9+ Teams | Where Culture and Performance Unite

9Plus Teams’ mission is clear: Within the next five years, we aim to directly impact and elevate 100,000 teams and organizations across the globe by providing them with targeted awareness strategies and tools for dynamic improvement. We are revolutionizing their approach to collaboration, communication, culture and performance, ensuring every team can achieve and sustain peak performance.

Founder | 9+ Teams

Surply | Team Dynamic Diagnostics

In an age where team dynamics are the cornerstone of corporate success, understanding them in real-time is not a luxury—it's a necessity. Surply is not just another HR tool; it’s a revolution in team performance management. In real-time, we reveal the intricate dynamics within teams, highlighting areas of synergy and potential blockages. But we don’t just identify issues; our platform offers actionable insights, enabling managers to address these challenges effectively, ensuring teams can transition to a state of high performance.  Why is this crucial? Because in today’s fast-paced business environment, waiting for annual reviews or periodic feedback just doesn’t cut it. To truly nurture a thriving culture and drive productivity, you need the power of real-time insights.  With Surply, you empower your managers to not only lead but to understand, adapt, and elevate their teams to unprecedented levels of collaboration and efficiency.  Let’s redefine team management together. Experience Surply.

Founder | Team Dynamics Diagnostics

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center

Budapest continues to be a strategic site supporting Global Business Services for Aegon. In my role I am responsible to centralize the Tech, Finance, Risk and Asset Management Hubs and bring them under one leadership and governance driving a high performing culture across the board.

Director Operations, People & Culture | Board Member | Tech, Finance, Asset Management Hub

Early 2017 we started building the foundation of the 6th Branch office of Aegon Global Technology also referred to as our workplace of the future. Designed on the believe that an inspiring environment and a primary focus on people will drive continuous improvements, growth and passionate talent. This branch office is not seen as just an asset but as a tool for strategic growth. Next to the initial strategic design and market research my responsibilities as managing director of the branch are to execute the strategic direction of continuous growth and value creation, build and maintain a high engagement / high performance culture, implement and manage processes of talent acquisition, performance management as well as transformation consultancy, coaching of staff and management consulting. Our branch office setup and approach got recognised in the 2018 Aegon Global Awards as top 3 finalist in the category "Best Improvement" of the year.

Keyword: Workplace strategy, People & Culture, D&I, Expat

Managing Director | People & Culture | Board Member | Global In-House Tech hub

Aegon Global Technology

Responsible for providing leadership and oversight over the global Business Analysis & Operational Application Support group. This group, consisting of approx 45 people located in the US, NL and UK, is focusing on among others; 1) Global functional and technical support for enterprise (Sox) applications in the area of operational excellence, finance and collaboration & communication. 2) Business Analysis for major global business initiatives. 3) Divisional support for Corporate Center focused on change & control, Enterprise & Solution Architecture, Budget & Cost Control and Support for the Aegon Executive Board. 4) Transformation to a global fast paced agile development & support organisation. (DevOps)

Senior Manager

As part of AGT's Integration Office I focus on supporting Aegon Country and business units in Central & Eastern Europe with the strategic objective to create synergies on global level by connecting employees and businesses assuring that the IT organisation and infrastructure are managed (cost)efficient and effective. We focus on synergy realization, quick wins and strategic agility, anticipating changes in the business/IT area, as well as the opportunities and risks. As integration team we embrace the concurrency of initiatives and rapid global change, and drive successful outcome. Last but not least I continue to lead a global initiative to improve the effectiveness of diversity worldwide which ties into my passion and believe that diversity is an essential part of innovation and global success.

Lead Integration Consultant - CEE Region

As strategic liaison between the US/UK based AEGON Global IT organisation and the business responsible to understand the (global) business, manage the budget meetings, assist in the prioritization of projects, align organization and processes, manage escalations, ensure that projects align with the technology that best provides maximum return on investment, and direct IT strategy in support of the overall business strategy. In this role I am responsible for Aegon The Netherlands, Asset Management (nl), TKP Investments and seven countries in Central & Eastern Europe; Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine. In addition I am leading a global initiative to improve the effectiveness of diversity worldwide.

