PM Connect - Working With Sponsors
Friday Jun 19th, 2009Time: 7:45 am to 9:30 am
Location
| Accelerator Building West Entrance University of Waterloo Research & Technology Park 295 Hagey Boulevard, Meeting Room 2 Waterloo, Ontario |
Event Description/Details
| For any project or program manager one of the key success factors is an engaged and active sponsor. Without a sponsor roadblocks, budgeting, negotiation for resources, risk management, and other challenges both internal and external are difficult to overcome. The changes in our economic and business world are making the sponsor an even more critical and essential role. Executive accountability and alignment with corporate strategy will only become more visible. Issues like transparency, communications, alignment, people management and creating superior results will be will be vital for the sponsor of today. What the project/program manager does to help gain strong executive involvement, commitment and sponsorship can make or break the success of the strategic initiative. Come to this interactive workshop on how to coach your executive sponsor on their role, being proactive and what is takes to ensure project success. RSVP for the next PMCONNECT meeting on Friday, June 19th, by RSVP to Wanda Eby wanda@communitech.ca |
Speaker(s)
| Catherine Daw, MBA, PMP, President, SPM Group Ltd. Catherine is President and co-founder of SPM Group Ltd. She provides the vision and leadership needed to evolve the firm including the current corporate direction of enabling effective enterprises through strategic initiative management. Her focus is what matters most to SPM's clients - solutions that exceed expectations, save time and money, and help achieve superior business benefits. Catherine is a pioneer who possesses over twenty-five years of experience, working in a variety of public and private sector companies, holding progressively higher positions both in Information Technology and Business areas. Catherine's personal idiom has always been to deliver results within a foundation of integrity, open communication and with a strong understanding of value creation and strategic advantage for businesses. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Queen's University and a Masters of Business Administration from York University. She is an active member of the Project Management Institute and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) as designated by the Project Management Institute. About SPM SPM Group Ltd is a pioneer in Strategic Initiative Management - an emerging field that combines traditional project management with advances in strategy execution. SPM was founded in 1991 and provides business services through these three main service categories: Management Consulting, Leadership and Training Solutions, and Contract Staffing and Outsourcing |