2020

Dr. Douglas M. Brown, the founder of DecisionIntegration.com, provides workshops and coaching to help managers experiencing challenges in bringing needed practices into their organizations. His Simmer SystemSM book series addresses how to work through culture and pragmatic issues to achieve the intended outcome. In 20+ years managing and consulting, he saved millions of dollars recovering failing programs and hundreds of millions through new program concepts. He has been a keynote speaker and provided interactive workshops at numerous PMI venues, ProjectWorld, and PM Summit. Residents of Williamsburg, Virginia, he and his wife enjoy live arts, dogs, history, books and travel.

Amir Younes is Vice President of Client Success at Wrike. During his time at Wrike Amir has built and led an internationally recognized client success team and has helped take Wrike from a $35M company to $100+M. Over his 20+ years career, Amir has led organizations in the technology, government, retail, healthcare, financial services, and consulting sectors in the US, Egypt, Peru, and Chile. Before joining Wrike, Amir was a senior leader at both Rocket Fuel and Medallia, and a strategy consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton. A world traveler, Amir has visited 33 countries and 32 states, speaks English, Arabic, and Spanish, and is an avid scuba diver. He lives with his wife and two 1/2-year-old daughters in San Diego, CA. Every morning you can find Amir indulging his inner coffee snob over a cup of Sulawesi Toraja or Sumatra Mandheling.

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

Joe Pusz, PMO Joe is an internationally recognized leader in the Project Management and PMO community. He is a frequent Keynote Speaker, Author, Project Management Innovator and was named one of the 2020 Top 15 PMO Influencers in the World by the PMO Global Alliance. He is the Founder and President of THE PMO SQUAD, a Phoenix based PMO and Project Management Consulting firm serving clients across the United States. He is host of the Project Management Office Hours Radio Show and Podcast providing Project Management Leaders a voice within our community. Now in the 4th season the show has over 30 million plays and downloads featuring guests from around the world. Joe is also Co-Founder of VPMMA, the Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance which is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization assisting Veterans seeking to transition into civilian Project Management careers. Joe is also Founder of The PMO Leader global community. The PMO Leader is the only global ecommerce community for PMO Leaders and teams to share content, gain knowledge and exchange experiences. He is also a recurring Judge for the Global PMO Awards. Joe is PMP certified and is a long-time member of the Project Management Institute.

Edward J. Leydon is a successful international business leader with over 20 years of Engineering, Program Management, and Strategy Development experience including key accomplishments as Staff Systems Engineer and Engineering Program Manager at Lockheed Martin, PMO Director at Honeywell Aerospace, and Director of PMO and Strategy at Beacon Red-EDGE. Currently, Edward is Head of PMO with Computercraft at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NIH). Edward possesses strong leadership skills including the ability to influence teams by managing critical initiatives to deliver consistent results on time, within budget, and meeting specifications. He has a proven history of quickly understanding complex technical applications and developing innovative solutions to critical challenges. He has led successful enterprise-level $100M+ annual budget transformational business initiatives working with leadership teams and executive (C-Level) leadership managing program performance budget, schedule, scope, resources, and critical deliverables.

Priya Patra, Program Manager, Capgemini Priya is a mother of two, Author, Blogger, Women Empower believer, Dreamer, Creator and a Futurist An Agile Evangelist and a Program Manager spearheading Digital transformation, digital quality assurance and quality engineering program for a large conglomerate in Lifesciences domain She Leads Agile Community Of Practice with Capgemini 546 members, across 40 countries evangelizing Agile practices across all levels in the organization. She is speaker for national and International conferences on IoT, Agile and Project Management When she is not working, she dreams about the future of work, and its impact on projects. Her views are expressed through blogs on projectmanagement.com https://www.projectmanagement.com/blogs/570914/The-Future-of-PM-Work #AgileW2W #futureofPMWork #SpeakerPriya

