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William Arruda
Stand Out: Personal Branding for Project Managers
Personal branding is one of today’s hottest career strategy topics and an essential tool for thriving in today's project-based work environment. In this high-energy presentation, William takes you through the proven, three-step personal branding process so that you can learn the secrets of expressing your unique brand. Personal branding allows you to build a solid and authentic reputation within your project team and with your external constituencies so you can be more effective in your job and more fulfilled in life. |
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Biography
William Arruda is a branding consultant, author and sought-after speaker on the topics of branding and leadership. Combining his twenty years' corporate branding experience with his passion for the people, he founded Reach, the global leader in personal branding. William’s clients include IBM, JPMorgan, Disney, Adobe, Microsoft, British Telecom and Starwood Hotels. He has appeared on BBC TV, the Discovery Channel and Fox News and has been featured in Forbes, Time, the Wall Street Journal and Entrepreneur. William’s book, Career Distinction (J. Wiley), is a careers bestseller. He holds a Master's Degree in Education.
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Catriona Le May Doan
Personal Excellence: Achieving Your Full Potential
Catriona will share her insights on achieving your goals and the process during which you experience trials and triumphs. It is only with characteristics like passion, a winning attitude, commitment, and teamwork that you can achieve your potential. Her years as a speed skater have taught Catriona so much. She has learned to deal not only with obstacles, but also with success.
The obstacles were devastating. With the help of her team, she learned to deal with disappointments. She has seen first hand what you can achieve when a team works together and appreciates each others strengths and weaknesses.
Catriona realized her dream of winning an Olympic gold medal, and then realized that to continue to stay on top was even harder.
What does it take to be the best? What does it take to stay there?
The journey of Catriona LeMay Doan will take you there and inspire you to reach farther than you thought possible. |
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Biography
Catriona Le May Doan is the “fastest woman on ice”.
In 1998, she won her first Olympic Gold medal in the 500 metre distance in an Olympic record time, then added an Olympic Bronze Medal in the 1000 metre event.
Then in 2002, after carrying the Canadian flag into the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games opening ceremonies (her fourth Olympics), Catriona defended her 1998 Olympic title with a Gold medal performance in the 500 metre event. Catriona is the first Canadian individual ever to defend a gold medal at any Olympic Games. She is the world-record holder in this event and skated another Olympic record time. 2002 was Catriona’s dream season winning the World, Olympic and World Cup Overall Champion titles.
Catriona is a three-time recipient of the Canadian Female Athlete of the Year award and is the recipient of the 2002 Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s Athlete of the Year. In 2005, she became a recipient of the Order of Canada. She was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in November of 2005.
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Kyle 'Cruiser' Howlin & Brad 'Bundy' Campbell
Plan. Brief. Execute. DeBrief. Win! A Fighter Pilot's Secret to Success
In the cockpit of a high performance jet fighter, Fighter Pilots must execute each mission flawlessly. There are no second chances, allowances for stress, or leniency for poor planning or a loss of focus. To survive and succeed, Fighter Pilots follow a management process designed to achieve Flawless Execution every time.During this multi-media presentation, learn how the tools and techniques of Flawless Execution can dramatically enhance your team’s performance:
- PLAN. Learn to apply the highly refined process called "the six steps to mission planning".
- BRIEF. Communicate the plan so that your team knows exactly what is expected of them.
- EXECUTE. Learn how to execute your project flawlessly by recognizing and minimizing "Task Saturation," which, simply put, is task overload.
- DEBRIEF. Implement a nameless and rank-less debrief session to fine-tune the processes that ensure your success.
- WIN. Implement a disciplined management process and apply the tools of Faultless Execution to ensure you win on the “business battlefield”.
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Kyle 'Cruiser' Howlin Biography
With a solid background in leadership and mentoring, Cruiser has logged over 1,400 hours as an instructor pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, and has accumulated over 4,300 hours of additional flight time.
As a combat flight leader, he has flown missions from military airfields and aircraft carriers in South Korea, Japan, Northern/Central Europe and the Middle East. Cruiser served as the Director of Safety and Standardization of the largest Harrier squadron in the world. He was a Mission Commander for large airplane strikes with 20 to 30 planes, an air combat tactics instructor, a weapons training officer, and a NATOPS (Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization) and instrument evaluator. As a Harrier Instructor Pilot for over three years, he trained more than 300 pilots to fly the extremely demanding Harrier, which has vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. Cruiser was part of a select group of aviators who attend the Amphibious Warfare School (AWS), and is a graduate of the Command and Staff course.
While serving as a First Officer for a major airline, Cruiser joined Afterburner as a facilitator and main speaker. Cruiser’s high-impact message leaves audiences inspired and equipped to take their careers to the altitude they desire.
