Arie van Bennekum is one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto representing DSDM, and expert in the area of Agile Project Management, Team Facilitation, Agile Techniques and User Involvement. In his several presentations and lectures about Agility, he has emphasized preserving an all-round belief in the Teams, which helps them to reach their best potential towards delivering to the end users.

At present, as Wemanity's Thought Leader, Arie focuses his energy on leading big Agile Transformations for leading international corporates and researching better ways of integrating Agile. Arie is also Chair of the Agile Consortium International, lecturer at Universities and sought after Keynote Speaker at Conferences.