IIL’s International Project Management Day Online Conference

Pammy Subramony
Associate Group Director, Head of Submissions and Operations
Clinical and Quantitative Pharmacology (CPQP), R&D, AstraZeneca

Keith Wilson
Senior Trainer/Consultant
IIL

AstraZeneca – Embarking on an Agile Journey

Pammy Subramony and Keith Wilson delivered this session on “AstraZeneca – Embarking on an Agile Journey” at IIL’s 2021 Agile & Scrum Online Conference. Part 2, originally planned to be featured on IPM Day 2021 as well, has been delayed until a future IIL Conference. Stay tuned for that!

The term ‘Agile Transformation’ is commonly used within teams and organizations who are looking to become more adaptable in their work. But how to go about this transformation is a tough question.

In Part 1 of this exclusive series, we will join AstraZeneca as they embark on their Agile Journey. The session will be led by Pammy Subramony, Associate Group Director, Head of Submissions and Operations, Clinical and Quantitative Pharmacology, R&D at AstraZeneca, and Keith Wilson, Sr. Trainer and Consultant at IIL.

What You Will Learn:

• How to assess the current Project Management situation
• The expected benefits and potential challenges of transitioning to Agile
• An overview of different Agile practices
• Defining a strategy for the Agile Journey

BIOS:

Dr. Pammy Subramony has 15 plus years of experience and leadership from early development to commercialization managing programs in biologics, device combination products and small molecules ranging from start-up to large pharmaceutical companies.

Keith Wilson has over 25 years of successful coaching, training, management, and consulting experience globally with over 100 happy clients. He has extensive Agile Training/Coaching experience and makes Agile work for his clients.

Pamay Bassey
Chief Learning and Diversity Officer,
The Kraft Heinz Company

Let’s Learn Our Way Through It, Shall We?

Learning can be your superpower – as an individual and as a collective organization. A commitment to learning can help you to be great in your current personal and professional roles – and help you to grow great careers and fulfilling lives. Come learn how to harness that superpower, create a learning practice, a learning culture, and a learning transformation in your life and in your organization.

What You Will Learn:

• Simple and tactical ways to create an “organizational learning movement” that can support learning transformation in your life and in your organization
• How to model lifelong learning – Show others what it looks like to have a learning practice and to use your influence to encourage them to do the same.
• How to harness the power of doing something big through repeated, manageable action.

BIO:

Ekpedeme “Pamay” M. Bassey is Chief Learning and Diversity Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company, where she drives an inclusive culture of continuous learning, bold creativity, and intellectual curiosity, is responsible for the company’s global learning and development strategy and initiatives and amplifies the work that every Kraft Heinz employee does to create and nurture a diverse and inclusive workplace.

A lifelong learner who loves laughter, words, big ideas, and serving her community, Pamay knows the power of doing big things in small increments. She is a true believer that learning can be a superpower that can transform people, families, communities, and organizations. This belief is demonstrated in her passion projects that, for over a decade, have focused on the ways people believe, worship, lead, and learn.

Her TEDx talk and weekly journal, both named Navigating Sacred Spaces, are based on her project work and her book: My 52 Weeks of Worship: Lessons from a Global, Spiritual, Interfaith Journey. She has also authored a daily journal: Let’s Learn Our Way Through It, Shall We? — created to encourage others to commit to their own personal and professional learning journeys.

Pamay earned a B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University, with an artificial intelligence concentration, and a M.S. in computer science from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the Second City Conservatory program in Chicago, an advanced study of improvisational comedy and theater.

Lindsay McGregor
Author and Co-Founder
Vega Factor

Neel Doshi
Author and Co-Founder
Vega Factor

The Science of Performance

The concept of performance takes up a central place in our world. It is one of the key metrics in our lives and has a prominent place, even at an early age. It is considered in school, sports, relationships, work, and of course, projects.

In this session, we’ll leverage history, current events, experiential learning, and science to explain what performance is, what drives it, and most importantly, what that means for you and any person at work.

We’ll consider a number of experiments, designed to drive value against today’s challenges. From creating “intensity without pressure” to encouraging every colleague to play a “game of impact”, attendees will leave with a foundation from which to thoughtfully tweak their own operating models, performance, and experience.

BIO:

Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi are the co-founders of Vega Factor and co-authors of the bestselling book, Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation.

Previously, Lindsay led projects at McKinsey & Company, working with large fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, universities and school systems. She received her B.A. from Princeton and an MBA from Harvard. In her spare time she loves investigating and sharing great stories.

Neel was previously a Partner at McKinsey & Company, CTO and founding member of an award-winning tech startup, and employee of several mega-institutions. He studied engineering at MIT and received his MBA from Wharton. In his spare time, he’s an avid yet mediocre woodworker and photographer.

Liliana Cerilo
Head of Strategy, Exploratory
Google

Innovation as a Way to Embrace Change

We’ve entered a very disruptive time that has generated the condition for breakthrough innovation as a way to overcome the status quo and the danger of becoming obsolete. Across industries, we are seeing global companies forced to adapt by finding new business models and methods for survival, ensuring business continuity, or serving their customer needs. For this reason, innovation matters now more than ever.

In this talk, Liliana Cerilo will discuss bringing innovative solutions to life. She’s the Head of Strategy at an innovation team at Google called Exploratory, whose mission is to build transformational solutions that solve her largest global brand partners’ most critical business challenges.

In this discussion, Liliana will share 5 tried and tested fundamentals to successfully and consistently launch innovative solutions. She will challenge you throughout her talk to think outside the box, forget about your title and its core responsibilities, and truly focus on what it takes to be an innovator.

Key Takeaways:

• The impact of having a vision
• What it means to think strategically
• How to allow space to be innovative
• The importance of cross team collaboration
• Find the entrepreneur in you – not taking no for an answer

BIO:

Liliana has been with Google for 9 years. As Head of Strategy for the Exploratory, Liliana is building technology-driven business innovation partnerships with the world’s largest brands. Working with product teams across Google and Alphabet, these partnerships leverage groundbreaking innovation to solve critical business challenges and help future-proof against evolving industries.

Prior to joining Google, Liliana had a combined 12 years experience working in U.S. advertising agencies in both the Mainstream and Multicultural markets in Miami and New York. She has led insight generation and strategy development for top blue chip clients across various categories. Some of them included Heineken, Heineken Light, Wendy’s, IKEA, CitiFinancial, Verizon Wireless, MINI, Molson Canadian, Miller Light, Burger King, Wheat Thins, Planter’s Peanuts, among others.

As an advocate for diversity and inclusion, Liliana was one of the pioneers for the Latinas at Google Summit, which brought together more than 500 Latinas from across the company to network, bond and expand their workplace community. This has now expanded to be a network of over 1K members. Outside of the workplace, Liliana serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Beauty Bus Foundation, she enjoys international travel, playing tennis, riding her bike, swimming and trying new and exciting food with family and friends.

Eric Naiburg
Chief Operating Officer,
Scrum.org

An Introduction to Professional Scrum

Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still a new concept to many. Moreover, there are myths that arise.

In this session, Eric Naiburg, Chief Operating Officer for Scrum.org, provides an overview of the Scrum framework. He’ll discuss how Scrum enables agility, and how an empirical process can empower teams that use it.

You’ll learn about the empirical process in Scrum where decisions are made based on observation and experimentation rather than on detailed upfront planning. We will apply this learning using facts and real-world examples.

What You Will Learn:

• Common myths and misconceptions about Scrum

• The 2020 Scrum Guide, Scrum Events, and Scrum Artefacts

• The Project Manager and Scrum

• Accountabilities in Scrum

• How Scrum can be used with other practices like Kanban, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and more

BIO:

Eric Naiburg is Chief Operating Officer at Scrum.org, responsible for marketing, support, outbound communications, partners and operations.

Eric was program director at IBM and Rational Software, where he was responsible for application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps, Data Governance and Agile solutions. Prior to that, he was director of marketing for INetU (now ViaWest), and held product management and marketing roles with Ivar Jacobson Consulting, CAST Software and Logic Works Inc. (Acquired by Platinum Technologies and CA), and for ERwin.

Eric is co-author of two books on the Unified Modeling Language (UML)—UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortals.

Natalie Berkiw-Scenna, PMP
Sr. Project Consultant and Author,
Beaumont Health

Unleash Your Project MANAGEMENT Potential

Project managers spend a significant amount of time leading meetings but rarely leverage these valuable opportunities to their full potential. Instead, meetings provide the greatest source of anxiety, frustration and stress. Meetings fail to produce optimal results; participants feel that their time isn’t valued; and project managers often miss opportunities to advance initiatives or demonstrate skills in leadership and communication.

High-functioning meetings drive value, build collaborative relationships, and successfully move organizational priorities forward. As project managers, we need to take accountability for maximizing these opportunities to achieve successful outcomes and meet the needs of our stakeholders.

In this session, we’ll focus on key activities, a practical methodology, and best practices that you can adopt to consistently and skillfully plan, lead and follow up on effective meetings. You’ll walk away with actionable steps that they can be implemented immediately to unleash your own meeting potential.

What You Will Learn:

• A mindset shift around how you think about and approach meetings to strengthen key skills, build collaborative relationships, and be recognized for your leadership

• Standardized methodology to consistently plan, lead and follow up on high-functioning, effective meetings for all of your projects

• Highly actionable steps and best practices that you can implement right away and set yourself up for success

BIO:

With over 20 years of project management experience, Natalie Berkiw-Scenna brings her passion and guidance to support project managers grow their careers through mentorship, coaching and education.

Natalie brings her wealth of knowledge and expertise from her PMP^Ò and Lean designations, and years of leading complex, strategic projects. She is the author of Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ and teaches this content at several MBA programs, educational events and symposiums.

Natalie has international project experience in both Canada and the U.S., in the health care and non-profit sectors. She currently provides her expertise to Beaumont Health in Michigan. In her spare time, Natalie focuses on training and coaching others to build their confidence, credibility and presence to take their careers to the next level.

Felix Ludosan
Senior Program Manager,
BASF

Every Work Day is a Matchday

Do you ever wonder why football teams walk around the pitch 90 minutes before kickoff? Or what’s going through the minds of star basketball players when they stand at the free-throw line before thousands of noisy fans?

As a project manager, do you regularly stand at the free-throw line?

In this session, Felix will share real stories from his personal sports career in the context of leadership, project management and new ways of working. Discipline, organization, structure, and hard work are basic elements of success—in sports and in business. The human factor makes the difference—and it’s within each of us to tap into this potential.

In this session, you will gain insights into mental techniques and practical examples used by sports stars. You’ll learn to apply these techniques to your daily work as a leader, project manager or team member.

