Leading Through Uncertainty and Change

How do you inspire hope and performance on your project team when you don’t know what’s coming next?

Your mission is sacred, but uncertainty and change are inescapable. Your customers need your team at their best, even when they’re feeling frustrated and confused. Your team is looking to you for confidence, inspiration, and hope.

How do you keep your project team energized and motivated when so much is changing? How do you keep them focused on what matters most without adding to their stress? How do you encourage and support your team when you don’t have all the answers?

In this high-energy, interactive project management keynote, you will learn practical ways to inspire and encourage your project team, particularly during times of uncertainty and change, and to show up strong for your customers—and for yourselves, your family, and the people you work with.

Through strategic storytelling, humor, and interactive exercises, your project managers will leave with more confidence and competence for greater influence and impact.

This program is perfect for:

• Fast growing PMOs
• PMI organizations serving highly disrupted, fast-changing industries
• Organizations going through times of significant change (e.g. mergers, restructures)

 The audience will leave with:

• Confidence to navigate through uncertainty with poise
• Communication techniques to keep their project teams focused on what matters most
• Techniques for strengthening influence and impact as a project manager
• Tools to encourage problem-solving and best practice sharing
• Strategic questions to help uncover new strategic opportunities and insights

Join project management keynote speakers Karin or David to get the antidote to uncertainty, help your leaders and teams to thrive during times of change, and make ambiguity work for you, not against you. We will work with you to fully customize this program based on your biggest pain points. This highly interactive program will give your team an opportunity to surface and have candid conversations that address their fears, and give them to tools to navigate the change with more confidence and competence.

Winning Well

Breakthrough Results – Without Losing Your Soul

Do you ever wish your project team had more energy, would get more done, or solve problems on their own?

It’s tempting to demand more, tighten control, and micromanage to get more results out of your project team…but there is a better way. 

WINNING WELL is a practical leadership strategy to achieve breakthrough results that really last. Get results while keeping your project management team (and yourself) energized, motivated and inspired.

“You’ll learn 6 concepts you can’t lead without and practical tools to build high-performance, high-engagement teams.”

Join award-winning authors, Karin Hurt or David Dye, as they use humor and real-life examples to guide you and your team through the art of inspiration, influence, and lasting impact.

PMI Chapter Leadership

Seven Ways To Turn Your Volunteers Into Brand Ambassadors

Great commercials, strong PR, a brilliant social media strategy all warrant effort when building your PMI chapter’s brand. But there’s no better PR than an army of loyal volunteers and employees living and breathing your brand. You know the type – individuals with enthusiasm bursting from their veins – talking up your chapter with their friends and colleagues at every work event, family gathering, and sporting event they attend. “No, I’m telling you PMI changed my life! Or “I’m so sorry you had that experience, it’s not usually like that.”

Yes, you can define your brand and advertise it. But don’t overlook the power of your volunteers as brand ambassadors. Our best people want to be part of the inner circle. To build sustainability and strengthen your competitive advantage, increase ownership by treating your volunteers as owners of your brand. In this high-energy project management keynote, you’ll learn seven ways to get both your volunteers and members advocating for your brand. The added bonus is that these can also be used for your employees! 

• Be the Brand: Live the values, be the experience
• Be Bold: Build a compelling, articulate vision of who you serve and how
• Be Focused: Communicate what matters most and why
• Be Buttoned Up: Develop a consistent cadence of clear accountability and execution
• Be Engaging: Create opportunities for micro-engagement and sharing
• Be Open: Actively solicited input and look for ways to improve
• Be Connected: Invest in developing genuine human