Summary
Wolfgang Steffens is a systems thinker and organizational design coach with 16 years of experience driving large-scale Lean and Agile product development across telecoms, insurance, and enterprise contexts. A Certified CAO and LeSS trainer, he has led transformations from hands-on Scrum teams to 1,000+ person SAFe and LeSS adoptions, emphasizing systemic optimization over superficial role changes. Wolfgang blends practical delivery experience from Nokia-era program management with deep coaching skills to help organizations learn to solve their own problems rather than relying on external fixes. He runs kai kaku Oy and trains with The LeSS Company and Creating Agile Organizations, pairing workshops and simulation-backed approaches to reveal hidden system constraints. His unconventional background includes a 3+ year global motorcycle expedition that honed resilience, improvisation and cross-cultural communication—skills he brings to high-stakes change initiatives. Based in Lohja, Finland, he focuses on defining clear system optimization goals so structural changes deliver measurable, long-term impact.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering and Management, Industrial Engineering and Management at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German, French, Finnish