Joined Spotify in 2011 as one of the first Agile Coaches and worked together with the CTO and R&D Leadership to develop and introduce concepts like tribes, chapters, squads and guilds, aka “The Spotify Model” of agile at scale During six years of hyper growth I’ve worked with many different tribes (departments) and their management teams and dozens of different squads (delivery teams) in Stockholm, Boston, New York and San Francisco As one of Spotify’s first coaches I helped lay the foundation for and develop a now 50+ people strong global agile coach group Coached Product Owners, engineering managers and other leaders as well as in- dividual contributors Initiated and organized Spotify’s first Hack Week Collaborated with Com- pany and Strategy Operations to refine and implement Spotify’s strategic aligment and deployment aka Spotify Rhythm (Priorities & Achievements, Objectives and Key Results, etc) Acted as Agile Guild Coordinator, accountable for global cross-tribe improvement, leading Agi- le community of practice Organizer and facilitator of several big retrospectives, offsites and unconferences, often involving over 100 people Trained hundreds of people in topics such as Scrum, Kanban, XP and all sorts of Agile Practices, Lean Problem Solving, facilitation, feed- back, leadership and Crucial Conversations