What you will learn:

• Key factors in managing successful teams in sports and business

• Sports mental training techniques that translate into better focus and daily work organization

• How the social environment during childhood is a crucial factor in shaping future professionals, and how you can manage it in your career

BIO:

Felix Ludosan played basketball on a professional level before he joined IBM Germany as a Computer Science graduate in 1995. When ‘Big Blue’ established their Project Management Center of Excellence in 1997, Felix decided to pursue a project management career. He discovered early that his sports experience was extremely beneficial for the project management profession, which became his passion for life.

Felix has worked in numerous industries including Automotive, Financial Services, Insurance, Government, and Manufacturing.

The 6.5 ft. PMP® certified project manager is currently one of the Project Management thought leaders at BASF in Germany, a leading multinational chemical company.

As a certified Sports Mental Coach and Athlete Manager, Felix also coaches young athletes, including his son, an international soccer goalkeeper playing in the U.S., and his daughter who plays basketball in Germany.

Frank Ryle
Trainer
International Institute for Learning (IIL)

Giants’ Shoulders – Making Project Connections

All projects are a journey to towards a goal. All projects share the characteristics of being a temporary endeavor with a uniqueness of scope or environment that makes them very different from operations type work.

The temporariness of the project requires that we manage time – that valuable resource that will consume and surprise us if we don’t manage it well.

A project schedule is our representation of future time – or future memories – that we build together to provide us with confidence, guidance and measuring points along the journey.

A well-built schedule requires three key ingredients:

i) An agreed scope representing the requirements of the stakeholders
ii) Estimates of task durations by the performers
iii) Solid connections between the tasks – Dependencies and sequencing

This session and exercise will focus on that third element – the connections. It is no more or less important than the other two. However it does often provide an opportunity for conversations that can be referred to as ‘storming’ – in the Tuckman/Jensen model of Team Development (Forming/Storming/Norming/Performing/Adjourning).

The game is designed to provide an opportunity to practice and improve our ability to identify connections/ associations/links between famous individuals from the Arts, Science and

Craft worlds. We can use the same skill and ability to identify connections/ dependencies/ sequences between our project tasks.

BIO:

Frank has almost 20 years of experience in the construction and manufacturing industries, as well as ten years of practical project / program managementexperience throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, on projectsvarying from five people to 400 people and from $5 million to $1.2 billion. Since 2002, Frank has trained hundreds of project leaders on project management best practices

Gregory L. Robinson
Program Director, James Webb Space Telescope
NASA, Science Mission Directorate

James Webb Space Telescope – Leading Large Complex Global Projects

The James Webb Space Telescope will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, and everything in between. Webb will reveal new and unexpected discoveries, and help humankind understand the origins of the universe and our place in it. This mission, scheduled for a December 18, 2021 launch, is a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency. We discuss the motivating science questions that required the development of the observatory, highlight the technologies, and project management challenges and lessons learned encountered during the development of this large complex global project.

Although Webb is arguably an unparalleled engineering and technological feat, we explore the critical role of project management in making the world’s largest space telescope a success. As NASA and the space industry are moving swiftly to new approaches, new systems, and far more commercial exploration (often referred to as “new space”) than previously imagined. We also explore how acquisition and project management are evolving towards that future.

BIO:

Mr. Robinson is currently the Program Director of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb). His focus is development efficiency, management processes, contractor performance, and mission success. Formerly the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs; ensuring high performance during development and operations of 114 Science flight projects.

Mr. Robinson held the position of Deputy Director of NASA’s John Glenn Research Center, consisting of 3,200 employees, where the scope spans research and technology, aeronautics, science spaceflight, and human spaceflight. He served as NASA’s Deputy Chief Engineer for several years where he led engineering and program and project management strategy, policy, implementation rigor, and performance management. He was intricately engaged with the last 21 shuttle launches post Columbia Shuttle accident, as well as numerous satellite developments and launches.

Mr. Robinson also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Systems at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, leading the acquisition and management of all satellite systems. He spent 11 years in various leadership positions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Mr. Robinson has over 30 years of engineering, program and project management, and senior executive leadership at NASA

Mr. Robinson served as faculty at the George Washington University, Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering.

He received the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award in 2013, and the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award in 2007.

Karl Smedley
Programme Manager / Deliverer
Fujitsu

A Practical Guide to Introducing Agile

“Don’t throw your baby out with the bath Water(fall)”. This is not a deep conversation about Agile v Waterfall or where to use them (that is for other talks and much deeper thinkers /agile purists). Instead, this talk acknowledges that the world we are living in is complex, where every delivery is different and not binary, i.e., Agile or Waterfall.

This talk is aimed at “Non Agilists” and focuses on how they shouldn’t be scared of agile and that it isn’t about throwing away everything you have learnt from delivering in a more traditional/Waterfall way. It is about building on them and embracing the true mindset and heart and soul of Agile.

The key takeaways of the session include:

• An introduction to some of the basic concepts of agile and which to focus on first
• How to start your journey from “Non Agilist” to a person that can deliver irrespective of environment
• Some of the real-life examples and approaches that have been successfully used kick start the journey for both individuals and teams

BIO:

Karl has been successfully delivering projects and programmes for 20 years. These have predominantly been non software development led and therefore have mainly utilized traditional waterfall methodologies (PRINCE2 / MSP certified).

When Agile starting to gain more popularity outside of pure software development in the mid 2010s, Karl was initially sceptical of how it effective it would be outside of software development and how this would impact Project/Programme Managers. However, once he realised that Agile from a purist sense doesn’t have to be applied that is when he truly embraced Agile and began to understand how the key concepts and mindset of Agile when overlaid alongside traditional methodologies can develop a powerful delivery approach.

Karl now sees himself more of a “Deliverer of anything” rather than just a pigeonholed Project/Programme Manager. Karl is a Certified SAFe® 5 Program Consultant and uses his experience and knowledge to help train and coach others on how to embrace Agile.

Kaihan Krippendorff
CEO
Outthinker Strategy Network

Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Employees and Organizational Leaders

Kaihan Krippendorff delivered this excellent session on “Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Employees and Organizational Leaders” at IIL’s 2021 Leadership & Innovation Online Conference.

“Innovation” brings to mind the maverick entrepreneur who quits their job, at unimaginable odds, to build a business on their own. But this entrepreneurial story is a myth. As a successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO, Kaihan Krippendorff argues that intrapreneurs – employees who incubate new businesses within corporations – have had a far greater impact on the world. Nearly all of the most transformative innovations over the past three decades, from e-mail and the Internet to DNA sequencing and MRI scans, were introduced by employees who did not quit their jobs but instead took the challenge of innovating from within.

Drawing on five years of in-depth research of hundreds of successful innovators and Intrapreneurial Intensity, as well as insights from thought leaders, C-suite leaders, business unit leaders, and front-line employees, Kaihan will share exclusive insights from his book, Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2019).

Kaihan will unveil the most critical internal focus areas for driving innovation and moving your organization forward into the future. He will share specific tools, frameworks and techniques used by successful innovators to manage and unlock the value of employees’ ideas to increase corporate innovation levels and deliver bottom-line results. Participants will have actionable next steps to transform their organization by testing and scaling fresh ideas that generate value and growth. They will leave feeling inspired and empowered, ready to take on the future.

In this inspiring keynote, you will learn about:

• The IN-OVATE Framework
• The seven barriers of internal innovation and how to overcome them
• The six characteristics of Internal Innovators
• The seven steps to build an agile innovation team
• How to disrupt your competition without disrupting your business
• What it takes to lead an innovative organization and drive transformation
• How to shift your organizational mindset and culture
• How to build a wave of internal support for growth, innovation and creativity by reinforcing the idea that innovation is possible, attainable, and ultimately actionable

BIO:

Kaihan Krippendorff has made a commitment to helping organizations and individuals thrive in today’s era of fast-paced disruptive technological change.

He began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy and innovation consulting firm Outthinker, whose growth strategies and innovations have generated over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies including BNY Mellon, Citibank, L’Oréal, Microsoft, and Viacom. He is a best-selling author of five books, most recently the Edison Award nominated Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs.

Kaihan is a member of the prestigious Thinkers50 radar group – A global selection of the top 30 management thinkers in the world to look out for. Thinkers50 also recognized Kaihan as one of the 8 most influential innovation thought leaders in the world considering him for a Distinguished Achievement Award in Innovation – given to the person in the world that has contributed the most to the world’s understanding of innovation in the past two years.

Amidst his dizzying schedule of keynote speeches, consulting projects, ongoing research and writing, Kaihan still finds time to teach at business schools throughout the US and internationally (including NYU, FIU, and UA). Regularly featured in major business media outlets, Kaihan is an advisory board member of multiple national and international companies.

Louria Lindauer
Founder & Agile & Leadership Coach
SuccessAgility LLC

Our Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions: Creating culture self-awareness in you and your world

Louria Lindauer delivered this excellent session on “Our Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions: Creating culture self-awareness in you and your world” at IIL’s 2021 International Project Management Day Online Conference.

Everyone is unique, and we all see and interact differently with the world around us. Our upbringings, our relationships, our communities, and the culture that we are a part of are just some of the elements that influence our worldview and our own cultural bubble.

Most people have some understanding of unconscious bias, but the term “microaggression” may be less known to some. When heading into this presentation, it is relevant to keep in mind that due to our cultural bubbles, we all hold unconscious biases within us and that many of us have displayed microaggressions towards others. What is also true is that, most likely, everyone has been on the receiving end of such behavior whether you realize it or not.

This session will set you up to become more aware of your own (and others’) unconscious biases and microaggressions through words, thoughts, and impact – and how You can take action. Examining the communities where we live and the organizations where we work, we will discover how to recognize and handle the intentional and unintentional biases that prevail all around us to help contribute and create a safer personal and work environment.

We will learn:

• What is unconscious bias?
• What is a microaggression and is it really micro?
• Where do unconscious bias and microaggressions come from?
• Cultural self-awareness starts with you and your world
• Microaggression Giver: Being responsible for your impact
• Microaggression Receiver: When to talk about it or walk away?

BIO:

For the past 25 years, Louria has empowered and created “People First Environments”, where talents are celebrated and voices matter. As an international Executive Agile & Leadership Coach she utilizes her mastery of coaching, facilitation, teaching and mentoring to breathe life into ‘just surviving’ organizations to thriving.

Louria Lindauer creates pathways for people to see beyond their failures to discover and live their purpose with courage and immense passion! Additionally, she has lived every role in agile organization from software engineer, marketing to organizational change and strategy coach. Therefore, allowing her the understanding and empathy to reach, hear, guide and inspire others to their victory and live beyond their failures.

Success Agility, her company, creates the know-how to change chaos into sustainable customized solutions for non-profits, small to fortune 500 companies. Louria’s unique diverse experience allows her insights into the mindset and skillset of the vertical slice (team, program and executive level) of an organization to co-create sustainable culture change, shared vision, streamlined processes, and increased employee engagement in an ever-changing environment.

