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Join us for The Agile Heroes Summit

We are excited to announce that we are launching a virtual summit called The Agile Heroes Summit! We saw an opportunity to add more value for people on their Agile Journey after many people began asking for additional supporting resources after attending our Agile training classes. 

Join us on May 12th where we will be interviewing experienced Agilists to share their stories along with guidance tips and resources to help you in your journey. We will also be hosting regular interviews and virtual summits to provide ongoing insights and new resources for you.

The mission of the Agile Heroes Summit is to highlight people that are creating real impact and change through Agile and sharing new insights and thought leadership around how you can be more effective in applying Agile in their context.

Join us for the first Agile Heroes Summit on May 12th, 2021 where Maria Matarelli will interview some of the top Agilists in the world, sharing insights and best practices that you can apply on your Agile journey. Reserve your FREE spot at www.TheAgileHeroesSummit.com

Agile 100 Conference | Personal Agility

Join Maria Matarelli as she is speaking at the Agile 100 virtual conference on August 27, 2020 on Personal Agility and will share how you can begin to apply this as a simple framework for an empowered life. Create the reality you want in life, in business, with your career.. hear stories of how people around the world are getting results using Personal Agility and how you can begin to too.

Get your ticket to attend here –> https://hopin.to/events/agile100-online-conference-august-2020

Agile Training in St Pete/ Tampa Florida

We are excited to be offering a series of public Agile and Scrum Training classes in the central Florida area!

After traveling the globe for the past 5 years leading training in Shanghai, Singapore, Thailand, India, Nova Scotia, and several other locations, Maria Matarelli, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Founder and CEO of Formula Ink landed in St Petersburg, Florida and will be leading a series of public training classes.

Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Maria Matarelli pictured with one of our latest classes of Certified ScrumMasters! When people say this is the best training class they’ve ever been to, it might be because of the high level of engagement and carefully planned activities designed to make learning FUN!!!
Our training classes have a combination of group activities and discussions, multi-media presentations, project simulations, and hands on exercises that will show attendees specific techniques to apply in their work environment.
Guest speaker, Alistair Cockburn, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto and Creator of The Heart of Agile stopped by our Formula Ink training class to share insights and answer all Agile questions the class could think of!
Thank you to Alistair for bringing an extra level of fun to our class!
Agile2019

Join Maria Matarelli and Nic Sementa at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. August 5-9. Maria Matarelli and Nic Sementa will be representing Agile Marketing Academy with Comparative Agility. Comparative Agile Marketing provides change leaders with the insights they need to create an environment tailored for marketing professionals in an environment of constant change and volatility. The significant benefits of agile are increasingly being adapted by marketing professionals across the world. Maria Matarelli and Nic Sementa were among the first domain experts to introduce agile concepts to marketing organizations across the world and the impact has been undeniable. By transforming traditional marketing processes into more agile ways of working, companies are seeing significant increases in brand awareness, effectiveness and customer acquisition. Comparative Agile Marketing also quickly reveals where your efforts need attention and identifies where you can make the most impact to embrace a more adaptive way of operating as a marketing organization.

IIL Agile and Scrum 2019 Online Conference

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives a Keynote on Personal Agility: A Powerful Leadership Framework at the Agile and Scrum 2019 Online Conference. The Agile and Scrum Online Conference is an online conference where you have the opportunity to learn from and connect with people who are passionate about uncovering better ways to guide you on your agile journey.

Date: June 6th, 2019

Title: Personal Agility: A Powerful Leadership Framework

Session Type: Keynote

Summary: Discover the keys to truly embrace Agile values and uncover the power of gaining clarity around what really matters. In this session, you’ll learn how to create more alignment in your organization and apply Personal Agility as a leadership framework to guide your teams toward reaching a state of higher performance. 

Focusing on people over process through this simple framework will allow you to uncover better ways to identify obstacles, visualize what’s important, and focus on what really matters as individuals and as an organization.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.

Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Join Maria Matarelli in Austin, Texas as she gives a workshop on Agile Conflict Resolution at the Global Scrum Gathering Austin.

Title: Agile Conflict Resolution 

Date: May 20-22, 2019

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Agile conflict resolution is a workshop packed with powerful communication hacks that will allow you to better understand, empathize with, and motivate your team through daily situations from the most stressful to the most mundane. Learn how to identify and catalogue observable behaviors, separate them from personal feelings, and bond with your team around their needs with techniques that will allow you to drastically speed up your conflict resolution process. This experiential workshop will introduce a new twist on familiar concepts that we apply during the session and will impact every aspect of your life.

