Derek W. Wade is a collaboration expert and organizational coach at Kumido Adaptive Strategies.  His passion for helping teams apply group-centered models — and his 26 years of experience across a broad range of industries — have enabled him to improve many group efforts, especially those leveraging distributed teams.  Derek is the author of Multidimensional Management: Avoiding Calcification or Fragmentation on Distributed Teams (with J. Puopolo) and Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture (with Scott Barnes).Specialties: Derek has been a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Innovation Games™ Qualified Instructor, Core Passion Authorized Facilitator, served on the Board of Directors for the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and APLN-Chicago. He has spoken at numerous public forums, including ScrumGathering, Agile2008, the Tulsa Area Agile Group (TAAG), CITCON, Ignite! Chicago, and OOPSLA. Derek is also a Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor; these have more relevance to the Agile world than he ever expected.