2020

Angela has 18 years experience in the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Enterprise Work Collaboration space. She spent 13 years at Oracle in Product Management and then Solutions Engineering, focused on the Oracle PPM suite. She was a known go-to expert on PPM, and brought into the most complex sales opportunities across the world. Given the diverse nature of the PPM customer base, she’s supported numerous vertical industries, including Engineering & Construction, Professional Services, Oil & Gas, and Public Sector. For the last few years, she’s been a visionary leader at Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration and project management solutions – where she relishes in the challenge of evangelizing Clarizen not only as a PPM tool, but as a platform that allows everyone in an enterprise to manage all aspects of work.

Described as the Human Exclamation Point, Tami Evans helps organizations and individuals improve productivity, profitability and have a whole lot of fun doing it. Genuine & funny, she motivates with her energy, passion, and humor by creating an engaging, interactive and unforgettable experiences. With both corporate and entrepreneurial experience, she holds an MFA in performance, a background in communication and design, and firmly believes laughter is a vital part of learning and living. Her relatable keynotes ignite a positive workplace while they celebrate participants, engage and empower employees, create communication cohesion, boost confidence and bust stress. Tami shares important communication and leadership tools along with fresh ideas like Personality upstages Perfection, you can Fail with Flair, and we all need to Embrace our Inner Dork! Recently, Tami was on the Board of Directors for the National Speakers Association and the past President of NSA – NYC. http://www.tamievans.com/

Anita is the founder of Fierce Project Management – empowering women in projects to get their voice heard.

Sarah Robinson is a CEO, best-selling author and international speaker. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of experience and research with hundreds of teams, businesses, organizations, brands and C-level executive leaders, Sarah created a model to build, engage, lead and inspire a 360 degree culture of Fierce Loyalty throughout any organization. Using up-to-the minute research and real-time data, her model can pinpoint exactly where any leader and any organization is along the Fierce Loyalty path. In addition to her business experience, Sarah trained at the National Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC and uses this training not only as a speaker, but also as a background for understanding and improving communication, group dynamics and leadership. (Yes, Shakespeare was a genius at that, too.). Sarah is a regular guest expert at MSNBC and is ranked by both Forbes and Dun and Bradstreet as a top Twitter expert on entrepreneurship and small business. Her international client list includes Microsoft, CUES, the National Press Club, Aileron, M-Wise, The International Business Women’s Conference, Nextiva, and Higher Logic. Sarah lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her two sons and her two big dogs, loves photography and travel, is a trained Shakespearean actress, drinks absurd amounts of coffee and is Fiercely Loyal to The Crimson Tide.

Steven Fullmer contributes his mastery to the field of neurosociology –blending neurochemistry, physiology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and the science of change to understand the power of human potential. His mission includes helping others understand the natural chaos associated with change and choice, and organizing approaches to effectively address change scenarios. Successful approaches must consider human complexity, are always situational, and must incorporate the unique and diverse attributes of the individuals and the tribes that they form. Steven Fullmer is President of Blue Sphere Solutions (www.bluespheresolutions.com), a consultancy supporting choice through complex change. His forty years of experience includes strategic and tactical business, portfolio, program and project leadership. For over a decade he authored and delivered highly sought PMP and Business analysis courseware, video series, webinars, and micro-mastery events. He holds Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-Professional Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) credentials from Project Management Institute, an MBA in services marketing, and is certified as a Change Intelligence Professional. From graduate work in neurochemistry, MBA Service Management focus, and into a recognized career guiding powerful technological change, Steven quickly identified that people rather than technology brought success. The evolution of project related processes, tools, and approaches may deliver new hope to leaders guiding change, though they are more often effective because they distract participants who must focus first on the new ‘technique’. Despite decades of evolutionary technology and approaches, successful and sustainable change remains statistically elusive. Success more commonly occurs when leaders deliver purpose while applying an understanding of the human condition. Steve now researches and pursues a deeper understanding of the factors that affect successful change adoption and the pursuit of fullest human potential. An author and public speaker, Steve focuses on topics related to project management and social psychology – the sciences that together help client individuals and organizations to adopt successful change strategies.

