Presenter Interviews
This year, we are centering the conversation around three pillars: Purpose, Progress, and Power.
If you have ever tried to convince a toddler to eat their greens, you know that logic and authority only go so far. Believe it or not, leading a corporate department through a digital transformation isn’t all that different.
Sabrina Poteat, Founder and Principal Consultant at Applied Edge Consulting, goes into the anatomy of PMO failure and provides a pragmatic roadmap for building a PMO that actually delivers.
Dr. Tricia Diamond brings New Orleans to the world of project management and the lesson hits harder than you’d expect.
Every project manager negotiates with stakeholders, vendors, teams, and leadership. But few do it well. Dr. Joachim Dehais is on a mission to change that.
We caught up with Erica to talk more about the “prenup” metaphor in common governance challenges.
In this interview, we talk with Mansoor Mohammed about his upcoming IPM Day 2026 presentation about Governance Ambidexterity, balancing control and adaptability simultaneously.
Lori Milhaven joins a conversation with Nicole Petite, ahead of her IPM Day 2026 session, Resilient Leadership: Guiding Teams Through Change and Chaos, to get a preview of what we can expect.
Most negotiation training teaches you a process. Dr. Joachim Dehais, leadership development expert and project professional, will tell you that is exactly the problem.
Lori Milhaven sits down with Elissa ahead of her keynote at IPM Day 2026 to talk about followership, co-design, AI, and what it really means to lead from every seat.
Ahead of her session at IPM Day 2026, we asked Alicia Morgan where the real line sits between AI-accelerated work and human accountability.
To explore what the Project Management role really demands, we spoke with Gabor Stramb, who brings more than 16 years in the Energy and Telecommunications sector.
Giovana answers the questions leaders ask most often about building psychologically safe teams, how to test for it, what mindset shift changes team behavior fastest, the biggest myth holding leaders back, and how real teams turn setbacks into progress.
In this conversation, Mick Ebeling answers the questions project managers ask most about turning bold commitment into disciplined delivery, how to challenge constraints without blowing up stakeholder trust, and how to recognize when a team has quietly slipped into defending the status quo.
Lori Milhaven of IIL sat down with Raju Madhavan to discuss why alignment is assumed far more often than it’s tested, and why the most dangerous risk on any project is the misalignment nobody knows exists.
Out of more than 35 featured presenters at IIL’s global virtual conference, these 21 women are bringing some of the sharpest thinking on AI, leadership, and resilience to the virtual stage this year.
Lori Milhaven asks Markus Kopko to walk through how project professionals can move beyond prompts and turn AI into practical, usable tools that support recurring work.
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