Peter B. Stevens: Speaker, Author, Executive, Coach and Scrum Trainer (CST)
Executives come to me to achieve their corporate initiatives faster than they ever thought possible!
I offer entertaining and informative talks for your organization or association around leadership, business agility, product development, personal development and team performance. Some recent Titles:
- How I Got My Weekends Back
- Six Questions to Change Your Life
- Three Secrets of Agile Leadership
- Ten Risks that Can Sink Your Project
- The Mathematics of Leadership: Four simple skills that add up to effective leadership
- Too Many Meetings: How classical management is making your company irrelevant and unattractive
Short Bio
Peter B. Stevens is an Executive, Coach, Author, and Certified Scrum Trainer. Peter’s first experience with agility dates to 1993, and since he has trained and coached many successful agile transformations.
Together with Maria Matarelli, Peter founded the Personal Agility Institute and wrote Personal Agility: Unlocking Purpose, Alignment and Transformation, which was published by the Business Agility Institute and is available on Amazon.com. The Personal Agility System™ is a simple, dialogue-based approach to align action with purpose. It scales from the individual to the largest organization.
He also wrote Ten Agile Contracts: Getting Beyond Fixed-Price, Fixed Scope and Extreme Manufacturing, Explained. He is an instrument-rated pilot, speaks 4 languages, and lives in Zurich with his family and 3 cats.
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Testimonials
Peter showed us how to apply the principles of agility to our challenges as a leadership team.
Peter is a well-prepared, effective, and inspiring management coach and trainer.
I have been able to rethink my daily work by following Peter's directions on applying Scrum principles in my professional environment.
I really like his humble but firm way...
Our team has never looked back since then and found a new working energy and motivation.
Great partner, I would highly recommend his services and support to anybody is embarking in this new challenging journey!
Peter is an extra ordinary coach with a unique style.
His intentions to help are genuine, I have encountered numerous coaches who have a framework in place that needs to be followed in order to get results.
What I love about his style of coaching is he helps you stimulate your thought process to come up with the solutions, this is key!
We send our people to Peter’s Scrum classes because they come home with the Agile Mindset.
Peter is a very skillful trainer as he challenges you both in theory and in practice to think outside your comfort zone.
I highly recommend Peters course.
Peter truly is a trainer like no other.
Peter’s Scrum-Master course was one of the best experiences to understand the concepts and principles of Scrum.
He made sure that the required content is fully understood by the participants with a flavor of humor.
Peter’s strength is his ability to listen and to understand the issues, then re-frame the conversation, so that dialogue and constructive discussion can happen.
This is a holistic learning experience, with joy, and new perspectives for sustainable results. It's that simple!
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Keynote adresses
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- Three Secrets of Agile Leaders
- Six Questions to Change Your Life
- Risks That Can Kill Your Project
- Navigate VUCA with Personal Agility
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Three Secrets of Agile Leaders: How to unleash the potential of managers and executives.
Audience
Executives and Managers at all levels and in all functions
Abstract
Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets and three tips to apply agility for more impact in your life and work.
Impact
This talk strives to create A-Ha moments around:
- How agility supports the needs of the business
- How What Really Matters can guide investment choices (time, money, people) and behavior
- How much more effective leadership could be if they applied agility to their work
- How agility can help organizations achieve alignment through clarity of purpose
- How agility has helped organizations achieve their goals faster
Duration
35 Minutes, 45 with Q&A
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Six Questions to Change Your Life: The Power of Personal Agility
Audience
Anybody. While everyone will get something out of this talk, it is especially geared to agile and traditional leaders with some actual experience with the challenges of leadership.
Abstract
What really matters? How can you lead your life, your project or your company according to a clear purpose? How can you get your stakeholders at work to agree on what to do and why? Personal Agility is a simple, easy-to-use approach to coaching that helps you and those you work with figure out and do more of what really matters. Personal Agility has helped transform lives and businesses – what if you could transform yours?
Impact
This talk strives to create A-Ha moments around:
- Not having enough time vs. having too much to do
- The challenge of being busy or having impact
- Simple tools and models to understand your issues and invest your time wisely
- Five approaches to figure out what really matters to you, your stakeholders or your organization
Duration
35 Minutes, 45 with Q&A
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Full Title
Ten Risks That Can Kill Your Digitalization Project (and how Scrum can help you master them)
Audience
Executives, Stakeholders and Managers in Product Development, Sourcing, Service Providers (In-house, On-shore, Near-Shore or Off-Shore).
Abstract
Murphy was an optimist. Everything that can happen will happen, including the risks that can bring your project to a standstill - unless you take action to ensure that they don’t occur. A digitization project is ultimately a software project. How do the risks of a software project differ from those of, say, a construction project?
Scrum and other agile frameworks have been developed to reduce risks and increase the likelihood of success for software development projects. How should Scrum work?
What are the most common risks that should be avoided in a digitization project? We'll examine delivery risk, time and budget risk, scope risk, and seven other risks, and how Scrum and other agile frameworks are designed to prevent and mitigate those risks.
Impact
- Create a shared vocabulary for business and technical leaders to discuss project risks effectively
- Understand why fixing the scope in product development is not in the interest of the client.
- Understand the control that agile frameworks give to business leaders to manage and reduce risks
Duration
35 Minutes, 45 with Q&A
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Ten Agile Contracts
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Navigate a VUCA World with Personal Agility
Audience
Executives and Managers at all levels and in all functions
Abstract
What plans did you make last year? How many were still valid after the COVID crisis hit? Whether for your company, your team or yourself, the VUCA world challenges you to manage risks, find energy and purpose, overcome setbacks and achieve long term goals. How to find and hold direction when everything is changing.
Impact
This talk strives to create A-Ha moments around:- How the situation Simple, Complicate, Complex or Chaotic influences decision making
- What does VUCA really mean?
- What does Agility really mean?
- What is the relation between Volatility and Risk
- How to reduce risk
- How Scrum is designed to reduce risk
- Five tips for applying agility to a VUCA problem
Duration
35 Minutes, 45 with Q&A
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