about edUcate
We create innovative products and build agile organizations.
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Our story
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We specialize in innovation and agility, whether it be products, services, organizations or capabilities
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edUcate was launched in 2016 in New York City and has continued to adapt ever since. We became market leaders in the CEE region in supporting adaptive organizational transformations by 2019
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To meet the urgent needs of our clients during Covid, we launched edUcate.design, so together we can provide rapid responses to complex, volatile situations in CEE
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To scale our impact, we partner with top universities, digital startups and leading management consultancies in order to stay up-to-date on global innovation and technology and deliver impactful solutions for our clients
Who we are
We are a team of curious, creative problem-solvers who love new and complex challenges. We are from all walks of like: strategists, designers, coaches, engineers, agile geeks, pedagogists, and other entrepreneurial minds – and everyone collaborates. Our secret sauce is empathy, positive attitude, sharing ideas and cherishing different ways of thinking to cultivate innovation and create high impact.
The Team
Barbara Brunn
CEO, senior consultant with 20+ years of experience in the competitive and public sectors, business transformation, project management, communication and change management
Andrea Pingitzer
CEO, senior consultant with 20+ years of experience in strategic planning, organizational development, system implementations; CMC consultant; member of VTMSZ
Tamás Frivalszki
Engagement Manager,
Agile Transformation Consultant,
Certified Business Coach
Glória Jakab-Valkai
Agile Consultant, certified Agile Coach, Business Transformation Consultant; former CEU, IBM
Kriszta Welsh
Agile Transformation Consultant, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Former Sales Management and L&D Leader, PO, Leadership Coach,Trainer, Raiffeisen, OTP, Profil Training
Katalin Galambos
Certified Coach, Consultant & Trainer, "Coach of the year 2013", 23 years of leadership coaching and consulting experience
Csaba Schwarczinger
Tamás Garics
Senior Agile Coach, Former Scrum Master at Lufthansa Systems, former Product Owner at Sense/Net
Senior Agile Coach, Former Scrum Master, Operations Director and Organizational Development Manager at Chemaxon
Sneak peek into our culture
We are a team of curious, creative problem-solvers who love new and complex challenges. We are from all walks of like: strategists, designers, coaches, engineers, agile geeks, pedagogists, and other entrepreneurial minds – and everyone collaborates. Our secret sauce is empathy, positive attitude, sharing ideas and cherishing different ways of thinking to cultivate innovation and create high impact.
We foster an environment where
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working towards a common goal does not feel like work anymore,
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talent and skills matter over degree,
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people remember each others’ birthdays and stay after hours to solve one’s problem,
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you are surrounded by people who inspire and intellectually challenge you,
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where your buddies send a video to your to show to your kids telling a bedtime story,
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failures and learnings are embraced and everyone accepts that we all are humans in progress,
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one can live out-of-the-box and ’trouble-makers’ are valued.
We love our strange name:
edUcate /ˈedjʊkeɪt/
an eclectic group of visionary people who assign themselves weird job titles, decorate walls with colourful pieces of paper while telling them what not to do in order to achieve their evil plan of enslaving leaders, making commoners transparent and accelerating the evolution of all organisms in waterfalls they infiltrate
What we believe
Innovation starts with people, not technology
Delivering the thing right means nothing without delivering the right thing. Starting from the needs of customers and not from technology is the core principle of human-centered design.
Agile makes innovation predictable
While innovation happens in a very non-linear way, it doesn't have to be a black box. Gather insights consequently, ideate and test systematically for predictable outcomes.
Agility is more about culture than ceremonies
Money & magic need to happen together
Establishing an Agile culture, mindset and attitude of teams is much more important than enforcing the Scrum practices.
Innovation is successful only when you solve a customer need while keeping in mind the business goals.
Organization agility works in a package
You need the right tribe structures, enterprise agile governance, cross-functional teams, culture of collaboration and empowerment, and technology to make enterprise agile work.
We support the Agnostic Agile Oath
As experienced agile practitioners and as people responsible for agile change and transformation, we should recognise the importance of being agnostic with agility at any level. This means one size does not fit all, one framework is not the answer, and the ‘what’ and ‘how’ should be suited to customer context and to a wider strategic vision.