Culture as an Important Element of Working with People

Yippee, 2nd Leaders 21 meetup is here, finally! This time you can meet Michal Vallo, who is one of the top agile/culture experts in the country! Michal will let us wonder what company culture actually is and why is it important ... What do you think btw.?

As Michal says: "It came suddenly. Shortly after my talk with a stranger at one coffee shop in Prague. For years I was inspired by organizations that are managed non-traditional way. Organizations that enables creative potential of the people to be materialized, and that carefully guards their culture, because people are intrinsically motivated.

I am inviting you to my talk sharing my experiences of an exciting journey from a small garage to the European Space Agency and back toward modern enterprise. Experience of failures and small victories, from moving through serious cultural change, while being appointed as a new CEO, that led to radical reshaping of the organization. Experience of running experiments, rebuilding whole organization around agile culture, with many crises on the path that paid off eventually ...

What was I doing and why?
What is company culture and why is it important?
Can culture be managed?
Is the good culture automatic recipe for success?
How to understand culture, design culture and use culture to create workplace where people feel driven, energized and motivated?"

Michal & Tomas are looking forward to meet you! Culture rocks!

About Michal: He is actually the very first Scrum Master in the Czech Republic, founder of the agile community, agile ambassador, management innovator and organizer of agile conferences and events.
He has worked as manager in several organizations. In 2008, as a managing director Michal led the first agile transformation of the organization. Michal holds master degree in Electrical Engineering by University of Zilina and gained his MBA in 5 years program at Open University Business School in Milton Keynes, UK. He is founder of Aguarra, a lead educational organization in eastern Europe and works internationally as trainer of agile techniques, consultant and coach. He initiated Agilia - a line of agile conferences where he works as program manager, content verifier and innovator. The Agilia conferences were recognized by American website TechBeacon among the top 20 agile conferences in the world.
In 2013 Michal fulfilled the entry requirements of Scrum Alliance and applied for a Certified Scrum Trainer license. Later he has withdrawn his application for personal reasons and has since worked as an independent agile professional across many sectors and countries.