operating Model", exploring what this wholesale shift means for organizations and the impact on technology. He will go deeper into the importance of customer centricity, why communicating strategy is essential, and how engineers and teams can play a key role in contributing to higher levels of business performance.

About our speaker:

Dhaval Shah
Dhaval is a Partner at Adaptavis, a business performance and transformation consultancy. With nearly two decades of experience, Dhaval advises and works with leadership teams to create the organisations of a future, with a strong focus on sustainable growth, driven by strategy, and aligning the organisation to enable the fast flow of value. His background spans multiple industries, with a variety of roles in banking, retail, EV, pharmaceuticals, and insurance.

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Thoralf J Klatt
Thoralf serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German. Reach out for speakerships

Liquidity is fast becoming a new source of advantage. To stay in flow with opportunity, strategy must become generative - able to sense and shape in motion. Digital capabilities now track strategic fitness in real time. They help organizations extend control while staying balanced on strategy when facing tension and surprise. Hierarchies are stifling. Role- and responsibility-based structures must give way to more liquid ways of working. Organizations are moving from physical to virtual. This changes everything: how we think, how we organize work, and how we approach strategy. It’s the start of a new organizational paradigm - driven by accelerating change and digital capabilities. In a time where most leaders focus on AI driven automation and augmentation this causes confusion too. Without the pull from a liquid operating model, you cannot fully release the catalytic power of AI. A catch-22 that still traps many. We focus on questions, not just solutions. We explore patterns and pathways in work, helping you stay ahead in times of confusing change.

About our speaker:

Morten Elvang is a Contributor and Managing Partner at TTW. He holds an MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Denmark. Morten is an expert in helping large teams and organizations get things done.

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Thoralf J Klatt serves as a Product and Agile Coach. His motto is: be at the center of value. He started his career developing medical devices like CT scanners and became a Certified Scrum Master in 2007. Based on many years of experience in diverse domains, Thoralf qualified as SPC in 2016, as Scrum@Scale and Scrum Inc. Trainer with Jeff Sutherland in 2019, and as Mobius Navigator Coach with Gabrielle Benefield in 2020. He has been translating her new book on Mobius Loop to German. Thoralf has been organizing several charity fundraiser training during pandemic and Ukraine crisis (giving to MSF). He has been a Neural Network & AI geek since studying at MIT. Reach out for speakerships.