WE ARE MOVEMENT, THE STORY

We Are Movement is a modern and dynamic platform for our shared ambition to help build the next generation of innovative and productive organizations in the Nordics.

We Are Movement is a collaborative network and an organization that delivers the best possible Agile and Lean advisory & consultancy services and training  for leaders, managers, and the larger organization that is on the Agile journey.

We are based in Sweden, and the Nordics are our main focus. Moreover, we have a trainer/advisor/consultant network that has both international experience as well as strong local awareness and presence.

QUALITY IS THE PROBLEM WE ARE HERE TO ADRESS

We firmly believe that quality is the most crucial problem to solve. At We Are Movement we want you to know that the guidance you receive in consultancy, training and the advice you get from your advisors builds on both real practical experience as well as a solid theoretical foundation.

Our approach to quality further extends into the overall experience when you attend one of our courses, workshops, or masterclasses.

We Are Movement was founded by Carl Starendal, Emanuel Felix Tunbjer and Fredrik Viljesjö in Stockholm 2019.
We Are Movement is also Sweden’s first Gold SPCT Partner with Scaled Agile – the creators of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

FOUNDERS

Carl Starendal

Carl Starendal

Founder and Senior Advisor & Trainer

Carl is an experienced leader, having decades of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur, manager & leaders across a diverse range of industries. He is also a sought after keynote speaker on leadership, management and agile product development and a highly regarded mentor & advisor as well as one of the Transformational Leadership trainers (Utvecklande Ledarskap) certified by the Swedish Defence Academy.

Carl Starendal is also as one of the global SAFe Fellows an official contributor to the SAFe Framework and one of the key people behind the Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification course.

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Emanuel Felix Tunbjer

Emanuel Felix Tunbjer

Founder and Senior Advisor & Trainer

Emanuel Felix Tunbjer is a senior Agile coach and advisor with close to two decades of experience in working with and coaching and training people in Agile values and practices. He has supported and advised numerous large organizations from all kinds of industries and sectors on their Lean and Agile transformation journeys, as an independent consultant.

Emanuel started working with Agile at the time of the manifesto. Since then he is passionate about guiding organizations, teams and leaders towards succeeding to create a system where work can happen in a more creative manner, reaching an Agile mindset that stimulates experimentation, innovation and a continuous flow of value.

With his experiences in management, strategic planning, product development, IT and organisational development based in Lean & Agile, he is a highly skilled and appreciated trainer and facilitator.
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Fredrik Viljesjö

Founder and Senior Advisor & Trainer

After over 15 years of hands on experience as a developer, coach, and manager, Fredrik Viljesjö is an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach, Advisor, and DevOps Coach. He has been working with many of the multi-national companies in Stockholm on how to learn in and lead their Agile journey.

In his work he has picked up what’s needed for the whole chain of practices required for Agile to work. This spans from getting people to collaborate better and Agile scaling frameworks to technical implementation skills like DevOps and software craftsmanship.
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TRAINERS & CONSULTANTS

Johanna Ekeberg

Johanna Ekeberg

Trainer & Consultant

Johanna Ekeberg is an experienced Lean-Agile Coach, trainer and facilitator driven by empowering people and teams, and facilitating the shift into organizational agility.Johanna has over 15 years of experience from driving organizational change in a variety of organizations in the private and public sectors. She has been part of several Lean-Agile transformations and has hands-on experience as Product Owner and Scrum Master.In addition, Johanna has experience from change management and traditional project management,  which helps her understand where leaders and teams come from when guiding them in the transition to organizational agility.
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Christian Andersson

Christian Andersson

Trainer & Consultant

After more than two decades as a consultant in several domains and roles, Christian has an in-depth knowledge of organizations in general, but product development organizations in specific. Christian has worked across many areas in development from test to project management, product planning, process development, quality management, and compliance.

As a change-agent, Christian has advised and led multiple Lean-Agile transformations, often in organizations developing complex products with hardware, electronics, and software. He is certified SPC and has trained several hundreds of people in SAFe over the years, and he is a highly regarded trainer.
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Magnus Westerberg

Trainer & Consultant

Magnus has a long and extensive background in leading and coaching teams, designers and UX designers in modern ways of working, innovation techniques and continuous learning. He is an appreciated workshop leader and facilitator, working with all kinds of competencies in large organizations guiding them to improve their customer focus through short feedback loops, often in scaled Agile and digital transformation journeys.

