Martien Van Steenbergen
About
Martien van Steenbergen, 1958–07–05.
Values
Deep mutual respect—for others, for nature and biosphere.
Radically open—there are no secrets in the Universe.
Whole-all—common wealth prevails individual wealth, always.
Personal Connection
Martien behaves like an entrepreneur, working with people, teams and technology. Martien is passionate about scale-free chaordic organizational design, user-centered software, and integral architecture with evolvability as its highest systemic quality, and holacracy as its operating system.
Others see him as fresh, lively, charming, passionate, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to his head. Martien is a compassionate servant leader. They also see him as open, integer, loyal, committed, dedicated, kind, considerate, and understanding; as someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out. Last but not least, they see him as someone with vision, with a clear picture of the techno-social future and a wide focus.
Disruptive innovation, second order change, leadership, happiness, and living systems are key concepts in his world. Preferably self-organizing and self-healing. Inspired by nature, agile development, distributed programming, peer-to-peer and semantic web technology, and healed by a good dose of humane design, professionalism and compatibility. Sharing is multiplying.
Don’t believe Martien, but take a test drive and find out for yourself.
Roles
Facilitator, Coach, Trainer, Innovator, Visioneer, Idealist, Wise Fool, Entrepreneur, (Team & Project) Leader, Director, Ambassador, Architect, Developer, System Thinker (and Doer).
Development
Kanban Coaching Professional, SAFe Agilist, CSM, CSPO, Ecosophy, Spiral Dynamics (1, 2 & 3), Siebel TAS Training, NIBE Training, Leadership (Sun intern), Media Training, Power Base Selling, Strategic Selling, Consulting Skills (LIFO), Mansal Sales Training, RUP & UML.
Educated by HIO Enschedé, MTS Electronics, HAVO and Life Itself.
Passions
• Eastern philosophy, quantum physics, Zero Point Field, Law of Attraction.
• “Living” architecture—in nature, buildings, societies, organizations, systems, and software.
• Holacratic governance for society and organization, fueled by peer-to-peer, the wisdom of crowds, and our collective intelligence.
• Emergence, stigmergence, autopoiesis, and metamorphosis.
• Scale-free distributed living systems and systems thinking.
• Self-organizing and self-healing chaordic systems and organizations.
• Pattern languages for architecture, organization, individual, process, project, ecosystems, monetary systems, and software.
• Philosophy, spirituality, science, and technology.
• Wholeness, authenticity, art, and Self.
• Open source, open standards, open innovation, open architecture.
• Network effects, collective intelligence, and swarm power.
• New enterprising, sustainability, resilience, evolvability.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2014-11-01 - present - AardRock (Master Agile & Lean Trainer & Coach)
- 1984-08-01 - 1985-06-30 - Philips Data Systems (System Programmer)
- 1985-07-01 - 1986-09-30 - Nixdorf Computer (System Analyst & Developer)
- 1986-10-01 - 1988-03-31 - RIVM (System Designer & Developer)
- 1988-04-01 - 1990-12-31 - West Consulting (Senior Consultant & Trainer)
- 1991-02-01 - 1994-12-31 - Sun Microsystems (Multimedia Ambassador)
- 1995-01-01 - 1998-12-31 - Sun Microsystems (Java Ambassador)
- 1999-01-01 - 2003-01-31 - Sun Microsystems (Practice Leader)
- 2003-02-03 - 2004-03-31 - Aduna (CEO)
- 2004-04-01 - 2011-01-16 - AardRock (Founder)
- 2011-01-17 - 2014-10-31 - Xebia (Principle Agile Coach)