Darren Hoevel
President, Agile & Leadership Coach
MBA, SPC, CSP, CSM, CSPO, CDTLF, LSPf, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, ORSC, WXY & Z
Darren Hoevel is a people person with 7.125 billion friends and counting. He’s a passionate agile realist, organizational change advocate, corporate cultural renovator, customer ambassador, and co-founder of Pliant Solutions. He is driven by “Organizational Evolution,” creating self-organizing, self-managing teams supported by vulnerability, curiosity, the wiliness to experiment, and the forever openness to learn.
Darren prides himself on not just being a coach but showing up as his whole-hearted self to accelerate progression within individuals, teams, and programs, which, in turn, contributes directly to the health and success of an organization. He has helped large organizations discover their culture, change their mindset, and create enough structure to scale their processes and practices. He believes nothing is more influential than the soles of one’s own shoes and the courage of one’s own vision.
Certifications
Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator (CDTLF)
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator (LSPf)
Organizational Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC)
Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) Program Consultant (SPC)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
Masters in Business Administration, George Fox University, ID
Speaking Engagments
Global Agility + Innovation Summit 2024
AgileDC 2024
National Contract Management Association Leadership Summit 2020
Agile After Dark 2020
Agile Charm 2020
Project Management Center for Excellence 2020
Agile Richmond InnoVAte Virginia 2020
Lean + AgileDC 2019
Washington, DC PMI 2019
Agile Alliance AgileXP 2019
Agile Alliance Agile2019
Agile DC 2019
AgileDC 2018
Agile DC 2016
Agile Alliance Agile2015
AgileDC Organizer 2013-2017, 2024
MeetUp Organizer: DC Organizational Agility Practitioners