E. Rustenburg (Eelco)

Eelco Rustenburg is a Partner at Highberg, certified SPCT, trainer, author and keynote speaker with extensive experience in Agile transformation and leadership.

Eelco has been active in the Agile community for more than two decades. He has worked with large international organisations on complex transformations, helping leadership teams, programmes and teams apply Agile and Lean principles in practice. His experience ranges from software and digital environments to hardware, compliance and other complex organisational settings.

As a trusted advisor to leadership teams, Eelco focuses on the connection between strategy, leadership, organisational structures and ways of working. He combines deep knowledge of frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS and Nexus with a strong belief that frameworks should support Agile values rather than become an end in themselves.

Eelco is particularly experienced in large-scale Agile transformation, portfolio and product management, execution effectiveness and leadership development. His approach brings together systems thinking, Agile and Lean principles, coaching and practical experience to help organisations create meaningful and sustainable change.

Alongside his consulting and training work, Eelco is an experienced international speaker and author. He co-authored The Power of Scrum, which has been translated into several languages, and regularly shares his experience and insights with the wider Agile community.

In his training sessions, Eelco combines thought leadership with a highly practical perspective. He challenges participants to look beyond processes and frameworks and focus on the behaviours, leadership and organisational conditions needed to make change successful.