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Brad 'Bundy' Campbell Biography
Bundy is a former CF/A -18 Hornet Instructor pilot with over 2000 hours of flight time in fighter aircraft. During his exchange tour with the US Navy, he earned his aircraft carrier landing qualification. Upon leaving the Canadian forces he began his career consulting in the airline industry helping airlines integrate new aircraft into their operations. With over 5000 hours total flying time, he is also a pilot for a major Canadian airline. Bundy is one of Afterburner Canada’s founding members and first main speakers. He has expanded his consulting to help many organizations contiuously improve using Afterburner’s programs.
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Lee Lambert
Learn with Lee
This year, we are pushing our program further and moving our content beyond just having a regular keynote presentation. The “Learn with Lee” segments will explore real project management issues in a dynamic and interactive environment. After every keynote presentation, resident Project Management expert, Lee Lambert will interview our keynotes to probe for answers to questions that are on your mind. As a PM with 40+ years of experience, Lee will be able to quickly get to the core issues and challenges that impact today’s project managers. |
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Biography
In the profession of Project Management, Lee R. Lambert, PMP has established the standard against which others in the field are measured. Throughout a fast-paced 18 year corporate career with General Electric and Battelle Memorial Institute -- where he worked almost exclusively with U.S. Government Agencies -- he rapidly ascended to senior management positions and was responsible for the development and implementation of ground-breaking, sophisticated Enterprise project management processes.
In 1981 he was an integral part of the creation of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Program. He is a recipient of the PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award (1995) and was a member of the PMNetwork/PM Journal Editorial Review team for over a decade. He also contributed as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI’s Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Practice Standard.
Most recently, Lee was given one of the PMI’s highest honours for his sustained work in the field of training and education: Professional Development Provider of the Year (2007). As an author of two books and 32 professional papers, no other project management educator/speaker can contend with his uncanny technical knowledge, material content and refreshing and entertaining delivery — his hard-hitting, but humorous style, has mesmerized more than 40,000 students in 22 countries.
Lee takes the saying; “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt" to a new level. Lee can be reached at Lee@LambertConsultingGroup.com.
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Gary Monti
Recognizing and Recovering Challenged Projects: If You Don't Do It, Someone Else Will
Recovering challenged projects means being politically adept - if you don’t get the power someone else will. This presentation deals with gauging the power and associated commitments present in the project environment, seeing how much commitment you can obtain, and determining what can be accomplished within those limits.
In this keynote, a project structure is presented showing the differences in how work flows in a healthy environment and in a challenged project. Using a stakeholder assessment method, you will be able to see firsthand the lack of sustained stakeholder commitment into the challenged project. A case example is given showing how a team used the political assessment to modify planning and execution to gain power and complete the project. |
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Biography
Gary Monti has been active in project management and change management since 1979. In 1984 he established the Center for Managing Change providing management, consulting, educational, and mentoring services on an International basis. He received his PMP that same year – he was number 14.
Gary has served in several industries including oil, construction, banking, pharmaceuticals, robotics, real estate development, automotive, wholesale distribution, retail-chain management, and computer manufacturing.
Active in the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Mr. Monti has been a presenter at Symposium and chapter meetings as well as holding various offices at the Chapter level.
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Andy Neillie
"The Power of Influence: Making Cross Functional Teams Work"
Project Teams today can be cross-functional, distributed and non-hierarchical. Team members that don’t report to a Project Manager are the “norm”. Frequently, team members work in other departments, for other Managers, and have other agendas. To be effective in this environment, Project Managers need to use a different type of authority rather than command and control. A successful team and project comes as a result of effective use of influencing skills, rather than use of a title. Influencing means being able to get the work done, on time, and on budget, by active listening, coaching, motivating and empowering. Not easy to master – but achievable through planning, practice and perseverance. |
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Biography
Andy Neillie is a Senior Training Consultant with Richardson. Andy’s training expertise includes face-to-face and telesales training, developmental sales coaching, sales negotiations, influencing skills, sales and professional presentations, leadership development, time management, workplace etiquette, and ethics. He has worked with multinational corporations such as Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Dell Computers, Computer Associates, Gateway, Google, DoubleClick, GlaxoSmithKline, Time Warner, FedExKinko’s and KPMG.
Prior to joining Richardson, Andy was a Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the MentorSource Training Corporation. His responsibilities included developing and implementing the strategic business planning process as well as managing and coaching the sales force. Prior to working for this firm, Andy was co-founder and Vice President of Leadership Catalyst, Inc., a leadership development company. He began his professional career as a high school teacher and coach before transitioning into sales and marketing work in the early 1980s.
Andy holds a dual major undergraduate degree in communications and social sciences from Northern Arizona University and a Masters degree from Western Seminary. Andy has recently completed his doctorate in business leadership and ethics.
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