2024

Candice Benson, CEO Benson Consulting Inc., is a certified Change Manager, Project Management Professional and Process Improvement Specialist. Her 25 years of experience in project management and people change management has spanned multiple fields. Candice is certified in Change Intelligence and as a Prosci Change Practitioner/Trainer. She is an experienced PMO Director, Portfolio Manager, Program Manager and Project Manager. She is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) from PMI and is a Six Sigma/Lean certified leader, mentor, PM coach.

Jerry Manas is a best-selling business author and recognized thought leader in organizational project and resource management.

Dawn Mahan, PMP is an international speaker, award-winning consultant, and the sole inventor of the ProjectFlo® Process Learning System used in organizations such as Time Warner Cable, the PMI Southern New England Chapter and The American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia. She makes learning PMI’s complex process quick, easy, and fun! Dawn led global transformation projects for the C-suite, facilitated, and specializes in recommending right-sized techniques from the Fortune 500 to transform strategy into an executable plan coupled with talent development that empowers internal resources to get the right projects done right. Former Fortune 500 PMO Leader, Founder PMOtraining.com & Chocolate with Sea Salt Enthusiast

Hussain Bandukwala helps PMO leaders (& their teams) succeed. Through consulting, coaching, workshops and other resources, Hussain arms PMO Leaders & PM delivery teams with experiential learning and confidence to achieve PMO triumph systematically and effectively.

Winner of Global PMO Influencer 2022 Award | PMI Snyder Award Winner 2016 | Helping Organizations in Strategy Implementation, Governance, Managing Benefits, Portfolio Management and Integration | APMG Accredited Managing Benefits and Strategy Implementation | PfMP, PgMP, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, OPM3, EVP, SIP, MB F/P, P3GP

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD is author of the best-selling book Change Intelligence: Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change that Sticks, principal and founder of Change Catalysts, and originator of the CQ® System for Developing Change Intelligence®.

PMOGA selected Jennie Fowler as a top three finalist for PMO Leader of the Year for The Americas. Jennie started a new journey in 2021 as the Global Director of Project Management with Percepta in January.

Wolfram Müller is internationally known as a speaker, author, and expert on self-organized changes based on the "Theory of Constraints." As early as 1987, while studying and later as head of the PMO at 1&1 Internet AG, he discovered the fun of fast projects. Since 2006, he has made this fun, and his many years of expertise are available to others as a consultant: More than 50 companies, from start-ups to medium-sized businesses to corporations with 6,500 employees from all industries, have benefited from his knowledge and methods to date. Whether in the automotive sector, special mechanical engineering, IT, or medical technology. Companies such as Festo, Endress+Hauser, Megger, Otto Fuchs, and Bosch swear by his expertise. The results are always similar: at least +50% more projects with the same resources as well as a reduction in project lead time of 25-50% within a few weeks.

Over the past 2 decades, Christoph has continuously worked to improve the effectiveness of organizations while improving the work life of those involved. Experiences include strategy development, strategy execution, agile transformation, product development, Post-Merger-Integration, economics research. Today, Christoph is a Managing Director at SaaS company Meisterplan, which he joined in 2015. Prior to that, he worked as a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and ran a FinTech company, 3C.

Author and international keynote speaker David Dye gives leaders the roadmap they need to transform results. David works with leaders around the world who want to achieve breakthrough results without losing their soul (or mind) in the process. He gets it because he’s been there: a former executive and elected official, David has over two decades of experience leading teams, building organizations, and working with Boards of Directors to transform their effectiveness. He is the award-winning author of: Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul, Courageous Cultures (Harper Collins 2020), The Seven Things Your Team Needs to Hear You Say, and Glowstone Peak – a book for readers of all ages about courage, influence, and hope. Known for his optimism, for making difficult concepts understandable, and for moving leaders to immediate, practical action. David’s keynotes and training programs help leaders across industries to increase their influence, solve common leadership frustrations, and improve productivity through practical leadership inspiration. David has a BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado and a Masters Degree in Management from Regis University. He and his wife, Karin Hurt, are dedicated to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells, which provides clean water wells to communities struggling with access to safe water throughout Southeast Asia. David lives outside of Washington, DC. He loves the meditation of a hiking trail, the reward of high mountain peaks, and is proud of the impact his children are having around the world.