Lauren helps business owners and their teams generate, nurture and qualify more leads online. She helps organizations with high-impact marketing efforts, so they don’t waste any time or money, spinning their wheels on tactics that won’t drive real results. Case in point? That time she generated $262,822.58 in sales for a client using only 9 emails. As an online marketing strategist, Lauren’s appeared as a guest expert for platforms like 90 Day Year Live, Thrive Global, Freshbooks, LeadPages & Wordstream & taught as guest faculty at the Laguna College of Art & Design.

Beth Genly coaches and speaks on burnout prevention and recovery. Beth’s worst episode of burnout ─ yes, sadly, you can cycle through burnout repeatedly – occurred during her two-decade stint as a Yale-educated nurse-midwife. Typically for the profession, her faculty position at Oregon Health & Sciences University included simultaneous roles: patient care, teaching, and administrative duties. This is why she co-authored (with Dr. Marnie Loomis, N.D.) the groundbreaking book: Save Yourself from Burnout: A System to Get Your Life Back.

Crystal is the Principal and Owner of Mosaic Resource Group, a talent development consulting firm with a focus on helping overwhelmed teams improve their project management skills so they can lead projects with clarity, courage, and confidence. She has 20 years of experience in healthcare management and project management working with private- and public-sector clients. Crystal is a dynamic trainer, results-oriented facilitator, and versatile project manager and is dedicated to bringing out the best in people having served with multiple organizations as a trainer and mentor. An Army Brat, Crystal enjoys the simpler things in life like taking her Senior lab for a hike in Maryland's state parks, tending to her vegetable garden, Dunkin’ Donuts® coffee, and mastering her latest obsession: roller skating. Fun Facts The Cheerleader in Action – The CIA 5 Ways I Add Value to the Team: I partner with clients to address their business needs by leveraging their most important asset – their people! I provide client-centered solutions to transform performance into business success. Expert consultative experience from the Big 4 firms to small-sized organizations. It is my goal to bring out the best in your people. I am passionate in what I do. What Movie or Song Best Represents My Approach to Talent Development? “Don’t Stop Believin'” by Journey. Finish this sentence: “The Best Mentor I Ever Had…” …my father. He didn’t think I was listening, but I was. If I were a fictional character, I would be… Elaine Benes from Seinfeld. Three of my core values are: Creativity, Consistency, Relationships

Phil Weinzimer is president of Strategere Consulting and works with clients to develop business and IT strategies that focus on achieving business outcomes. Phil is currently conducting research for his third book, Strategic IT Governance 2.0: A Business Imperative for Competitive Success, to be published in early 2020 His previous book, The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise, focuses on how strategic CIOs leverage information and technology for competitive advantage. His first book, Getting It Right: Creating Customer Value for Market Leadership, focuses on how to transform an organization using a 3P strategy to Prepare personnel to work together as a team, Perceive customer needs, and Provide new products and services that create sustainable and profitable value. Additionally, he writes a column for CIO.com column: Transforming IT for Business Success and AITS.org-The Strategic CIO, and has co-authored a Harvard Case Study. Phil also conducts video interviews of IT Thought Leaders on his series The Strategic CIO. Phil speaks regularly at CIO & IT events on IT Strategy and How Strategic CIOs and IT organizations are changing the dynamics of the business enterprise. Phil is also corporate faculty at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in the Masters Project Management Program.

As a result of his work with PMOs, experiences leading or being served by a PMO, and research conducted in support of his published works, Mark Price Perry pioneered the concept of the Business Driven PMO. Often characterized as a “boat-rocker” and outspoken critic, Mark challenges the traditional approach to PMO setup and management that has been advocated and practiced within the industry and that has led to PMO failures and loss of executive support. Mark offers an alternative approach to PMO setup and management, an approach driven by specific needs of the business as determined by the leadership team, not industry standards or the latest PMO models, buzzwords and hype. Mark is the author of the Business Driven PMO three-book series, published by J. Ross Publishing.