Live Webinar – October 1st 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – October 1st 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

The Presenters will debate/discuss recommendations from APM‘s recent sponsor survey and past webinars in this series relating to the development of a competency framework, the approach to training and the need for accreditation for sponsors. Hear views from senior leaders and practitioners involved in heading up sponsor units, training and development of sponsors from Financial Services, Postal, Oil and Gas, and Transport sectors.

This webinar is the last of an engagement series to present the results of the sponsor survey and discuss/debate the implications with project professionals with experience in these areas.

The series includes:

• Sponsorship: How To Enhance The Role Within The Project Profession
• The Executive Sponsor Role – Panel Debate With Senior Leaders
• The Delegated Sponsor Role – Panel Debate With Senior Practitioners

Presenters:

Alexandra Batey  (LinkedIn profile) is the Director of Investment Delivery Planning at Transport for London (TfL), leading the sponsorship of TfL’s Capital Investment Programme and shaping the future of London’s transport network, above and below ground. Alexandra has been a strong advocate for women in engineering and is passionate about developing the role of the ‘professional sponsor’.

Peter Horsted (LinkedIn profile) has extensive experience in the delivery of major change and played a key role the delivery of the award winning Royal Mail Transformation. He is an SME on developing competence and professionalism at an individual, team and programme wide levels across the P3M lifecycle. Linking his own sponsorship roles to wider competence in others he is a long standing champion and advocate of the need to progress the theory and application of the roles Sponsors play in the delivery of successful outcomes.

Peter Wood (LinkedIn profile) is the capability lead for the delegated sponsors who deliver Shell’s major projects across the globe. With 20+ years of experience in Oil and Gas, he supports this group to develop the right leadership behaviours and skills that are essential. Previously he ran an enterprise wide programme coaching senior leaders to improve project decision making. With a finance background Peter has a strong interest in delivering the benefits of projects, whilst balancing risks and uncertainties that can affect the project outcomes.

Baney Young (LinkedIn profile) is the head of sponsorship profession at Network Rail. APM Chartered Project Professional with an MSc in Project Management, she is also experienced in successfully leading strategic and transformational change. Having spent most of her career managing programmes and projects in the telecommunications industry, she joined Network Rail to transform requirements management in terms of governance and assurance as well as increase corporate competency. Passionate about supporting strategy, enabling benefits realisation, good practice and continuous improvement, Baney is now leading the development of Network Rail’s Sponsorship Profession capability, which underpins successful delivery.

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Building Support For Sponsorship In The Project Profession

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