Speakers

    Mike Welch
    Director, Strategy Delivery Office
    APA
    Mike is a long-time association management professional with a great deal of experience in association governance, component relations, and volunteer management for national membership organizations. He is relatively new to project and portfolio management. As Strategy Delivery Office Director for the American Planning Association, he is responsible for centralized strategic management and oversight of APAs portfolio of projects, project delivery teams, and project delivery approaches and methodologies to enable the successful delivery of the organization's priorities.
    Rashmi Fernandes
    Agility & Leadership Mentor & Coach
    She specializes in enabling product teams to focus on customer centricity and arrive at shared understanding towards a common purpose. As an Innovation Catalyst, she coaches teams on how to take an idea from concept to life. She has been a sought-after mentor from various parts of the organisation. In her last role, she enabled collaboration, idea generation, and Innovation in various departments for accelerating Organisation’s growth. Rashmi Fernandes is the first woman Agile Leadership Journey (ALJ)Guide for the Asia-Pacific Region. She is focused on creating psychologically safe spaces, interested in enabling Women for Agile Leadership and her passion for her community brought together a platform for over 1000 underprivileged children to play sports (www.therejuventors.co.in). Some of her key accomplishments are – she received the prestigious Brandon Hall Award for co-designing and executing an Agile Excellence Program for a MNC. She also designed and implemented a four-credit course for part-time MBA students on Business Agility at a prestigious university in India. She has led many enterprise-wide initiatives like Product Conferences, Product & Scrum Master CoPs, Diversity events and initiatives, Toastmaster’s Club, Leadership Development Programs, Hackathons, Career Development programs, Communication & Quest for Quality programs & Served as Editor for a Corporate Newsletter.
    Christina Carlson
    Founder & CEO
    Unstuck: Leadership Training & Development
    Christina Carlson is the Founder + CEO of Unstuck: Leadership Training & Development, and creates a unique pace to guide you to become unstuck through collaboration, creativity, and how to apply inspired agility research. She finds personal success and purpose through creative and collaborative projects that help people achieve their dreams. Her ability to actively connect peoples’ complex ideas to their values in order to broaden their perspectives makes her a sought after commodity for billion dollar companies and independent entrepreneurs. By applying research and scientific practice through a creative mindset, she is able to unstick people from their current perspective and help them move to the next evolution of their leadership growth.
    Katharine Bodan
    Enterprise Agile Coach
    Katharine has over 15 years of experience in lean manufacturing, consulting and software leadership — including CTO and VP roles — and brings a practical approach to organizational agility. The people-first coaching she provides for team members and executives helps businesses sustain their growth by elevating the company’s collective intelligence. Her engagements include various industries such as consumer retail, health insurance, professional certification, manufacturing, travel, and automotive.
    Mazin Gadir PhD MSc BEng PMP Prosci LSSGB EBAS Agile
    Director Of Strategic Partnerships, Bid Management and Client Relationship
    IQVIA Middle East and Africa
    Louise Worsley
    PPPM Consultant
    PiCubed
    With over 30 years in the project management sphere, Louise has become a seasoned consultant, lecturer, and mentor, working across diverse sectors from Finance to Defence. Currently combining consultancy with a lecturing role at the University of Cape Town, she champions the leadership module for the Masters in Project Management. Her publication, "Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the way we manage projects," underscores her advocacy for stakeholder-centric approaches. She is a global PMO Awards judge and former chair of South Africa's PMO judging committee. Committed to fostering the next generation of project professionals, she offers mentorship globally, enriched by her Masters in Online and Distance Learning from the Open University, UK.
    Leonardo Reyes
    PMOfficer & PMO Consultant, Author - Speaker - Trainer
    PMOfficers, PMOAcademy & PMOXperience
    Leonardo Reyes has extensive experience leading PMOs in both the public and private sectors, spanning various industries such as automotive, transportation, banking, insurance, aviation, and pharmaceuticals. He began his career in Mexico City and is currently based in Barcelona, Spain. In addition to his consulting work, Leonardo is the founder of the PMOfficers global community, a collaborative platform for knowledge sharing and expansion. He is also the founder of PMOXperience, a consulting firm, and PMOAcademy, a training program dedicated to driving best practices in PMOs. He specializes in providing consulting services for PMOs, covering strategy, tactical planning, and execution. Leonardo has worked with notable companies including Grifols, HP, La Caixa, Banc Sabadell, Volkswagen Group, Crèdit Andorrà, and the Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology of the Generalitat de Catalunya (CTTI). Leonardo is an accomplished international speaker and has been a judge for the PMO Global Awards since 2019, hosted by the PMO Global Alliance. Passionate about strategy, blockchain, metaverse, and digital transformation, Leonardo brings a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm to the field of PMOs.
    Pierre Le Manh
    President and CEO
    PMI
    Pierre Le Manh is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Project Management Institute. As a global executive with a multi-cultural background, Pierre Le Manh brings a proven track record of delivering results and guiding organizations through complex transformations. He is passionate about leading teams in innovating and creating new ways to disseminate specialized knowledge, upskilling and education. Pierre Le Manh most recently led Galileo Global Education’s expansion project in North America. Galileo is the European leading provider of higher education serving more than 170,000 students across an international network of 54 institutions and high-growth education technology platforms. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer North America and Global Deputy CEO at Ipsos, one of the world’s largest data, analytics, and insights companies. Pierre Le Manh played a crucial role in taking Ipsos from a $700 million primarily European-focused organization in 2004 to a $2.5 billion global leader in its industry in 2021, growing to more than 18,000 employees operating in 90 countries. Earlier in his career, Pierre Le Manh served as CEO of Consodata, a leader in first and third-party consumer data, precision, and digital marketing. He started his career at consulting giant Accenture before serving as CFO of performing arts non-profit Adami, CEO of digital publisher Encyclopaedia Universalis, and CEO of CFL Holding, a family office owning various assets in direct-to-consumer, marketing services, and real estate industries. Pierre Le Manh was born and raised in France by a Vietnamese father and a French mother. He has lived in several countries before settling in New York City in 2013. He speaks English, French and Italian. He likes traveling the world to visit his very large family and his friends, watching Paris Saint-German soccer games and wandering around Manhattan on his electric scooter. He has two sons who live in Paris and London.
    Ashleigh Clark
    Chief Optimization Officer
    Process Alchemist
    Throughout my 17 year career in IT and 14 in project management, I have learned that most portfolio, program, and project management strategies are written as if we live in a perfect world.
    Alexandra Chapman
    Co-Founder and Co-Creator
    Totally Optimized Projects
    Alex has been a project manager and project fixer for over 40 years, helping organizations achieve strategic results and value. Alex's expertise in Outcomes Thinking techniques is highly regarded worldwide, and her life mission is to equip project specialists with these skills.