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 🚀

Sanofi

As a Scrum Master and Agile Coach within the Project & Program Management Team, I support multiple IT corporation-level projects in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban), involving international teams with members located worldwide.

My role involves actively supporting, improving KPIs and sharing insights and ideas by coaching individuals and teams, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers, and the respective project stakeholders across the organization. I am fostering a collaborative and agile digital transformation.

Scrum Master Corporate Functions (PSM 2) | Agile Coach

As a Scrum Master assigned to a large international project in a global team focused on enhancing the employee experience, I facilitated agile transformation. I worked closely with the Product Owners, proxy Product Owners, all involved business stakeholders, coached team members, fostered a positive team spirit, promoted a self-organizing team capable of effectively handling challenges in a unified manner, and ensured alignment with project goals. I consistently worked to improve Agile Maturity within the Scrum team.

As a Test Manager, I managed and coordinated the UAT testing activities.

Scrum Master | Test Manager

Aegon Global Technology Services - Budapest

I served as both a Scrum Master and a Team Lead. As the Scrum Master, I ensured the team followed the Scrum framework, facilitated communication, and removed obstacles. As the Team Lead, I managed the team and ensured they met their objectives.

Scrum Master | Team Lead

Member of the Globally focused IT Operational DBA Team located in North America (Texas, Iowa) and Edinburgh. I worked remotely in a global, virtual team, multicultural environment with different world areas.

Contributed to multiple IT projects worldwide as a project lead and project team member (highlighting some of them: UK NationWide Pension Fund migration in Edinburgh 500k+ customer data, Pega Production Upgrade).

DBA Team Lead (MS SQL Server Data Platform)

Emerson Automation Solutions

Member of the globally focused IT Operational DBA Team based in NA (Texas, Iowa). Worked remotely in a virtual, global team, multicultural environment with different world areas (USA, EU, ME, AP).
Contributed to multiple IT projects as part of the Scrum development team.
Had focal contact responsibilities of ETL development (Oracle & MS SQL Server DW and DM).

BI Developer & Senior MS SQL Server DBA

Assignment with the UK office based in Kent.  I was involved in multiple projects, working closely with the Development team and the Business Analysis team.

Assignment with the Hungarian office based in Szekesfehervar. I was part of a global team operating within a multicultural environment, collaborating with teams across various world regions including the EU, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. In this role, I contributed to multiple IT projects, taking on responsibilities such as planning, design, development/coding, integration, and automation.

•	App development on legacy systems
•	Data migration projects in MS SQL Server & Oracle environments
•	Provided Global Production break fix Support to Oracle FUSION ETL Process.

Senior Business App Programmer

Impex-Softdesign Bt

I primarily focused on conducting advanced professional training in IT for adults (web development, databases, mathematics, PHP, Ruby, Delphi). At the end of the training, the students received advanced certification recognized both internationally and in Hungary. Additionally, I specialized in web development, with a focus on e-commerce websites.

Co-Owner | Vocational Education | Web-development

Regional Training Center

Conducted vocational IT training for adults, with the main topics such as relational databases, OOP, C++ Builder, Delphi, SQL, and Mathematics.
Additionally, I contributed to internal IT Projects within the educational institution.

Vocational Education | Developer | Member of the examination committee

Kocsis LTD

Taught OOP, C++ Builder, Delphi, SQL, Mathematics, Assembly

Software developer trainer

Are you an Agile expert, or do you aspire to be one, seeking to boost your team's performance and value delivery? I specialize in helping professionals and Agile teams enhance their KPIs by fostering stronger team cohesion and collaboration.

Passionate about inspiring and coaching others, I am dedicated to being a positive influence and guiding teams to reach their full potential. At AgilePM.Education, I offer tailored courses, interactive customized workshops, Agile coaching support, and mentorship on Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid approaches, designed for both individual growth and scalable implementations.

Let's connect on LinkedIn to explore how I can support your Agile journey and drive meaningful improvements in your team's performance.

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