Tom Henricksen is an experienced technology professional. He has worked in various roles in technology for over fifteen years. From developer, Scrum Master, Team Lead, and Development Manager he has tried to influence his teammates and organizations. He also works with individuals and teams to enhance their technology career and team performance at MyITCareerCoach.com. Tom has authored books and created courses on agility and technical leadership.

Leaders in our discordant times need to follow three key principles to guide their teams.
First, they must model the way and act with purpose.

Second, they need to build influence by fostering great relationships.

Third, in these times of disarray they must encourage experiments.

Then share the learning.

Takeaways

• Learn how to model the way for your team
• Influence your team members to guide their growth
• Start encouraging experiments to amplify team learning

Cheryl Nash, President, Investment Services at Fiserv, drives the strategic vision for industry-leading technology solutions in wealth management. With over 30 years of experience, Cheryl has a keen appreciation and understanding of industry trends, priorities and challenges, and is a highly sought-after subject matter expert. Her consultative approach has yielded enduring client partnerships.

Cheryl’s credentials include her appointment to the Money Management Institute (MMI) board of governors and selection as co-chair of the MMI Women in Wealth Management, a program dedicated to ensuring women in the workforce 0-5 years have an enriching start to their financial services careers; board member of MMI’s Leadership Pathway; and former co-chair for MMI’s Technology & Operations Committee. She serves as an Envestnet Institute on Campus advisory board member and leads the Women in Wealth Management initiative, a program dedicated to inspiring, advising, and educating career-focused women.

Cheryl has received numerous awards for her contributions and achievements including Money Management Institute’s Pioneer Award (2009); Gold Stevie® Award for Women in Business (2016); Family Wealth Report’s Women in Wealth Management—Individual Contributor award (2017); MMI/Barron’s Industry award to Envestnet Institute on Campus in the ‘Doing Good’ category, a program for which Cheryl Nash and Fiserv are key contributors (2017, 2018); InvestmentNews 2017 Women to Watch honoree; the FTF News 2018 Editor’s Choice Award and most recently, ThinkAdvisor’s 2019 Top Women in WealthTech.

Cheryl Nash is President of Investment Services at Fiserv, the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions. Cheryl is responsible for driving the strategic vision and direction of the industry-leading technology solutions Fiserv offers to the wealth management industry. With over 25 years of experience - Cheryl will share the mindset, methodology, strategy and execution of a transformative program she led that achieved business-elevating results. Learn how goal-setting, buy-in and a fresh approach to engagement can guide you to successful outcomes for your organization.

From delivering newspapers in Upstate NY as a teenager to the CIO and Shared Services Leader of a Fortune 200 company, Rich brings a broad set of experiences and accomplishments across many industry verticals and roles.  At Becton Dickinson he rose to the EVP level by building a digital strategy that included Automation, AI, Big Data and Machine Learning.  He did this while delivering significant synergy savings and improving customer engagement along the way.   During his stints in consulting, he has been a strategic advisor to many leading organizations including McDonalds, Walt Disney, Unilever, Cargill and Colgate among many others helping them transform and deliver value through their change initiatives.

Currently, Rich is the Managing Partner and CEO of Pier Digital, Inc. a consultancy focused on guiding corporations through challenges of digital disruption by helping them move towards a new technology reality.  He is also working with several promising start-ups in the digital space.  He is supported by his wife of 30 years, Stephanie and his two daughters.

Projects are the way strategy is achieved, making Project Managers instrumental in delivering both business results and organizational change, yet project managers often do not leverage their diverse and strategic experience to become leaders of business and architects of change.

In his long and varied career, Richard Pierle has turned his passion for and expertise in project management into a successful executive position at a Fortune 200 company, and now leads companies through transformational technology changes.

Rich will discuss how key project management roles in finance and IT prepared him to be a Chief Information Officer and business leader, and how he promoted and leveraged the value of project management while creating an Enterprise Project Management Office to lead and support a wide range of business programs in IT, engineering, compliance, and other business areas. Bring your career management questions - Rich will share his career development and job-sculpting experience in an extensive Q&A session as part of his talk.

