HELLO, my name is Ralph van Roosmalen
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Lives in Nuland, Netherlands
- Speaks English and Dutch
- Holds events in Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine, United States of America, South Africa, Albania, Argentina, Aruba, Australia and Armenia
- Works for Agile Strides - Coaching & Consultancy
- Years as a Facilitator: 6
- Number of events held: 56
Past Attendee Ratings
8.2
/ 10.0
Public events (Based on 164 evaluations)
Last 12 months: 8.5 / 10.0 (Based on 16 evaluations)
8.3
/ 10.0
Private events (Based on 96 evaluations)
Last 12 months: 7.8 / 10.0 (Based on 11 evaluations)
Past Attendee Feedback
Order, listen, knowledgeable, friendly but not too much, answering questions, support discussion, culm
Orna Shapira
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Familiar with content, a lot of experience, flexible.
Yoel Tahover (Cisco Video Tachnologies Israel)
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Good and clear exercise
Listen and was open to questions
Encourage good conversations
Sessions started on time
Very open to get feedback
Chani Green (Cisco)
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Approachable, Lots of activities, He broke the ice between participants in a short span of time. Many useful exercises.
Dr Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer (Progress Software)
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Highly knowledgeable, evidently highly experienced, easy going, professional, adaptive, humorous and fun.
Ilan Kirschenbaum (Practical Agile)
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Good preparation and adaptation to group needs.
Renzo Zitman (Pro-People)
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He valued feedback during the workshop and acted upon it; he was open and honest on his experience; he ceated an environment for open discussion
Sjoerd Kessels (Pamoja)
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Good structure of the presentation, clear and good practices that can be used in every day situations at work, music during the training and workshop was very interesting and I liked that very much.
Milena Trkulja
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Presenting topics in a very interesting and entertaining way. Integration of own experiences and experiences of the attendees. Flexible to change agenda in case of important topics for attendees.
Christoph Woskowski (Zuehlke Engineering GmbH)
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Great communicator, knew how to handle certain unpleasant moments during the workshop (when some participants had unrealistic expectations), good story-teller.
Daniel Dichiu (Bitdefender)
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Great drawing skills, good English, easy to follow him
Andrada Popescu (Mozaic Works)
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He spoke from experience.
Readiness for discussion...interactive approach.
Vladimir Kelava
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I really enjoyed Ralph's use of the flip charts versus PowerPoint slides. Doing so made the workshop interactive and meaningful. I knew it was a lot of work to prepare the flip charts and I really appreciate Ralph's investment of time.
Stephen Guth
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Openness, ability to share life experiences and how to apply the techniques he was teaching. Very well versed and delivered in a very realistic and understandable method.
Sandra Allison (Citizens Property Insurance Corporation)
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Ralph is clearly very experienced in this field. He was able to convey the content of the workshop in a fun, practical manner. He kept us engaged throughout the two days and ensured that the workshop was interactive allowing for plenty of learning and knowledge sharing.
Zia Attlee (KR)
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Knowledge, time management, listening, know when and how to involve the participants
Valentina Eftimie (Stefanini)
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Very good speaker, he can interact with the public very easy and share information in a practical way than others do.
NICOLETA DRAGHICI
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Tailor made training where he encouraged us to participate in discussions. Also he explained many things using his own experience/own words which made things easier to understand.
Kevin Wang
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Deep knowledge of the material and a very dynamic and easily to follow teaching style.
Alejandro Mayorga
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Ralph was very clear in the concepts. You can tell he is an expert, open to share both great and not great experiences, which helps a lot to understand how the practices work in real life. He is pretty fun as well, I enjoyed his stories.
Romina Aguilera
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Ralph has a lot of knowledge of, and experience with, M3.0. He is able to explain it clearly and has good examples from his own work experience to support the theory.
Rob Eijgelshoven (Airios)
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Ralph immediatly created an atmosphere of openness and willingness to learn and discuss experiences.
Martijn van de Haterd (Improve QS)
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Friendly,. Gave clear explanations, exuded confidence which creates an impression of authority and knowledge on the topic, hence we will be able to use the materials and lessons learned with confidence as well.
Klara Fürstner (UserZoom)
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- Good communicator
- Good questions to make you think
- Really good material prepared
Miriam Garcia (Userzoom)
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I really liked how Ralph gave examples from his own experience. This really helped to create an environment where people felt save to open up. Next to that I liked how he wrote down the most important info on a whiteboard, as this helped me to concentrate on the highlights.
Iris Delmee (Sendcloud)
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Short Bio
Ralph is specialized in Management 3.0, being agile and building (distributed) agile software teams. Furthermore, he is the first person who wrote a book about Management 3.0 besides Jurgen Appelo. The book is called "Doing It - Management 3.0 Experiences" where Ralph shares his many experiences with Management 3.0 practices.
Ralph is an independent Agile Coach at Agile Strides. He is an active member of the Agile community and shares his insights and knowledge by speaking at conferences and writing blog posts. Since 1997 he fulfilled several roles within the ICT, mainly at ISV's, these vary from Developer, Test Manager, Scrum Master, Development Manager and VP Research and Development. Since 2004 he is already involved in Agile projects.
He has extensive experience in setting up distributed teams in countries as Romania, US, and India. From selecting the location till recruiting and building the team and in the end transferring to a local country manager.
Helping people and therefore organizations, to get them moving to create a better work environment, a work environment that people love and inspire them to do great things is his passion.
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