Louria fell in love with coaching when she took her first agile coaching course which lead her to co-active coaching and becoming a Co-Active Leadership Faculty. Coupled with her passion and ability to lead with courage, love, big laughter, play, faith, connection, creativity, and making the impossible possible. Overall, Louria is fiercely committed to unleashing greatness, success and happiness in business and people’s lives.

Superpowers:

• Funny, Courageous and Speak the Truth – the Elephant in the Room! Not afraid to tell the Emperor he has no clothes
• Loves and Excels at Brainstorming Innovative Ideas & Strategic Creative Solutions
• Spark Brilliant and Productive Conversations with Powerful Questions & Perspectives
• High Intuition and Emotional Intelligence to see beyond the words and to the true “why” of the person or group
• Remote Working, Master Facilitator, Agile Coaching & Mentoring
• Plus, Authentic, Competitive, Empathetic, go-getter with high Emotional Intelligence
• She sees beyond the impossible to THE POSSIBLE!

Dominic Price
Work Futurist
Atlassian

Less process, more guidance. Tips for effectively scaling great teams.

Dom Price delivered this excellent session on “Less process, more guidance. Tips for effectively scaling great teams” at IIL’s 2018 Agile & Scrum Online Conference.

The lone genius is dead. EY reports that 90% of organisations are solving problems so complex, that they need teams. Dom Price, Head of R&D and Work Futurist from Atlassian joins us to share his personal experiences in helping Atlassian scale over the last 5 years, and be more nimble, adaptive and relevant, than ever before. He’ll share why they decided to take on team work, how they did it, and even let us in on some of the pitfalls along the way. This isn’t a session on theory. Dom will share practical insights, from Atlassian, and from over 100 other organisations where they’ve shared their way of working.

BIO:

Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC.

Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, the home of the most intelligent t-shirt wearers in business. As resident Work Futurist, Dom is the in-house “Team Doctor” helping Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective. Dom helped pioneer Atlassian’s Team Playbook and has a deep passion for understanding the future of work and the changes we need to make today.

He has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and a Director of Deloitte.

A keen traveller, Dom has traversed over 50 countries so far, but after 17 years on these shores, he calls Australia home. 

Rubin Jen
Senior Consultant,
IIL

PMBOK^® 7 Guide – A Pragmatic View

Project Management Institute (PMI)’s PMBOK^® 7 Guide is out! But wait, it looks really different! How are we supposed to use this? The heavy processes are not in this edition and for some, it may look like these were replaced by “Do whatever you want”. So now what?

In this session, Rubin will show you PMBOK^® 7 Guide is not as different as you might think. Rubin will give a brief recap of the PMBOK^® 7 origins and structure, and guide you through each of the new performance domains. You’ll learn to formulate your own assessments, and be fully aligned with PMI’s new structure.

What You Will Learn:

• The relationship between PMBOK^® 6 Guide Knowledge Areas and PMBOK^® 7 Guide Performance Domains

• The 12 principles of the PMBOK^® 7 Guide which define the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of project delivery, and their application

• A strategy for you to determine your goals and outcomes for the new domains

BIO:

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 25 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting and government sectors. Rubin also has extensive consulting experience in strategic and operational planning.

Rubin obtained his Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation in 2007 and has been helping organizations in their Agile transformational journey since 2014, as a subject matter expert and as an Agile coach.

As a Senior Instructor with International Institute for Learning for over 10 years, Rubin is a key member of the Global Learning Solutions (GLS) team, helping to create new workshops or customize IIL’s course curriculum for clients.

Rubin graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Certified Scrum Master^® (CSM), PMP^®, Change Management Practitioner with APMG, and certified ITIL^® Foundations practitioner.

Dr. Harold Kerzner
Senior Executive Director
International Institute for Learning (IIL)

The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization

The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation, project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the future-ready organization.

A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive panel:

• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s organizations

BIO:

Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. is Senior Executive Director at the International Institute for Learning (IIL). He is a globally recognized expert on project management and strategic planning, and the author of many best-selling textbooks including Innovation Project Management: Methods, Case Studies, and Tools for Managing Innovation Projects (Wiley, 2019).

He has a MS and Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Utah State University. He is a prior Air Force Officer and spent several years at Morton-Thiokol in project management. He taught engineering at the University of Illinois and business administration at Utah State University and for 37 years taught project management at Baldwin-Wallace University.

Lyssa Adkins
Coach, Facilitator, Teacher and Inspirer
LyssaAdkins.com

The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization

The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation, project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the future-ready organization.

A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive panel:

• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s organizations

BIO:

Lyssa Adkins’ career is split into two eras: 14 years as a project manager and 15 years as an agilist. Even though she had all that experience prior to encountering agile, nothing prepared her for the power and simplicity of agile done well. As a PMO leader (twice!) Lyssa knows that the transition to agile can be rocky – she’s been through it herself.

Lyssa is an internationally recognized agile thought leader and speaker. Her book, Coaching Agile Teams, is still a top ranked book years after publication. She co-founded Agile Coaching Institute (ACI) which has equipped over 10,000 people in the must-have skills and mindset shifts of excellent agile coaching.

Since transitioning ACI to its new home at Accenture, Lyssa has focused on coaching transformation leaders and facilitating group work sessions that unknot the gnarly, multi-department impediments that agile reveals. As a certified organization systems coach and integral facilitator, and as a deeply experienced agilist, Lyssa possesses the skills to help organizations move through the difficult problems to benefit from the full promise of agile.

Deepa Prahalad
Author, Design Strategist

The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization

The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation, project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the future-ready organization.

A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive panel:

• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s organizations

BIO:

Deepa Prahalad is an author and innovation consultant. She has worked with start-ups and large multinationals, and co-authored the book, Predictable Magic: Unleash the Power of Design Strategy to Transform Your Business, which was selected by Fast Company as one of the “Best Design Books of the Year”. She writes frequently for Harvard Business Review, strategy+business, Businessweek and other magazines.

Deepa is an elected member of the International Academy of Management and was ranked #34 on the inaugural Thinkers 50 India list. She was recently selected by leadership guru Marshall Goldsmith into his “100 Coaches Program” from over 16,000 global applicants.

Deepa speaks on innovation and design strategy at leading companies and business schools such as Harvard and USC and mentors leading social entrepreneurs. She is active on several Advisory Boards including the Global Peter Drucker Forum, Mifos (financial inclusion), ArogyaWorld and ModRoof, an innovative, sustainable roofing company in India.

Deepa is also a Board Member for South Asian Art collection at the San Diego Museum of Art and designed the newly created House of India Museum in Balboa Park. She has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Author, Professor & Thought Leader
Strategy Implementation Institute

The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization

The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation, project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the future-ready organization.

A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive panel:

• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s organizations

BIO:

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is a leading expert in project management and strategy implementation, the creator of concepts like the “Project Economy” and the “Hierarchy of Purpose.”

His work has been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice.” He is the author of the recently published Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook, as well as Lead Successful Projects, The Project Revolution, and The Focused Organization.

Antonio has been teaching the value of project management to senior leaders for more than two decades at Duke CE, Instituto de Empresa, Solvay Business School, and Vlerick. Antonio has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BNP Paribas, and GlaxoSmithKline. Former Chairman of the Project Management Institute, he is the founder of Projects & Co and co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute. He is a member of Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches. You can follow Antonio through his LinkedIn Newsletter – Lead Projects Successfully or his website.

Dr. Al Zeitoun
Panel Moderator

The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization

The new ways of working have been diversifying—and fast. Leaders worldwide are looking for signs and indicators of what the impactful organization of the future would look like and what its success attributes would need to be. This group of world-renowned panelists cover the range of background areas needed to tackle this complex topic. They represent champions of strategy implementation, project management know-how, coaching, boards advisory, and agility in delivering work results. They will help us envision and map the course for the future-ready organization.

A multitude of critical building blocks will be explored during this interactive panel:

• The culture of tomorrow’s workplaces
• Skillsets for leading change initiatives and connecting with clear vision
• The adaptability attributes of experimentation, resilience, and fluid digitization
• The strategic role of project management in sustaining success
• How do leaders create the focused organization?
• Igniting passion across product delivery teams
• The reinventing of project management as the core for transforming tomorrow’s organizations

BIO:

Dr. Zeitoun is a Future of Work, business optimization, and operational performance excellence thought leader with global experiences in strategy execution. His experiences encompass leading organizations; delivering their Enterprise Digital and Business Transformation; guiding fitting frameworks implementations; and using his empathy, engineering insights, and collaboration strengths to successfully envision new business models and execute complex missions across diverse cultures globally.

In his position as the Executive Director for Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, Abu Dhabi, UAE, he was responsible for creating the strategy execution framework, achieving transformation benefits, governance excellence, and creating the data analytics discipline necessary for delivering on the $40B complex country energy mission roadmap.

At the McLean, USA HQ of Booz Allen Hamilton, Dr. Zeitoun strategically envisioned and customized digitally enabled EPMO advisory, mapped playbooks, and capability development for clients’ Billions of Dollars strategic initiatives. Furthermore, he led the firm’s Middle East North Africa Portfolio Management and Agile Governance Solutions.

With the International Institute for Learning, Dr. Zeitoun was a senior leader and global trainer and coach. He was instrumental in driving its global expansions, thought leadership, and operational excellence methodology to sense and shape dynamic ways of working across organizations worldwide. He speaks English, Arabic, and German and enjoys good food, travel, and volunteering.

Kursten Faller
Kursten Faller
Midgard

Surprises and Adventures in Virtual Project Management

Prior to 2020, project teams were slowly starting to virtually deliver projects and with the onset of COVID-19, this progress to virtual delivery has become more the norm rather than the exception. As teams are no longer able to work in traditional ways, there has been pressure to be agile and adapt quickly to ensure changing business outcomes are achieved.

Our project teams have had to adapt and apply the right approaches in this new environment. Discipline and agility in best practices application has become increasingly important to ensure project delivery is adapted and focused on delivering the benefits our organizations need to thrive. We will explore learnings that have come from this adventure as part of an overall journey to continue to successfully deliver projects virtually.

Key Takeaways:

• Learnings from transitioning to virtual project delivery
• How best practices improve virtual project delivery
• Opportunities to explore for continual improvement

BIO:

Kursten started his career working with some of the largest consulting firms in Canada. Despite their decades of experience and experienced personnel, these massive firms still struggled to deliver projects successfully. As he witnessed this time and time again, Kursten wondered: why is this such a difficult problem? With no obvious answer in front of him, he set out on a journey to find out why.

