Tuesday June 18, 2024 - Live Online Event - Yogi Schulz: How to Train Your Project Sponsor

Presentation Title

How to Train Your Project Sponsor

Presentation Speaker

Yogi Schulz, ISP - Author of 'A Sponsor's Warp-Speed Guide'

Presentation Abstract

Sometimes, project managers see their project sponsor as an untrained dragon. The project sponsor may be new or uncertain in the role, reluctant to fulfill the position, or quick to assign blame, particularly to the project manager. In this presentation, Yogi Schulz will describe successful techniques for strengthening the critical relationship between the proejct manager and project sponsor to ensure that the project sponsor ceases to behave like an untrained dragon and begins to add value and strengthen the relationship with the project manager.

Learning Outcomes include:
• How to orient the project sponsor to their project role
• How to keep the project sponsor actively and visibly engaged throughout the project
• How to influence the project sponsor to make the most effective project decisions
• How to respect the project sponsor’s role and their importance to the success of the project

Speaker Bio

Yogi Schulz founded Corvelle Consulting, a firm specializing in project management and information technology-related management consulting in the Upstream Oil & Gas industry. He has 40+ years of Information Systems experience, 35 of whcih have been spent as a consultant. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from The University of Calgary, is a member PMI and CIPS and holds its Information Systems ProfessionaI (ISP) designation.

Yogi has presented at many Oil & Gas and other industry  conferences, has written monthly columns for PM World, Computing Canada and The Calgary Herald , and writes a regular column for IT World Canada and Engineering.com. He has written for Microsoft.com and the Calgary Herald. His writing focuses on project management and IT developments of interest to management. 

Yogi served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM) Association, as well as advising many organiizations on the use of data analytics for business value. His new book, 'A Project Sponsor’s Warp-Speed Guide: Improving Project Performance', is co-authored by Jocelyn Schulz Lapointe, and is centered on a new, more effective ways of maximizing the project manager/project sponsor relationship.. To learn more about Yogi, please visit his LinkedIn page.

Agenda

6:00 PM - Chapter Announcements
6:20 PM - Breakout Room Networking
6:30 PM - Speaker Presentation
7:30 PM - Q & A and Raffle
7:45 PM - Closing & Wrap-up
8:00 PM - Adjourn

$10.00 for Members
$15.00 for Non-Members

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We hope to see you there!