Now Recorded

Live Webinar – July 23rd 2020 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Live Webinar – July 23rd 2020 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Panel Debate With Senior Leaders

You will hear about the key issues for senior leader involved in the governance of change from Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

You will also debate/discuss their views on the key findings and recommendations from APM‘s recent sponsor survey of project professionals involved in governance of change.

The finding and the recommendations from the sponsor survey include:

• The role of sponsors in the governance of change
• How well sponsors are held to account for successful outcomes of change
• The need for a sponsor competency framework
• Benefits of and approach to sponsor training
• Next steps for sponsorship in the project profession

This webinar is part of an engagement series throughout July to present the results of the sponsor survey and discuss/debate the implications with project professionals with experience in these areas working in the Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

Part 1 of the series:

• Sponsorship: How to enhance the role within the project profession

The APM Governance Specific Interest Group is engaged in improving investment outcomes through better governance of change, and promoting effective sponsorship is crucial in achieving this. APM has a number of publications and support material available through the APM for sponsors to help them achieve more successful business outcomes from major change.

Panelists:

Tim Carroll  (LinkedIn profile) practiced engineering & project management for the petrochemical sector early in his career. He then moved to the IT sector & over the past 20+ years until his retirement he worked in the financial service sector, as Group Head of Project Management for Standard Chartered Bank. Recently he has focused on regulatory change programmes including Basel II rules for risk management, US tax reporting regimes, the EU GDPR data protection regulations and the UK financial regulator’s Senior Managers Regime, which imposed governance requirements upon the organisation and its most senior leaders.

Nick Gray (LinkedIn profile) has spent his career working on complex major infrastructure programmes in the UK sponsoring & delivering enhancements at all stages of the lifecycle under a range of governance and management frameworks. His roots go back to London Underground as a graduate Civil Engineer and then Docklands Light Railway project managing a diverse range of jobs.  His highlights include sponsoring the iconic redevelopment of Kings Cross station and sponsoring the £5bn Thameslink Infrastructure Programme guiding 100 component projects as well as leading delivery of £780m of enabling activities.  He is now Programme Director covering risk and assurance in the Centre of Excellence for capital delivery.

Sarah Johnson, (LinkedIn profile) CEO Restoration & Renewal Sponsor Body; has spent the majority of her career working in senior roles in major infrastructure projects. She joined the R&R Programme as CEO for the Sponsor Body from High Speed 2 for the submission of a Bill to Parliament for the next phase of the scheme. In her current role, Sarah has overall accountability for the R&R Programme, overseeing a delivery authority and managing the relationship with both Houses of Parliament to determine the overall requirements for R&R.

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The Executive Sponsor Role

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