Marcelo Lopez: Now that Agile Coaches don't exist. What do we do? (ONLINE)

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.