Susanne Madsen PMP APM
Susanne Madsen – (LinkedIn Profile @SusanneMadsen) Program Director, Project Leadership Coach, author of Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential
. Susanne’s newest book will be released later this year – and some of her articles have been translated into Spanish and Russian.
Susan’s years of experience in managing and rolling out large change programs brought out her passion for helping project managers get to the next level. Her experience working with investment banks enhanced her passion to help organizations set-up corporate coaching and mentoring programmes. Susanne is also a PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner as well as a qualified Corporate and Executive coach.
Susanne is a Keynote Speaker and has facilitated many webinars and sessions for a number of PDU Providers. In March 2013 Susanne was the guest on #pmchat The topic “Coaching for Project Managers“ was archived on Storify. Visit Susanne’s website at www.susannemadsen.com
Project Leadership: The World Needs your Genius and it Needs your Leadership
In this thought-provoking talk about project leadership Susanne Madsen will show you how you can differentiate yourself from the competition and improve your performance without spending long hours in the office. You will learn to avoid fire fighting, unhappy clients and project failure and instead use the project you are currently working on to propel yourself to the next level.
No matter your level of experience there are powerful lessons to be learnt from this talk:
- Understand the differences between management and leadership
- Learn to apply the most powerful project leadership strategies
- Focus on the 20% of activities that add to 80% of your results
- Build a high performing team
- Avoid failure and redundancy
- Become a more inspirational and appealing leader
- Win the trust of sceptical stakeholders
Peter De Jager
Peter de Jager (LinkedIn profile @pdejager) is a very highly respected keynote speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to managing change of all shapes and sizes in all types of organizations. He has published hundreds of articles on Problem Solving, Creativity and Change Management – to the impact of technology on areas such as Privacy, Security and Business Issues appearing in publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific American.
Peter is best known to IT audiences for his efforts to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue – For which he received several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies. He has also written several regular columns and presented sessions to world class organizations.
Peter has spoken in over 35 countries recognized worldwide as an exciting, humorous, provocative and engaging speaker.
Peter’s Kindle publications include A Pocket Full Of Change about Organizational Change, So? You’re a Manager… Now What?, and Truth Picks Vol I. A Truth Pick is a short, pointed commentary on a popular quote – For Peter these “Truth Picks” was a personal morning meditation he was publishing – which blossomed until several thousand people were reading them on a daily basis.
Peters presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively – provocative. He entices the audience, by demonstrating conflicts between their stated beliefs and behaviors, to think differently about what they thought they knew. You can read much of his work in the publications section of www.technobility.com and view his videos at Vimeo.com/technobility.
The Seven Key Questions of Change Management
What must we do to bring about a Change initiative as smoothly as possible? Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!
This isn’t exactly news. We sort of get this. I can ask any audience to tell me the ‘secret’ to good Change and they repeat back “Communicate, Communicate and Communicate some more!” as if its been forcefully injected into their cerebellum. The problem arises when the questioning becomes a bit more detailed, “What exactly should we Communicate?”
The response to that question is usually either a blank stare or the reasonable recitation of the reporter’s standby; Who, What, Where, When, How and Why. Not a bad start. If you’re writing a news article, then these are good solid questions. The Change Management problem requires all of those, and a few others. It’s not that the reporter’s questions are a poor tool, it’s just that they don’t address the peculiar psychology of the Change challenge.
In this presentation, Peter will present a “Pareto Spanning Set” of questions. These questions will cover the bulk of the key concerns of those facing any change.
Traci Duez
Traci Duez (LinkedIn profile) is an accomplished and sought-after speaker. She has spoken at over 100 events in the last 4 years including international locations such as Trinidad, Canada, and Amsterdam. Traci is the CEO Axiogenics a Certified Coach, and a member of the John Maxwell Team as well as the author of Breaking Free: Leading the Way: Learning First to Lead Yourself Traci Has an excellent grasp of “Breaking Free” though her 20+ years experiencing various roles from medical technologist to laboratory informatics specialist; from project manager to director of an IT consulting firm.
5 Steps to Grow Your Influence, Lead Effectively, and Deliver Better Results
- Every choice that you make comes down to a judgment in value.
- Do you know the principles of Value Dynamics?
- Did you know that there is a mathematically based science (axiology) that can teach you how to make better choices?
Your influence is a matter of your ability to judge value. Your effectiveness as a leader and your ability to prioritize and deliver quality results are dependent upon your ability to judge value. In this presentation and interview, you will learn the basics of Axiology’s Hierarchy of Value (HOV). You will also discover how to measure your own Personal HOV and how to use your best perspectives to make better choices and take better actions. We will discuss how your VQs (value judgment quotients) are far more important than your IQ or EQ. Finally you will learn how to focus on generating value from your strengths and how to strengthen your strengths to achieve more success.
Christian Bisson PMP
Christian Bisson (LinkedIn profile) has been a team leader, a production director, and eventually chosen the path of project management where he obtained his PMP certification. He loves to manage, organize, lead, find solutions, but mostly, I love to improve everything – causing “Continuous Improvement Initiatives” where ever he goes!
Share Christian focus on the impacts that real teams can have on productivity with this terrific session and make sure not to miss reading his blog.
Making the Most of Continuous Improvement in Project Management
“Continuous improvement”: an ongoing effort to improve what we do, how we work, who we are. It’s important since if our tools, our processes, our team, and we evolve, then all of our projects evolve. Isn’t it obvious we must consider improvement in our everyday lives?
Yet continuous improvement persists to stay secondary in our filled schedules. Why? How can we change that? In this presentation, Christian will explain the challenges of continuous improvement and give strategies and tips to help tackle them and get you on your way to improving every aspect of your projects and your career.
Michael Charles
Michael Charles PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach who speaks on leadership and team development. Michael did a great webinar for the PMI LEAD CoP (REP #S004) called Communicating to Connect (which is worth 1 Category A PDU). Michael has led several teams as a Project Manager founded the “Light The World Foundation“, a charity founded in 2009 to educate children in Haiti. Their 4th Annual Charity Concert will be July 12th, 2014.
Project Management at the Speed of Trust
When you have to quickly develop a team and get them working together to achieve a common goal, trust become a very important factor. Trust is the foundation on influence and without influence we cannot do our jobs well as project managers.
Trust could be the difference between the success and the failure of the project. Join us and learn
- The economics of trust
- Behaviors that helps build trust quickly
- Techniques you can use to genuinely build trust with your team members and stakeholders to achieve more with your team