Learning Objectives: 1) Discover how you can identify and diffuse team conflict before it impacts team performance. 2) Learn three techniques that can be applied for conflict resolution. 3) Uncover how to identify and remove emotional roadblocks. 4) Practice applying these techniques in live exercises to improve your interpersonal relationships at work and at home. 5) Identify and leave better equipped to address conflicts that need resolving.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.

Certified Agile Leadership

We are excited to offer our next Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) course in February 2019 in Florida (winter get-away!) where you will have the opportunity to sign up to attend CAL1 + CAL2 in the same week for an Agile Leadership Bootcamp. These sessions are powered by Personal Agility where you can also become a Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner. We also have a CAL1 course available in Chicago in March 2019.

CAL1 + CAL2 + Personal Agility Training in Florida – February 2019

Read more details on this program here: Agile Leadership Bootcamp in Florida

CAL1 Training Course in Chicago – March 2019

Read more details on this program here: CAL1 Chicago

CAL1 and CAL2 training courses will be led by Certified Enterprise Coach, Michael Sahota.

Michael is a leading trainer for the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) Program through the Scrum Alliance. He has taught over 700 graduates worldwide. His classes are controversial and unique. This is what allows his students to flourish. He shows them what the missing pieces are to common organizational challenges. You can go back to your organization and implement right away.

He’s been in the Agile world for 20 years and is the expert in helping leaders bridge the gap between Agile and organizational reality.

Agile Tour Bangkok 2018

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives a Keynote on Business Agility at Agile Tour Bangkok 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. Agile Tour Bangkok is the not-for-profit Agile Conference coming back for the 7th year.

Date: Friday, November 2, 2018

Title: Business Agility | Empowering Organizational Effectiveness with Agile Marketing

Session Type: Keynote

Summary: Discover the possibilities of Agile Marketing and the power of applying Agile across your organization for full Business Agility. We’ll explore a case study of Agile applied to Marketing and discuss the benefits of aligning your organization’s use of Agile across departments along with the mindset shift necessary. Instead of focusing on who you can sell to, the focus is shifted to truly connecting with who needs your product or service most while leveraging rapid iterations for maximum output.

For more information on this event or to register, click here.

In addition, Maria Matarelli will be teaching a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) class and a Certified Agile Marketing Specialist (CAMS) class in Bangkok, Thailand.

Please click here to register for the CSPO class.

Please click here to register for the CAMS class.

Keynote Presentation by Maria Matarelli at Scrum Australia 2018

Join Maria Matarelli as she gives the Closing Keynote Presentation at Scrum Australia, held in Sydney on October 24-25, 2018

Scrum Australia is a Regional Scrum Gathering and promises all you expect from Scrum Gatherings and more:
-Quality keynote speakers: we have been proud to host some of the world’s most recognized authorities in Scrum and Agile in our past conferences, and hope that you’ll be just as impressed with our Keynote lineup for 2018.
-Workshops and sessions, for both beginners and the more advanced practitioners, are always of the highest calibre and encompass the latest trends.
-Open Space, which embodies two highly interactive, participant-led, half-day sessions that display self-organization at its finest.
-A Coaches Clinic that offers participants complimentary coaching with some of the most recognized Scrum coaches: from both Australia and overseas.

All of this is encompassed in a warm, inviting environment that will have you leaving with the feeling that you have just spent a couple a couple of days with a few hundred of your closest friends.

For more details –> Check out the conference site

Personal Agility Workshop – Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis 2018

 
Maria Matarelli will be doing a Personal Agility Workshop at at the Global Scrum Gathering in Minneapolis on April 18th.

Date:  Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Title:  Personal Agility Workshop

Session Type: Workshop

Summary: Walk through a hands-on workshop and discover how to apply the Personal Agility Framework, Priorities Map, and six insightful questions to discover what really matters.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Learn how to apply personal agility as a framework for your life
  • Discover ways to identify how your actions align with what really matters
  • Practice applying the Personal Agility Priorities Map
  • Discover ways to coach others on Personal Agility

For more details on this event and to register, please visit the Scrum Alliance website: https://www.scrumalliance.org/sgmsp