Our Trainer
Benjamin Sommer
I help organizations to change their thinking about IT being a cost center to thinking about IT as a profit center.
Benjamin is a professional agile coach, trainer and innovation mentor. Benjamin is recognized worldwide as an expert in Agile and Scrum and he holds the two highest-level certifications in the field: CST (Certified Scrum Trainer) and CEC (Certified Enterprise Coach) by the Scrum Alliance. He has trained over 1000 students and coached a variety of organizations; small, large, privat, public and government.
His focus is on helping organizations achieve business agility, make product teams go faster and deliver more value. Benjamin has more than 15 years experience as business developer, management consultant, entrepreneur and investor. Benjamin is now using Lean and agile frameworks in his work with both large organizations and growth stage start-ups. Benjamin is also a published author focusing on business development and Scrum in his writings. He is also trained in Co-active coaching by Coaches Training Institute.
Specialities: agile coaching and training, lean start-up, business model innovation, executive coach and mentor.
- Certified Scrum Trainer With Scrum Alliance
- Certified Large Scale Scrum Practioner
- Accredited Business Intermediary with American
- Association of Business Brokers
- Less-Friendly Scrum Trainer
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Professional-ScrumMaster
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- ICAgile Certified Professional
- Kanban Train the Trainer Certified
- Co-Active Coaching
- Non-Violent Communications