Strategic Relationship Manager

AEGON Nederland

- Responsible for the applicative & desktop support IT Servicedesks and in charge of the transformation into 1 centralized IT Servicepoint aligned with the new Aegon NL Strategy.
- Strategic planning, research and business case for merging the servicedesk with the Aegon global servicedesk with the objective to reduce costs
- Responsible for merging 10 service management tool instances into one central US hosted BMC Remedy instance.

Manager IT Service Point

Coördinator and projectlead of the IT application servicedesk primary responsible for applications within the divisions; Bank,  Life insurances and call center.

Responsbile for projects concerning OS & Office migration as well as centralizing servicedesks.

Teamlead / Project Manager

De Wekker Bulgarije

De Wekker Bulgaria is investing and advising on investments of Bulgarian real estate to Dutch clients. With 28 supporting offices in The Netherlands we are the biggest dutch owned real estate firm offerings Bulgarian real estate.

Co-owner / Investor Consultant

Orange Vision

With more then 7 years hands-on experience on the Bulgarian market I started a company specialist in IT / business consultancy supporting Dutch firms with outsourcing services (BPO) to Eastern Europe.

Owner / IT BPO / Tech hub Strategy Consultancy

CoreTrek

Responsible for starting up a sourcing unit in Eastern-Europe (Bulgaria) with the goal to hire specialists working on Dutch innovative projects (staff augmentation as well as executing projects). In 2007 the team grew to +/- 15 specialists. In my role as manager I focused on the "bridge" between the different cultures, recruitment and sales. Next to this I managed innovative web development projects building content management systems, advanced virtual offices, communication systems and music-on-demand databases.

Head Of Operations | Tech Hub

Turning Teams into Champions

“I have a deep routed passion for building and growing high-performing teams, and after years of research and experiments I have discovered the algorithm of vibrant high-performing organizations and epic workplace cultures. All driven by a mission to fix the Global Employee Engagement crisis" 👇

⚠ Work can be exciting, engaging, empowering and fun but at the workplace we often lose our sense of enthusiasm and energy. We settle into a routine of maintaining our day to day tasks, and we lose our understanding what the business we support is really all about. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

🎯 Being a passionate practitioner of purpose driven leadership with 20+ years of research, experiments, failures, successes and international assignments, I have discovered and mastered the algorithm of vibrant high performing organizations. The best part? No doubt that you can do that too! 

My pursuit has always been to become a better person, to do positive things in the world, to have great achievements, to help others. Therefore I developed a methodology called the Surpass Principles and a platform (Surply) to provide leaders, managers and teams with a powerful and pragmatic tool for instant Team Culture Intelligence and positive change.


Want to know more? Take a look on www.surply.io and connect with me.

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✔ High Performance Development
✔ Intercultural strategist
✔ Human Experience Journey
✔ Culture Hacker
✔ Transformational Strategist
✔ Future of Work Research-driven
✔ Whole system change

Menno Olgers 🚀

Lufthansa Systems Hungária

Senior Agile Coach

Incze Gáspár E.V.

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Highlights:
- Deliver online Agile kickoff training series to finance, controlling & technology teams (200+ people) with Art of Agile co-trainers at Magyar Telekom.
- Conduct organizational development, including individual coaching, mediation, and team coaching for a Hungarian SME with Reinventing Organizations Mapping interviews. I helped the team to get a delayed robot hardware development back on track by improved team collaboration, agile practices and business value-based re-prioritization. R&D product was successfully delivered to an exhibition on time and quality.
- Agile Consultant at an ambitious, results and innovation-driven FinTech client developing a smart contract based trading platform. Reviewed organisational setup, way of working and proposed changes.
- Consultant at Nem Adom Fel! ("I don't give up!") Foundation. Conducted organisational, cost-benefit and technical analysis to improve collaboration infrastructure, improve goal setting process and work transparency.

Senior Agile Coach, Scrum Master, OD, Trainer, Business & Life coach

Wizz Air

Senior Agile Coach and Scrum Master

edUcate.Business

"From driving the largest agile transformations of the CEE region, via mentoring, coaching and training individuals & teams, to building digital products, we help clients work smarter and more passionately."