He began studying the top performers in the firms he worked with and took advantage of every opportunity to develop his knowledge. He got better at his craft, but still struggled to achieve the team performance he knew was possible. Finally, he realized he never would achieve that top performance where he was. Going to the next level required a level of agility and risk-taking the typical consulting firm simply didn’t possess.

So, it was time to break free from those rigid models and start anew. And thus, Midgard was born. Starting his own company allowed Kursten to experiment with new methodologies and new organizational structures. His team implemented and combined practices from PMI, Axelos, Agile Leadership, Prosci, Vital Smarts, and others to create a holistic set of best practices. Midgard’s team is encouraged to take risks and experiment with new perspectives and approaches because they’ve been given permission to fail. They all know that failure leads to growth.

Kursten has invested tens of thousands of dollars into the individuals on his team, teaching them the industry’s best practices. And the results are paying off. Midgard has established itself as a significant player in Saskatchewan’s consulting world and they’re now looking outward. With this foundation of skills, talent, and organizational structure, Midgard is primed for expansion.

Today, Midgard works with public and private organizations to help achieve their goals, from single projects to large-scale transformational change. They can help some of the most rigid and traditional organizations become more agile and progressive. Midgard’s clients achieve their strategic goals more predictably while allowing them to drive more value through their investments.

Paul Dandurand
Founder & CEO
Pie

Hybrid Agile/Waterfall Easy as Pie

Attend this session to get a quick introduction to the differences between Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project methods. Then learn how Pie, a visual project and process tool, takes a unique and simple approach to helping you go from waterfall to agile and using the two in the same project as a hybrid model.

Key takeaways include:

• Learn about the differences between waterfall, agile, and hybrid projects
• Learn how to set up a project structure for a hybrid projects
• See the unique approach that Pie takes with helping you migrate to hybrid agile and how to simplify a complex Scaled Agile SAFe model for your projects and programs

BIO:

Paul Dandurand is the founder and CEO of PieMatrix Inc (Pie). Paul started Pie to help businesses improve project results with repeatable processes combined with agile that improve over time while making it easy for team member adoption. Prior to Pie, he was co-founder of FocusFrame, a systems testing services firm, which was sold to Hexaware. Previously, he was with Siebel Systems (now Oracle) in Amsterdam. And he started his project management experience with Ernst & Young (EY) in San Francisco. Paul enjoys photography, learning the cello, skiing, and hiking. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ludwig Melik
CEO
Planbox

Gillis Jonk
Strategy and M&A
Kearney

The Next Paradigm Shift: From Agile to Future-Fit

The nature of work, new technologies, emerging trends, best practices and regulations are evolving exponentially and in unexpected ways. If the past two decades weren’t proof enough, then the last year alone reminded us that change doesn’t come knocking at our door: it bashes it down, leaving us little or no time at all to pivot accordingly.

Disruption comes in many ways, shapes and forms, but the result is always the same: a shock to the system. Now more than ever, organizations need to adopt a proactive mindset that empowers their employees, partners, and community to fearlessly navigate through turbulent times and into uncharted space at warp speed.

The Agile Manifesto revolutionized work and created an incredible following 20 years ago. Now, the “Future Fit Manifesto” proposes a new strategic approach to collaborative work that builds on the Agile movement. This manifesto provides expert guidance to organizations that want to take control of their own destiny to explore new possibilities, to seek new frontiers, and to boldly create new futures.

Join us on this one-of-a-kind journey to discover:

• What it means to be “Future-Fit”
• The values you must embrace to adopt a Future-Fit approach
• Insights from Gillis Jonk, Strategy and M&A at Kearny on how to practically apply the Future-Fit Manifesto values to your strategy and operations
• The steps your organization needs to take toward becoming Future-Fit

BIOS:

As a visionary thought leader and passionate technology advocate, Ludwig has the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world every day. Ludwig is the founding author of the “Future-Fit Manifesto” and the CEO of Planbox, the world’s top-ranked agile innovation management platform, and IdeaConnection, a world-class open innovation expert solver network. Sharing enterprise innovation success stories, design thinking methodologies and agile work processes are some of his ardent talking points. With 20+ years of experience in the project portfolio management and innovation management market, Ludwig looks to help organizations positively transform their work culture to create sustainable growth and ongoing success by galvanizing employee engagement and by igniting creative ideation.

As a seasoned strategy consultant and business innovator, Gillis supports organizations and executives turning fundamental and disruptive change into competitive advantage. He works across industries and is an expert in business and value chain strategies, foresight, and helping build collective confidence to pursue audacious and game-changing plays at industry value chain scale.

Gillis is the author of numerous articles and co-author of The Future of Strategy: A Transformative Approach to Strategy for a World that Won’t Stand Still (McGraw-Hill, 2015), and Iconic – How to Create a Virtuous Circle of Success (LID, 2016).

Langdon Morris
CEO
InnovationLabs

Creating the Most Value with Project Management Metrics

This talk will provide guidance for participants who want to implement or improve the metrics they use for project management. The discussion will focus on important distinctions to keep in mind, including the key difference between a project which is tackling something brand new, vs. a project which is only execution oriented, as these will be best served by different types of metrics.

It will also look at qualitative versus quantitative metrics and describe when to use which, present a formula for Project Management Effectiveness with the associated metrics, and explain the new ISO 56000 innovation management standard.

Key Takeaways:

• A decision tree structure that shows how to think about project management metrics
• Project Leader Perspective vs. PMO Perspective
• Qualitative vs. Quantitative Metrics and the top ones to use
• The Project Management Effectiveness Formula
• Dashboards for the PMO
• The New ISO 56000 Innovation Management Standard

BIO:

Langdon is an award-winning innovator and world-renowned innovation consultant, best-selling author, and acclaimed keynote speaker. He is Senior Partner at InnovationLabs LLC, where he leads the firm’s global innovation consulting practice with a wonderful variety of clients in business, government, and non-profits.

Recent clients include Accor, Airbus, Bayer, France Telecom/Orange, ING, Ingersoll-Rand, Kaiser Pemanente, Leidos, L’Oreal, National Board of Medical Examiners, Stanford Health Care, Total Oil, UNICEF, US Navy, US Coast Guard, and many others.

Langdon is recognized as one the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on innovation, and his original and ground-breaking work has been adopted by corporations and universities on every continent.

He has completed his Master’s Degree in Urban Development at the London School of Economics in May 2021.

Mário Trentim
Sr. Trainer
IIL

P3O®: Are we doing the right things?

To stay relevant, Project Management Offices need to reinvent themselves, finding new ways to help organizations achieve strategic objectives through agile project execution. The rise of Agile poses new challenges to organizations in terms of governance, resource allocation, capacity planning, portfolio selection, and prioritization.

This presentation will teach you how to define and implement PMO functions and structures using AXELOS’ P3O® model (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Offices). You will also learn how to combine PRINCE2® and Agile to balance adaptability and governance.

Key Takeaways:

• Gain a greater understanding of the P3O model
• Learn from real-life scenarios how to adopt hybrid project management combining PRINCE2 and Agile

BIO:

Mario Trentim is passionate about volunteerism and has been helping nonprofit and professional communities since his youth. He has served and continues to serve at national and international Boards of Directors since 2014, including PMWB.org, PMIEF.org, ITAEX, and more.

Mr. Trentim is currently the Head of Governance and Performance at TRENTIM Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner company he founded in 2014. He expanded the company in Brazil and abroad, focused on project management services, citizen development, and digital transformation to customers in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Mr. Trentim is also CEO at the PMO Global Alliance, responsible for strategic planning, innovation, and global partnerships.

A former military officer (1999-2014), Mr. Trentim holds BSc and MSc degrees in Engineering, and he is concluding his Ph.D. in Project Management. He is also an MBA professor at top Business Schools, and he published nine books about project management in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

In 2014, he was the recipient of the prestigious PMIEF Harold Kerzner Award for his contributions to advancing the project management profession. Mr. Trentim also received the Meritorious Service Medal from the Air Force. Among other awards and recognition, Mr. Trentim is a Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for five consecutive years.

Dr. Willis H. Thomas
Trainer and Speaker,
IIL

Reducing and Preventing Human Error in Projects

“To Err is Human.” This partial quote by Alexandre Pope reminds us that not all errors can be avoided. However, in some cases, the ripple effect caused by a human error can have huge consequences, resulting in billions or even trillions of dollars in lost revenue.

This is also true for projects. One small mistake, especially when it remains undetected, can lead to substandard project results. Therefore, reducing and preventing human error is critically important to project success. But how can this be done?

Key Takeaways

• Why it is critical to reduce and prevent human error
• What factors contribute to reducing and preventing human error
• Where you can find Resources on reducing and preventing human error
• How we can work better together to prevent and reduce human error
• Which techniques are useful for reducing and preventing human error

BIO:

Dr. Willis H. Thomas is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) who has been involved in Human Resources and Training in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry since 2003. His experience includes working in the area of Drug Products (DP) and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) manufacturing in Kalamazoo, MI; Quality Assurance in Vaccines R&D in Pearl River, NY; Pharmacy Benefits Management in Irving, TX; Clinical Research in Arlington, VA; and generics and branded pharmaceuticals in Lake Forest, IL.

Willis actively publishes articles in journals, blogs and newspapers and speaks at pharmaceutical and life sciences conferences on an international basis on topics such as training and development, human error reduction and prevention, business of quality, data integrity, good documentation practices, evaluation (i.e., return on investment and return on quality), project management, risk management, change management, inspection readiness, and cybersecurity.

Since 2003, he has focused on enhancing the domain of Project Evaluation and has recognized global award-winning publications from PMI (Cleland Award) and APEX for Publication Excellence. He has been a trainer for IIL since 2009 and is a college professor in the Greater Chicago area.

Wanda Curlee
Department Chair, Business Administration,
American Public University

The Project Manager’s Value Add through Artificial Intelligence

Do you know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around you? Today, even small projects have more data than a project manager can effectively trend or digest. Artificial Intelligence can help you today. Implementing AI on a project and understanding how to use it effectively makes you a value add over those that do not use it. Project managers are leaders and leaders do what is best for the team. Artificial Intelligence will assist in demonstrating your value as a leader. The future of AI and projects is only bound by the imagination.

What You Will Learn:

• How to use Artificial Intelligence on a project
• It is not understanding 1s and 0s, it is understanding how to use AI
• How to get AI implemented on a project
• AI and the future of project management

Wanda Curlee
Department Chair, Business Administration,
American Public University

The Project Manager’s Value Add through Artificial Intelligence

Do you know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around you? Today, even small projects have more data than a project manager can effectively trend or digest. Artificial Intelligence can help you today. Implementing AI on a project and understanding how to use it effectively makes you a value add over those that do not use it. Project managers are leaders and leaders do what is best for the team. Artificial Intelligence will assist in demonstrating your value as a leader. The future of AI and projects is only bound by the imagination.