William H. Volpé III is the founder of The Volpé Consortium, Inc., the creator of their proprietary project management process, the publisher of Project Victories, and the developer of a three-day project auditing seminar. He is also the author of the bestselling project management book “Guide to Project Management Life Cycles.” Mr. Volpé has more than 30 years of experience in project management and was a Master Business Analyst and Worldwide Manufacturing Program Manager at Hewlett Packard as well as PMO Manager for the Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia. His experience includes several multi-million dollar international projects and he holds an Associate’s Degree in Computer Engineering Technology, a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering, a Bachelor’s Degree in Management, and a PMP (Project Management Professional) certification. Additionally, he holds a Master Certificate in Project Management, an Advanced Master Certificate in Project Management, and a Professional Business Analyst Certificate all from The George Washington University School of Business. Other certifications include an ISCET Journeyman in Computers, an ISCET Journeyman in Industrial Controls, an ISCET Journeyman in Communications, and an ISCET Radiotelephone License. He currently teaches classes and consults in project management internationally. Classes include Project Auditing, Project Risk Management, Managing Projects, and Project Scheduling and Cost Control. He has taught for such companies as Verizon Wireless, Dow Chemical, Shell Oil, Halliburton, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Mr. Volpé began his project management career as a U.S. Government contractor under SECRET Clearance supporting Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Restore Hope. He worked at Hewlett Packard in the NonStop Enterprise division and the Business Critical Servers Business Management group for more than five years; was a pre-merger Compaq employee; and completed several new product introduction projects for fault-tolerant, mission-critical customers such as the Pentagon and the world stock markets. Mr. Volpé has extensive international project experience and his teams have included members from Germany, England, Mexico, Australia, Scotland, Taiwan, and several other countries. Mr. Volpe is also offering up a key resource: Two and a Half Years in the Making! The Only Book of its Kind! Yours FREE! Get it NOW! Most Projects Start Out Destined for Failure and People Don’t Understand Why. Don’t Be One of Them. You can find a FREE copy of William Volpe’s book: Guide to Project Management Life Cycles here: https://www.projectvictories.com/pmostrategies/ Reviews of Mr. Volpe “Best teacher yet!” – Ryan, FMC Technologies “Very knowledgeable in content and excellent personal interpersonal skills.” – Clayton, Shell Exploration & Production “Great instructor. Looking forward to having him in future classes.” – Robert, U.S. Navy “Mr. Volpe is very affective in teaching style. Used lots of real examples associated with learning materials. Mr. Volpe is very professional and knowledgeable with a hint of Charisma. Would recommend to colleagues.” – Dianna “Bill was an excellent instructor.” – Travis “Instructor was very knowledgeable.” – Alison, Verizon Wireless “Bill Volpe is an excellent instructor with a great arsenal of real world scenarios. He made the course interesting and motivating.” – Virginia,Schlumberger

With over 25 years of executive leadership, including a transformative role as a senior executive at a Fortune 500 Investment Bank, Annmarie is a leading expert in optimizing global teams and business-critical projects. She is CEO and founder of a management consulting firm focused on revitalizing team dynamics and strategy execution. Collaborating with C-level executives, Annmarie employs a results-driven approach to tackle unique challenges, offering bespoke action plans, training, and coaching. Her mission: to cultivate collaborative, high-impact teams that exceed organizational goals and deliver exceptional value to stakeholders and clients. Annmarie has a BSc in Applied Computing from University of Ulster, Ireland. She holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute, the SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) credential and Leading Safe Agilist (SA) credential from Scaled Agile. As a NeuroChangeSolutions certified consultant, Annmarie teaches the NCS Program “Change Your Mind…Create New Results” in team and leadership development programs to unleash the potential in leaders and teams, effectively changing the organization’s culture from the inside out. She is also certified to teach the HeartMath “Resilience Advantage” program.

Beth is a PMO Leader, Program Manager, and Change Driver with degrees in Computer Engineering (B.S.) and Computer Science (M.S.) and experience on large system development programs. As an Independent Management and Engineering Consultant, she supported a range of clients from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses and non-profits through paid engagements and volunteer activities. She is currently a Program Management Director at T-Rex Solutions, LLC and the Chief Operating Officer at Project Management for Change (PM4C).