Belgium

Generalist Product Management

Interaction Design

Entrepreneurial boot camp (Imec, iMinds)

Higro, Egon, Mariakerke

humaniora

Principles to Practices

Joris Swinnen

Coach & Facilitative Leader

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Optimizely

Typeform

WordPress

Youtube

Zapier

Canva

ChatGPT

D3.js

Figma

InVision

Jira

Notion

Confluence

REST API

Workday

Mural

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While KMA R&D is reorganizing into Robotic Systems Development, I focus as a Change Manager & Learning Faclitator, mostly on 
- supporting Team Performance Leads and Product Owners as mentor on their learning journeys. 
- improving the onboarding process. 
- organizational learning as the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within the organization by leading and supporting Communities of Practice.
- Needs Analysis and Program Design
- monitoring training effectiveness to optimizing the impact of development programs.
- facilitating workshops to align decision making.
- elaborating the R&D training plan
- helping to refine the requirements and to prepare the Transformation backlog
- business capability mapping in order to strategically plan and reach shared goals.While KMA R&D is reorganizing into Robotic Systems Development, I focus as a Learning facilitator, mostly on - supporting Team Performance Leads and Product Owners as mentor on their learning journeys. - improving the onboarding process. - organizational learning as the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within the organization by leading and supporting Communities of Practice. - Needs Analysis and Program Design - monitoring training effectiveness to optimizing the impact of development programs. - facilitating wrkshopsto align decision making. - elaborating the R&D training plan - helping to refine the requirements and to prepare the Transformation backlog - business capability mapping in order to strategically plan and reach shared goals.
Skills: Stakeholder Management · Talent Management · Culture Change · People Management · Leadership Development · Strategic Thinking · Product Strategy · Management Consulting

On this adventure @ Dematic - Kion Mobile Automation R&D, I focus on accelerating the experiential culture as an ongoing activity.
With a strong ScrumMaster team we transform workplace learning experiences to foster creativity and innovation for all levels.

While scaling up our Product Development department, I co-facilitate onboarding, strategic workforce planning and driving a mentoring program. 

While coaching Productowners and Scrummasters, I help with coordination of scaling 150-250 software & electrical/mechanical engineers, 20 Product Development teams and stakeholders through their continuous delivery.

Impact so far =
* Driving and supporting both team-level value delivery, growing leadership & team collaboration, and cross-R&D change initiatives.
* Establishing engaging Communities of Practice, strong learning networks establishing knowledge transfer
* Facilitating improvements and uplifting collective learning and efficacy by DoD and Skill Matrix
* Syncing Development Goals with Release Roadmap and Program Board
* Aligning Solution - Product - Software Development Life Cycle
* Organize and drive product strategy and roadmap workshop sessions 
* Fostering collaboration with ART stakeholders
* ART execution, introducing Hypothesis-Driven Development
* Discuss engineering practices that comprise CD & help improving current capabilities

Bringing awareness on Project vs Product mindsets as well as Informational and Transformative perspective so we can keep on reimagining the way we think.

As organisational coach I've been
*Familiarizing with the context of Scout-ecosystem 4 vertical marketplaces, growth ambition from 400 to 600 to double their digits and ambitious learning to become more agile.
*Assessing and understanding where we are, honestly and aligning expectations to a roadmap of improvement.
*Facilitating effective workshops, feedback, Retrospectives, Post Mortems & RCA.
*Contributing to a culture of trust, involvement by delegation and talent management, enabling Talents to accelerate their higher performance and Career internally.

situation analysis, understanding the culture, process, product, tribal unity temperature, teams + leadership & their dynamics.

cocreating an agile action plan: cultural mapping, process mapping, empathy mapping,...
enphasizing the purpose of all scrum meetings
establish increments of behavior change to accountability, challenging communication & engaged co-facilitation.
evaluating outsourcing, improving Scrum & SAFe practices

I thrive while
▪ Integrating facilitation formats that lead to open exchanges and solution finding;
▪ Designing and facilitating small to large events and workshops;
▪ Effective facilitation of hybrid workshops in a multi-cultural and multi-stakeholder environment;
▪ Using face-to-face participatory methods and online interactive applications for discussions and solution-oriented work in large groups;
▪ Producing high-quality and concise workshop reports;
▪ Chalenging the participants to raise their bar and improve quality of outcomes.

@ MIVB-STIB > E2E Integration & multiteam software delivery assessment
@ Randstadgroup > Supporting their governance and Scrum & Team Topologies

I focus on Incremental Improvement, Collaboration patterns & Organisational alignment.