As President & Chief Executive Officer of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Sunil Prashara is the lead advocate for PMI's global organization, serving more than three million professionals working in nearly every country of the world. His primary responsibility is to implement PMI's global strategic plan with a priority on strategic focus, customer centricity and organizational agility. This includes expanding the PMI footprint globally, as well as digitizing PMI's offerings and platforms to benefit its members and a variety of other stakeholders. The plan will also continue to enhance and advocate for the profession of project management.

Sunil was named CEO of PMI in March of 2019. He brings more than three decades of valuable global leadership to PMI, with a solid track record of setting and delivering strategy, managing large scale transformation agendas, and meeting growth targets for international organizations.

Prior to joining PMI, he served as CEO of i1too Ltd in the U.K., a sales accelerator for digital start-ups, which he founded in 2016 and grew internationally. He previously served as CEO of Expereo International, and also held numerous executive leadership positions throughout the information and communications technology and telecommunications industries. His extensive multi-functional, multi-cultural, multi-geography experience includes managing sales, operations and digital transformation for companies such as Vodafone, Nokia, Accenture and Perot Systems (NTT). As a business executive, he has developed an appreciation for project management expertise, and understands from an "outside-in" perspective how PMI can expand its reach globally.

Sunil speaks Punjabi and Hindi. He is a graduate of the University of London and resides in the U.K. with his wife Kavita and two sons Kamran and Raghav. He enjoys golf, boxing, martial arts and traveling.

Sunil shall identify his plans to lead PMI into its next fifty years. He will discuss the challenges and successes to be had with running such a diverse international organization.

Kimi's presentations are designed for highly interactive discussions and sharing of discoveries and re-discoveries from participants. It is her contention, after over 20 years in the business of performance improvement, that most of her audience members are smart, driven, and committed to the success of their teams - and that when they rediscover the power of what they know to be strong tools, discover the ways their colleagues have worked well, and have the time to review these important concepts they will amaze their organizations and teams. It is her strongest focus to help them see how to eliminate wasted time and money from their projects, their teams, and their organizations. Her audiences are filled with people who are the leaders who change their teams and their worlds. Using video lessons, keynotes, classes and coaching she has supported further success for thousands. KSP Partnership focuses on helping leaders and organizations reduce and then eliminate the waste in organizations. Refine habits of decision making and team dynamics to create a more productive culture, higher performing teams, and higher productivity.

Key Takeways:

• 3 actions to immediately raise the quality of your teams’ decision making in complex situations.
• 2 actions to improve the quality of deliverables from your teams.

Description:
Decision making remains a fundamental competency that we personally use in leading our teams and organizations. This discussion focuses on how you can lead your teams to improve the level of decision making both across the team and across the organization.

The speed of doing business today will only get faster.  This means that the value of your ability to coach for stronger critical thinking gets higher and higher.

When decisions are made more in haste than in thought, your teams try to execute but, despite every effort instead they create waste - wasted time addressing the impact of those decisions, wasted money as time spent can double or even triple on efforts, and wasted commitment as frustration with lack of progress mounts within each team member. As a leader it can become even more frustrating as your teams’ well-being and progress suffer.  In this ever-increasing age of remote and virtual team members it is your leadership that will help coalesce the team. It is by facilitating and leading critical thinking processes to solve problems that you can help your team move from a group to a team to an ensemble.

Reduce - then eliminate - this crucial waste.

Nicholas, is a Project Manager in Gas Operations – Gas Construction covering the state’s northern territory of Bergen and Passaic County. He is responsible for the oversight and management of the Gas System Modernization Program within this area.  He has a Project Management background in General Contracting and joined the PSE&G team in 2016. His background in building construction provide a basis to managing this accelerated gas main replacement work.

Renee is a Senior Project Manager in Gas Operations – Gas Construction covering PSE&G’s entire territory, from Montvale to Camden. In this role she manages the Gas Construction Project Management Office. She leads the team of project managers for successful construction execution of the Gas System Modernization Program (GSMP), aimed at replacing aging gas infrastructure, supporting a safe, and clean and reliable gas system.

The “Gas System Modernization Program” will highlight the strategy, the process and execution used to modernize and replace old cast iron and unprotected steel gas mains. This project - part of the U.S. Department of Energy initiative to accelerate the replacement of aging infrastructure, addresses a variety of project elements such as

• previous Gas Main Replacement projects
• leadership
• creation of a new Gas Construction Group and a Project Management Office (PMO)
• formalizing the project management process
• challenges / lessons learned
• other project management elements.