Agility in HR
Through the Agile Business Awards, we're recognising excellence in applying agility and agile principles in the HR space. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development included ‘Individuals and interactions over processes and tools’ and so the expansion of this throughout an organisation is core to business agility.
Agility in HR focuses on bringing effective collaboration to the core of operations. We're looking for organisations that live out their agile values, making space to develop talent, empowering teams to self-manage and feeding an innovative culture. Research repeatedly shows high levels of employee engagement bring profit to a business. Award entries are reviewed within the broad perspective of the Framework for Business Agility and against the criteria laid down in the Manifesto for Agile HR Development.
Thursday 23 March
9.50am – 10.20am
Agility in HR Panel
Agility in HR Panel
Agility in HR
Meet the Panellists
Dragan Jojic
As a seasoned consultant, trainer and coach with more than 30 years of experience, Dragan has worked with many organisations in retail banking, insurance, engineering and product development. Organisations like these often talk a good story but fail to evolve in a meaningful and lasting way. Dragan’s approach is to start by helping them to articulate the impact they would like to have. With that clarity, he then guides and supports them to experiment with potential paths to success.
Dragan is a founding partner of BeLiminal (www.beliminal.com), an organisational design and continuous learning consultancy.
- Website:
- www.beliminal.com
Myles Hopkins
Myles Hopkins is a business agility influencer and leads the business agility community in Africa. He is the founder of Be Agile and has been a globally respected consultant for the past 20 years.
Myles is a strategic systems thinker whose strength lies in seeing the bigger picture and understanding how that will translate across the full internal and external ecosystem that a client operates within.
He guides organisations to place the customer at the centre of everything they do whilst, simultaneously, enabling this through winning market strategies, focussed innovation, seamless and timely delivery, digital solutions and real-time business intelligence.
Myles believes that the organisations that thrive in the future are those with the best talent and drives a strong people agenda within his clients.
- Website:
- www.beagile.co.za/
Jeroen Venneman
Jeroen has made it his mission to bring agile to the organisational level. He has a lot of experience in taking agile out of the ICT domain and making the connection with business and transforming departments like HR, finance and risk. He is the chairman of the Agile Consortium in the Netherlands and examiner for the Agile Master Certificate. With more than 25 years of experience in consultancy, training and coaching, no challenge is too big for Jeroen.
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/jeroenvenneman/
Panel Host
Sophie Theen
An ex- engineer, Sophie had since led recruitment projects with Ford, General Motors and IBM, before shifting focus to setting up HR practice in startups. Her focus since then was on reinventing the importance of the People function within a conservative industry like financial services and she is establishing a blueprint for the future working culture. As employee happiness is HR’s success factor, and as a mental health first aider, she created a support system to combat depression and anxiety specifically affecting rapid growth businesses. From there and only 4 years in Fintech, she became a recognized figurehead in the UK and European market as the Culture Guardian or Diversity Champion in the technology space. She was nominated for 4 Rising Stars in Women in Tech in the UK both 2018 & 2019.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/sophietheen
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Who can enter or nominate:
- Organisations intentionally aligning HR to agile principles and practices
- Organisations including HR in a wider agile transformation
- Organisations applying agility only within HR
- Membership of or affiliation to the Agile Business Consortium is not required
- Organisations also entering other categories of these awards
- Organisations may nominate themselves to enter
Who cannot enter:
- Organisations sponsoring this award are not eligible to enter
- Third parties representing an organisation are not permitted
Agility in HR Sponsors:
Agile People
Agile People helps organizations accelerate the agile transformation by spreading the values of customer collaboration, energizing people, learning organizations, and inspiring leadership.
We do this by providing training, a global network of agile people professionals, coaching, and consulting services to create better organizations, and regularly run training, workshops, professional services, conferences, meetups, and speakers for increased agility in a complex world. We are passionate about creating motivation and engagement using an agile mindset and practices/tools that make people happy and perform towards the company vision. We strive to create environments that will foster learning organizations to innovate and continuously improve when the only remaining competitive advantage is to learn faster than competitors.
Since the launch in 2012, our network of facilitators and coaches has grown steadily, and today we are represented in almost every corner of the world.”
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- +46767711029
- Website:
- agilepeople.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/company/agilepeoplecom/