Keynote Speeches

Leadership Keynotes

Kill What’s Ugly While It’s Young©

• Success requires relentless commitment to individual and organizational improvement.
• Building strong relationships, creating accountability and fostering supportive communication are all required.

Team Building Kindergarten Skills You Can Use

• Great leaders help their team practice kindergarten skills
• A positive attitude and success are correlated
• Teamwork is more important than talent

Managing Your Career: What Your Boss Won’t Tell You

• Professional image must be created, and it is multidimensional
• Providing value is required but only appreciated in the context of the big picture
• Competence and relationship building are equally important

Project Management Keynotes

Risk Management: Texas Hold ‘em Tactics for the Project Manager

• Critical thinking is required with respect to risks
• Human behavior is a factor in risk assessment
• Communication of risks is tactical and strategic

Change Management: The Undercover Role of the Project Manager

• Change management requires a plan, and fancy change models are not required for success
• Without adequate change management, a project can fail even if the deliverable meets and/or exceeds all project objectives
• Change management must also address the journey to the deliverable

The Art of Stakeholder Management

• Relationship building is critical and starts before there is a problem or issue
• Identify and manage the various types of problem stakeholders
• Understand and create ideal stakeholder behavior

Stakeholder Management: What Dog Ownership Can Teach You

• Clearing understanding your role and responsibilities with stakeholders is critical
• Training your stakeholder includes expectation management and consistency
• Your stakeholder requires protection

Three Overlooked Attributes of a Successful PMO

• Processes should facilitate the accomplishment of work, not hinder, and striking this balance requires the aggressive deployment/defense of common sense
• Tools are not substitutes for thinking
• The focus is all about project delivery success, not the office

The Resource Leveled Project Schedule

• The critical path is academic in most shared resource work environment scenarios
• You probably don’t know the real critical path and even if you do it is probably different next week.
• In a shared resource environment, you should focus on the critical resources instead of the critical path.