Besides longer assignments mentioned above I had the pleasure to facilitate some brown paper sessions & hands-on workshops 
@ Infrabel: User Story Mapping & Scaled agility
@ Meltwater.com : User Story Mapping
@ spott.ai : liberating retrospectives for participatory process architecting
@ digityser.org: scaled agile and effective facilitation meetups & Scrum clinics
@ Unisys.com : technical frontend workshops & training HTML5, CSS3, JS

I play with an ever growing facilitative toolkit like socratic wondering, Liberating Structures, M3.0, Innovation Games, UX, Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, visual facilitation and other approaches that align with the context; I became a poweruser of Miro, MS Office, Figma and Confluence.

In this mission @ Ypto - NMBS, I co-designed & facilitated company wide agility awareness & SAFe trainings focussing on Demand Generation and more effective inspect & adapt meetings.
I co-coached 2 RT programs and tryied to develop Scrum improvers with scientific thinking & problem solving skills. Setting up a Lean Agile Center of Excellence with a mission to identifying and measuring alignment gaps and support leaders & teams in addressing those gaps by effective transparency to inspect & adapt.

15 Trainings on Leading SAFe, coordinating Communities of Practice, guiding 10 Scrum Teams through SoS.
Launching 2 Agile Release trains; Removing Impediments across Value Streams RIV- Traverlers information & Advanced Planning Systems.

Together with agile co's I inspired teams & PO's to find a constructive rhythm in product development & integrated releasing by Goal Oriented Road mapping,  User Story mapping workshops, enhancing DoD and liberating games to grasp the newly learned habits.

▪ Kanban simulations in 2 departments BU Supply Chain & Asset Management while M&A
Eandis & Infrax into Fluvius => from 4000 to 6000 staff
▪ Measuring performance flow efficiency
▪ Change Implementation of a Continuous Learning Culture, horizontal career
growth planning
▪ Setting up preparations & Implementation and follow up of CoP for more than 100 particpiants
▪ Facilitation network for Change agents by Deliberate Practice Scrum & Sociocracy 3.0

Playing corporate troublemaker stretching comfort zones of teams & executives.
Improving their creative, innovative way & collaboratively improvising a common mindset on the organizational culture and getting (new) things done.
Focusing on same collective understanding of agile above specific shared practices. 
Guarding their growing comfort zone and trust with peer review.

Facilitating knowledge transfer through boosting Communities of Practices.
Coaching people towards new insights, collective intelligence to bridge the gap between those newly acquired habits and putting that learning into deliberate practice.

Facilitating workshops for selected clients:
▪ Agility awareness training @ALD-Automotive, 
▪ Visual Facilitation @Borealis (www.borealisgroup.com),  
▪ Visual Facilitation @EuropeanCommission (https://ec.europa.eu), 
▪ Visual Facilitation & User Story Mapping @ILVO  (www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be),

▪ Scaling agile way of working HR department: 3 Scrum + 3 Kanban-Teams 
▪ Awareness sessions
▪ Training PO & SM
▪ Communities of Practice
▪ Workshops Team-development 
▪ Coordinating continuous delivery & integration

Bringing an operational CRM up to speed, while coaching the team for effective self-organisation.
Implementation of new software (large scale ERP & CRM deployment, CMS & marketing automation): (internal) optimalisation projects, coaching scrum by Gamestorming

Building alignment & Performance Skills Management, Creating & Refining User Stories, roles & follow up stakeholder management

▪Agile Coaching Product Owner and Marketing Teams
▪Workshop design and facilitation Value Stream Mapping, Process Mapping,
Retrospectives
▪Improvement collaboration, removal cross silo impediments
▪Release-Planning

Egg3 regrouped freelancers whose mission was to help companies succeed in their digital change transition. 

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▪ Workshops for selected clients: Kijzer (www.kijzer.be), NewB (www.newb.coop)

▪ 4 intergenerational teams + C-Level
▪ Setting up Ukrainisch offshore support
▪ Agile Coaching Product Owners and 3 Teams
▪ Start to Scrum, Learning & Development Capability Building
▪ Collaboration improvement inbound & outbound sales for CRM-Roadmap

Product discovery

... it all started with a social innovation award for Language practicing & automation.
NGO digiTAAL saw the light in 2013... turned into a startup with global ambitions and pivot towards a  wider scope.

o1Øtct innovated data visualization into authentic TeleAssessment Platforms. 

Designed to bring thoughtful user experiences, focussing on mobilizing Real Time Communication that are functional, usable value creations.
For 2 years I managed a team of 7 and motivated, painstakingly poring over value (details) until they're just right; an empathic bridge between business needs & tech. possibilities.

As a startup founder I focused on Customer discovery, Product Roadmapping & Investor relations.