What You Will Learn:

• How to use Artificial Intelligence on a project
• It is not understanding 1s and 0s, it is understanding how to use AI
• How to get AI implemented on a project
• AI and the future of project management

Cyndi Snyder Dionisio
Lead for the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition and President,
Cynergy2

Putting the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition to Work

In this session, the Lead for the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition will go through each section of the Guide and discuss ways you can use it to help you manage your projects and lead your team. We will also cover how organizations can use the new PMBOK® Guide to update policies and practices.

What You Will Learn:

• Identify how to use the principles to shape project management behaviors and policies
• Determine how to project performance domains can be tailored to apply to your project practices
• Apply the tailoring model to your projects
• Identify how the section on Models, Methods and Artifacts can be used as a resource for your projects

BIO:

Cynthia (Cyndi) Snyder Dionisio is a professional project management author, consultant, and instructor. Ms. Dionisio provides consulting and training services for LinkedIn Learning, academia, government and private industry. An accomplished author and facilitator, she has written a dozen books on project management and trained thousands of project managers. Cyndi has been the Chair for three editions of the PMBOK® Guide. In 2009 she was awarded PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award and in 2018 she was presented with the PMI Fellow Award.

Cyndi Snyder Dionisio
Lead for the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition and President,
Cynergy2

Putting the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition to Work

In this session, the Lead for the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition will go through each section of the Guide and discuss ways you can use it to help you manage your projects and lead your team. We will also cover how organizations can use the new PMBOK® Guide to update policies and practices.

What You Will Learn:

• Identify how to use the principles to shape project management behaviors and policies
• Determine how to project performance domains can be tailored to apply to your project practices
• Apply the tailoring model to your projects
• Identify how the section on Models, Methods and Artifacts can be used as a resource for your projects

BIO:

Cynthia (Cyndi) Snyder Dionisio is a professional project management author, consultant, and instructor. Ms. Dionisio provides consulting and training services for LinkedIn Learning, academia, government and private industry. An accomplished author and facilitator, she has written a dozen books on project management and trained thousands of project managers. Cyndi has been the Chair for three editions of the PMBOK® Guide. In 2009 she was awarded PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award and in 2018 she was presented with the PMI Fellow Award.

YuenYen Tsai
Sr. Trainer, Design Thinking,
IIL

Colin Skelton
Embodiment Design Facilitator,
YesCulture

You Design Think More Than You Know

Today’s world is very volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. What used to work, seems to work less efficient or effective. The pandemic shows us that the consequences in daily life can be huge. For some of us, this means confusion and struggle to find solutions to problems. Others reflect on what is happening and reframe this VUCA world as an opportunity for creating new products, services of systems.

Start to think as a designer.

Designing solutions serves users and customers. Real human beings with names, moods, needs and problems. We sometimes forget, because while creating solutions we fall in love with them. Our attention focuses on the solution. Design thinking has made empathizing with the customer one of the main anchor points. You always remember for whom you are designing and creating.

How many ideas would you need to find the one that fits the problem of your user? Ten, a hundred or maybe more? The answer is, more than you think now. Start with questioning the problem. Play and collect different perspectives on the problem. Every single perspective leads to different ideas. In this way you easily reach a great number of solutions.

We will share a few relevant, creative exercises so you can challenge your own dominant reaction to solving problems. Having this personal experience will help you to adopt a design thinking mindset to help your clients.

What You Will Learn:

• Introduction to Design Thinking
• Two Exercises to change your perspectives on problems and solutions
• Reflection on one’s own thinking system
• How to reframe constraints as valuable opportunities to find creative solutions

Bio YuenYen Tsai:

Yuen Yen Tsai is a senior design thinking trainer, enjoying guiding newcomers into the world of design thinking. More than 15 years she implemented serious games for learning purposes in governmental organisations. Her learners come from different, international industries as logistics, government, NGO’s, insurance companies, universities and sports articles company.

Now she aims her playful mind, moods and manners to teach creative, innovative methods. Helping learner to stretch what they know and enter new, uncertain ambiguous fields. Collateral side effects: cracks in traditional system thinking

Bio Colin Skelton:

Colin Skelton is a creativity facilitator, online engagement specialist, applied theatre practitioner and storytelling consultant. His facilitation work and style includes a range of complimentary, proactive methodologies and innovation tools that follow a ‘learn by doing’ approach to leadership, team development, communication and collaboration. He applies principles and practices from the theatre and creative arts, to explore human-centric and embodied approaches to team innovation, online engagement and empathic innovation.

YuenYen Tsai
Sr. Trainer, Design Thinking,
IIL

Colin Skelton
Embodiment Design Facilitator,
YesCulture

You Design Think More Than You Know

Today’s world is very volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. What used to work, seems to work less efficient or effective. The pandemic shows us that the consequences in daily life can be huge. For some of us, this means confusion and struggle to find solutions to problems. Others reflect on what is happening and reframe this VUCA world as an opportunity for creating new products, services of systems.

Start to think as a designer.

Designing solutions serves users and customers. Real human beings with names, moods, needs and problems. We sometimes forget, because while creating solutions we fall in love with them. Our attention focuses on the solution. Design thinking has made empathizing with the customer one of the main anchor points. You always remember for whom you are designing and creating.

How many ideas would you need to find the one that fits the problem of your user? Ten, a hundred or maybe more? The answer is, more than you think now. Start with questioning the problem. Play and collect different perspectives on the problem. Every single perspective leads to different ideas. In this way you easily reach a great number of solutions.

We will share a few relevant, creative exercises so you can challenge your own dominant reaction to solving problems. Having this personal experience will help you to adopt a design thinking mindset to help your clients.

What You Will Learn:

• Introduction to Design Thinking
• Two Exercises to change your perspectives on problems and solutions
• Reflection on one’s own thinking system
• How to reframe constraints as valuable opportunities to find creative solutions

Bio YuenYen Tsai:

Yuen Yen Tsai is a senior design thinking trainer, enjoying guiding newcomers into the world of design thinking. More than 15 years she implemented serious games for learning purposes in governmental organisations. Her learners come from different, international industries as logistics, government, NGO’s, insurance companies, universities and sports articles company.

Now she aims her playful mind, moods and manners to teach creative, innovative methods. Helping learner to stretch what they know and enter new, uncertain ambiguous fields. Collateral side effects: cracks in traditional system thinking

Bio Colin Skelton:

Colin Skelton is a creativity facilitator, online engagement specialist, applied theatre practitioner and storytelling consultant. His facilitation work and style includes a range of complimentary, proactive methodologies and innovation tools that follow a ‘learn by doing’ approach to leadership, team development, communication and collaboration. He applies principles and practices from the theatre and creative arts, to explore human-centric and embodied approaches to team innovation, online engagement and empathic innovation.

Americo Pinto
Founder & Chair,
PMO Global Alliance

PMO 2030: What the world’s leading PMOs are doing to survive and thrive

Do you know what the best PMOs in the world have in common? What world-class PMO leaders see as the most valuable trends? What makes PMOs effectively recognized by their executives? What the critical factors are for a PMO to generate value for the organization?

PMOs have evolved significantly in recent years, but recent challenges on a global scale have reinvented them. A new era of value creation has begun for PMOs – the truth is that doing a technically perfect job is no longer enough for a PMO to survive and thrive.

In this session, Americo Pinto will answer the above questions and share valuable insights from the experience of dozens of PMOs, which have had their value recognized at the PMO Global Awards, the most prestigious award for PMOs and PMO Leaders in the world.

What You Will Learn:

• Find out the most effective way to make a PMO generate value.
• Know more about what world-class PMOs are doing to stay relevant.
• Understand why mature PMOs can also fail miserably.
• Gain insight about the changing era that PMOs around the world – including yours – are going through.

BIO:

Americo Pinto, PMP, PMO-CC, PMO-CP, is the Founder and Chair of PMO Global Alliance (www.pmoga.world), the world’s largest community of PMO professionals, with members in more than 100 countries. He has more than 25 years of international experience in PMOs, Strategy, and Project Management, working as a Practitioner, Consultant, Professor, Researcher, Speaker, and Author. He leads relevant global initiatives on the PMO topic, such as the PMO Value Ring methodology (www.pmovaluering.com) and the PMO Global Awards (www.pmoawards.org). Americo was the recipient of the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2012, and he is a Ph.D. candidate at Rennes School of Business in France.

Americo Pinto
Founder & Chair,
PMO Global Alliance

PMO 2030: What the world’s leading PMOs are doing to survive and thrive

Do you know what the best PMOs in the world have in common? What world-class PMO leaders see as the most valuable trends? What makes PMOs effectively recognized by their executives? What the critical factors are for a PMO to generate value for the organization?

PMOs have evolved significantly in recent years, but recent challenges on a global scale have reinvented them. A new era of value creation has begun for PMOs – the truth is that doing a technically perfect job is no longer enough for a PMO to survive and thrive.

In this session, Americo Pinto will answer the above questions and share valuable insights from the experience of dozens of PMOs, which have had their value recognized at the PMO Global Awards, the most prestigious award for PMOs and PMO Leaders in the world.

What You Will Learn:

• Find out the most effective way to make a PMO generate value.
• Know more about what world-class PMOs are doing to stay relevant.
• Understand why mature PMOs can also fail miserably.
• Gain insight about the changing era that PMOs around the world – including yours – are going through.

BIO:

Americo Pinto, PMP, PMO-CC, PMO-CP, is the Founder and Chair of PMO Global Alliance (www.pmoga.world), the world’s largest community of PMO professionals, with members in more than 100 countries. He has more than 25 years of international experience in PMOs, Strategy, and Project Management, working as a Practitioner, Consultant, Professor, Researcher, Speaker, and Author. He leads relevant global initiatives on the PMO topic, such as the PMO Value Ring methodology (www.pmovaluering.com) and the PMO Global Awards (www.pmoawards.org). Americo was the recipient of the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2012, and he is a Ph.D. candidate at Rennes School of Business in France.

Paul Dandurand

Founder & CEO
Pie

Hybrid Agile/Waterfall Easy as Pie

Attend this session to get a quick introduction to the differences between Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project methods. Then learn how Pie, a visual project and process tool, takes a unique and simple approach to helping you go from waterfall to agile and using the two in the same project as a hybrid model.

