2019

Neen James is the author of Folding TimeTM and Attention PaysTM. She has been named one of the Top 30 Leadership Speakers by Global Guru several years in a row because of her work with companies like Viacom, Comcast, and Abbot Pharmaceuticals among others. Neen has boundless energy, is quick-witted and always offers powerful strategies for paying attention to what matters so you can get more done and create more significant moments at work, and home. Neen is the kind of speaker that engages, educates, entertains, and delivers the real-world solutions that apply in your organization, your home, and your community. She also provides one-on-one consulting in a variety of leadership topics and loves serving her audiences.

Rich has been successfully delivering change for over 25 years. He has consulted, coached and educated with organizations across all parts of the globe and regularly reflect on his legacy in developing the change delivery model for UK government. Rich is a founding member of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) and was the founding president of the Toronto Chapter for 6 years. He has also founded the Toronto Change Days conference, based on the highly successful Berlin Change Days, a hands-on weekend of fun learning about change unlike any other change conference in North America! He has a masters in change management and is certified in Project Management, Process improvement, Facilitation, HR, Coaching, Counseling, and Psychotherapy. He is also a Certified Lego® Serious Play® Facilitator & Workshop Designer, Certified in facilitating organizations through uncertainty and complexity and an accredited emotional culture deck “elephant rider”! His presentation delivery is known for its passion and direct challenges to the audience. Rich enjoys the opportunity to disrupt traditional thinking, bring humor to the learning space and enable curiosity to take control of the change space for everyone.

Chris Lewis has over 700+ accredited coaching hours experience for over 100+ clients including C-level leaders, senior managers, and high-performing teams within IT and Agile. The senior-level leadership and high-performing teams have come from companies such as T-Mobile, Amazon, Uber, Fidelity Investments, and Anthem Health, to name a few. Chris’s coaching approach is person-centered and solution-focused. His style as a coach is to be a client's partner in a dialogue. He believes the coaching relationship is a model for meaningful dialogue where the aims are resolution and action points, while trying to find a balance between free-flowing creativity and benchmarks for progress. Chris has a Bachelor's Degree in General Business (BS), a Master's Degree in Business (MBA), and various coaching and Agile-specific certifications (ICF- PCC, CSP, and SPC).

Peter Taylor is a PMO expert who has built and led five global PMOs across several industries and has advised many other organizations on Change and Project strategy. He is also the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’, along with many other books on project leadership, PMO development, project marketing, project challenges and executive sponsorship. In the last 5 years, he has delivered over 340 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’. His mission is to teach as many people as possible that it is achievable to ‘work smarter and not harder’ and to still gain success in the battle of the work/life balance.

Mike is a leading-edge thinker and renegade who believes that we all must do more to unleash our boundless potential and solve increasingly complex global issues. He envisions a community-centric, expert-guided “power-to-the-edge” solution to most of these issues. For leaders and managers, this means open-platform approaches to innovating and sharing the most effective management practices. For consultants and other experts, this means that we are too often part of the problem, and need to do a much better job channeling our expertise in a way that delivers much greater IMPACT.

Amanda is a client delivery executive in the Global Enterprise Application team, specializing in complex recovery and transformation programs. Amanda enjoys working with clients to identify, realize and maximize value from their investments.

Lee Lambert, PMP, is a project management industry thought-leader involved in project management for over five decades. He is one of the Founders of the PMP and named a PMI Fellow in 2009. Lee Lambert has provided PM Training for over 50,000 professionals in 23 countries and is currently leading an effort to create an opportunity for senior level professionals to capitalize on the synergy of knowledge exchange through participation in a Mastermind Group Program.

Patricia is a consultant, speaker, and author who advises clients on effective leadership through her company, Bravo For You. With an emphasis on Empathetic Leadership, Resilience, and Teams, she draws on her 20+ years of experience in working with leaders and teams to accelerate their capability. She teaches undergraduate courses at the University of Washington, Bothell, and professionals at UCLA Extension.

I give STEM professionals and businesses the tools to confidently supercharge their performance, results, and careers. With over twenty years’ experience in working with STEM teams. I understand the issues organizations face when building and sustaining diverse teams as well as the challenges women encounter in achieving career success. My wealth of knowledge in delivering change outcomes for large multinationals, government bodies and organizations, combined with my passion for seeing women in STEM achieve career success, has lead me to develop tools that supercharge their performance and results. I help: STEM Teams: Improving the diversity of teams by providing the tools, training, coaching they require to achieve sustainable success. I believe that diversity in teams in STEM organizations is important, enabling them to implement change/transformation initiatives that are critical to ongoing longevity. With the right focus, organizations can attract and retain exceptional people. Professional STEM Women: Giving women the confidence, tools, and skills to have the career they want with 1 to 1, group and mastermind coaching and training. Although not true for every woman, I have found that some don’t have the same career success as their male peers. While there are many reasons for this, it is important that women have the tools, strategies, and knowledge on how to achieve their own career success. I am the author of ” Age Defying Careers – A guide for women at 40”. The book is a how-to book on how to transition to the career they want. I have been featured in; – Project Management Review China – Future PMO – Project Management Office Hours Podcast – Strefa PMI Poland Magazine If you are a professional or businesses in STEM who needs the tools to supercharge your performance and results – email elise@elisestevens.co Specialities Diversity in STEM, Professional Women in STEM, Facilitating, Coaching & Mentoring, Professional Development, Podcasting, Public Speaking

Sherild Sanfeliz is a journey-woman Scrum Master who’s done it all. As a programmer, BA, SA, QA manager, and Scrum Master, she holds deep empathy for her teams but refuses to let them off the hook. She believes there is always room to grow professionally and personally if you are willing to recognize the need for change to accomplish greater and bigger things and work on it. She is based in the greater Tampa area and is a proud graduate of the University of Puerto Rico Bayamón.