Petr is a long-time consultant for Symphera and has devoted his entire professional career to project management and agility. Recently, he mainly trains Scrum and SAFe frameworks, coaches and mentors agile teams or trains and tribes, and consults in the field of agile product management. In everything that Petr trains and consults, he draws from real practice in the roles of Scrum master, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant, agile coach or project manager. Petr is also the co-founder of Agile Race and the founder and honorary chairman of the Project Management Student Club.

Petr Martinásek has been involved in agility, project management, leadership and processes for over 10 years. He is typical for his enormous amount of enthusiasm and positive thinking, which is extremely contagious. This is also why he focuses on motivating and leading people. He loves challenges and meeting new people. He is constantly coming up with innovative solutions that take teams and companies to the next level.

Lately, Petr has been focusing on applying agile ideas and principles not in the non-IT world, specifically in the manufacturing environment.

An agile coach who participated in the agile transformation of ING in the Netherlands, acted as a lead coach in the transformation of the insurance company OHRA, collaborated with Arie van Bennekum (co-author of the Agile Manifesto), created and led a community of agile coaches in Česká spořitelna and now helps with the agile transformation of T – Mobile and Slovak Telekom. He does not see agility as something dogmatic, but as a way to be more flexible in the market and to have happier and thus more efficient employees. In January 2020, he founded the company Agile academy, specializing in education in the field of agility.

He has been building teams for over 10 years, from donor organizations to the corporate sphere. He has undergone 5 years of psychotherapeutic training and his passion, besides agility, is building a corporate culture of partnership and collaboration. He has the gift of strong empathy and authenticity, which he uses to help people drop their defensive shields and unlock hidden potential. He most enjoys working in group workshops where his ability to read between the lines and work with the psychodynamics of the group allows him to unveil themes that attack core attitudes, values and beliefs.

I started my IT career 20 years ago as a Java developer and later as a Project Manager. Due to successful global deliveries, we started our team of Agile Coaches in 2006 to pass on successful (Agile) practices to other teams. In 2010 – 2013 I was part of the Scandinavian IT Cluster where people from different companies and academics exchanged experiences on how to scale Agile in corporations. In 2013, we started our own consulting company, which is no longer focused on IT. Later we co-founded or invested in start-ups. We also co-founded several products on the Red Button platform, such as Red Button EDU where I moderate the Agile Talks show.