Key Takeaways Include:

• Learn about the differences between waterfall, agile, and hybrid projects
• Learn how to set up a project structure for a hybrid projects
• See the unique approach that Pie takes with helping you migrate to hybrid agile and how to simplify a complex Scaled Agile SAFe model for your projects and programs

BIO:

Paul Dandurand is the founder and CEO of PieMatrix Inc (Pie). Paul started Pie to help businesses improve project results with repeatable processes combined with agile that improve over time while making it easy for team member adoption. Prior to Pie, he was co-founder of FocusFrame, a systems testing services firm, which was sold to Hexaware. Previously, he was with Siebel Systems (now Oracle) in Amsterdam. And he started his project management experience with Ernst & Young (EY) in San Francisco. Paul enjoys photography, learning the cello, skiing, and hiking. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ludwig Melik

CEO
Planbox

The Next Paradigm Shift: From Agile to Future-Fit

Nature of work, new technologies, emerging trends, best practices and regulations are evolving exponentially and in unexpected ways. If the past two decades weren’t proof enough, then the last year alone reminded us that change doesn’t come knocking at our door: it bashes it down, leaving us little or no time at all to pivot accordingly.

Disruption comes in many ways, shapes and forms, but the result is always the same: a shock to the system. Now more than ever organizations need to adopt a proactive mindset that empowers their employees, partners, and community to fearlessly navigate through turbulent times and into uncharted space at warp speed.

The Agile Manifesto revolutionized work and created an incredible following 20 years ago. Now, “The Future Fit Manifesto” proposes a new strategic approach to collaborative work that builds on the Agile movement. This manifesto provides expert guidance to organizations that want to take control of their own destiny to explore new possibilities, to seek new frontiers, and to boldly create new futures.

Join us on this one-of-a-kind journey to discover:

• The steps your organization needs to take toward becoming Future-Fit

BIO:

As a visionary thought leader and passionate technology advocate, Ludwig has the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world every day. Ludwig is the founding author of the Future-Fit Manifesto and the CEO of Planbox, the world’s top-ranked agile innovation management platform, and IdeaConnection, a world-class open innovation expert solver network. Sharing enterprise innovation success stories, design thinking methodologies and agile work processes are some of his ardent talking points. With 20+ years of experience in the project portfolio management and innovation management market, Ludwig looks to help organizations positively transform their work culture to create sustainable growth and ongoing success by galvanizing employee engagement and by igniting creative ideation.

Tom Kruse

Director, Worldwide Advocacy
Business Relationship Management Institute

How to become the Tchaikovsky of your organization

Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky is perhaps one of the most famous composers and conductors in history, known for his productions of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker. What established him as one of the greats was his ability to draw the best from the people in his orchestras to make every project a masterpiece.

Like Tchaikovsky, you are in a unique role as a Project Manager to bring out the best in your partners within your organization. You can foster a culture of innovation and purpose by building great relationships across functions. In this presentation, you will learn how to become more strategic in your role through business relationship management, and how to evolve your organization by cultivating the relationships around you.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to become both tactical and strategic in your PM role
• Understand how to evolve the network of relationships in your organization
• Use specific tools to connect relationships to results
• Feel empowered to cultivate the relationships around you

BIO:

Tom Kruse is an aspiring grateful leader who believes in the power of trusting and authentic relationships. Having traveled to over 25 countries, he has witnessed how every single one of us is connected by the same basic human needs. He currently works for Business Relationship Management Institute, cultivating relationships to help organizations satisfy their purpose. He has written and edited over sixty tactical & thought-piece articles covering a wide array of topics including Emotional Intelligence, Business Relationship Management, AI, DevOps, Agile, and human connection. In his current position, he leads a group of professional leaders in the development of Relationshipism at BRM Institute.

Keith Wilson

Senior Trainer/Consultant
International Institute for Learning (IIL)

AstraZeneca – Embarking on an Agile Journey

The term ‘Agile Transformation’ is commonly used in many teams and organizations who are looking to become more adaptable in their work. But how to go about this transformation is a tough question.

Join AstraZeneca as they embark on their Agile Journey, in Part 1 of this exclusive series. The session will be followed by a Q&A with the speakers.

What You Will Learn:

• How to assess the current Project Management situation
• The expected benefits and potential challenges of transitioning to Agile
• An overview of different Agile practices
• Define a strategy for the Agile Journey

BIO:

Keith Wilson (IIL) has over 25 years of successful coaching, training, management, and consulting experience globally with over 100 happy clients. He has extensive Agile Training/Coaching experience and makes Agile work for his clients.

Pammy Subramony

Associate Group Director, Head of Submissions & Operations
Clinical & Quantitative Pharmacology (CPQP), R&D, AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca – Embarking on an Agile Journey

The term ‘Agile Transformation’ is commonly used in many teams and organizations who are looking to become more adaptable in their work. But how to go about this transformation is a tough question.

Join AstraZeneca as they embark on their Agile Journey, in Part 1 of this exclusive series. The session will be followed by a Q&A with the speakers.

What You Will Learn:

• How to assess the current Project Management situation
• The expected benefits and potential challenges of transitioning to Agile
• An overview of different Agile practices
• Define a strategy for the Agile Journey

BIO:

Dr. Pammy Subramony (AstraZeneca) has 15 plus years of experience and leadership from early development to commercialization managing programs in biologics, device combination products and small molecules ranging from start-up to large pharmaceutical companies.

Eva Bauer
Project Manager, Facilitator, Mediator,
BKE Connect

Resolve: Leading your team through the tensions to project success

How do you navigate your team through the tensions that are both inherent in projects, and those that can arise whenever a group of people work together to accomplish goals?

This workshop provides support to project managers to recognize, anticipate, courageously engage and effectively lead teams through conflict to success. By using practical strategies and techniques, project managers can analyze and plan the best course of action to proactively lead their team through choppy waters to the solid landing of project success. These techniques help to lower the stress level and to strengthen relationships within the team. At its core, teams are made of individuals who want to contribute to the project success by using their talents and expertise. When project managers utilize facilitation and conflict resolution techniques to engage members and to ensure each member is heard, the outcomes are successful deliverables strongly supported by a unified team.

What You Will Learn:

• Recognize common tensions inherent to projects and how planning will lessen the impact of inherent conflict.
• Identify indicators of when team tensions arise and use effective communication approaches to manage team stress and conflict.
• Lead the team in decision making by utilizing facilitation techniques that ensure every member is heard and that connect the member’s expertise to project success.

BIO:

Eva Bauer is a project manager, facilitator and mediator whose passion and expertise is helping leaders and their teams design strategies that capitalize every member’s contribution to project success in a way that manages inherent tensions and strengthens relationships.

Eva is an IT project manager and supervisor for the US Federal Government and also serves as a workplace facilitator and mediator for multiple federal agencies. She believes facilitation and conflict resolution skills are essential for project managers as they are called to lead diverse teams responsible for delivering creative solutions to complex problems.

Eva has certifications in PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), IT project and contract management (FAC-PMP), facilitation, conflict resolution and conflict coaching. She has over 15 years’ experience in project management, facilitation and conflict resolution after a career in software development and computing engineering.

Eva Bauer
Project Manager, Facilitator, Mediator,
BKE Connect

Resolve: Leading your team through the tensions to project success

How do you navigate your team through the tensions that are both inherent in projects, and those that can arise whenever a group of people work together to accomplish goals?

This workshop provides support to project managers to recognize, anticipate, courageously engage and effectively lead teams through conflict to success. By using practical strategies and techniques, project managers can analyze and plan the best course of action to proactively lead their team through choppy waters to the solid landing of project success. These techniques help to lower the stress level and to strengthen relationships within the team. At its core, teams are made of individuals who want to contribute to the project success by using their talents and expertise. When project managers utilize facilitation and conflict resolution techniques to engage members and to ensure each member is heard, the outcomes are successful deliverables strongly supported by a unified team.

What You Will Learn:

• Recognize common tensions inherent to projects and how planning will lessen the impact of inherent conflict.
• Identify indicators of when team tensions arise and use effective communication approaches to manage team stress and conflict.
• Lead the team in decision making by utilizing facilitation techniques that ensure every member is heard and that connect the member’s expertise to project success.

BIO:

Eva Bauer is a project manager, facilitator and mediator whose passion and expertise is helping leaders and their teams design strategies that capitalize every member’s contribution to project success in a way that manages inherent tensions and strengthens relationships.

Eva is an IT project manager and supervisor for the US Federal Government and also serves as a workplace facilitator and mediator for multiple federal agencies. She believes facilitation and conflict resolution skills are essential for project managers as they are called to lead diverse teams responsible for delivering creative solutions to complex problems.

Eva has certifications in PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), IT project and contract management (FAC-PMP), facilitation, conflict resolution and conflict coaching. She has over 15 years’ experience in project management, facilitation and conflict resolution after a career in software development and computing engineering.

Pamay Bassey
Chief Learning and Diversity Officer,
The Kraft Heinz Company

Let’s Learn Our Way Through It, Shall We?

Learning can be your superpower – as an individual and as a collective organization. A commitment to learning can help you to be great in your current personal and professional roles – and help you to grow great careers and fulfilling lives. Come learn how to harness that superpower, create a learning practice, a learning culture, and a learning transformation in your life and in your organization.

What You Will Learn:

• Simple and tactical ways to create an “organizational learning movement” that can support learning transformation in your life and in your organization
• How to model lifelong learning – Show others what it looks like to have a learning practice and to use your influence to encourage them to do the same.
• How to harness the power of doing something big through repeated, manageable action.

BIO:

Ekpedeme “Pamay” M. Bassey is Chief Learning and Diversity Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company, where she drives an inclusive culture of continuous learning, bold creativity, and intellectual curiosity, is responsible for the company’s global learning and development strategy and initiatives and amplifies the work that every Kraft Heinz employee does to create and nurture a diverse and inclusive workplace.

A lifelong learner who loves laughter, words, big ideas, and serving her community, Pamay knows the power of doing big things in small increments. She is a true believer that learning can be a superpower that can transform people, families, communities, and organizations. This belief is demonstrated in her passion projects that, for over a decade, have focused on the ways people believe, worship, lead, and learn.

Her TEDx talk and weekly journal, both named Navigating Sacred Spaces, are based on her project work and her book: My 52 Weeks of Worship: Lessons from a Global, Spiritual, Interfaith Journey. She has also authored a daily journal: Let’s Learn Our Way Through It, Shall We? — created to encourage others to commit to their own personal and professional learning journeys.

Pamay earned a B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University, with an artificial intelligence concentration, and a M.S. in computer science from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the Second City Conservatory program in Chicago, an advanced study of improvisational comedy and theater.

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D.
Head of Business Agility,
Riot Games

The Mindset, Culture, and Muscles of Business Agility

The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Organizations of every size are overwhelmed by the pace of change and are being constantly challenged to understand & react to the major disruptions in the marketplace and in their organizations.

High-performing and adaptable organizations that leverage, lead, and thrive in this ambiguous and unpredictable market will be in the best position to win with their customers. We call this business agility; the set of organizational capabilities, behaviors, and ways of working that affords your business the freedom & flexibility to achieve its purpose – no matter what the future brings.

