Verna van Schaik
About Verna van Schaik
Verna van Schaik’s passion is exploring how to live exceptional delivery through balancing the empowering of people with process & practice.
With 25 years in iterative, incremental software delivery, Verna shifted into Agile and Coaching in 2014, working with delivery and flow in large corporations across two continents (South Africa and now New Zealand).
Verna sees Agility as an exploration of possibilities – a theme anchored by her Guinness World Record (Deepest Dive by a Woman). That journey provided a unique lens for Agility – you can’t do something new by repeating the processes that create the present.
In learning how to do the impossible, Verna realised that she wasn’t born with what it took to be deepest – that was what she had to learn, so now finds ways to activate that possibility for others.
If who you are isn’t set in stone (and it isn’t), then what awesomeness are you that hasn’t come to light yet?
Seeing Conflict Differently! How to find common ground and start moving forward, together!
We know what it could look like, but how do we get there.. this time? How do we balance all the different voices and cross the gap from where we are now to where we want to be? A gap that often shows up as conflict.
What if there were a couple of ‘hacks’ that would enable leaders and teams to see Conflict from a different frame? Instead of disagreement, what if we could take the heat out and were in a world of differences to be curious about and explore?
Most importantly, how do you become better in this dance? What part are you currently playing and how could you shift your impact and create balance that takes teams forward?
For those who like the theory, this talk blends the principles of polarity with double loop learning, non-violent language and just a dash of adult development theory.
For those who just want to know what to do with it all, Verna will lead a conversation to explore together how to re-shape the conflict and build stronger connections to the humans stuck in the noise, just trying to do their best and have an awesome experience.
What if there was no right or wrong to choose from?
How can you lead people to that sweet spot of ‘and’?
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