Featured Speaker

Ruth Pearce

 Ruth's goal is to be able to help others become their best selves.

She trained as a coach to help bring forth the best attributes in others, convinced that it would want to do mainly 1:1 coaching. However, over time she discovered the power of the group. She has always loved enabling teams to function at their peak, and it turns out that passion means GROUP coaching as well as speaking, workshops, and group trainings fire up her zest! There is the potential for so much wisdom, learning and cross-pollination of ideas in a group.

Sponsored Speaker

Lee Lambert

Lee Lambert is one of the Founders of the PMP and a PMI Fellow. He has conducted PM training programs in 23 countries for over 50,000 professionals.

Anni Finsterer

Anni Finsterer is the author of Radical Rock and Roll Resilience and is an AFI award winning actor, Keynote Speaker and Resilience coach. Since her “Conversations with Richard Fidler” on ABC radio went to air, Anni has been sharing her unique and inspiring story of how she survived two car accidents and insurmountable obstacles and went on to become an actor for some 30 years on stage and screen.

Now, she brings her education and lived experience to the REAL RESILIENCE Speaking Event.

Motivating, powerful and relatable Anni’s ability to inspire real change comes from the lessons she's learned and the tools she developed to enable her to overcome unhelpful thinking and to engage with life’s possibilities.

Asya Watkins

Asya Watkins, MBA, 6σGB, PMP® is the Founder, Women Of Project Management - The only community dedicated to supporting & amplifying the voices of women & women of color in every specialty of the project management industry worldwide.

Featured in Forbes for International Women’s Day as a leading voice in the project management profession, Asya is an internationally-recognized authority in her field. She has served as keynote speaker for the Project Management Institute (PMI) in Beijing, and other top-tier organizations and leadership conferences around the world. She can also be heard lending her voice and expertise to various podcasts, including the Project Management Institute (PMI) Podcast, Projectified™ and her very own podcast —Women Of Project Management®. Among many things, she is a wife, mother, friend and mentor, and her dreams of creating a lasting impact for women like her only continues to grow with her success.

Bill Dow

Bill Dow, PMP is a recognized expert in Project Management by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for specifically developing and managing Project Management Offices (PMOs.) His extensive experience with Project Management and PMOs have enabled him to co-author several comprehensive books available through Amazon.com.

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD is author of the best-selling book Change Intelligence: Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change that Sticks, principal and founder of Change Catalysts, and originator of the CQ® System for Developing Change Intelligence®. For over 30 years, Barbara has coached executives, trained leaders at all levels, certified change agents (including project management professionals!), and facilitated mission-critical transformational initiatives - achieving bottom-line business and powerful leadership results for clients. In 2015 she had the honor of being awarded Change Management Consultant of the Year by the Association of Change Management Professionals Midwest Chapter. Her blend of research, real-world expertise, and actionable strategies makes her an in-demand speaker spanning a wide range of industries across the globe. Clients served include Abbott Laboratories, BP, Cisco, Goodwill Industries, Northwestern University, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency. Barbara holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Bruno Morgante

Bruno enjoys solving problems, inspiring others, and accomplishing his goals. He is an outcomes driven leader who solves problems and delivers results. Bruno is also deeply invested in mentoring. As a Mentor, he helps young individuals and people in need by providing ‘pro bono’ guidance, support and advice about Leadership, Personal Development, Career Development, PMO, Portfolio, Program and Project Management.

Carsten Ley

Carsten Ley is an Entrepreneur, Enabler & Project Lead in Experience Management, OKRs, Project & Change Management.  He has a 20+ year career in Banking, Consulting, Project & Customer Experience Management

Elise Stevens

Elise is a career tactician and a specialist in surviving and thriving in the workplace. She leverages her extensive work experience in leading change initiatives and providing STEM professionals with the tools they need to confidently supercharge their performance, results and careers. Elise loves chatting about pragmatic skill development, career pivots, organisational politics and all things change.

Fatimah Abbouchi

Fatimah Abbouchi is the Founder and CEO of Agile Management Office; a thought-leader providing governance solutions for organisations to manage and govern projects in the agile era. A successful businesswoman, Fatimah has been supporting businesses from start-ups to enterprise internationally for the past 17 years.

Fola Alabi

Fola is a visionary leader and global speaker who for over 15 years has transformed PMOs into Strategy Realization Offices. She is outcomes obsessed, methodological in her approach and disciplined in her deductions.

For Fola, Strategic Project Management is a lifestyle she is passionate about hence, she speaks about this subject with warmth and excitement.

