Gerd Wessling

Founder, Principal Agile & Safe-coach, Transformation Lead & (Safe)-trainer @Scagilize

Bielefeld, DE

Principal Agile Coach, Project- und Change-Manager, Consultant, Trainer and Facilitator- Instrumental in leading several, succesful large-scale SAFe & PPT->LPM Transformations - SAFe SPC & RTE, most experienced SAFe Trainer in D/A/CH (taught 185 SAFe courses globally so far with 4.85/5 average rating of almost all SAFe courses & workshops (e.g. SPC, RTE, LPM, HW, ARCH, SA, SP, SSM, SASM, POPM, APM, SDP, RAI, AHRE, Value Stream Mapping, Value Stream & ART Identification) in German or English- 25 years international Project, Leadership, Training- and Management Experience- 23 years experience in Agile & related frameworks, practices and agile (Role) Coaching- 650+ Trainings, Workshops and consulting engagements globally (+17 countries) in the last 10 years alone around \"classical\", hybrid and lean/agile Project Management and Organizational Transformation- Typical customer size 10 to employees- Further expertise in: AI, Kanban, Product Development Processes & Techiques (classical and agile), specialist in Remote-Training & -Collaboration, intercultural work, agile contracting, Communication & Team Building, Leadership, Change Management, Process Management, OKR-\"Tool\" competence: JIRA & Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Mural, Miro, MS Teams, ChatGPT, Claude, Loveable and many more- Certificates: Profit Streams Trainer, Scrum Master PSM1, more than 15 different SAFe trainer certificates incl. RTE LPM APM HW ARCH, Certified Less Practitioner & Scrum@Scale Practitioner, PMP, OKR Master- Diploma in Physics- I very much LOVE facilitating lean/agile transformations, trainings (remote and in person) & events/kick-off/conferences- Helping organizations & individuals -> And based on the feedback of my many (+4.500 in the last 10 years) training participants - as well as my consulting & coaching clients - I seem to be rather good at that :)

Bielefeld University

Diplom, Physics