Magnus home base is as the Director of Experience at Strateg, where he advises in the development of new customer experiences for a host of companies. Before coming back to having Stockholm as a base, he was the Head of Creative Development at Tui Group, managing teams in Berlin, London and Noida. A role that suited him well after previously working as a Creative Director at St. Luke’s in London.

Magnus also lectures at the Royal Institute of Technology and in the digital version of the same course distributed by MIT.
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Johanna Värild

Johanna Värild

Trainer & Consultant

Johanna Värild is a long-time practitioner, facilitator and trainer with focus on Enterprise architecture and Lean-Agile practices. Her extensive knowledge is built on engagement in several enterprise transformation journeys concerning various digital products during three decades.

She has a certain passion for combining her agile mindset and the usage of architecture views to bridge the gap between strategy and execution. Continuously embrace both business views and technology views to enable alignment between teams and management perspectives is her key advice to navigate change.
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Fredrik Hedman We Are Movement

Fredrik Hedman

Trainer & Consultant

Fredrik is a senior Lean and Agile trainer, coach and transformations specialist, with 30+ years of experience working in large multinational organizations. He has a passion for helping teams, leaders and managers to embrace Lean and Agile values and principles.

Fredrik has deep technical and practical experience within Lean and Agile product development and is and SPC coach since 2013. He is tirelessly striving to help deliver more value to customers with shorter lead time. He seeks pragmatic solutions that equip organizations to drive the change themselves, generating both short and long-term results.
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Peter Horvath

Peter Horvath

Trainer & Consultant

Peter is a senior Agile coach and video game producer. His decade long experience comes from producing games in agile environments and coaching teams in large organizations such as financial- and major government entities. This gives him a unique understanding of two different development environments.

Peter’s main expertise are Scrum, agile thinking, and forging strong efficient teams. He’s coached several highly efficient teams and always strives to create the environment for proficient software development. He’s trained over 1000+ people in Scrum and agile thinking for medium & large corporations, for schools and government.

Peter is a positive thinker and optimistic about any outcome. You’ll most likely find Peter full of energy and smiling.
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Mikael Sennerholm

Mikael Sennerholm

Trainer & Consultant

Mikael is an experienced and driving DevOps and infrastructure architect with extensive experience of Continuous Delivery, automation and agile working methods. He has experience working in various large organizations, from startups to government agencies and academia.

Mikael enjoys presenting and holding education about DevOps, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code on meetups, conferences and internally. Mikael likes to demo how things are working and seeing is believing, and it’s most fun to do live. He always try to explain the how the techy details helps to get a fast feedback and evaluate if this is the right solution to meet the business goals.
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Eji Eze Stenlund

Eji Stenlund

Trainer & Consultant

Eji Stenlund is an Agile practitioner with extensive experience of IT Delivery and Governance in international as well as Swedish environments. She has more than 15 years of experience from large and complex assignments within IT business development with a strong focus on Lean and Agile ways of working.

She is driven by the opportunity to use her extensive experience to support companies in their future development and to continuously improve the value flow in the delivery to their customer. And to assist companies in building teams with individuals who are motivated and empowered. Teams that learn to use powerful Lean and Agile tools but most of all are interested in developing each other and together build a secure and compassionate working environment.
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Peter Antman

Peter Antman

Trainer & Consultant

Peter Antman has led and coached engineering organizations for the last 20+ years in different roles, the last five years as a Director of Engineering at Spotify. Peter’s passion is helping companies get really well at developing software based products through organizational improvements and leadership development. Peter is a well known expert on Agile, Lean and DevOps, has a background in the open source community, and a long track record as a software engineer and architect.

”One of Sweden’s foremost and most experienced people in Agile development”. Peter Frey, CIO Expressen/CTO & CPO Betsson Group

Peter is the author of the book Tillsammans – så skapar du flyt och egenmakt med Agile och Lean (Together – the way to create flow and self governance with Agile and Lean), a frequent blogger and presenter.
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Christian Fredriksson

Christian Fredriksson

Trainer & Consultant

Christian started to explore how organisations can find better ways to learn, organise and adapt in complex environments two decades ago in an academic research program and he has more than fifteen years of practical experience from lean and agile ways of working in different roles.

Since 2012 Christian has been mostly focusing on helping teams and organisations systemically improve their ways of working as a Lean-Agile coach. He has helped companies within many different industries, such as banking, retail, travel, public sector, e-commerce and product developing companies, where he has coached development teams as well as business teams and management teams.