J. Scott

Introducing J. Scott the Founder of 120VC who is an expert in Transformational Leadership that Gets Sh*t Done. He helps people to define and deliver the necessary and expected results by helping leaders enable their team members to reach their potential as architects of their own roadmap to a shared goal. From the start of his career spent jumping out of helicopters as a rescue swimmer in the United States Navy, J. Scott has a long history of leadership, servanthood, and bearing witness to the transformative power of getting sh*t done.

Janet Burns

Janet is a frequent speaker at industry events and was named to the PMI Power 50, a list of 50 prolific leaders in project management. She specializes in PMO Development, maturity, skills assessment.

Laura Barnard

Laura has been instrumental in bringing PMOs and Project Management to the strategy table for 25 years. She knows just how hard it can be to drive effective and sustainable change in organizations, having spent 15 years in the role of PMO leader beginning in 1999. For the last 9 years, she’s been helping organizations drive higher return on investment for their strategy by unleashing the full potential and power of project management and the PMO. She has developed a unique and powerful system for growing organizational project management competency with a deliberate focus on driving high-IMPACT outcomes on every project.

Lee Lambert

Lee Lambert is one of the Founders of the PMP and a PMI Fellow.  He has conducted PM training programs in 23 countries for over 50,000 professionals.

Marisa Silva

Marisa Silva, the Lucky PM, is an experienced PMO and PPM advisor, educator, and international speaker, with a track record of building capabilities in organizations undergoing transformational change. A passionate advocate of the value of PMOs and project management, she was Programs Director at Project Managers Without Borders, Head of External Affairs at IPMA Young Crew Portugal, Secretary of the APM PMO SIG, and is co-author of ground-breaking courses such as the PMO Practitioner, PMO Leader and Assurance Practitioner courses. Marisa is a Senior Consultant at Wellingtone, a founding member of the Advisory Board of the PMO Global Alliance and is the author of “Bedtime Stories for Project Managers”. 

Marc Soester

Marc is a passionate practitioner as well as a technology specialist, bringing his extensive knowledge to audiences with an engaging presentation style that ensures they gain the latest knowledge and can apply it to their organisation immediately. Specializing in Digital PPM Solutions, Process Optimization, 100% User Adoption.

Mounir Ajam

Mounir is a thought leader with two passions that drive him to make a difference and create an impact, project management and community development. Speaking expertise in Organizational Project Management, Project Management Methodology, Building & Sustaining the PM Function, Project Control!

Paul Boudreau

Paul Boudreau is a highly respected project management professional with over thirty-five years experience in the technology industry. Paul is currently a college professor in Ottawa, Canada where he teaches in the project management program. He is a global leader in researching and applying AI concepts to project management, focusing on three areas: machine learning, natural language processing and genetic algorithms. He is obsessed with finding ways to dramatically increase project success rates and has written two books about using AI for project management, Applying Artificial Intelligence to Project Management, and How the Project Management Office Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Bottom Line. He is known for presenting compelling arguments as to why AI technology will become essential to the way we manage projects.

Peter Taylor

Peter has delivered over 450 lectures around the world in over 25 countries and has been described as ‘perhaps the most entertaining and inspiring speaker in the project management world today’, and
in 2020 he was awarded the PMO Global Alliance ‘PMO Influencer of the Year Award’.

Rich Maltzman

I consider myself a ‘pracademic’ – currently Master Lecturer at Boston University, an author, and a consultant, who provides students and clients with a deep, rich learning experience and/or improved results. The ‘prac’-tical part of pracademic comes from a 40-year career in telecom, mainly in engineering and project management. At the University level, my focus is always on on the converting weaknesses into strength while teaching clients/students how to apply learned skills to everyday situations. I’ve presented on the topics of Quality and PM, Sustainability, and PM Competency at PMI conferences in the US, Italy, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Canada, and The Netherlands, where I also lived for two years on an international PMO assignment

Roger Haskett

An award-winning, electrifying, keynote speaker, author of ‘the ME you WANT TO BE,’ President of Engagement Unlimited and an actor in over 150 TV shows, movies and commercials.

Ruth Pearce

Ruth's goal is to be able to help others become their best selves.

She trained as a coach to help bring forth the best attributes in others, convinced that it would want to do mainly 1:1 coaching. However, over time she discovered the power of the group. She has always loved enabling teams to function at their peak, and it turns out that passion means GROUP coaching as well as speaking, workshops, and group trainings fire up her zest! There is the potential for so much wisdom, learning and cross-pollination of ideas in a group.