Maarit Laanti

Maarit Laanti Ph.D. is a SAFe Fellow, SAFe SPCT, and a pioneer of scaling agile methods. She has been nominated in the LIA100 initiative amongst one of the 100 women in the world who have contributed most to Lean and Agile.

She worked hands-on at Nokia for 20 years, and her Ph.D. from 2013 was based on the 10-year research she did while working for Nokia leading the largest agile transformation at a time in product development including software and hardware. Maarit’s dissertation defines what is scaled agile in research, being the first one in the field.

Maarit has contributed Lean-Agile finance and control to SAFe 3.0 and trained SAFe over 3000 persons. Currently, Maarit is a partner at wikiflow and WikiAgile companies, who support holistic Lean-Agile Enterprise transformation with a five-phased Lean-Agile transformation playbook, five SAFe SPCTs, and JoeDX from Joe Justice.