Hi, my name is Thomas van Zuijlen. As an energetic MC and a professional Scrum Master, I facilitate workshops, I host conferences and I run hackathons.
Drop me a line via thomas@vanzuijlen.com.
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I enjoy MC'ing and building hype to create inclusive, enjoyable experiences - online and on-site.
I wasn't just the event host, I was The White Rabbit 🐰 for Alice in Waterland, an all-encompassing epic experience for public water management professionals. Held in BlueCity, the former Tropicana, in Rotterdam in November 2024.
Here's a sample of me bringing my enthusiasm to Agile Day Kaunas, a 120-people Open Space-fueled conference in Lithuania:
Here's the (Dutch-language) aftermovie of The Big Water Hack: Beyond the Horizon, a 60-people social hackathon on the future of water management that I presented and helped design in January 2024:
Here I'm interviewed by Ant Agile Sofos about my work as a C-level Scrum Master and in particular, my work as the host of Agile Day Kaunas 2023:
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I am an experienced facilitator for workshops, meetings and sessions - both online and in person. I combine goal-based learning design and an understanding of group dynamics to create a flexible space for participants to safely engage with one another. I have an active, confident stance.
I've facilitated roundtables, fishbowls, offsites, trainings, retrospectives, strategy sessions and webinars. Group sizes for my facilitation work have been as widely diverse as ranging from 3 to 75 people.
I have a decade-long background in agile co-creation and a knack for working with diverse, distributed feature teams. With a positive outlook on everything and a strong interest in agile coaching, I engage teams to work together effectively.
I'm a political scientist turned front-end developer turned Scrum Master, with extensive experience in conference and meetup organisation.
I operate in the Netherlands and in Lithuania, and I've been working with distributed teams non-stop since 2017.
