📢 Calling all HR and Business Professionals! 🌍
Here’s an opportunity to explore the vital role of people in organisational systems and to foster fresh thinking for the future with the new Agile Business Consortium HR SIG 🚀
🎯 In the first 15 minutes, Agile HR thought-leader Pia-Maria will deliver a powerful introduction on the importance of people in organisational systems. Get ready to be inspired by her expertise and valuable insights.
This will be followed by a roundtable breakout session to talk about what keeps HR folks awake at night! 💡
🤝 This event isn't just about gaining knowledge and insights. It's about the opportunity to connect with new people and expand our network globally. We welcome participants from across the world so we can bring together diverse perspectives and fresh thinking. 🌍
📩 To secure your spot and be a part of this transformative event, register now! Don't miss this opportunity to learn, share, and connect with like-minded professionals from around the world! 🌐
Myles Hopkins
Myles is a dedicated professional in Artificial Intelligence and Value Architecture, with a strong track record in advancing business agility across Africa and internationally. As the founder and CEO of BeYond Agile, he supports organisations in navigating change and building sustainable, adaptive strategies. Within the Agile Business Consortium, he contributes to several key initiatives, including the Business Agility Think Tank, Adaptive Strategy Group, Agility and AI Group, and leads the HR Special Interest Group. Guided by a servant leadership philosophy, Myles brings a wealth of experience across industries and regions, helping to drive innovation and value in complex environments.
- Website:
- www.beagile.co.za/
Pia-Maria Thorén
Pia-Maria is the founder of Agile People and author of Agile People - A Radical Approach for HR and Managers. Agile People is a global network of people who work to improve workplaces by helping HR and leaders to attain an agile mindset for the future of work by using agile tools, methods, values, and principles. Pia-Maria specializes in helping companies move towards a culture of increased agility through agile HR, agile leadership, and motivation. Her main focus is to contribute to creating organizations where people perform better and feel engaged. Her main drive is to see the movement from one state to another in a company, contributing by making that change successful both from a financial and human perspective.
- Website:
- agilepeople.com/
- LinkedIn:
- https://linkedin.com/in/piamia/
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/
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.
- Website:
- www.beliminal.com
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