One of the largest benefits of using both frameworks is alignment. However, few organizations have tailored OKRs and Agile to create alignment across the organization. In fact, the most popular practices used in organization actually prevent alignment vertically within an organization when both are used. This misalignment is easily corrected when the core pieces of both framework are understood aside from the techniques used to implement them. When the purpose and core tenets are well understood, then organizations are empowered to select the practices and techniques which are more suited for alignment.

The purpose of this workshop is to cover some of the best practices that empower OKR and Agile Integration in an organization. It begins with an overview of the core components of OKR and Agile. It includes a discussion on the most common practices and why it may be more efficient to use different techniques when an organization uses OKR and Agile in tandem. The workshop concludes with practical advice on implementation including nomenclature and cadences. This workshop is intended for any who wish to unleash the promised benefits of both frameworks that have been out of reach of your organization.

Takeaways:

• Review key aspects of OKR and Agile as approaches to achieving goal
• Discuss the importance of time boxing for innovation, progress tracking, and prioritization
• Understand how the entire organization can use same method for working Learn techniques for aligning OKRs and Agile

In today's competitive landscape, project management success hinges not just on technical skills, but also on how you present yourself and connect with others. This dynamic session, "Projecting YOU: Building Your Brand & Powering Up Through Networking," empowers project management professionals to take control of their careers. Through interactive discussions and real-world scenarios, you'll discover how to craft a compelling personal brand, master the art of strategic networking, and leverage mentorship for continuous growth. Learn how to showcase your unique value, build powerful connections, and unlock new opportunities to advance your PM career.

Personal brand, building genuine relationships, and actively seeking mentorship, you can elevate your career, expand your influence, and achieve your professional goals.

This presentation provides actionable strategies to help you own your narrative, connect strategically, and level up your PM game

Takeaways:

• Unlock Your PM Potential: Discover how personal branding and strategic networking can accelerate your project management career
• Craft Your Winning Narrative: Learn to showcase your skills and value proposition to stand out from the crowd
• Build Powerful Connections: Master the art of networking to expand your influence and open new opportunities.
• Gain Expert Insights: Explore mentorship, continuous learning, and practical strategies for career advancement.
• Level Up Your PM Game: Walk away with actionable steps to enhance your personal brand and build a thriving professional network.

In today's fast-evolving project management landscape, AI is surrounded with excitement and a lot of hype. But what can it REALLY do today? How is it evolving? How can you use it? And of course, Is AI plotting against us? (Probably). So let’s dig into it. "Agentic AI in Project Management: Beyond Automation" explores how AI-driven agents can go beyond task automation to independently manage workflows, optimize decision-making, and enhance team collaboration.

By leveraging Agentic AI, project managers can shift from micromanaging tasks to focusing on strategic goals, fostering agility and efficiency in an increasingly complex environment. manage workflows, optimize decision-making, and enhance team collaboration. So it’s like upgrading from a non powered push blade lawn mower to a riding one! Think of the grass you can cut now!

By leveraging Agentic AI, project managers can shift from micromanaging tasks to focusing on strategic goals, fostering agility and efficiency in an increasingly complex environment. This session will dive into real-world applications of AI agents in project management, demonstrating how they can proactively solve problems, allocate resources, and drive project success with minimal human intervention. Attendees will gain insights into the evolving role of project managers, the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI-driven autonomy, and practical steps to harness Agentic AI for smarter, more resilient teams.

Takeaways:

• Cutting through the hype to truly understand Agentic AI – Learn how AI-driven agents move beyond automation to autonomous decision-making in project management.
• Real-World Applications – Explore use cases where Agentic AI optimizes workflows, resource allocation, and problem-solving.
• Challenges & Considerations – Identify key challenges in adopting AI- driven autonomy and how to address them.
• Practical Implementation – Gain actionable steps to integrate Agentic AI into your project management strategy today.

Conflicts! We don’t like them. We all have them. How will you respond? It turns out, people respond in predictable ways based on their conflict style. In this interactive workshop, you will discover your conflict style. You will also learn four other styles. Then you will practice approaching conflicts in new and more productive ways.

