Giuseppe De Simone
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About
Giuseppe De Simone is an engineer turned leader, coach and trainer, who is passionate about helping leaders, teams and organizations become more productive and resilient, by embracing Agile values, principles and practices.
Being a Certified Scrum Trainer, Coach and Leadership Educator, he believes in the power of growing people as the only truly long lasting investment and has embarked on a mission to democratize leadership skills for everyone.
Holding a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples, he started working as SW developer in 1999, after a year of civil service in a temporary care home for abandoned children and single mothers. He has been working in product development for 25 years since then and he has started very soon in being interested in the science of how people work together effectively and the chemistry necessary to transform a group of knowledge workers in an organism capable of delivering products and services which customer love. After several years experience in Technical Coordination of international, complex telecom/IT projects, distributed in several sites, with external partners and suppliers, he started embracing Agile by undergoing 8 weeks of intensive training and coaching from 9 international Agile coaches and trainers (including 3 CSCs and CSTs).
Giuseppe is currently Managing Director at agile42 in Sweden.
He has been working as coach and trainer since 2010 and has helped several individuals, teams and organizations to create more human and skilfull work environments and have more productive lives for a total amount of 15000+ hours coaching.
As a teacher, he organized and taught several classes about Agile, Scrum and Agile Leadership at different sites for a total amount of more than 3000 class hours.
Giuseppe has spoken at several conferences, regularly writes articles and holds webinars about agility, change management, culture, learning, leadership and coaching.
His education and skills are heavily influenced by having been Scout for more than 30 years and Scout Leader for more than 20.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2025-03-05 - present - De Simone Consulting AB (CEO, Consultant, Coach, Trainer)
- 1999-04-19 - 2009-09-30 - Ericsson (Various roles, including System Engineer, Technical Coordinator, Systems Manager, Change Leader)
- 2009-10-01 - 2014-10-13 - Ericsson (Lean and Agile Coach)
- 2014-10-14 - 2016-10-31 - Ericsson (Line Manager and Lead Agile Coach)
- 2016-11-01 - 2018-02-28 - De Simone Consulting AB (Founder, CEO, Agile Coach)
- 2024-05-01 - 2024-12-31 - Ageru Consulting (Leadership and Strategic Consultant)
- 2018-03-01 - 2025-03-05 - agile42 Consulting AB (CEO, Coach, Trainer)