About the speaker:
Gitte Klitgaard is an agile coach, trainer, advisor and mentor solving problems in organisations. She uses strategy, accountability and responsibilty, collaboration, psychological safety, communication, setting good engineering practice, and what ever else is needed. She works with teams, leaders, and individuals on all organisational level. Gitte is authentic, she will cut to the chase, and help people become themselves thereby reaching success.
Gitte knows how combining human skills with good leadership skills is a necessity for an organisation to get stuff done. And getting the right stuff done. Her ability to align the individual well-being and growth together with company objectives is remarkable. One of Gitte’s key strengths is holding people accountable while fostering psychological safety.
Gitte has given talks and keynots at three continents, where she highlights and makes topics like mental health and psychological safety accessible. Other topics include courage, retrospectives, various agile topics, leadership, management, and her personal goal: bringing humanity back in the workplace.
Her community contributions include organizing coach camps for over a decade and actively engaging on social media. She creates safe and respectful environments at work and outside. She listens to and engages the more silent voices and minority groups. Gitte also contributes to the community by writing blogpost and on Bluesky as she shifted away from Twitter. She wrote a section about team safety in "The Art of Agile Development, 2. edition" by James Shore which was published in 2021.
In her spare time, Gitte collects LEGO and Yodas and keeps in touch with friends from all over the globe including some, she considers her second family.
Gitte is owner of Native Wired and has lead change at companies like IBM, LEGO, Spotify, and SVT.

