Change is necessary and provides the organization opportunities for growth. It is constant and can be stressful for nearly everyone in the organization; but everyone needs to be involved in championing, supporting and moving forward the change initiative in order for it to be successful. A big challenge within most organizations is championing and supporting change initiatives that are thrust upon the individuals due to changes in leadership, mergers and acquisitions or competitive threats...

Often our sole focus is on managing changes that occur to our projects; however, that is not sufficient. We forget one very important component of managing change and that is managing stakeholder's expectations around change - this is a big component of nearly any project regardless of its size or complexity. When we don't effectively manage people's expectations around change on our projects we risk project failure! The effort we must put forth increases when we begin to work on projects...

We all have certain perceptions of those around us. Those perceptions come from our environment, the region/country in which we were raised, our cultural background, and what we learned from friends and family. Those perceptions affect how we work and interact with others of different cultural backgrounds. By understanding others' cultural backgrounds, we learn how best to interact with those individuals and we learn to speak with them as individuals - not as someone from a particular...

Let's face it - we are all managing projects every day! They may be simple or more complex, but regardless of what role you have within the organization - managing projects is likely to be one of the things you have to do! You don't need to be a project manager or aspire to be one to learn how to manage the projects on your plate effectively and efficiently. This program will provide you the basics of managing projects - regardless of their size or complexity.

Human resources inevitably have a number of projects to lead for the business and additionally have a number of initiatives they would like to undertake. This seminar provides best practices for managing HR projects, from how to socialize the initiative to get buy-in and commitment from leaders and others in the organization through to utilizing lessons learned to improve how projects are managed.

This session is based on Gina's book, Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects: Six Steps to Success. Business process improvement projects are some of the most challenging projects for project managers to manage. This session will provide a number of best practices to help project managers ensure their next process improvement project - regardless of the size and complexity - is a success!

The ability to communicate across boundaries and from executives to individual contributors is essential to anyone's success. Learn best practices for communicating effectively in a variety of ways without spending all of your time communicating and keeping everyone engaged and happy.

Communication on our projects is challenging! There are so many individuals we must communicate with from the very beginning through to implementation and evaluation - and they all want to be communicated with differently! Additionally, our communications vary depending on the role we have on the project, the stage of the project which we are in and with whom we are communicating.  Regardless of your role on the project - you must learn to communicate effectively to be successful.

In this keynote session, Gina shares her stories - the good, the bad and the ugly! - on how she worked her way to where she is today - running a successful consulting business and providing workshops to clients, along with getting published. She'll talk about successes and challenges encountered, including a few mistakes made along the way! 

This topic covers leadership, project management and process improvement topics.

Even with more women than ever before in project management - challenges for women are still out there! In addition to managing the project, women often have to manage gender biases. Gina shares the top 10 things that women in project management should know and do in order to be seen as a leader and get past the gender biases.

So much rides on the success of a project team - and when you have a virtual team (whether across the world, across the country or in the next state) there are many more challenges on a daily basis that affect team performance. In today's world, most every organization needs to work across time zones. Poor team performance will ultimately affect the success of the project and will, frankly, make you crazy! The frustrations pile up as you attempt to herd cats! This sessions is designed to...