As a Product Owner I focused on 
*Successful releases of interactive video-dataplatforms with learning analytics, 
*Key Stakeholder Involvement & feedback, 
*Product Marketplace, 
*Strategy and executing roadmap and
*Modularly further prototyping proof of concepts:

Pitch Ready Feedback management
* Crowdfunding & pitch coaching, interactive channel becoming investment ready

Video Recruitment & HR analytics
* Behavioral interview preparation, preselection 

Organisational & people development
* Career learning, development and progression 

 Video Assisted Customer Support
*      Development & consultancy for all things data collection & governance
•	Business development, networking, go to market, pitching  
•	Planned and executed events and marketing programs  
•	Assembling team & partners
•	Increased credibility and client awareness by developing technical/non-technical marketing collateral and presentations, public relations campaigns, articles and newsletters
•	Developed marketing programs and general business solutions resulting in increased company exposure, customer traffic, and sales
•	Worked closely with all product development departments to create and maintain marketing materials for sales presentations and client meetings

InnovationPunt was an EFRO project until 2013 under VOSEC > Innovatiepunt > Flemish Government in association with co-promoter i-propeller with a mission to encourage, inspire & sustain growing trends in social business innovation.
I was mastering open innovation as a community manager of ideagenerative portal of Flanders Social Economy.

•	Communication & Business development, Business model canvas workshops
•	With a mission to encourage, inspire & sustain growing trends in social business innovation
•	Community manager with SMMtools: Twitter, Linkedingroup, newsletters & live events 
•	Conversation Management on Social Media channels ( Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.)
•	Project Management (projects/contests to be launched on Social Media platforms)
•	Social Media marketing/promotion
•	Both B2C as well as (internal/external) B2B communication
•	Mastering open innovation as a community manager of idea generative portal of Flanders Social Economy.
The organization and approach using Cognistreamer ® (Innovation Portal, Vision Workshops, workshops, Learning Network)

As servant leading people manager I helped 
•	Built strong rapport with students before, during and after coaching, digital CV Portfolio with youngsters on the lookout for a professional career training multimedia animators teaching schoolkids the basics of video story telling, stop motion, Game theory & experimenting with Scratch
•	Acted as a positive role model, team coach for participants and the community

As a Product Owner I
•	Co-developed & Organised train the trainer projects in schools & libraries,
•	Supervised refining media literacy projects for VDAB, 
•	All round responsible for E-learning projects

As a stakeholders manager I 
•	Created and maintained company policies, 
•	Managed annual external audits 
•	facilitated networking & cooperating with other social organisations, organising events

Joris Swinnen serves as a high-performance coach and facilitator.
Most recently, he has been a team coach to leaders and executive teams. He facilitates passionate about continuous improvement, habits forming with the Harada method.

As an independent professional with disruptive attention & creativity, he follows a Lean approach going from customer discovery to proof of concept for # business cases in # verticals in BeNeLux & Switzerland.
 
As a people coach, I'm purpose-oriented toward producing creative learning, and empower teams to navigate and balance autonomy and alignment in organizations. 
Supporting leaders in small incremental steps to gain competitive advantage by a structured approach for tangible improvement.
Establishing and reinforcing simple principles, observing group dynamics, surfacing conflict, and encouraging constructive dialogue. 

Facilitating effective meetings & training the trainers/Scrum Masters/Product Owners/Product Managers.
Liberating in a structural fashion to help organizations amplify discovery to accelerate the delivery of sustainable solutions.
I like to add sustainable value as well as master Scrum with plain healthy uncommon sense.

Innately curious, eager to learn and loving to re-learn
Strategy and digital business consulting
Advanced discovery-oriented learning
Toastmastering & Gamestorming

Hands-on working knowledge of 
Lean Change Management,
Management 3.0,
Brown Paper Process calibration,
Impact Mapping,
Kanban, JIT practices, 
Game theory & Scratch

•	facilitating effective meetings: scrum master
•	intensive visual communicating with international trainers - visual management	
•	aligning content & style: 
•	designing educational programs for astronauts, mainly via MS powerpoint
•	updating international ESA websites
•	presenting techniques, video projects & E-learning

www.spaceapplications.com

Graphic Design Specialist and Documentalist
• Proficiently designing logistics expositions, newsletters, magazines, flyers, and brochures.
• Updating cultural events websites
• Skillfully managed projects related to school moral education.
• Organizing and curating a library tailored for teachers' needs.

Deborah Caruso

Administrative Assistant

Alireza

Life Cycle Services manager

Student

Mohammed

Software Developer

Heleen Willemsen

Co-founder

Tracy Nguyen

Graduated Student

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