Steffan Surdek is an Agile coach/trainer at Pyxis Technologies. As a coach, he strives to create engaged teams led by inspiring and empowering leaders for the sake of making the software development workplace fun again. Mr. Surdek has worked in IT for over 20 years in collaboration with many distributed teams around the world. He speaks at various conferences and user groups about leadership and agility with distributed teams. Mr. Surdek is coauthor of A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum, written in collaboration with the IBM Scrum Community. He blogs about life and agility at Surdek Solutions and about authentic leadership at Provoking Leadership. He can be reached at steffan@surdek.ca.