The Liberators

Hi there! We are Barry Overeem and Christiaan Verwijs. Our mission is to liberate individuals and teams from ineffective ways of organizing work by putting them in control of shaping their future. <img src="https://theliberators.com/assets/images/barry-christiaan.jpg"> How we work on our mission We do this by giving (Scrum) teams all over the world the products, content, and community they need to make this work. One part of this consists of the free content we create (weekly <a href="http://bit.ly/2CdRdad">blog posts</a>, books, and frequent <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/466339">podcast episodes</a>. Another part is the community we’re building through the local user group. And yet another part is a series of products to help teams discover what is holding them back, investigate the root cause, and to ignite real change. This includes exercises such as &quot;<a href="https://bit.ly/tl-52cases">52 Cases for Scrum Teams</a>&quot;, the <a href="https://scrumteamsurvey.org/">Scrum Team Survey</a>, and everything we offer on <a href="https://bit.ly/2FlhQf2">our webshop</a>.  <img src="https://theliberators.com/assets/images/materials.jpg"> How you can help us If you appreciate our content and benefit from our materials, you can help us in this mission by becoming a patron. This gives us the much-needed financial support to create more content and more products. But more importantly, we can unleash more teams together with our growing community of patrons. Will you join us? Who are we? We have both been active as Scrum Masters for a variety of organizations for a dozen years. With that practical, hands-on experience in our backpacks, we became Professional Scrum Trainers and Stewards at Scrum.org. With Scrum.org, we developed the Professional Scrum Master II Class to help Scrum Masters build a deeper understanding of the purpose of Scrum. Aside from Scrum, we are active members of the global Liberating Structures community. We founded the Dutch Liberating Structures User Group (now 2.000+ members), hosted the first Immersion Workshops in the Netherlands. With Liberating Structures, we have facilitated hundreds of small-scale meetups and dozens of large-scale gatherings (up to 200 participants). Barry lives in Bunschoten with his girlfriend and three kids. He has a background in business administration (B.ba). Christiaan lives in Utrecht, is married to Lisanne Lentink, and has a background in (organizational) psychology (M.sc) and software engineering (B.ec).

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This tier is ideal if you appreciate our free content &amp; products and our ongoing scientific research. Your support encourages us to create more!  ✓ Get early access to new blog posts, podcast episodes, and in-depth papers✓ Get access to our private Discord server and share insights, learn from peers, and support each other in overcoming tough challenges✓ Get a 100% discount on almost all the digital products on our webshop (digital versions of our card exercises are NOT included, our 75+ DIY workshops and 52 Scrum Challenges are part of the package!)✓ Get a 15% discount on all physical products from our webshop✓ Get a 50% discount for a Scrum Team Survey subscription for up to 3 teams and 3 months✓ Get support to start your own local user group✓ Get a frequent newsletter with our latest insightsHow will you use our content and products to unleash organizational superpowers worldwide?

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