Event Schedule

Registration & Breakfast

Opening Ceremony & Keynote

Hans Eckman-Harry Potter & Presentation of Secrets: 7 Leadership Lessons

Do the circumstances make the leader, or do great leaders make the circumstances? In J.K. Rowling’s amazing book series, Harry Potter finds himself rejoining the wizarding world only to discover he has a legend to live up to. Each year, Harry and his friends faced a new set of personal and environmental challenges.

Join us to discover seven secrets of leadership, teams, and personal growth from the book series that changed the world. We will discuss pivotal strategies and approaches that Harry used to overcome He Who Must Not Be Named. You will learn how to apply these lessons to your professional journey and personal growth.

●       Learn why diverse teams with a common thread are your best problem solvers

●       Learn how to play to your strengths and overcome weaknesses

●       Learn the importance of standing up for the right thing and why it can be so difficult

Sessions 1

- Lori Crever: Basics of Organizational Change: What Every Project Professional Should Know (OCM)

Join us for a strategic 60-minute breakout session led by author and career strategist Lori Crever. Drawing on her years designing and managing new initiatives and high-visibility integration through two institutional mergers (Norwest & Wells Fargo and Wells Fargo & Wachovia), Lori will share wisdom and tactics on how to lead through organizational change.

- Michael R: How AI and the Digital Thread Drive Real-Time Visibility and Control

- Jeff Bubolz/ Chad Beier: High Frequency Leadership: How real change happens

Most leadership teams want meaningful change—but many unintentionally slow it down.
High-Frequency Leadership is about breaking that cycle by increasing the cadence of how leaders listen, align, decide, and act. Instead of operating on long, infrequent cycles filled with overloaded calendars and reactive fire drills, high-frequency leaders intentionally create slack for reflection, coaching, prioritization, and improvement. They stop being victims of their own schedules and start designing them.
In this talk, we’ll explore how leadership teams can apply Scrum-like rhythms to their own work: ordering change by impact, planning change collaboratively, creating shared visibility, reviewing progress often, and reflecting as a team to get better. We’ll cover practical habits such as high-value 1:1s, targeted listening, crafting a clear and persistent vision, and using empirical signals (not gut feel) to steer transformation.
You’ll hear real stories from a leadership team that completely reinvented how they operated—moving from slow, fragmented decision-making to a high-frequency, high-alignment, high-trust engine of change. Attendees will walk away with a leadership operating system they can immediately apply to accelerate improvement, build healthier organizations, and make real change actually happen.

- MJ Reiners: The Hidden Powers of Success: Engineering Energy

Every project lives in two worlds: the visible world of plans, milestones, budgets, and teams — and the invisible world of energy, intention, and human dynamics. Most leaders operate only in the first. The most effective leaders quietly master both.

The Hidden Powers of Success: Engineering Energy reveals the unseen architecture called thoughtforms that determines whether a project flows or fights, accelerates or stalls. Participants will learn how to work with energy as intentionally as they work with people, scope or schedule.

This session's core reveals a simple truth: Thoughtforms are real. They behave like hidden computer programs that determine outcomes long before execution begins. High-performing leaders know how to create powerful project thoughtforms, strengthen team coherence, and remove energetic resistance.

Sessions 2

- Anne White:  Leading Through the Storm

- Rachel Yarger:  Change Overload: Make It Stick Anyway (OCM)

- Elias Mokole: The Leadership Dance: Lessons from Voice and Resonance

- Marcus Udokang: Using AI on Real Projects

Lunch and Sponsors

Session 3

- Craig Thielen: Unified Approach to Project Management 

- Lori Crever: Difference between a Mentor, a Sponsor, and a Coach

Join us for an illuminating 60-minute breakout session led by author and career mentorship expert Lori Crever. Drawing on her years running a highly successful mentor program for Wells Fargo’s international division, along with studying and experiencing career quantum leaps resulting from sponsorship, Lori will share practical strategies on how to work with these key career resources.

- V. Lee Henson:  Leading Organizational Transformation: Four Phases That Transcend Project Management (OCM)

- Lisa Talbot: Beyond Busywork: How AI Co-Pilots Transform Project Delivery Without Replacing the Human Brain

Session 4

- Delvin Fletcher/Susan Moore: The PM and BA relationship

-  Sinikka: Emotional Intelligence (EI) is what AI can’t do

-  Barb Monson: How To Delegate So It Gets DONE!  

Most leaders don’t struggle with assigning work. They struggle with watching it come back incomplete, misaligned, or not done at all, causing frustration, rework, and the temptation to just do it themselves.
In this session participants learn why delegation breaks down and how to replace vague
handoffs with clear ownership, aligned expectations, and accountability that actually works. Attendees will explore the critical decisions leaders must make before delegating, including whether they are assigning a task or transferring responsibility, who the lowest qualified person is to handle the work, and whether the goal is efficiency, development, or both.
This session equips leaders with a repeatable delegation framework that reduces follow-up, improves results, and helps them shift from being the bottleneck to building a capable, accountable team.
Learning objectives:
1. Identify what must be decided before delegating
2. Apply key “Dos and Don’ts” when assigning work
3. Conduct effective corrective conversations

-  Jeff B/Chad: Alignment: The Only Change Management That Matters (OCM)

Organizations often approach change as something to manage—with plans, communications, and carefully structured rollouts. Yet the success or failure of change rarely comes down to process. It comes down to alignment.
When leaders create clarity around strategy, priorities, and direction, people naturally make decisions that move change forward. When alignment is weak or inconsistent, even the best change management efforts struggle to produce real results.
In this talk, we’ll explore the relationship between alignment, leadership, and execution of change, and why meaningful change is less about managing initiatives and more about creating shared understanding and momentum. You’ll leave with a different perspective on what makes change actually happen—and what leaders can do to accelerate it.

Endnote and Closing

V. Lee Henson-Heroics vs. Traditions: How Career Advancement Really Happens

Career advancement is often presented as a predictable path: follow the rules, gain experience, and success will come. In reality, the moments that define careers rarely follow tradition; they require courage, visibility, and leadership when it matters most.

Using a superhero metaphor as an underpinning, this session explores a powerful truth: most heroes are not born extraordinary—they become extraordinary because something happens to them. A challenge, a failure, or a responsibility forces them to step forward. Superman is the exception. He is born a hero who puts on a disguise to blend in. Many professionals unknowingly do the same, hiding strengths to fit outdated expectations.

This leadership-focused session examines the tension between tradition and heroics in career growth. Participants will learn how advancement really happens, how to recognize pivotal leadership moments, and how to step into impact without waiting for a title, crisis, or permission.

The session is content-rich, uplifting, and ends with clarity, confidence, and actionable direction.

Happy Hour & Networking