Abbigail Meah-Ali
Manager, The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
Connecting to Influence: Transforming Stakeholder Communication
In today’s interconnected business landscape, effective communication with stakeholders is not just about sharing information but about building genuine connections that inspire and engage. Drawing from John Maxwell’s influential work, “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect,” this presentation will explore practical strategies for enhancing stakeholder communication. Participants will learn how to leverage —purpose, presence, clarity, empathy, and respect—to not only convey messages but also to resonate deeply with their audience. These principles will be discussed through real-world examples, showcasing how improved communication can lead to better project outcomes, enhanced team collaboration, and stronger business relationships.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of connection in communication
- Learn practical methods to apply the five key principles to stakeholder interactions.
- Develop actionable steps to transform communication techniques immediately following the session.
This presentation aligns perfectly with the Impact Summit’s focus on innovative leadership and communication strategies. As organizations strive to navigate the complexities of the modern business environment, empowering professionals with the skills to connect effectively with their stakeholders is more crucial than ever.
The Role of the Adaptive Sponsor – Bridging Governance Gaps for Enhanced Project Success
In today’s increasingly complex, dynamic, and uncertain project environment, the role of Project Sponsors is crucial for achieving project success. As business environments continue to evolve, the demand for adaptive leadership intensifies, especially for Project Sponsors who must adopt multiple roles to effectively steer their projects. These roles encompass being a Champion, Visionary Leader, Business Owner, Empowered Governor, Change Enabler, Strategic Navigator, Connected Networker, Benefit Realiser, and Pulse Checker.
This presentation will illuminate the essential nexus between the multifaceted roles of Project Sponsors and the critical capabilities and practices needed to navigate complexities and achieve desired project outcomes. We will delve into common deficiencies in project governance and highlight the pivotal role of Project Sponsors in addressing these challenges.
The session will offer actionable strategies to enhance the adaptability and effectiveness of Project Sponsors, which are vital for leading projects to success. I will also explore how Project Sponsors can effectively collaborate with project managers and support structures like PMOs to bridge governance gaps and establish a resilient project environment.
Join me for an exploration of practical approaches to strengthen project governance through adaptive leadership. This presentation will feature case studies, showcasing the interconnected dynamics essential for project success, and present a framework to equip Project Sponsors to drive projects toward breakthrough outcomes.
Managing the Gray Areas: Broader Perspectives, Better Questions, Clearer Communication
Based on his book, Managing the Gray Areas, Jerry Manas explores the most difficult dilemmas leaders face, and offers powerful guidelines for making decisions and examining issues from broader perspectives.
Attendees will gain an upper hand through an understanding of three primary concepts:
- Leading by Questioning – Attendees will see how a leader’s job is not to have all the answers, but to ensure the right questions are asked.
- Examining Issues from Broader Perspectives – Attendees will learn valuable leadership tools for practicing systems thinking, holistic ethics, and information-based management.
- Integrating Opposing Values and Concepts – Attendees will learn how to reconcile their own ideals with the ideals of others, resulting in empathetic solutions that better meet the needs of multiple parties.
If Not You, Then Who?
This session lays out the need for leaders to focus on organizational culture over everything. Using personal stories, data, and anecdotes from twenty-years coaching leaders, the presentation will push the audience to examine what limiting beliefs are holding them back, to rewrite those beliefs, and to ultimately, Fear Forward, in order to create thriving, purpose-driven, and impactful teams that make real impact for each other and their clients.
The Wonderful World of Power Skills: Achieving Exceptional Performance
Success does not just happen—it is made to happen! Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead to exceptional performance. Based on Neal’s new book, Power Skills that Lead to Exceptional Performance, Neal reveals 8 critical, best-practice, results-oriented Power Skills that can promote your professional and personal success. Implementing some of these Power Skills may initially cause your palms to sweat and your heart to race. However, your personal limitations at work and across your life are directly impacted by your willingness and tenacity to deliberately embrace and execute on these Power Skills.
Supercharge Your Career with the Power of Storytelling
Every project professional knows they must wield the power of communication to great effect. The manner in which we present our ideas is critically important when speaking with our team, our stakeholders, and our prospective customers. The most effective professionals are masters at crafting narratives that are both compelling and memorable. Data-heavy presentations simply won’t cut it. The presentations that influence your audience to take action must include strategic stories. Storytelling is a highly effective way to connect, captivate and communicate your core message to your colleagues. Employ the power of storytelling to take your career to new heights!
The Project Coach: Create Learning Environments and Empower Team Members
Business coaching has evolved from fad to fundamental. Adopting coaching techniques into your everyday interactions creates learning environments and empowers team members to develop new skills and competencies so everyone can keep up and adapt in constantly changing environments—exactly what is needed in our world of rapid change and unrelenting challenge.
Successful coaching is based on asking rather than telling, on challenging rather than giving directions, and by holding a person accountable for results. Join this training to acquire simple coaching techniques to get the best out of your team while getting stuff done.
Empower Hearts, Heads, and Hands with Change Intelligence for Transformational Impact
Whether it’s sponsors “blessing and abdicating” or end users “resisting” or project team members not following through with their accountabilities, as a PM you grapple with challenging stakeholder behaviors every day.
Join us to learn what you as a PM can do to turn around these challenging behaviors by leading hearts, heads, and hands and accelerating your ability to have a constructive impact, build relationships, and get results for your projects.
NeuroLeadership in Action: Harnessing the Body’s Intelligence for Enhanced Team Engagement and Communication
With over 25 years of management and leadership experience, Annmarie Curley will guide you through the cutting-edge intersection of neuroscience and leadership with a focus on communications and engagement to elevate your leadership approach and boost your team’s performance.
Discover how leveraging the body’s intelligence system can unlock unprecedented levels of communication, cohesion, and innovation within your teams. This session is designed for leaders eager to embrace the future of leadership by integrating the principles of neuroleadership into their management strategies.
Join us to learn how to effectively engage your project teams, sponsors and stakeholders, navigate the complexities of human behavior, and lead with empathy and insight in the modern workplace.
