Christian Antoine CST®, CLP®, Certified LSP® Faciliator
Christian is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Less Practitioner (CLP) , and Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator.
Christian has over twenty-five years of experience helping teams and leaders shape their organizational design and development to make their workplaces more adaptive, intentional, and human.
He partners with for-profit and nonprofit organizations across industries—including technology, healthcare, finance, agriculture, and professional services—to help build systems that learn fast, adapt quickly, and lower the cost of future change.
Before joining Collaborative Leadership Team, Christian held roles with Medtronic, Hollstadt & Associates, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), and Southwestern Advantage.
A graduate of St. John’s University (Collegeville, MN), Christian resides in Golden Valley, MN with his wife and 3 children.
Click HERE for Christian’s Coaching and Mentoring Services on the following topics:
Agile & Scrum (Domains: Software, Hardware, Non-IT Services)
Leadership
Train the Trainer
Facilitation
Effective Public Speaking
Date: Nov 03-04, 2026
Time: 8:30AM - 5:00PM Central
Venue: DMACC Southridge Campus
Location: Des Moines, IA
Instructor: Christian Antoine
Phone: 612-791-1388
Certified Scrum Master
Date: Nov 05 - 06, 2026
Time: 8:30AM - 5:00PM Central
Venue: DMACC Southridge Campus
Location: Des Moines, IA
Instructor: Christian Antoine
Phone: 612-791-1388
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Date: Nov 23-24, 2026
Time: 10:00AM - 6:00PM Central
Venue: Virtual via Zoom
Location: Online Training
Instructor: Christian Antoine & Angela Johnson
Phone: 612-791-1388
Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master
Just what are the accountabilities of the Scrum Master? Angela Johnson and Christian Antoine break it down!
In a recent Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course, a student new to Scrum was a bit confused by the repeated reference to the ScrumMaster as a “coach”. “What do you mean coaching or when does this coaching happen?” was the question raised.
MINNEAPOLIS (September 10, 2018) – Collaborative Leadership Team (CoLead Team), an industry leader in providing Scrum and Agile coaching and training, is proud to announce that two of its team members have earned the rigorous Path to CSP Educator℠ credentials enabling them to deliver the Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM℠) certification. CoLead Team Founder and CEO, Angela Johnson and Certified Scrum Trainer, Christian Antoine are two of the first group of ten individuals to achieve this certification in the United States.
So just what is a product backlog item in the Scrum framework? One of the Scrum artifacts is the Product Backlog. A Product Backlog Item, or PBI, is similar to the intent of the user story. It was a place to note conversations that needed to be held with the Product Owner and anyone else necessary to flush out more information about the item. As conversations are held, results of those conversations can be added to the PBI in plain old words. No prescription necessary!
“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”
What would you say is a major difference between a basic player and an advanced or professional player? A big factor is knowing the rules.
It’s so important in fact that In Scrum we have a role whose whole job it is to coach the team on the rules of the game- the Scrum Master.
When you put these two words together as a way to respond, you have truly engaged in collaborative thinking. It shows that a group of people are combining and refining thoughts and ideas into something better than an individual contribution. If you will, it becomes a collective genius!
Christian Antoine has earned the Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) certification from the Scrum Alliance, the largest, most established and influential professional membership organization and certifying body in the Agile community. Christian adds this exclusive certification to the Collaborative Leadership Team. Prior to achieving the CST® certification, Christian participated in the Scrum Alliance experimental Endorsed Scrum Trainer® (EST®) program which enabled him to deepen his Scrum training delivery skills.
Why does the Collaborative Leadership Team love Scrum? Because the Team (Development Team, Delivery Team, Leadership Team, Finance Team, etc) is allowed (and required) to use their creativity to solve a problem or create a new solution. If Teams are only needed to solve a well defined problem by following a preset solution, that Team is likely going to be automated at some point. See car manufacturing...
Date: Sept 17-18, 2026
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM Central
Venue: Virtual via Zoom
Location: Online Training
Instructor: Christian Antoine & Angela Johnson
Phone: 612-791-1388
Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master
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