Takeaways:

• Describe the five conflict styles in the Thomas-Kilmann Model: accommodate, avoid, collaborate, compete, and compromise
• Describe situations when each of the five styles in the Thomas-Kilmann Model would be appropriate
• Identify your own go-to style of responding to conflict
• Compare your default pattern for responding to conflict with four alternatives
• Identify conflict situations where a different style might be more appropriate

AI raises so many questions about Agility: - If AI writes the code and product vision, what's my role? - As AI accelerates work, what emerges as the new bottleneck? - How will teams evolve? What's the impact to Agility? I'll draw on my real-world experience building an AI-first team. I'll share stories of success and outright failure as we explore how AI reshapes everything about agility. Ideal for org and team leaders and Agilists.

Takeaways:

• Discover how each team members role changes and expands
• Learn how teams themselves become more focused and efficient
• See how prototyping displaces the need for detailed User Stories
• Gain new perspective on who gets credit for work the AI does for you

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, PMOs must move beyond intuition and become data-driven decision-makers. A Data-Driven PMO leverages insights, analytics, and AI to optimize portfolio decisions, enhance stakeholder confidence, and drive real business impact.

This power-packed webinar will unveil best practices, and cutting-edge tools to help you transform your PMO into a strategic powerhouse.

What if the next frontier of leadership isn’t about becoming more like machines—but about becoming more human, with machines as our trusted partners in leadership & team effectiveness? AI is not here to replace us—it’s here to augment us! . . . but only if we can effectively partner with the AI tools powerfully & positively. All around the World there are intelligent, well-educated, experienced professionals who are failing for totally predictable and avoidable causes.

The top most common causes of failure in teams continue to be HUMAN causes due to ineffective leadership. It’s been proven that individual and teams that include AI outperform those without an AI component. This is NOT about learning a new app or AI chatbot tricks. It’s about becoming the kind of human leader that can leverage AI to make the “impossible” inevitable.

We’ll explore what it means to lead from the inside out—with help from AI—through five interconnected levels of leadership: * Self-Leadership * 1:1 Leadership * Team Leadership * Organizational Leadership * Global Leadership This isn’t about becoming a machine! It’s about becoming the kind of bold, self-aware, globally conscious and effective leader that our world needs—with AI as your “coach in your pocket”. Whether you lead a team of 3, 300, or 30,000, this session will challenge, empower, and equip you to lead more effectively, from the inside out. If you’re ready to leverage AI to be an “AI-augmented Leader” who uses AI as a "coach in your pocket" to help your team make the extraordinary, or even “impossible”, inevitable—this session is for you.

Takeaways:

• A future-ready mindset about AI: beyond fear and hype, toward practical partnership where you become an “AI-augmented” leader.
• A clear map of the five levels of leadership and how AI can support each. Specific examples of AI tools that augment—not replace—your leadership capacities.
• Real-world use cases from global organizations who are getting this right. Provocative questions that will expand how you think about being human in a world where AI is integrated into our work and our live
• Inspiration to lead not just more efficiently, but more effectively — with the help of AI tools — to become a BETTER version of YOURSELF

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Giving project updates or meeting summaries is critical to successful project management. But it's also challenging: How much should you say? How should you organize the information? How do you customize it for different audiences?

During this presentation, you will learn how to communicate updates efficiently and effectively, whether you are speaking to your team, your manager, or senior executives. The focus is on verbal communication, but everything you learn applies to writing as well. We will use breakout rooms to practice, so you feel ready and confident to use your new skills right away.

Takeaways:

• Discover the foundation of effective communication: the “Rule of 3
• Find out how backstory (too much or too little) can make or break your updates
• Learn 2 speaking templates for providing updates on meetings and projects.
• Practice these speaking templates with your peers in breakout rooms

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Many project management job seekers spend hours revising their resumes, tailoring them for each application, and recreating them from scratch—only to get ghosted by employers. After weeks of little to no response, you start wondering "Am I the problem?" The answer is no, you're not the problem. The real issue is that good education about how to create a genuinely effective PM resume is hard to find. Most advice is generic and doesn't address what makes project management roles unique.

This masterclass will change how you write your PM resume. You'll turn it from a document that gets ignored into one that gets you interviews. You'll learn what recruiters really want to see, how to write powerful bullet points that show your real value, and how to customize your resume for any job in just 5-15 minutes. Whether you're an experienced PM or switching into project management, this session will help your resume work better for you.

Takeaways:

• Learn what recruiters actually want: Know the specific things that make hiring managers notice your PM resume
• Turn your resume into a marketing tool: Show your experience as solutions to company problems, not just job duties
• Write powerful bullet points: Find and share the impacts and results you never thought to include
• Quick tailoring that works: Customize your resume for any PM job in 5-15 minutes without rewriting everything