- Improved customer satisfaction for Dubai/UAE-based car rental clients through the application of Design Thinking methodologies (customer interviews, problem definition, user experience).
- Conducted comprehensive trainings, workshops and coaching sessions for managers and Product Owners, which resulted in effective goal setting (OKR) and strategy execution.
- Elaborated personalised Learning & Development (L&D) roadmaps and sessions. Contributed to organisational growth by targeting investments in key, high-demand areas.

Senior Agile Coach & Consultant

Aegon Global Technology Services - Budapest

As an Enterprise Agile Coach I served and guided the global organisation to establish and evolve Agile, Lean, DevOps & Design Thinking mindset, transformation strategy, culture, practices, processes & tools by delivering continuous feedback, coaching, mentoring, facilitation, workshops and trainings to individuals, teams and leadership.

- Led Agile transformation workshops for the GTS leadership team across HR, PMO, and IT areas, resulting in a more cohesive and agile organisational practices.
- Supported 8 Scrum teams, improved their delivery capabilities, doubled their internal agile maturity score in less than 9 months. 
- Coached Product Owners. 
- Developed role-specific (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Manager) online learning journeys, combining experiential learning with coaching.
- Initiated, led and contributed to organisation-wide (NL, UK, US, HU) change efforts (Organisational Change Management Group 2.0, Effective Meetings, Gloat introduction), promoting a learning culture, effective meeting management, and the adoption of Design Thinking.
- Onboarded the Miro whiteboarding tool to the organisation (created cost-benefit analysis, investment pitch, co-created risk, SOC & GDPR analysis)
- Created a team and launched OneBudapest CSR volunteering framework. We had 26 participants at the first occasion volunteering for 7 different organisations (renovating a house and cooking for homeless people, taking orphaned kids to the zoo, teaching and mentoring teenagers )

Accomodus Consulting

- Co-created the Agile playbook and contributed to Erste Bank’s Agile Transformation. 
- Supported 2 IT teams as Scrum Master, ensured on-time delivery of next-generation internet bank and PSD2 Berlin Group API development.

Agile Coach & Scrum Master 

MSCI Inc.

As an Agile Coach I worked with multiple Scrum teams across several Agile Release Trains to establish and strengthen agile foundations, to foster the agile mindset and practices through teamwork and communities, and to support a continuously improving high-performance culture for building software at MSCI.

- Coached & trained 4 Scrum teams, including Scrum masters and team leaders.
- Organised a SonarQube static analyser pilot to increase software quality.

My responsibilities included:
- Coaching Scrum Masters, team leaders, agile teams, participating in agile ceremonies and helping team members understand their intent, value and how to continuously improve
- Working closely with multiple Scrum teams to improve their ability to deliver high-value products predictably, with attention to quality up front
- Training – creating and delivering training classes on Scrum, Lean, Lean Startup, Kanban, Design Thinking, Innovation and soft skills that are fundamental for a successful Agile journey
- Focusing on building skills within the teams and helping individual team members share information in communities of practice and other training and professional development forums
- Sharing experience and best-practices from Scrum, Lean, SAFe, Kanban, Design Thinking & Innovation methods and tools, providing hands-on support to developers, researchers, and testers in conducting Scrum ceremonies and SAFe PI Planning events
- Contributing to organizational learning – using metrics across release trains and teams to identify areas for process improvement, identify anti-patterns, and help teams avoid pitfalls the organization has identified in the past.

Agile Coach

Nokia

- Modernised and managed the Innovation Framework of Nokia Budapest, introduced Lean Startup concepts, SharkTank idea pitching format and RISE support framework. The results were recognized by Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri, earning the Most Innovative Site Award.
- Led the SkillTree gamified web portal innovation project (team of 6) to visualize & motivate self-development and strengthen peer learning culture across departments
- Organised events (Hackathons and Learning from Failure nights with 20+ attendees/event) raising awareness about innovation, Lean and Lean Startup concepts
- Coached idea owners (business case creation) and innovation team members
- Outstanding Innovator award (2018)

Innovation coach & Product owner

- Introduced Scaled Agile Framework (Full SAFe) on tribe-level for 3 squads with leadership team coaching 
- Managed four-month-long mode of operation improvement project for making Nokia solution development and release process SAFe-compatible
- Continuously managed & improved 5G and Edge Data Center program execution and monthly reporting with 10+ experts and key business stakeholders from multiple regions in the E2E Cloud Solution Definition tribe
- Improved positive feedback culture & collaboration within the tribe using CX-Ray sociometry survey tool

Agile Coach, Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant & Solution Manager

- Coordinated Lean projects across departments, collaborating with other Lean navigators, TC management, R&D IT and other stakeholders.

