Team
Michael Hamman, Founder/Designer, Director, Senior Faculty Member
Michael is dedicated to the possibility that the workplace be a site for personal, professional and social transformation. Trained in the 1980s in coaching and large group facilitation, Michael went on to train in systems thinking and methods, group dynamics and facilitation, professional and executive coaching, and in human and organization development. He is a decades-long student of the nature of human transformation, both in himself and in others.
His book, Evolvagility: Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out integrates this rich and varied background and experience, and provides a blueprint for what it means to be an agile leader in today’s complex world.
Lyssa Adkins, Senior Faculty Member
Lyssa is an internationally-recognized thought leader in the Agile community. She is deeply trained and experienced in human systems coaching and facilitation and she is a frequent keynote speaker. Her content expertise is agile coaching, adult human development, and working with change and complexity.
She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams which is still a Top 10 book a dozen years after publication. Her current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching to help leaders take up the individual and collective transformation that is theirs to do
Tilman Bergt, Director, Adjunct Faculty Member
Tilman is a stand for the possibilities that grow through speaking from and to a fundamental crisis. He has been working with IT Teams and Organizations as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, OKR Coach, Projekt Manager and Coaching Leaders on a invidual basis.
His approach to working with teams and individuals is deeply rooted in three realms: vertical facilitation, shadow work and zen.
Tilman is part of The Bold Setup, an Agile Coach collective in Munich, Germany.
Ewan O’Leary, Adjunct Faculty Member
Ewan is a transformation coach who works with individuals, teams and organizations to create greater capability to deal with the opportunities arising in a VUCA world. As TealShift, he supports whole organization transformation, starting with developing leadership.
Steeped in integral theory, trained in a variety of coaching approaches, Ewan’s life’s work is aimed at liberating human potential in an ethical and mindful way. With a variety of clients across multiple industries, Ewan uses agile, design thinking and vertical facilitation as approaches to help his clients unlock greater potential in themselves and their organizations.
As faculty, Ewan brings his perspective and experiences working with companies such as PayPal, HSBC, Thomson Reuters, Nike, Genentech and Sony Pictures.
Ewan is based in St Augustine, Florida where he resides with his partner.