Ryan Sheldrake - Team Topologies Advocate
Ryan has 25 years of experience in various roles, including Operator, Architect, and CTO. With 15 years of banking and payments experience and 10 years in the security realm, Ryan enjoys solving complex problems in organizations across EMEA. A seasoned public speaker on security, DevOps, transformation, and team-focused sessions, Ryan is passionate about team cultures and communications.
Robinson Roe - Team Topologies Advocate
Rob combines the experience of a seasoned global executive in traditional companies and two startup unicorns with a personal mission of discovering and implementing what makes organisations effective. This mission led him to complete a Master's Thesis titled "Integral Business Architecture" and to co-author the book "Giving Hope," which focuses on the not-for-profit sector. As a Director of SignalRoad, his management experience and academic research have culminated in the BookCast, "Unlocking Change," which presents the Integral Map for Organisations.
Truls Jørgensen - Team Topologies Advocate
With a background as a developer, Truls, as a principal engineer, strives to balance his time between writing software in teams and building a team-first, product-oriented organization. He believes that creating a sustainable, adaptable organization is essential for teams to develop services that can evolve over time. As the first official in-house developer at NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) in 2016, Truls has played a central role in transforming and modernizing digitalization efforts.
Audun Fauchald Strand - Team Topologies Advocate
For the last seven years I have worked at NAV, the central organization in the Norwegian welfare state. We are undertaking a major modernisation, writing our way out of 40 year old legacy systems, and creating a modern organization that can work for the next 40 years.
My main interest is flow, and my main tools to increase flow in teams has been platform engineering. I have been a part of teams that have created the nais.io platform, that has increased flow for NAV, and soon other governmental organizations in Norway.
Jonny Williams - Team Topologies Advocate
Jonny Williams is a Platform Specialist at Red Hat and author of "Delivery Management: Enabling Teams to Deliver Value". Prior to joining Red Hat, he was Head of Delivery at Homes England. Jonny also provides coaching at DeliverValue.uk
Having enabled teams to deliver value for over ten years, he now supports organisations to uncover effective modern approaches to work and understand the impact of Open Source technology.
Alexandra Stokes - Team Topologies Advocate
In the late 90s, Alex embraced Agile methodologies as an early adopter. After several years as a consultant at ThoughtWorks, she transitioned into a role as a technology leader, advocating passionately for organisational transformation. Alex authored 'Empowering Agile Transformations - Beyond the Framework in 2023' a guide helping leaders achieve successful transformations. Her mission is to promote authentic examples and stories aligned with Agile principles, empowering organisational leaders to create create better systems of work where people love to be.
Donna Benjamin - Team Topologies Advocate
Donna facilitates team success by leading and energizing people to perform their best and get the job done. She enjoys working closely with clients to uncover and understand their true requirements, ensuring the delivery of value that makes a meaningful difference. Currently, Donna is the product owner of the Open Practice Library and serves as a Senior Engagement Lead at Red Hat's Open Innovation Labs.
Throughout her career, Donna has held various leadership roles in the Australian Open Source community, serving on boards and committees, and organizing events. She also prepares and delivers customized keynote sessions that inspire and motivate people to take their first step into the future.
Joris Swinnen - Team Topologies Advocate
Joris Swinnen is a member of The Flow Hive, a collective of independent Team Topologies enthusiasts. As an enterprise agility coach, trainer in facilitative leadership, and expert in Learning & Development and Organization Design, he combines learning agility acceleration with Solution-Focused coaching.
With over a decade of experience as a creative management consultant working with many blue-chip product and service organizations, Joris fosters innovation by improving team effectiveness. He is framework-agnostic, direct, provocative yet empathetic, and has supported and held similar organizations accountable.
Stef Cuisinier - Team Topologies Advocate
Stef’s passion is organization design. Ever since he discovered the Team Topologies book in 2019, he started advocating and using this pattern language in his coaching and training work. One of his goals is to extend the use of Team Topologies outside the IT world as a source of inspiration to support more humane, non-hierarchical organization design. Starting his professional life in IT, Stef fulfilled a diverse spectrum of roles, from software developer and analyst to project manager and IT leader.
Thorsten Speil - Team Topologies Advocate
Thorsten Speil is a protagonist of better ways of working - from Agile in its different forms to Team Topologies. Based in Germany, Thorsten is very happy about his active international network to exchange ideas, methods and experiences. Thorsten Speil’s commitment to better ways of working and his endorsement of Team Topologies exemplify his dedication to improving organizational outcomes.