Johan Westerlund

Johan Westerlund

Enterprise Agile Coach
Agile/Lean Organisaion Specialist, Professional Coach and Trainer

15+ year (2009) of specialization in Agile and Lean thinking/principles for enterprise, organization, programs, projects, and teams. With a software development background, years as manager and a professional coach education Johan has a solid ground to succeed in agile transformations and agile coaching for everything from individuals to teams to organizations and enterprises.

He has a history of collaborating with clients to find team-structures and operating models supporting a strong customer-driven, people-oriented, efficient product organization. 

Johan is an experienced craftsman, treating every situation as unique, finding solutions, and making agile systems work. 

A guiding philosophy is to build and evolve every organization and company into a self-going, sustainable and successful place.

 

Personal

With three sons soon to leave our home in Nacka, Stockholm, there is more time to cultivate my own interests – staying in town after work, developing small technical gadgets in the workshop, building houses/gardens, boating in the archipelago, socializing with friends, and being with Anna – my companion for almost 30 years.

 

Example of clients

  • Ving
  • H&M
  • ICA
  • Dustin
  • Vattenfall
  • Scania
  • Plan International
  • Telenor
  • Ericsson

Roles

He is used to undertake many different agile roles within an coach assignment – transformational lead, leadership and toleadership-team advisor, agile coach for team, release and organization, agile project manager, program/portfolio coach, product owner, competence lead, engineering manager, scrum master to mention some.

Methods/tools 

Scrum, Kanban, Value stream mapping, Lean practices (several tools), SAFe, OKR, Beyond Budgeting, Leadership Agility,  CI/CD, XP, Less, DevOps, Professional coaching (ICF), Sociocracy, Jira, Confluence, sharepoint, scripting languages and more…

Previous Assignments                            

Ving Enterprise Agile Coach, Transformation Lead  2024-2025  (Onsite)
H&M Agile/Lean Project Manager in Cloud Accelerator Program  2022-2023  (Hybrid)
H&M Agile/Lean Coach 2020 – 2022 (Remote and Hybrid)
ICA Sverige Agile Coach, Transformation 2019 – 2020
Dustin Enterprise Agile Coach, Marketing & Communication December 2018 – 2020
Plan International Sweden Agil Coach, Transformation januari 2020 – april 2020
Barilla Group Agile Coach, Micro Battle Team juni 2019 – september 2019 (4 månader)
Telenor Agile Coach, Marketing and salesupport team september 2019 – december 2019
PWC Management Consulting, Enterpise Agile Coach May 2018 – Feb 2019
Vattenfall Lean/Agile/Team Organizational Coach, Markets 2018 – 2019
Vattenfall Lean/Agile/Team Organizational Coach, Salesupport & Marketing 2017 – 2018
Scania Lean/Agile/Team and Organizational Coach 2016 – 2017
Ericsson

  • Executive Leadership & Organizational Coach 2013 – 2015
  • Lean&Agile Coach, Mentor and Trainer             2010 – 2013
  • Design Excellence, Change Manager                  2009 – 2010
  • Project Manager,                                                     2007 – 2009
  • Manager,various positions,                                   2000 – 2009
  • Software Developer,                                                1997 – 2000
(Employee 18 år)

Education and Certifications

  • 2023 Leading SAFe 6.0 Agile Transformation, NFI
  • 2022 Team Coach Program, Transcend International
  • 2021 ICF Coach Program ACC level, Leapfrog
  • 2017 Samskapande Organisationer (1-year program), Gestaltakademin
  • 2015 Sociocracy 3.0, James Priest
  • 2014 E3 Coaching
  • 2012 Lean/Agile Coach Program, Tandberg,Göthe
  • 2011 Lean Management, Dag Lotsander
  • 2010 Leading Lean Software Development, M.Poppendieck
  • 2010 Kanban, David Andersen
  • 2009 Cross Culture Communication (China/West)
  • 2009 Scrum Master / Agile by Crisp (at Ericsson)
  • 2008 Software Leadership Program
  • 2001 Leadership Core Curriculum, Ericsson
  • 1996 M.Sc. in Computer Science, Luleå University of Technology