Michael Stump

Michael Stump, SAFe Fellow & SPCT, is a Lean-Agile Leader and mentor to executives on state-of-the-art SAFe practices and full Business Agility across all industries. His consulting and management experience enables him to lead, manage, and advise companies through great organizational change. As an advisory board member to technology companies, his specialty is Lean and Agile transitions within highly distributed, multi-cultural enterprises.

As one of the first SPCTs and SAFe Fellows in the world, Michael mentors executives and advises organizations around the globe while guiding SPCTs and SPCs on their career development. Michael is a SAFe Contributor and helped Scaled Agile, the provider of SAFe, over 6 years to develop the business around the globe.

Michael is also a passionate helicopter pilot. A Zurich, Switzerland native, he regularly travels the globe and currently lives in Amsterdam and New York City.

Niko Kaintantzis

Niko Kaintantzis holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering ETH and is a certified systemic coach and organisational consultant.
During and after his studies, he worked with international teams on the development and design of business-critical Java enterprise applications. He made a name for himself as a UI technology expert. He trained course participants in requirements engineering and usability techniques.
He is the author and co-author of two teaching materials for IT trainees. Niko is certified by the Swiss Association for Adult Education (SVEB) to organise events with adults.
He was in charge of Scrum and Kanban implementations for Swiss customers in 2006. Due to his many years of experience in the design and development of complex software solutions with several distributed teams, he dealt with the issue of scaling early on and was one of the first SAFe experts and LeSS executives in Switzerland. He has also been an SPCT since 2019 and trains other SAFe trainers.
In January 2018, he was certified as a systemic coach and has been conducting coaching sessions, especially leadership coaching, ever since. He deepened his training and graduated in January 2020 as a systemic coach and organisational consultant with a diploma recognised by the Swiss Professional Association for Supervision and Organisational Consulting (BSO).

He enjoys relaxed cycling and Greek dancing.