Christian also has many years of experience from working with hardware development organisations, especially within automotive, and can provide advise, coaching and training for that context.
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Jesper Hoffstedt

Jesper Hoffstedt

Trainer & Consultant

Jesper is a senior Lean-Agile coach and trainer with more than 20 years experience of Agile software delivery in industries like retail, telco, online betting and in the public sector.
With a background as developer and solution architect Jesper Hoffstedt has his roots in Agile craftsmanship. After 10 years of passionate software development Jesper has been focused on leading change by coaching organisations to take on a Lean-Agile mindset and practices that stimulates quality, engagement and a continuous flow of value.
The last four years has been spent on coaching and driving a large Agile transformation within the public sector.
With a pedagogic mindset, prestigeless attitude and focus on the participant’s environment Jesper is a highly appreciated teacher.
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Daniel Fröding

Daniel Fröding

Trainer & Consultant

Daniel Fröding has now collected over 20 years of experience of systems development in different roles and in different industries where digital disruption has changed businesses at its core. He has worked with financial trading, telco, retail and lately in insurance and banking at times when digitalization has changed everything. 

With DevOps, Agile and Lean principles he has guided organisations to deliver more digital value faster to meet their challenge. Daniel has become a highly regarded trainer, senior advisor and leader.

Erika Schüttfort

Erika Schüttfort

Trainer & Consultant

Erika has worked extensively in the medtech industry, where she has led large scale Lean-Agile transformations combining software and hardware product development in regulated environments.

She has a passion for what diverse and cross-functional teams can deliver and how adaptations of organizational structures can enable this. Erika has experience leading teams and building strategic processes to ensure that change grows from all sides of a business. She also has a background in research with a PhD in materials engineering and is driven by curiosity for complex problem solving and continuous learning.

Erika has lived in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and for one year in Tanzania, which has made her very aware of her own Swedishness.

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Anders Laestadius

Anders Laestadius

Trainer & Consultant

Anders is a senior Lean-Agile and Leadership coach and trainer, with over 20 years experience of in Agile software delivery. He has worked in industries such as med-tech, banking, and the public sector.
Anders has a background as a developer and architect and has seen first-hand how Agile’s values and principles create the optimal environment for individuals and organizations to be effective and impactful, guided by a strong humanistic view of people. Over the past 18 years, Anders has focused on leading change by coaching organizations. He takes a systemic approach to change by coaching individuals, teams, and Leadership, as well as influencing organizational culture, structure, and methods.
Anders is also a Developmental Leadership trainer certified by the Swedish Defence Academy, a certified Professional Coach (ICF ACC), certified in The Leadership Circle, and an Instructor in Mindfulness.

OUR GUEST TRAINERS

Bent Jensen

Bent Jensen

Guest Trainer

Bent Jensen is our guest trainer from BestBrains Academy in Denmark and he is a pioneer in applying agile methods in there and has been leading agile teams since 2000.  For the last ten years, Bent has been coaching and mentoring leaders and organizations to achieve the benefits of lean and agile thinking and methods, with clients in Denmark and internationally. He has assisted a large number and companies with transformation programs and supported Enterprises in their transformation to an Agile and Lean approach.

Bent has always been focused on the intersect between self-organization and management between efficient development and innovation and how to push the methods to their limits.

Ola Gedenryd We Are Movement guest trainer

Ola Gedenryd

Guest Trainer

Ola is our guest trainer from the team “BDD” in Sweden, and he is a passionate Lean-Agile leader with focus to deliver business value in a rapid changing environment. This is achieved by creating an innovative environment for high performing Agile teams and applying Lean-thinking. Ola has 10+ years of experience to set up and lead large scaled agile environments in challenging international environments. Ola is since 2016 SAFe SPC, RTE and a very experienced SAFe trainer who successfully has educated many hundred persons to different SAFe certifications.

Website: www.bdd.se

Tomas Eilsø We Are Movement guest trainer

Tomas Eilsø

Guest Trainer

Tomas Eilsø is our guest trainer from Best Brains Academy in Denmark. He spends most of his time helping large organizations getting the full benefits of agile, using different scaling approaches such as the scaled agile framework. Like Jeff Sutherland got inspired to create Scrum from his experience with high-performance teams as a fighter pilot, Tomas also flew as an F-16 fighter pilot for six years. Tomas has furthermore started several successful technology startups, one of which currently builds the next generation combat flight simulators for the Danish Airforce – of course using agile.