Speaking

Powerful, inspirational, and fun keynotes for your next corporate event, conference and leadership meeting. Jeff tells it like it is. He’ll make you laugh. He’ll make you cry (a bit). You’ll walk away inspired, energized and ready to get to work with a set of new, powerful tools.

Who does what by how much? A practical guide to customer-centric OKRs

In this talk, I will clearly explain why OKRs are not just a fad but rather the only way to set goals in a software-driven, continuous world.

Outcome based roadmaps for agile teams

Managing outcomes is the key to building agile teams. This is particularly visible as you begin to implement Objectives & Key Results. But how do you continue to plan product development, set expectations with stakeholders and clients and create product roadmaps that both adhere to some kind of plan and are agile enough to adjust to what your teams are learning from the market? This talk provides the answer to this and many other questions. Hire me to give this talk.

Lean, agile design thinking

In this talk I bridge the gap between the various recipes for agility into a series of practical principles any team can adopt. Hire me to give this talk.

The power of storytelling. TEDx@AsBarcelona

In my first TEDx talk I discuss the need for storytelling, how to compose a compelling story and why I made friends with the human cannonball.

Sense & Respond. Principles for the next century of work

Building great products requires a culture that supports continuous learning, improvement and most of all, humility. In this talk I show how modern technology enables us to build learning organizations that build products our customers will love. Hire me to give this talk.

Longer speaker reel:

Book Jeff for a keynote


“Jeff Gothelf is a true agility expert: a great teacher, storyteller and consultant. He worked with our entire top and middle management to evolve agility thinking in our organization. He provided the ground for improved cross-functional collaboration and outcome orientation.”

/ Nicole Gerhardt, Chief Human Resources Officer, Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG