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ABOUT ME

Ivo Peksens

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Facilitator, Trainer, Scrum Master,

Team, Agile & Leadership Coach.

The 1st Certified Agile Coach

(Certified Team Coach - CTC)

from Scrum Alliance in Baltics.

25+ years working experience in IT field.

20+ years experience facilitating meetings.

13 years experience Scrum, Agile & Team coaching.

experience

My work experience dates back to 1997 when I was teaching school teachers how to use Ms Office and installing Personal Computers. Step by step through engineering and few people leadership roles, ended up being a hands on Scrum Master in 2013. As dedicated Agile Coach from 2017.

I have spent most of my career in international, English speaking business environments mostly in EU and also in US based organizations.

More detailed information in my LinkedIn.

Link to the latest CV of mine.

Link to Feedback.

my STORY

Somewhere around mid 90s of the last century, I felt an attraction to computers. It continued at university where I found myself consciously studying not how to program, but how computers work. As knowledge emerged, I soon realized that always a combined (computer hardware and software) performance is what impacts the end user experience.

Related jobs followed and when I moved into a domain where it was about software development using computers rather than supporting computer users, I soon realized that success is not only determined by how good one is at programming, but also what interaction is like with the other people. It’s always both – technology and psychology.

After years, I got a book called “Finding Your Element” by K.Robinson after I had seen some of Ken's TED talks. It’s a practical book. While reading it and doing exercises, I soon realized that I am ‘in my element’ when I, put simply, facilitate other people. I suddenly was able to give a common denominator to the most of my professional past. But mainly it gave me clarity about what I want to do further.

Since all the time I was around computers that’s where I went on. I started a steep journey towards becoming better at facilitating others, learning and practicing coaching. I started to pay attention to working together, I started to value how rewarding it is to see others succeed in what they are doing together and how important that actually is to the everybody involved. Believe it or not, but soon I became a Scrum Master as that was the perfect fit to what I wanted to do. And it was a new turning point!

Below is a video answer from Lyssa Adkins to my question (2014)

as a starting Scrum Master:

my VISION

My vision has evolved over the years.

Below is the latest formulation of it:

I want to live & work in a world where people

include each other into different kinds of actions

in themes that impact them and the organization

they're part of. That starts with family and ends up

with community.

My mission is to help the inclusion happen

safely so that the collective intelligence

can be accessed and used well!

While on this mission, I value

trust, openness, transparency

curiosity, courage, respect.

MY QualificAtions

Formally, I have obtained two Master degrees from Riga Technical University (2003; 2013). Although 'Technical' the 2nd degree is with emphasis on business side of things, namely Business Informatics program, covering subjects like organizational behavior and systems theory.

As from my story, 2013 was a turning point for me where my learning journey obtained a new speed. I started learning and practicing Scrum, Facilitation, then Coaching. Along the way obtained some certifications as well.

Since 2018, I was actively learning according to the Certified Agile Coach resources from Scrum Alliance. In 2019 I started attending an international mentoring group for Agile Coaches. In December 2020 became a CTC Candidate. In January 2020 I joined CTC Candidates international mentoring group. And became the 1st Certified Agile Coach (Certified Team Coach - CTC) from Scrum Alliance in Latvia and Baltics (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and the 3rd in the Eastern part of Europe on June 21st, 2021.

This whole journey from 2018 till 2021 was like obtaining another Master's degree and was very deep, real-world experience validation and inclusive reflective learning experience compared to the more formal university type of Master's degrees.