Live Webinar – April 14th 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – April 14th 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Association for Project Management – APM

Programme teams and their stakeholders increasingly operate across multiple nationalities. 

How does this diversity affect our stereotypes of masculine and feminine approaches to change and the criteria for success?

Change programmes and project team members, their sponsors and stakeholders represent an increasingly diverse range of nationalities.

Cultural norms for leading and dealing with change, and any associated stereotypes of masculine and feminine approaches are increasingly challenging to navigate.

Learn to:

• Recognise what their underlying assumptions about differences might be
• Develop their insight into the many facets of diversity and what it means for organizations and teams, projects and change
• Understand what to consider when working with multi-cultural groups
• Identify how these perspectives might impact their own leadership or management of virtual teams whether in-house or external (for example, across client and suppliers).

Kent Thomson and Sarah Coleman, will share their insights, thoughts and experiences of diversity in project environments, including diverse cultures both internationally and closer to home.

Teri Okoro of the Women in Project Management SIG, and Elisabeth Goodman of the Enabling Change SIG, will introduce their SIGs and the speakers, and help to field questions from delegates.

Polls will be used to support an interactive approach to the webinar and to help the audience to reflect on what the implications might be for their projects, programmes or change in a similarly diverse context.

Agenda:

1. Introduction to the webinar, Women in Project Management SIG and first speaker (Teri Okoro)
2. The wider picture of diversity and how it impacts our perspectives; interactive poll (Sarah Coleman)
3. Introduction to Enabling Change SIG and second speaker (Elisabeth Goodman)
4. Multi-culturalism and experience of Western and Eastern cultures – including a poll (Kent Thomson)
5. Final Q&A and close (Elisabeth Goodman)

Presenters:

Teri Okoro (LinkedIn profile) a practicing architect and experienced construction project and programme manager is Chair of the APM Women in Project Management SIG. Teri also sits on the Diversity Panel of the Construction Industry Council. She has written and presented widely on gender and enhancing diverse talent and leadership in the profession. Teri is founder and Director of TOCA and has worked on projects in the UK and Africa.

Sarah Coleman (LinkedIn profile) BSc MBA With 30 + yrs experience supporting business critical projects, programmes up to $50m  internationally Sarah is an author keynote speaker and Fellow at Lincoln University, APM Mentor at Judge Business School, in Cambridge.  Sarah started her career in technology and telecoms  and she worked for government and multi-nationals developing her project, programme and change skills and experience. In 2007 she established Business Evolution Ltd  and now supports strategy, change, projects and programmes.

Elisabeth Goodman (LinkedIn profile) Bsc Msc Founder and Principal Consultant of RiverRhee Consulting, which specialises in workshop-style training for enhancing team effectiveness. Prior  to 2007 Elisabeth spent 25 +years in Pharmaceutical R&D.  Elisabeth is accredited in Change Management, in Lean Sigma, in MBTI and Belbin Team Roles and is an NLP  Practitioner. She also   leads the APM Internal Collaboration SIGs and branches.

Kent Thomson (LinkedIn profile) has recently joined the management consultancy, Pcubed, from GlaxoSmithKline where he was responsible for implementing the approach in sales and marketing and research and development internationally. He supported the management of a global SAP implementation and led business improvements and change projects in IT, finance, sales and distribution. Previously he led IT project management and business analysis teams at NatWest Bank and a software house. He holds a Six Sigma Black belt and is also certified as a Master Practitioner in NLP.

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