About speaker

Joseph Pelrine

Theoretically Retired Psychologist

A quiet and reserved researcher and practitioner, Joseph Pelrine is considered by cognoscenti to be one of the pioneers and top experts on Agile methods. He has spent almost 40 years defining and refining processes to help some of the world’s most well-known companies improve their ability to satisfy the needs of their customers.

As a psychologist, his focus on people and his experience in applying leading-edge techniques from social complexity and psychology to process optimisation go far beyond the domain of software development and extend to the whole organisation.

Although Joseph Pelrine still occasionally works as a consultant or interim manager, his preference is passing his knowledge on by counselling and advising individuals and organisations, often in the role of a CTO/CIO/CDO “whisperer”. He conducts research in novel applications of psychology to teams and development processes, based his original PhD research in forensic psychology and psycholinguistics.

Talk details

September 30

9:00 – 17:00

wed 30

9:00 – 17:00

Joseph Pelrine Theoretically Retired Psychologist

Leadership Psychology Team dynamics

Psychological safety. Team intelligence. High performance. These concepts dominate today’s management discourse, yet few practitioners understand how to rigorously assess whether their teams actually possess these qualities, or how to systematically develop them. This one-day masterclass cuts through the hype to deliver what serious team leaders, coaches, and managers need: evidence-based methods grounded in decades of psychological research, presented by an experienced psychologist with a practitioner’s understanding of real-world team challenges.

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Day 38 (10/1)

14:15 – 15:00

thu 1

14:15 – 15:00

Joseph Pelrine Theoretically Retired Psychologist

Leadership Psychology Team dynamics

Why do teams stacked with talent still fall apart under pressure, while teams with modest resources somehow execute like clockwork? Most answers to that question are borrowed from motivational speakers and management fads, not from science. This talk is different. Drawing on original psychometric research, psychologist Joseph Pelrine unpacks a diagnostic framework that explains, precisely and testably, where high performance actually comes from inside a team, and where it quietly breaks down. If you lead, build, or depend on a team that has to get it right when it matters, this session will change how you look at every team you’re part of. Come with your assumptions. Leave with a different way of seeing your own team’s ceiling, and how far below it you might currently be operating.

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