Professional Development Day 2023
 
Where: Monona Terrace, downtown Madison
When: Wednesday, October 4
How: Register here: 
Why:
Awesome speakers!
Professional Networking
Fun socializing with your peers 
 
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PMI-Madison is excited to annouce our PDD 2023 Keynote Speaker: Martin Richards
 
Martin Richards has amassed a total of over twenty years’ experience as a hostage and crisis negotiator and is a kidnap management expert. He is an engaging speaker who talks about his experiences in hostage negotiation, and how these skills can be applied to the world of business. He spent thirty years in the UK Metropolitan Police and achieved the rank of chief superintendent with command responsibility over a series of high-profile major incidents, including terrorist bombings, UK’s longest siege, fatal police shootings and serious public order events. He is the author of ‘Just when you think you are winning’, a humorous book about the life of a police hostage negotiator. He has recorded several podcasts, such as ‘Convincing Conversations‘, detailing the skills of conversations taught through the lens of hostage negotiations. Martin has appeared on several BBC Radio stations and has been interviewed by various communication, business development and marketing organisations. Martin_Richards.jpg

 

Martin was a leader within the Met’s firearms unit and was for 14 years an international hostage and crisis negotiator and coordinator, being responsible for the 24/7 deployment of all London’s police negotiators and formulating negotiation strategies. He deployed often to negotiate the release of UK citizens throughout the globe, including numerous deployments into the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. He was an advisor to overseas UK Ambassadors and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on international kidnaps. For his work in international hostage negotiation, he received several Chief Officer commendations and praise from the UK Prime Minister and Head of the UN. For the last 10 years, Martin has worked for two of the UK’s leading security and risk consultancies where he has continued to manage numerous kidnaps, piracy, threat and extortion cases throughout the globe. This has given him the unique experience of managing corporate kidnaps to compliment his experience of government led incidents. Martin has implemented over 200 training programs relating to the subject matter in over 40 countries. He is a firm believer in the transferable skills of hostage negotiations into business and personal conversations

 


Meet the speakers

Jacy Imilkowski

Jacy coaches individuals and groups and speaks internationally at conferences, corporate retreats, and workshops. Curiosity is one of her biggest drivers, combined with a true passion for improving resilience, communication, and happiness for teams and individuals. Her industry background and experience is diverse, including 10 years as a professional trainer and IT project manager, and her mission in life is to connect people to their lost choices and help them see a more meaningful, resonant future.

Joe Perzel

Joe Perzel has been leading projects of all sizes and managing staff since 1982 in both a corporate and vendor capacity. He has a background in multiple industries including healthcare, insurance, finance, government, non-profit, K12, and higher education, audit and compliance, manufacturing, and agri-business. Presently, Joe is a partner at JPerzel Inc. as well as Program Manager at Surescripts LLC. He has also held leadership positions at Cargill, MN Workers Compensation Insurers Agency, Thomson Reuters, and International Multifoods.

Jeff Bubolz and Chad Beier

Jeff Bubolz

 

Jeff is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org, organizational agility advisor and speaker. He has been a Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team member and has worked with companies ranging from enterprise to small start-ups.

While working with many teams across many companies Jeff has found that most problems are not technology problems, but are organizational structure, process, and people problems. Jeff brings storytelling, a broad array of experience, along with a collaborative approach to teaching and speaking.

Jeff is the co-host of The Agile Wire podcast where he speaks with industry leaders around the world. He speaks at conferences across the United States and is active in the Wisconsin agile community - organizing meetups in multiple regions (Mad City Agility and Central Wisconsin Agile) and founder of the Mad City Agility Conference.

Chad is an organizational agility advisor, external change agent, and Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org. He promotes organizational agility and positive pressure for change through speaking, advising, coaching, and training.

As a trusted advisor, he works with all levels of the organization to optimize your business to respond to change. Progammer, project manager, product owner, business owner - Chad has a diverse background that helps him connect with people throughout the entire organization.

 

Chad Beier

 

Chad is an organizational agility advisor, external change agent, and Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org. He promotes organizational agility and positive pressure for change through speaking, advising, coaching, and training.

As a trusted advisor, he works with all levels of the organization to optimize your business to respond to change. Progammer, project manager, product owner, business owner - Chad has a diverse background that helps him connect with people throughout the entire organization.

Chad is the co-host of The Agile Wire podcast where he speaks with industry leaders around the world. He speaks at conferences across the United States and is active in the Wisconsin agile community - organizing meetups in multiple regions (Mad City Agility and Central Wisconsin Agile) and founder of the Mad City Agility Conference.

Alex Gibson and Friends
Tom Henricksen
Lori Klinka

Lori has used her skills as a speaker, trainer, speaking coach, project manager, educator, producer and actress to bring an entertaining and informative style to her presentations and workshops. She is a member of the National Speaker’s Association for 17 years and was voted “Member of the Year” of the Illinois chapter. She was a project manager for 15 years and produced over 600 presentations for trade shows internationally for major corporations. Lori also currently teaches Speaking and Acting at Columbia College in Chicago. Lori has worked with Fortune 100 companies, healthcare, small businesses, non-profits, associations as well as doing individual coaching. You can find more at her website:

www.loriklinka.com

Mark Swiderski
Shawn Belling

Shawn is a globally-experienced technology executive, project management speaker and instructor based in Madison, WI. Shawn has held executive and management roles in higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors. He is the Chief Information Officer at Madison College and is adjunct faculty at UW-Platteville, as well as UW-Madison and the University of Southern California. In addition to nearly 29 years of technology and project leadership experience, Shawn teaches, speaks, and consults for businesses, universities, and professional organizations on various project management topics and practices.

Molly Beran

Molly Beran is the Director of Project Management at Strata Decision Technology, a healthcare technology firm that develops financial planning software, strategies and analyses for hospitals. Molly’s team ensures on-time and on-budget delivery for all of Strata’s software solutions and manages the certification training program for Strata’s software products. Prior to joining Strata, Molly worked as a manager of multiple teams in IT at Lurie Children’s hospital, and as a consultant for Chicago-based Burwood Group, Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in IT management and infrastructure solutions. Prior to Burwood, Molly worked as a project manager and corporate trainer at Epic Systems Corporation, a Madison, WI-based healthcare software firm.

Lance Larsen

Breakout Sessions

Business Acumen
Ways of Working
Power Skills
Panel Discussion