Rini van Solingen

Speaker, author, professor and entrepreneur. His expertise is speed and agility of people and organizations

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Speaking

Rini is an engaged speaker about speed and agility of people and organizations. His talent is to explain complex content in a simple and humorous way.

He does this by using simple analogies and by telling concrete practical anecdotes. He also shares simple and powerful models in his presentations. And that doesn’t always have to be completely serious; there may also be laughter.

Rini does not use PowerPoint slides. During his lectures, Rini uses two flipcharts: one for the central line of his story and the other one for the side paths and additional models. Also a handout is provided afterwards based on his talk and the flipcharts drawn.


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Rini focuses on empowering his audience (how do you apply this the next day? what can you do and what should you leave?). He helps to see why things are going the way they are and what you can do yourself directly. As a result, his presentations usually get high scores and he often is the best-rated speaker at events. Examples of his lectures are:

  • The why, how and what of agile
  • How do you make an organization fast and agile (or how to make a mess)?
  • Agile leadership – how does that work?
  • How to increase your personal speed and agility?
  • Extreme acceleration in organizations, how to establish that?
  • What is an agile culture and how to create it?

Online sessions

Rini also gives online lectures via MsTeams, Zoom, Skype, WebEx, Google Meet, etc.

Rini is increasingly providing online sessions. For example, when most employees work from home, when clients have multiple offices, or during a remote conference, online lectures can be great option.

During his lectures, Rini changes the working format frequently. For example, by using break-out groups, a poll or quiz question, a Mentimeter survey, a Q&A session, and so on. This retains the energy of the participants highly, and ensures that it will not be boring.

Sessions of one hour up to, three hours are common. Feel free to get in touch to discuss your goals and ideas.


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Possible topics:

  • Tips and tricks for agile teams that work from home
  • How do you execute an agile transformation (especially when everyone works from home)?
  • The why, how and what of agility?
  • Agile leadership, where do I need to change myself?
  • How do you accelerate as a team when you’re not together?
  • How to measure value in agile settings?

During an online session Rini still not uses PowerPoint, and works with a flipchart. These can be read perfectly via the webcam. After the session he creates a handout with the flips, additional articles and videos, to be shared with the participants.

Optionally, the session can be recorded for colleagues who cannot be present or that want to (re)watch the session at a later moment.

Rini has also written a number of management books which he enjoys to give a lecture about.

Writing

Scientific publications

From 2010 onwards, Rini is a part-time full professor in global software engineering at the Delft University of Technology (faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science - software technology department). He provides education and research into distributed software teams (near and offshore). He regularly publishes about this. His most important scientific publications on this subject are:

Training & coaching

A lecture by Rini usually lasts an hour. However, sometimes there is a need for a longer duration or more intensive interaction. Then a workshop or training is probably a better alternative.

Workshops usually last 2 to 3 hours and are designed together to give best results. Training by Rini is also possible, varying from one to a few days or, for example, half a day per month for six months in row. Please get in touch to discuss this.

As Rini has a lot of experience as a board member and has helped with transformations in large corporate multinationals, he also is a perfect consultant for management sessions and/or board meetings.

Consulting & coaching

Looking for personal guidance in making yourself or your organization / department / team faster or more agile? Rini is available as a coach or consultant. Feel free to contact him to investigate what could be an appropriate way to get things working.

Rini is also closely working with Prowareness We-On. Prowareness WeOn employs a large number of agile coaches, consultants and professionals who help clients in their agile transformation on a daily basis. In addition, Prowareness We-On has its own academy with a wide range of (certified) training courses and also provides agile software development through its sister organization DEVON.


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About Rini

Rini van Solingen is a part-time full professor at Delft University of Technology, and acts as CTO for Prowareness and Xeleron. He also is a non-executive board member at Momo Medical and guest lecturer at Nyenrode Business University in several master classes and MBA’s.

Rini lives in Zoeterwoude with his wife Patricia and their children Bo and Bas. Together with Patricia he is co-founder of Logeerplezier foundation. His hobbies are soccer, skiing, fitness, running and enjoying life.

Rini studied computer science at Delft University of Technology (graduated in 1995), holds a Ph.D. in Technology Management from Eindhoven University of Technology (PhD in 2000) and has been a part-time full professor at Delft University of Technology since 2010.

In his working life, Rini was a senior quality engineer at Schlumberger / Tokheim, department manager at Fraunhofer IESE, principal consultant at CMG / LogicaCMG / CGI, and CTO at Mavim.


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Get in touch with Rini

Book Rini for a lecture at your event? Or do you have some other question? Get in touch to discuss possibilities.

Pricing (within Europe):

  • Lecture (45-75 minutes): € 4.950
  • Workshop (3 hours): € 7.950
  • Training (day): € 11.950

All prices are excluding 21% VAT (if applicable) and travel cost. Online lectures (via Zoom, Skype, MsTeams, etc.) receive € 2.000 discount on the above prices.

For prices outside Europe, please get in touch.

rinivansolingen@gmail.com +31 6 18 689 189

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