Irmeli Pietilä

Helsinki Area, Finland Finland

Teacher Trainer

I don't believe in locking my goals in advance. Effectuation rules in my personal and professional life! For the past too many years I have carried out effectuation research as a hobby. To everybody's surprise, I finally finished my PhD path in October 2015. I was honored to have Professor William B. Gartner as opponent for my thesis, The Game of Developing a Game. Hobbyist Game Developers as Playful Entrepreneurs in the Apple App Store. In January 2016 I facilitated a workshop in USASBE. The workshop was based on the takeaways of my thesis, and it also included a lot of movement. I also had an opportunity to facilitate the same topic in Ropecon, and some other seminars. In November 201...