Lean Project Manager (Nokia Budapest Technology Center)

- Initiated and managed the Transcendence framework for TAS R&D to improve development and testing processes & tools - combining in-house innovation, Lean (value stream mapping, ROI calculations), Retro of Retros and other continuous improvement initiatives in one forum
- Manage Cloud & Lab Transformation (OpenStack, VMware, Eucalyptus migration and problem management)
- R&D Competence Development Manager for 200+ engineers, contributed to organizational change management, career path & training strategy, budgeting
- Contributed to Nokia strategy, digital and cultural transformation via the company-wide Open Leadership & Competence Development STAR stream

Lean Project Manager (TAS R&D)

Toastmasters International

As the first President of the Nokia Budapest Toastmasters Club, I had the primary responsibility of general supervision and operation of the club. 

- Started the Nokia Budapest Toastmasters Club with 30+ members
- Directed the club in succeeding the members' needs for educational growth and leadership
- Formed a club vision and strategy, establishing long-term and short-term goals with other Toastmasters officers and stakeholders.
- Networked with other clubs who can help realising the club's mission
- Presided at club meetings

Transferable Skills: Team Building, Team Leadership, Strategic Planning, Strategic Guidance, Conflict Resolution, Negotiations, Project Management, Meeting & Workshop Facilitation, Time Management, Parliamentary Processes, Consulting, Coaching and Networking.

Club President

Speechangel

There are over 30 million immobilized people worldwide who need constant help for even the most basic daily routines. To help them, we are building SpeechAngel, an affordable mobile application enabling control of other apps and smart devices with voice only, supporting any language/sound pattern via user-trainable speech models. For example, a person can make phone/Skype calls, control music and video playback, turn lights on and off - only by saying short speech commands to a smartphone.

Our mission with SpeechAngel is to give back independence and dignity to all immobilized people regardless their financial situation or spoken language.

Scrum Master & Software Architect

Hi, I'm Gaspar Incze. I help people, teams, and organisations to unleash their full potential - and go even beyond. With a rich background in innovation, people & organisational development, and IT, I'm all about delivering impactful results.

I guide a diverse range of professionals, from startups to large multinational teams, in mastering innovative, win-win, strategic, Lean - Agile mindset and practices, high-performance team collaboration, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and growth. My approach is a blend of hands-on leadership, coaching, training, and mentoring, all aimed at driving both significant organisational and personal advancement.

What sets me apart? My unique combination of IT expertise, including three Master's degrees in Information Management, Service Engineering, and Cloud Computing, ISTQB Advanced Level Test Management, and my passion for systemic thinking (ICAgile ICP-SYS, Theory U, Reinventing Organizations, Spiral Dynamics, unFIX), innovation (Design Thinking, Lean Startup), Agile, Lean, open-source technologies, AI, UX and world-class non-directive (ICF) coaching. This blend of skills enables me to craft strategies that are not just effective but also sustainable and forward-thinking.

So, whether it's navigating complex changes, developing cutting-edge IT-rich solutions, or empowering teams to excel, my goal is to help you achieve unparalleled success in your journey.

Expertise / Skills: Agile Coaching / Scrum Master / Organizational Development / Agile Transformation / Lean Project Management / Customer Satisfaction / Design Thinking / Training / Workshops / Coaching / Goal Setting / OKR / Strategy Execution / Learning & Development / Agile Methodologies / Product Increment Planning / Value Stream Mapping / IT Management / Team Collaboration / Business Value-Based Prioritization / R&D / Product Delivery / Team Efficiency / Change Management / Learning Culture / Online Learning / Experiential Learning / Team Leadership / Software Quality / Lean Startup / Scaled Agile Framework / SAFe / Competency Assessment / Career Development / Infrastructure Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure / Software Testing / R&D Management.

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