Michael Hamman

Michael Hamman is committed to the possibility that the workplace be a site for personal, professional, and social transformation. Trained in the 1980s in coaching and large group facilitation with Werner Erhard and Associates, Michael went on to train in systems thinking (with Peter Senge), facilitation (with Marvin Weisbord), and leadership and systems coaching (at Coach U, Coaches Training Insti-tute, CRR Global, and Interdevelopmental Institute). He was a PhD candidate for three years in Human and Organization Development at Fielding Graduate School, where he was ABD (All-But-Dissertation).

Michael's work experience began as a software developer. Combining his technical expertise with his early coaching experience, Michael made a name for himself for his ability to help start-up software teams achieve both technical and team collaboration excellence.

In the late 1990s, he began integrating Agile practices into his work with software teams. In 2004, Michael began to bring Agile coaching into the corporate environment, being among the first Agile coaches to do so. Since then, he has coached dozens of Fortune 500 compa-nies and teams, and hundreds of leaders, toward greater holistic team and enterprise-level agility. Since 2013, as a Principal at Agile Coach-ing Institute and Co-Founder of the Agile Leadership Institute, he has continued to train and develop agile coaches, managers, and leaders in the art and practice of transformational leadership.

Michael lives with his wife, Susanne, and his canine friend, Duchamp, in Taos, New Mexico.