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Member Webex Meeting

Topic: Wicked Problem Solver : A Primer On Addressing Complex Challenges

Presenter: Kate Castiglione

PMI Product Owner of Wicked Problem Solver

Webinar Abstract: 

Wicked Problem Solving, is an online PMI course and toolkit developed specifically for change makers, leaders, and consultants to sharpen their creative problem-solving and collaboration skills, and bring design thinking to every-day work. The Wicked Problem Solving framework was created using the best of design thinking, agile, lean, project management, and other modern ways of working. Our talk will introduce you to this new online course. That program will teach you how to bring yourself or your team, from irresolution to resolution using a simple, powerful, scalable approach to tackle virtually any problem and to make solutions visible. Come join its product owner, as we unpack foundational topics and learn how wicked problems might be solved.

Presenter Bio:

Kate Castiglione is the new Product Owner of Wicked Problem Solving brings a wealth of knowledge in Lean-Agile software development methodologies. Prior to coming to PMI, Kate was a Digital Product Owner at Xfinity Comcast, where she actively developed business and product requirements for the new order entry tool that was deployed across all internal channels and divisions within Xfinity. Previously, Kate spent 10+ years at Evolve IP, building and growing one of the most successful Managed Solutions Provider/SaaS businesses from start up to $150M in revenue, with focus on developing and delivering unified desktop communications solutions to businesses.

Member Webex Meeting

Topic: The Law Awakens to Project Management

Presenter: Larry W. Bridgesmith

Adjunct Professor of Law

Program on Law & Innovation

Webinar Abstract:  

Virtually every industry sector has depended on project management methodologies for decades. Even medicine and health care rely on practices like process improvement, Six Sigma, Agile and related project management tools to manage the quality and efficiency of services and products. Lawyers have not been as enthused. When selling time is a measure of economic value, efficiency can be viewed as the enemy. However, sophisticated purchasers of legal services have begun to reject the billable hour business model and demand efficiency, transparency, real time communication and price certainty from their legal service providers. Most corporate legal department requests for proposals from outside law firms require information about the firm's project management programs and success in implementing them. Even the inhouse legal function serving the companies C Suite faces declining budgets and the standard "do more with less" mandate every other corporate department must live with. Many corporate legal clients and the law firms that serve them are now conversant in legal project management and its unique differences from project management common in other industries. Project management professionals will benefit from this unique moment in time for the legal industry. They can directly benefit by becoming more knowledgeable about how legal project management is impacting a green field of opportunity never before seen in law.

Presenter BIO: 

Larry Bridgesmith J.D., is CEO of LegalAlignment LLC and a lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been listed as one of America’s Best Lawyers, among the Leading Lawyers for American Businesses and SuperLawyer. He is a member of the International Academy of Mediators and has served as a member of the Dispute Resolution Section Council of the American Bar Association. Larry has practiced in the fields of labor, employment and dispute resolution for over 30 years and served in management roles for boutique and mid-sized law firms throughout his career. He founded Lipscomb University’s Institute for Conflict Management and served as its inaugural Executive Director. He holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certificate. Larry is an adjunct professor in legal project management, conflict management and mediation at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Belmont University Massey Graduate School of Business, The Nashville School of Law and the Albany Medical School Alden March Institute for Biomedical Ethics. He coordinates the Program on Law and Innovation at Vanderbilt School of Law. In 2013, Larry was awarded the Grayfred Gray Award for Public Service in Mediation by the Coalition for Mediation Awareness in Tennessee. His practice in facilitation and training in organizational change management has taken him across the country and around the world. Larry has served as Chair of the Tennessee Supreme Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission and Co-Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Collaborative Coalitions Initiative.

Member Webex Meeting

Topic: PMI 4.0 Strategy

Presenter: Sarah Maxwell

PMI Chapter Partner

Webinar Abstract: 

The world is changing, and projects are more important than ever.  Project managers are being asked to support and lead their organizations through times of immense change, people without project knowledge are being asked to lead projects, and organizations are becoming more socially responsible.  How do we build the plane while flying it? 

The Project Management Institute saw the need to evolve back in 2017, and has been working behind the scenes to become the PMI that people who run projects need it to be.  Come learn why we’ve changed, where we’re going, and how we will continue to be the source for project managers of the future. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn PMI’s 4.0 Strategy
2. See the latest tools for your professional journey
3. Understand how we’re a part of making the world a better place

Member Webex Meeting

Topic: PMIstandards+

Presenter: Patrick Ashmun

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Member Webex Meeting

Topic: Practical Adaptive Leadership

Presenter: David Mantica

SoftEd

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