Speakers

Anne Hartley, Founder and Principal Consultant for AH Consulting, is a facilitator for change and growth in complexity and ambiguity. Anne’s mission and that of AH Consulting is to help clients and partners set the stage for success, achieve what seems impossible, and deliver industry-defining results. She is known for simplifying the complex, helping clients get organized and aligned, and deriving customized pathways with successful outcomes.

Isolde Kanikani is a Transformation & OCM Delivery lead at Plat4mation, working with decision-makers on a daily basis to realise their Digital strategy and transformation stories. As a seasoned professional, Isolde is known to be a driving force and initiator who gets a lot of satisfaction from seeing a job well done. In the last years, she worked on complex global projects focused on organisational development and Governance, often working with HR or ERP implementations. In her early consulting years, there was a focus on small and medium businesses, quickly moving onto large global projects working with everything from digital transformation to change maturity building and organizational design. In the last 4 years, Isolde has carried out many speaking engagements, research and has started to publish some of her papers including: - A White paper on Change maturity published in October 2022 - A Chapter Building Change Maturity in the book Change Management During Unprecedented Times published in May 2023 - A Chapter Diagnosing Organisations in the Book Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times published in July As an entrepreneur, she has founded two successful businesses and considers herself a world citizen after many years of extensive professional travel meeting new cultures and ways of viewing the World. Sparked by mixed roots in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, she has lived in Argentina and Spain, finally putting down roots with her partner Fred in the Netherlands. She loves to learn, create community and grow things. Everything from Governance structures during an M&A transition to the jungle of plants in her home or the network she has been attentively building with Change professionals globally. The search for knowledge and growth through new experiences has led to an MBA, a Master's in Human resources management, and pro bono consultancy in the non-profit sector. Isolde has written her first book to be published in December, founded the Change management co-create group FUTURE:CM and organises a regular program of Change-related discussions and webinars. She has the privilege to sit on the ACMP Global Board of Directors working with this great team to further the strategic goals of ACMP. Passionate about helping new people enter the change profession and innovating current best practice with experienced peers. A true believer of building community and the idea that we are stronger together.

Apriel Biggs is a dynamic executive with more than 15 years of success in technical training, consulting. She is skilled at strategic planning for nationwide implementations, cross-functional leadership, and development of high-functional personnel. She holds the Scrum Alliance CSP-SM and CSP-PO certifications as well as the PMP and has served as an Agile Coach and has held an Executive Leader position at Yale University as Process Transformation Advocate.

Eileen works with Boards, Executives, Sponsors, Project Managers, Project Teams and PMOs to improve their programme and project delivery capability. Her approach ensures that a pragmatic approach is taken to programme and project delivery, grounded in research and best practice, tailored to suit the culture and maturity of the organisation. She works across a wide range of industry sectors including transport, defence, financial services, pharmaceuticals, defence, utilities and the public sector.

Kevin D. Martin, USAA-Retired, University of Texas - San Antonio He is an award-winning leader, dedicated to the topics of high performance, value delivery and continuous improvements.

Luke Hohmann is Chief Innovation Officer of Applied Frameworks, a boutique consulting firm helping companies create more profitable software-enabled solutions. A serial entrepreneur, Luke founded, bootstrapped, and sold the SaaS B2B collaboration software company Conteneo to Scaled Agile, Inc. Conteneo’s Weave platform is now part of SAFe Studio.

Jonathan Brill writes, speaks and advises on how to create, manage and turn radical change to your advantage. Brill is an expert on strategic foresight and technology innovation. His warm style, compelling stories, and intellectual rigor inspire visionaries and open even the most hard-boiled executives to new ways of thinking and doing. Harvard Business Review recently called Brill, “The world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries. He is the author of Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 selling economics book in China. The Economist called it, “A very important book for managers.” and Adam Grant called it, “An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” He has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, ranging from startups to the Fortune 500 to the United States Secret Service. Inc. magazine called Brill “A Silicon Valley legend.” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the US government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides and design of the US Pavilion at the 2015 World's Fair (Expo Milano) to Taco Bell’s Gordita. He is a frequent thought leader, speaker and contributor to HBR, TED, Global Peter Drucker Forum, SCMP, SXSW, J.P. Morgan, Singularity, Forbes, Korn Ferry, The Economist Global Business Report, Bloomberg, Sirius XM, Fast Company, The Project Management Institute, Brightline and Thinkers50. He has educated corporate leaders at Harvard and Stanford Universities. He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab and in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Skip Weisman, a former professional baseball executive and professional speaker, business coach, and author, works with organizations that want to create championship teams and work environments that increases productivity, performance and profits. Skip’s presentations provide inspiring stories with lessons from his leadership career offering practical, state-of-the-art tips, tools, and techniques, to transform communication that leads to championship performance. Skip served 5 baseball franchises as CEO starting at age 26 leading teams affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, and Texas Rangers. Since 2012 Skip has spoken as a keynote speaker to audiences as large as 1,500 at corporate and association conferences across North America, including 36 different PMI chapters, 16 PMI symposium keynotes, 45-session seminars and over 70 PMI presentations. In 2018 Skip published his first book Overcoming The 7 Deadliest Communication SINs: A New Standard for Workplace Communication, which is one of his signature talk topics.

Carolyn Smith has over 20 years of experience leading and managing PMO offices – ranging from large, cross-functional, multi-year projects to IT Program Offices. She has overseen the delivery of hundreds of projects and has repeated successes in building PMO organizations and transforming processes to accelerate delivery of business value.

Joel Albizo has more than 30 years of association management experience and is seen as an innovator within the association CEO community. In addition to original research and presentations on the competencies and development of future association CEOs, he is attuned to digital transformation and other trends impacting the nonprofit sector. Previously, he served as CEO for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), a regulatory body that works to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare by establishing licensure standards for the practice of landscape architecture. Albizo earned his bachelor’s degree in mass communications at Towson University in Maryland. He is president of the Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards, and a former board member and treasurer for the American Society of Association Executives.