Continuous professional development
For curious people who want to understand where my methods come from and how I evolve in my practice.
This page reflects my conviction that effective support requires continuous development based on solid foundations and proven practices.
🎓 Training & qualifications
Professional membership
- 2025-08: Member of EMCC Belgium
Systemic development
- 2026-03: Visual Facilitation - Flipchart Ninja (Visuality)
- 2026-01: Restorative Group Conferencing (Le Souffle asbl)
- 2025-01 → 2026-05: Strategic Systemic Practitioner (Institut Gregory Bateson)
- 2025-01: Radical Collaboration (Jim Tamm / Visuality)
- 2024-01 → 2024-04: Facilitator of Change (Exploration Labs)
Professional agile coaching
- 2023-06: Coaching Agile Transformations - ICP-CAT (ICAgile)
- 2022-09: Enterprise Agile Coaching - ICP-ENT (ICAgile)
- 2019-09: Agile Coaching - ICP-ACC (ICAgile)
- 2019-02: Agile Team Facilitation - ICP-ATF (ICAgile)
Agile & product fundamentals
- 2022-02: Professional Scrum Product Owner I - PSPO-I (Scrum.org)
- 2018-12: Agile Fundamentals - ICP (ICAgile)
- 2016-06: Professional Scrum Master I - PSM-I (Scrum.org)
Initial training
- 2007: DEA in Physics (ULB)
- 2002 → 2006: Master’s in Physics (ULB)
🎤 Contributions & conferences
Conference talks
2026
- Agile Lean Europe: When the coachee didn’t choose to be coached: how to deal with it?
- Agile Lean Europe: Consent 101: the FRIES framework
- Agile Lean Europe: Restorative conferencing: fixing the problem & repair the relationships
- Journée Agile Belgique: What does it cost not to collaborate: our team repair kit
2023
- Agile Tour Brussels: Burning Man: Co-creation in a hostile and complex environment
- Internal presentation: Improving internal IT services (with agility)
- Groupama Agile Day: Minimalism (Doing less to do better)
2018
- Engie Agile Day: A journey to Agility
- Engie Agile Day: Cross-pollination between teams
Media
2024
- Podcast Public Service Adventure, episode 1: Journey towards agile government
Trainer
2021
- European financial institution: Agile Short Sessions
- Consulting company: Scrum Training
- Belgian university: Introduction to self-organizing teams
📖 Key readings that nourish my practice
Thinking in systems
Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
The principles of systems behaviour and the identification of leverage points, to intervene on structures rather than on symptoms.
The Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge
A framework that links systems thinking and organisational learning, to develop an organisation’s capacity to adapt.
The strategic systemic approach (Palo Alto)
Provoquer le changement - Reynaldo Perrone & Yara Doumit-Naufal 🇫🇷
A strategic intervention framework from the Palo Alto tradition, which sees change as a process born of new information and makes it possible to target interventions.
Systémique et entreprise - Jacques-Antoine Malarewicz 🇫🇷
The Palo Alto systemic approach adapted to the francophone and organisational context, with concrete examples.
Collaborating, governing, repairing
Radical Collaboration - Jim Tamm
A model that distinguishes defensive reflexes from creative partnership, combined with interest-based negotiation, to align a team and handle conflict.
The Art of Gathering - Priya Parker
A framework for designing gatherings that have meaning and generate lasting change.
Many Voices One Song - Ted J. Rau & Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
A practical guide to sociocratic governance, for organisations moving towards shared power.
Sociocracy 3.0 - The Novel - Jef Cumps
A story that makes the governance concepts of Sociocracy 3.0 accessible and shows applications of distributed leadership and collaborative decision-making.
Pratiquer la concertation restaurative en groupe avec des jeunes - Joëlle Timmermans-Delwart & Jeannine Blomart 🇫🇷
A group mediation process from restorative justice that brings together everyone affected by a harm in order to repair it, focused on young people but transferable to any group.
Coaching
Coaching Systemically - Paul Lawrence
Five frameworks for bringing systems thinking into coaching and linking personal difficulties to the wider dynamics they are part of.
The Complete Handbook of Coaching - Edited by Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova & David Clutterbuck
A reference work on the theories, approaches and professional issues of coaching, grounded in academic research.
A Skeptic’s HR Dictionary - Patrick Vermeren
An academic examination of management practices that confronts fads with factual research and offers evidence-based alternatives.
💬 Community & events
Online resources that inspire me
- A Practical Guide to Sociocracy 3.0: pattern library for the implementation of sociocratic governance
- Leverage Points: fundamental framework for understanding the effectiveness of interventions
- The Systems Thinker: continuous exploration of systems thinking applications
Event participation
- 2026: Journée Agile (Belgium), Agile Lean Europe (Leuven)
- 2025: Journée Agile (Belgium), Agile Tour Brussels
- 2024: Journée Agile (Belgium), GOTO Copenhagen, XP Days BeNeLux
- 2023: Journée Agile (Belgium), Agile Tour Brussels, Groupama Agile Day, XP days BeNeLux
- 2022: Agile Tour Brussels
- 2021: XP days BeNeLux, Frug’Agile (France)
- 2019: Journée Agile (Belgium)
- 2018: Engie Agile Day
- 2017: Agile France
🎯 Want to discuss these approaches?
Free first exchange to see how these methods can apply to your context
This page represents my commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous learning, and the integration of cutting-edge research with practical application. Each resource contributes to my ability to support people and teams in creating lasting change.