Derek Wade

Glebewood Training Partner

President, Kumido Adaptive Strategies

Derek is a collaboration expert and organizational coach at Kumido Adaptive Strategies. His passion for helping teams apply group-centered models and his 26 years of diverse industry experience enables him to improve widespread group efforts, especially those leveraging distributed teams.

Derek is the author of Multidimensional Management: Avoiding Calcification or Fragmentation on Distributed Teams (with J. Puopolo) and Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture (with Scott Barnes).

Derek has been a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Innovation Games™ Qualified Instructor, Core Passion Authorized Facilitator, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and APLN-Chicago. He has spoken at numerous public forums, including ScrumGathering, Agile2008, the Tulsa Area Agile Group (TAAG), CITCON, Ignite! Chicago, and OOPSLA. Derek is also a Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor which provides more relevance to the Agile world than he ever expected.