Wednesday, November, 19th 18.00h – 22.00h
Vision? Defined. OKRs? Check. But now what? How do you make sure strategic goals don’t disappear into slides and spreadsheets? How do you bring them to life, keep them visible, and follow through?
As organizations grow, alignment gets harder. Strategic goals are often written down but can easily vanish into slides, spreadsheets, or scattered meetings.
Leading with Obeya offers a way to close that gap. It helps (leadership) teams to see, act and learn together by aligning on mutual goals, making progress visible, and create shared understanding.
This Agile Kitchen session introduces a practical approach to connecting strategy, execution, and collaboration. You’ll explore how to bring teams together around shared understanding.
What is Leading with Obeya?
Obeya is Japanese for “big room”. In practice, it is a visual workspace where people align on what matters, track what is happening, and decide what to do next.
But Leading with Obeya is more than just visual boards. It’s a structured, recurring way of working that brings rhythm, focus, and clarity to leadership conversations. It connects teams to strategy, and strategy to action.
We’ll explore how Obeya helps teams and organizations:
- Keep strategy alive and actionable
- Make decisions based on shared understanding
- Turn goals into real action
- Build real ownership across teams
Whether you work with OKRs, quarterly planning, or Agile frameworks, Obeya helps connect intent to impact.
Who’s leading the session?
Mark Uijen de Kleijn is a certified Leading with Obeya trainer. He helps teams navigate complex challenges by creating clarity and shared direction.
Mark has supported teams in both public and private sectors. He builds Obeya setups that work, from small team rooms to leadership spaces that connect departments and executive teams.
His sessions are known for their calm energy and real-world focus. He draws on systems thinking, coaching, and visual facilitation. While his background includes Agile and LeSS, he approaches Obeya as a method that applies far beyond Agile teams alone.
Why join this Agile Kitchen?
In this session, you will:
- See how Obeya helps create focus and momentum
- Try out visual goal-setting and alignment techniques
- Be able to reflect on how your team or organization steers today
- Leave with insights to improve dialogue, decision-making, and collaboration
You don’t need prior knowledge of Obeya. Just a willingness to think, try, and learn.
Who is this Agile Kitchen session for?
This session is for everyone who wants more clarity and cohesion in how work gets done.
You might be:
- A product owner or delivery lead trying to bridge strategy and execution
- A team lead or coach who wants to support better conversations
- A manager or director looking for structure and visibility
- Someone curious about how to connect goals with real progress
- Or someone that coaches or guides the people above
If you’re interested in OKRs, quarterly planning, agile leadership, or team coordination, this will likely resonate with you.
The essentials
- Date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025
- Time:
- Doors open: 18:00
- Session starts: 18:15
- Wrap-up and drinks from 20:30
- End of evening: 22:00
- Location: Spoor 18, Mechelen
- Language: English
- Food and drinks: Included
- Price: Free.
Spaces fill up fast. Don’t wait too long.
Bring your questions. Bring your curiosity. Leave with something useful.