I speak on a number of topics including: 

  • Becoming #RemoteFirst with Digital Collaboration

  • Organisational alignment using OKRs

  • Assessing performance using Actionable Metrics

  • IT Strategy using Wardley Mapping

  • Product Discovery using Innovation and Design Thinking techniques

  • Increasing performance and engagement using Visual Management and Kanban

  • Lean and Agile leadership thinking

speaker bio

 

Short bio:

Ben Hogan
Founder Freshwater Academy | Product and Tech Strategy, OKRs, Wardley Mapping, Product Discovery, Lean, Agile, Kanban.

Ben Hogan is a business adviser for organisations looking to develop new capabilities, increase performance, adopt new ways of working and improve employee engagement. He is the founder of Freshwater Academy: an online learning platform for leaders seeking mastery in strategy, leadership and execution. He's open to new clients and you can connect with him directly or follow him on Linked-in or Twitter.

Longer bio:

Ben Hogan is a business adviser for organisations looking to develop new capabilities, increase performance, adopt new ways of working and improve employee engagement. He advises clients across a wide range of industries and methods including Product and Tech Strategy, Product Discovery, Design Thinking, OKRs, Performance Metrics, Wardley Mapping, Agile, Lean and Kanban. He speaks regularly at conferences and provides training, workshops, consulting and coaching for clients. He is the founder of Freshwater Academy: an online learning platform for leaders seeking mastery in strategy, leadership and execution. He also applies his skills to the #ClimateEmergency through pro bono consulting work for select organisations at the cutting edge of the transition to zero carbon.

Connect with him on linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agileben/
You can follow him on Twitter: @agileben

Ben is a long time participant in the Australian agile community, helping teams and leaders grok agile since 2002, he’s been teaching, coaching and helping build teams for over 15 years. He’s a veteran of introducing lean, kanban, agile and other buzzwords to many projects, operations and business teams including marketing, legal, people and culture, finance and customer service. He was one of the first people to teach Kanban in Australia and is a previous speaker at the Agile Australia, Scrum Australia, YoW, LAST, LAST Anywhere and 1st Conferences, and has been an invited speaker to the Agile Encore “best of Agile Australia” conference.

Ben has recently returned to Melbourne after a 2.5 year stint in Berlin at a publicly listed enterprise where he worked on improving organisational alignment with OKRs across the entire 1200 person organisation. Since returning to Australia Ben has helped a major Australian brand stand-up a high performing product discovery team using digital collaboration techniques in the middle of a pandemic, where many team members had never met in person.

Ben is open to new clients: please get in touch with Ben directly, follow him on twitter @agileben or connect with him on Linked-In.

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