Joris Swinnen - Team Topologies Advocate
Joris Swinnen - Team Topologies Advocate
As a lean-agile practitioner and participatory teach-the-trainer, Joris Swinnen believes in experiential learning by doing. He designs interactive Learning & Development programs and coaching sessions to support learners and stakeholders. His focus is on fostering an environment conducive to improving systems and behaviors. Via The Flow Hive he bundles progressive powers to support, inspire and balance teams.
Joris’ valuable mentorship in HR and his sustainable transformations in HR are grounded in consistent adherence to the simplicity and principles of Lean-Agile-DevOps. Besides Team Topologies his hands-on toolkit includes Event Storming, STATIK, VSM, Flow engineering, XP, (scaled) Scrum S3, M3.0, and Liberating Structures. His ability to educate and engage fully enables organizations to balance their culture to meet business needs, while effectively (re)defining priorities on portfolio level.
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Team Topologies Advocacy
Joris Swinnen is a member of The Flow Hive, a collective of independent Team Topologies enthusiasts. As an enterprise agility coach, trainer in facilitative leadership, and expert in Learning & Development and Organization Design, he combines learning agility acceleration with Solution-Focused coaching.
With over a decade of experience as a creative management consultant working with many blue-chip product and service organizations, Joris fosters innovation by improving team effectiveness. He is framework-agnostic, direct, provocative yet empathetic, and has supported and held similar organizations accountable.
Joris is dedicated to helping progressive organizations enhance their adaptability and performance through Lean-Agile principles, socio-technical architecture, strategic roadmapping, process modeling and event storming, as well as interactive, playful liberating structures and collective intelligence experiences.
His primary advocacy for Team Topologies is demonstrated through organizing masterclasses via Meetup. Over the past three years, he actively hosted and managed communities for over 20 events, which you can view here: Google Spreadsheet.
Joris also blogs on Substack about topics such as agility in HR, sociotechnical design, cognitive load, and change management. His posts often include subtle references to the library of patterns on which Team Topologies is built, highlighting adaptive initiatives that are contextually appropriate without being overly promotional.