In this talk, Ahmed Sidky will highlight the mindset and culture necessary to endure the journey of improving your company’s Business Agility. Business Agility is not something an organization has or doesn’t, it is more like fitness or athletic performance, your organization can increase its agility with intentional, deliberate, and disciplined effort. So using the Domains of Business Agility (published by the Business Agility Institute) Ahmed will explain the 12 different “muscles” that an organization needs to “exercise” in order to increase its agility.

What You Will Learn:

• A deeper understanding of agility as it pertains to the entire organization not just a project delivery framework
• The essential relationship between Business agility and customer-centricity
• 12 key areas of focus to increase business agility – grouped into 4 groups (Leadership, Individuals, Operations and Enablers)
• People are the most powerful and agile part of any organization. People ignite and sustain business agility.

BIO:

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D. is an international keynote speaker, teacher, and writer about agile transformation. Currently Head of Business Agility at Riot Games, he builds the strategic capabilities and agile systems that advance Riot’s aspiration to be—and stay—the world’s most player-focused game company.

Ahmed first joined Riot Games as Head of Development Management, leading a team of 80 agile coaches and delivery leaders to keep Riot agile as it grew exponentially. Then he became the Chief of Staff to the CEO, operationalizing Riot’s vision through major strategic projects and companywide transformations. Before joining Riot Games, Ahmed helped executive leaders and teams at dozens of Fortune 100 companies—among them Verizon, Caterpillar, Nationwide, and Booz Allen Hamilton—become agile and create their own customer-centric cultures.

He is also President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), co-founder of the Business Agility Institute, co-author of “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World,” and a seasoned international keynote speaker. You can learn more about his work and contact him at AhmedSidky.com

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D.
Head of Business Agility,
Riot Games

The Mindset, Culture, and Muscles of Business Agility

The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Organizations of every size are overwhelmed by the pace of change and are being constantly challenged to understand & react to the major disruptions in the marketplace and in their organizations.

High-performing and adaptable organizations that leverage, lead, and thrive in this ambiguous and unpredictable market will be in the best position to win with their customers. We call this business agility; the set of organizational capabilities, behaviors, and ways of working that affords your business the freedom & flexibility to achieve its purpose – no matter what the future brings.

In this talk, Ahmed Sidky will highlight the mindset and culture necessary to endure the journey of improving your company’s Business Agility. Business Agility is not something an organization has or doesn’t, it is more like fitness or athletic performance, your organization can increase its agility with intentional, deliberate, and disciplined effort. So using the Domains of Business Agility (published by the Business Agility Institute) Ahmed will explain the 12 different “muscles” that an organization needs to “exercise” in order to increase its agility.

What You Will Learn:

• A deeper understanding of agility as it pertains to the entire organization not just a project delivery framework
• The essential relationship between Business agility and customer-centricity
• 12 key areas of focus to increase business agility – grouped into 4 groups (Leadership, Individuals, Operations and Enablers)
• People are the most powerful and agile part of any organization. People ignite and sustain business agility.

BIO:

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D. is an international keynote speaker, teacher, and writer about agile transformation. Currently Head of Business Agility at Riot Games, he builds the strategic capabilities and agile systems that advance Riot’s aspiration to be—and stay—the world’s most player-focused game company.

Ahmed first joined Riot Games as Head of Development Management, leading a team of 80 agile coaches and delivery leaders to keep Riot agile as it grew exponentially. Then he became the Chief of Staff to the CEO, operationalizing Riot’s vision through major strategic projects and companywide transformations. Before joining Riot Games, Ahmed helped executive leaders and teams at dozens of Fortune 100 companies—among them Verizon, Caterpillar, Nationwide, and Booz Allen Hamilton—become agile and create their own customer-centric cultures.

He is also President of the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), co-founder of the Business Agility Institute, co-author of “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World,” and a seasoned international keynote speaker. You can learn more about his work and contact him at AhmedSidky.com

Natalie Berkiw-Scenna, PMP
Sr. Project Consultant and Author,
Beaumont Health

Unleash Your Project MANAGEMENT Potential

Project managers spend a significant amount of time leading meetings but rarely leverage these valuable opportunities to their full potential. Instead, meetings provide the greatest source of anxiety, frustration and stress. Meetings fail to produce optimal results; participants feel that their time isn’t valued; and project managers often miss opportunities to advance initiatives or demonstrate skills in leadership and communication.

High-functioning meetings drive value, build collaborative relationships, and successfully move organizational priorities forward. As project managers, we need to take accountability for maximizing these opportunities to achieve successful outcomes and meet the needs of our stakeholders.

In this session, we’ll focus on key activities, a practical methodology, and best practices that you can adopt to consistently and skillfully plan, lead and follow up on effective meetings. You’ll walk away with actionable steps that they can be implemented immediately to unleash your own meeting potential.

What You Will Learn:

• A mindset shift around how you think about and approach meetings to strengthen key skills, build collaborative relationships, and be recognized for your leadership

• Standardized methodology to consistently plan, lead and follow up on high-functioning, effective meetings for all of your projects

• Highly actionable steps and best practices that you can implement right away and set yourself up for success

BIO:

With over 20 years of project management experience, Natalie Berkiw-Scenna brings her passion and guidance to support project managers grow their careers through mentorship, coaching and education.

Natalie brings her wealth of knowledge and expertise from her PMP^Ò and Lean designations, and years of leading complex, strategic projects. She is the author of Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ and teaches this content at several MBA programs, educational events and symposiums.

Natalie has international project experience in both Canada and the U.S., in the health care and non-profit sectors. She currently provides her expertise to Beaumont Health in Michigan. In her spare time, Natalie focuses on training and coaching others to build their confidence, credibility and presence to take their careers to the next level.

Rhonda Bernard
Consultant,
Beacon of Light

CONSCIOUS INCLUSION AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Conscious Inclusion can be defined as ‘strategically executing a practical approach to driving the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that allow us to value and leverage differences to achieve superior results’.

Rhonda’s presentation introduces us to the importance of Conscious Inclusion, and its interconnectivity to belonging and diversity. You’ll learn what you can do to be more consciously inclusive.

What You Will Learn:

• Why inclusion is important in project management and with project teams

• What are the barriers to inclusion and how can you make a conscious effort to be more inclusive

• How Conscious Inclusion is an ongoing effort, and practical tips you can use to change behaviours to be more consciously inclusive

• How to apply Conscious Inclusion to project management, project teams and to your role as a project leader

BIO:

Rhonda Bernard is the owner of Beacon of Light, a consulting, training and coaching services company that believes strongly in the words of Amanda Gorman (youth poet laureate of the United States):

For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.

As a coach, facilitator and consultant with nearly 20 years of senior human resources and leadership experience, Rhonda has partnered with global executives to provide innovative and practical solutions for all elements of the talent life cycle, focusing on leadership, culture and potential.

Rhonda is a subject matter expert in culture, inclusion and diversity, talent development and performance management, learning and development and employee surveys. She has created and implemented global programs for multinational companies, specifically on inclusion and diversity, change leadership, cultural transformation and leadership pipeline development.

Rhonda has an MBA from Georgia State University, specializing in organizational development, as well as certifications in MindGym and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment.

An American with a South Korean mother and an American military father, and a French husband, Rhonda has lived and worked in the U.S., Asia, Europe and South America.

Rubin Jen

Rubin Jen
Senior Consultant
IIL

PMBOK ® 7 – A Pragmatic View

PMBOK ® 7 is out! But wait, it looks really different? How are we supposed to use this? The heavy processes are not in this edition and for some, it may look like these were replaced by: “Do whatever you want”. So now what?

Let’s make sure we’re in alignment. In this session, Rubin Jen will show you it’s not as different as you might think it is. Rubin will give a brief recap of the PMBOK 7 origins and structure, and then guide you through each of the “new” performance domains so that you can formulate your own assessments or adjustments, and be fully aligned with the new structure.

Key Takeaways include:

· Relate the PMBOK 6 knowledge areas to the PMBOK 7 performance domains
· Review the 12 principles and their application
· Determine your goals and outcomes for the new domains

BIO:

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 25 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting and government sectors. Rubin has also extensive consulting experience in strategic and operational planning.

Rubin obtained his Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation in 2007 and has been helping organizations in their Agile transformational journey since 2014, as a subject matter expert and as an Agile coach.

Rubin has been a senior instructor with IIL for over 10 years, and is a key member of the Global Learning Solutions (GLS), helping to create new workshops or modernize IIL’s course curriculum.

Rubin graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto, and in addition to his CSM, has the PMP, Change Management Practitioner (APMG) as well as ITIL Foundations.

Eric Naiburg
Chief Operating Officer
Scrum.org

An Introduction to Professional Scrum

Although Scrum has been around for more than 25 years, it is still new to many. In this session, we provide an overview of the Scrum framework, discuss how Scrum enables agility and ways that empiricism can empower the teams that use it. Like with any form of process, there are myths that arise, during this session Eric Naiburg, COO, Scrum.org, many of these myths are dispelled using facts and real-world examples.

Attendees of this session will learn about:

· Common myths and misconceptions about Scrum
· The 2020 Scrum Guide – Scrum Events – Scrum Artifacts
· The Project Manager and Scrum
· Accountabilities in Scrum
· How Scrum can be used with other practices like Kanban, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and more

BIO:

Eric is co-author of UML for Database Design and UML for Mere Mortal. Eric is responsible for all aspects of marketing, support, outbound communications, partners and operations for Scrum.org. Eric was program director at IBM and Rational Software where he was originally hired in 1999 by original Scrum Team member John Scumniotales for who he worked for several years and worked closely with another original Scrum Team member Jeff McKenna sitting in the next desk. At IBM and Rational Eric was responsible for application lifecycle management (ALM), DevOps, Data Governance and Agile solutions. Previously he held the role of director of marketing for INetU (now ViaWest). Before INetU, Eric has held product management and marketing roles with other organizations including: Ivar Jacobson Consulting, CAST Software and Logic Works Inc. (Acquired by Platinum Technologies and CA), as product manager for ERwin.

Rhonda Bernard
Consultant
Beacon of Light

Conscious Inclusion and its Importance to Project Management

This presentation provides an overview of the importance of embracing and understanding the importance and interconnectivity of inclusion to belonging and diversity and what individuals can do to be more consciously inclusive. It also will connect the place conscious inclusion has for successful project management, project teams and project leaders.

What You Will Learn:

· Why Inclusion is important to project management and the team
· What are the barriers to inclusion and how can individuals make a conscious effort to be more inclusive
· How Conscious Inclusion is an ongoing effort and tips to change behaviors to be more consciously inclusive

BIO:

Rhonda Bernard is the owner of Beacon of Light, a consulting, training and coaching services company that believes strongly in the words of Amanda Gorman (youth poet laureate of the United States):

For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it

As a coach, facilitator and consultant with nearly 20 years of senior-level human resources and leadership experience. Rhonda has partnered with global executives to provide innovative and practical solutions for all elements of the talent life cycle, especially focusing on leadership, culture and potential.

