Presentation: Program Management – Going beyond Project Management to enable Value Driven Change
Abstract: Tomorrow’s world of work 4.0 leaders has not been designed yet. The next generation of project managers is program managers who are business strategists with collaborative qualities and new forms of leadership. Transformative program management ingredients in this presentation will showcase key insights into programs excellence and designing risk-based governance and strategies that empower a learning culture within the PMO and across business.
The presentation will cover guidance for strategic initiatives and change efforts at the individual and organizational level. This is driven by the emphasis on the potential use of programs as a learning platform for different levels of complexity, organizational maturity, and diverse context.
Sustaining future transformative change is built on a commitment to the strategic role of projects in the form of program management practices:
- How leaders need to be agile, navigate political waters, manage incredible complexity, and align diverse stakeholders.
- Envisioning a Program Roadmap that fits context and inspires commitment to achieving value.
- The culture for change making and the attributes for a healthy “change culture.”
- Impact of digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the future of programs
Takeaways:
The presentation highlights how future program management practices achieve strategic initiatives’ value. Learn to guide teams through change journeys, while developing a refreshed practice for the next decade’s Way of Working:
- Creating a value-driven way of working and developing a value mindset.
- The PMO is the learning engine for the enterprise.
- Becoming a Change Scientist, the growth of metrics in programs, and how to achieve the right metrics design and mix.
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Biography: Dr. Zeitoun, PgMP, PMI Fellow, is a Future of Work, business optimization, and operational performance excellence thought leader with global experiences in strategy execution. His experiences encompass leading organizations; delivering their Enterprise Digital and Business Transformation; guiding fitting frameworks implementations; and using his empathy, engineering insights, and collaboration strengths to successfully envision new business models and execute complex missions across diverse cultures globally.
In his current role with Siemens, he is responsible for driving the global program management practices and enabling the Strategy Transformation priorities.
Dr. Zeitoun is an Executive Coach, author, and thought leader in the discipline of program management and shaping future organizational culture changes. He has had many key leadership roles with PMI including serving on the Global Board of Directors.
He speaks English, Arabic, and German and enjoys good food, travel, and volunteering.