Rhonda has an MBA from Georgia State University, specializing in organizational development, as well as being certified in Mind Gym and Myers Briggs Type Instrument. She has worked in a variety of international companies, including Imerys, Antalis and The Estée Lauder Companies, and recently worked with scale-ups, Aircall, and Exaprobe, as well as Editions de Parfum Frédéric Malle, By Killian, and Darphin.

Rhonda also has a rich and diverse cultural background. She is American, with a South Korean mother and an American military father, and a French husband, Rhonda has lived and worked all over the world, in USA, Asia, Europe and South America. This has helped her understand the nuances and importance of different cultures.

Rhonda is a subject matter expert in culture, inclusion and diversity, talent development and performance management, learning and development and employee surveys. She has created and implemented a number of global programs for multi-national companies, specifically on inclusion and diversity, change leadership, cultural transformation and leadership pipeline development. She also was an integral part of leading the digital marketing transformation for The Estée Lauder Companies, for EMEA.

Rhonda leads or partners with leaders and teams to develop strategies and programs that align with company culture, are regionally relevant, while also reflecting contemporary, global inclusion and diversity thinking and guidelines, that support business objectives. She is a talented facilitator who brings energy, passion and drive that creates an environment where people come together and learn.

Felix Ludosan
Senior Program Manager
BASF

Every Work Day is a Matchday

As a former professional basketball player, Felix knows what it means to have a top sports mentality.

Did you ever think about why football teams are walking around on the pitch 90 minutes before kickoff? And what benefits you can derive from this behavior for your daily job? What is going through the mind of an NBA player, when he stands at the free-throw line in front of thousands of noisy fans trying to distract him together with dancing cheerleaders? Do you regularly stand at the free-throw line as a project manager? Of course! Why are superstar teams no guarantee for success?

Because underdogs can be the better TEAM and have a better (project) plan! In this session you will gain insights into sports mental techniques and practical examples, which you can apply in your daily work as a leader, project manager or team member.

Felix will tell real stories from his personal sports career and put them into the context of leadership, project management and new ways of working. Discipline, organization, structure, and hard work are basic elements of success – in sports and in business. But finally, it is the human factor which makes the difference.

Key takeaways:

· Learn about key factors in managing successful teams in sports and business
· Gain more from sports mental training techniques for better focus and daily work organization
· Learn why the social environment during the childhood is a crucial factor in shaping future professionals

BIO:

Felix played basketball on a professional level before he joined IBM Germany as a Computer Science graduate in 1995. When “Big Blue” established the Project Management Center of Excellence in 1997, Felix decided to pursue the project management career, as he discovered early that his sports experience was extremely beneficial for this profession, which became a passion for life.

He has worked in numerous industries including Automotive, Financial services, Insurance, Government, and Manufacturing.

The 6.5 ft. PMP certified project manager is currently one of the Project Management thought leaders at BASF in Germany, a world leading chemical company.

As a certified Sports Mental Coach and Athlete Manager, Felix is also coaching young athletes, including his son (20), who is an international soccer goalkeeper playing in the US and his daughter (16), who plays basketball in Germany.

WHAT PMI COURSES DOES IIL CURRENTLY OFFER AND IN WHAT MODALITY?

IIL offers PMP, PMI-ACP, CAPM, PBA, PfMP courses in Traditional, Virtual and On-Demand settings.

WHERE CAN I LOCATE INFORMATION ON COURSE DURATION, PREREQUISITES, PRE-WORK AND EXAM INFORMATION FOR A SPECIFIC PMI WORKSHOP?

The course descriptions found on our website contain all of the needed information.

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICING?

Course materials include a workbook and practice questions; supplemental materials are available for purchase.

HOW ARE COURSE MATERIALS SENT TO ME?

Depending on the course and the modality, you will either receive hard copy workbooks or access to an electronic download.

CAN I TAKE A PMI CERTIFICATION WORKSHOP AND NOT TAKE THE EXAM?

Yes. You will receive a certificate of completion if you take the IIL course but must register through PMI for the exam to earn the certification.

WILL I RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION AT THE END OF THE WORKSHOP?

Yes, a Certificate of Completion will be issued after the course.

WHAT IS IIL’S PMP GUARANTEE?

You must attend the entire program and meet PMI’s requirements for becoming a PMP.
You must take the PMP Exam within 30 days after finishing the IIL program.
If you fail the Exam you are asked to email your status to us in order to be eligible to take IIL’s 12-hour PMP Prep course including a live coach FREE OF CHARGE or to negotiate for a refund based on all accepted paperwork. Documents to send to IIL are:
- Date that you completed the IIL certificate program (proof will be needed that you participated in all sessions)
- Date that you sat for the Exam
- Status report showing that your Exam Score
When taking IIL’s 12-hour PMP Prep course you must take the Exam within 30 days to continue to be eligible for a full refund of the 35-hour PMP Certification Prep course.

WHO ADMINISTERS THE PMI CERTIFICATION EXAMS?

PMI administers the exams.

WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE NEW PMP EXAM?

The new exam is comprised of:

180 questions (the previous exam was 200) but the same number of questions will be scored
230 minutes to complete the exam
One additional break for a total of two 10-minute breaks for computer-based tests. No scheduled breaks for paper-based exams.
Questions will be a combination of multiple-choice, multiple responses, matching, hotspot and limited fill-in-the-blank. See prototype questions to learn more.

WHAT ARE THE GENERAL EXAM FACTS FOR PMI WORKSHOPS?

The exams are taken through PMI. Participants apply, register and pay PMI directly

HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO TAKE THE EXAM?

Your PMI certification application is valid for one (1) year from the date of approval. If you allow your eligibility to lapse, you must re-apply

CAN I TAKE THE EXAM AT A LOCAL TESTING CENTER?

All PMI exams are offered by Pearson VUE Testing Centers. Most PMI exams are also available online. Please see here for additional information.

WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC DETAILS OF MY EXAM?

This information can be found at www.pmi.org/

HOW DO I RECEIVE MY CERTIFICATION FROM PMI?

Your certificate will be mailed to you by PMI. You should receive your certificate package within 6-8 weeks from the date you pass the exam.

HOW DO I APPLY FOR PMI CERTIFICATION

You can apply on the PMI website.

For tips on completing the PMP application, watch this video

Dominic Price
Work Futurist
Atlassian

Evolving Project Management to Build Thriving Organisations

Everything around us is changing. The workplace, the tools we use, expectations of our stakeholders, and the demands of our customers. These changes are bringing about a revolution in how work happens, and as program professionals, we need to evolve our ways of working to build thriving organisations. At the centre of this world is seamless and timely communication, purposeful collaboration that breeds innovation, and agility that enables our organisations to adapt and be nimble. And at the centre of that, is you.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

· Understanding the demands of the current work environment and how you can position yourself to excel
· Leadership hacks to make you the best role model and drive your own improvement
· Communication techniques and examples for building lasting engagement and relationships across teams and organizations
· A secret trick that might mean you never need another status meeting, ever again….

BIO:

Born to Joy in the harsh Manchester Winter of 77, Dominic has a career that has reached far and wide through Europe, US and Asia PAC.

Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, the home of the most intelligent t-shirt wearers in business. As resident Work Futurist, Dom is the in-house “Team Doctor” helping Atlassian scale by being ruthlessly efficient and effective. Dom helped pioneer Atlassian’s Team Playbook and has a deep passion for understanding the future of work and the changes we need to make today.

He has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and a Director of Deloitte.

A keen traveler, Dom has traversed over 50 countries so far, but after 17 years on these shores, he calls Australia home.

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International Project Management Day 2021 Online Conference

Refresh. Rethink. Reshape.

Now is the time to hit refresh with new learning and insights for the future.

For Individuals

For Teams and Organizations

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Recorded sessions are available through February 6, 2022.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Amy Gershen

Welcome Message

Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D.

The Mindset, Culture, and Muscles of Business Agility

Gregory L. Robinson

James Webb Space Telescope – Leading Large Complex Global Projects

Lindsay McGregor

Neel Doshi

Co-Presenting: The Science of Performance

Pamay Bassey

Let’s Learn Our Way Through It, Shall We?

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PANELThe Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization The recorded session, with a closing performance from the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, is available through February 6 , 2022.

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PANEL

The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization

Dr. Al Zeitoun

Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

Deepa Prahalad

Dr. Harold Kerzner

Lyssa Adkins

SPEAKERSRecorded sessions are available through February 6, 2022.

SPEAKERS

Liliana Cerilo

Innovation as a Way to Embrace Change

Eric Naiburg

An Introduction to Professional Scrum

Rhonda Bernard

Conscious Inclusion and its Importance to Project Management

Rubin Jen

PMBOK® 7 Guide – A Pragmatic View

Natalie Berkiw-Scenna, PMP

Unleash Your Project Meeting Potential

Felix Ludosan

Every Workday is a Matchday

Colin Skelton

YuenYen Tsai

Co-Presenting: You Design Think More Than You Know

Americo Pinto

PMO 2030: What the world’s leading PMOs are doing to survive and thrive

Eva Bauer

Resolve: Leading Through Tensions to Project Success

Cyndi Snyder Dionisio

Putting the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition to Work

Dr. Willis H. Thomas

Reducing and Preventing Human Error in Projects

Mário Trentim

P3O®: Are we doing the right things?

Wanda Curlee

The Project Manager’s Value Add through Artificial Intelligence

Karl Smedley

A Practical Guide to Introducing Agile

Langdon Morris

Creating the Most Value with Project Management Metrics

Frank Ryle

Giants’ Shoulders – Making Project Connections

2 FREE ON-DEMAND COURSES

Dr. Harold Kerzner

Innovation Project Management

Marcus Glowasz

Data-Informed Decision Making in Projects

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Dominic Price

Less process, more guidance. Tips for effectively scaling great teams.

Louria Lindauer

Our Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions: Creating culture self-awareness in you and your world

Kaihan Krippendorff

Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Employees and Organizational Leaders

Pammy Subramony

Keith Wilson

AstraZeneca – Embarking on an Agile Journey

SPONSORED PRESENTATIONS

SPONSORED PRESENTATIONS

Ludwig Melik

International Project Management Day 2021
Online Conference

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Recorded sessions are available through February 6, 2022.

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PANEL
The Building Blocks of Tomorrow’s Impactful Organization
The recorded session, with a closing performance from the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, is available through February 6 , 2022.

SPEAKERS
Recorded sessions are available through February 6, 2022.

PMBOK^® 7 Guide – A Pragmatic View

Putting the PMBOK^® Guide – Seventh Edition to Work

P3O^®: Are we doing the right things?