PMI UK Midlands & Derbyshire Branch Event: How to lead a project responsibly: RPM in action. 7th May 2024

This event is taking place at University College Birmingham, Moss House, 3 Holland Street, Birmingham B3 1QH 

What does it mean to manage a project responsibly?  The Responsible Project Management (RPM) movement continues to emerge from collaboration among practitioners and researchers as a response to the many crises facing humanity.  Project managers increasingly have a responsibility to ensure that harm is reduced, and that natural and social resources are restored by the projects they manage.  

This interactive event is equally suitable for experienced and novice project managers, apprentices, and students of project management.  Together we will explore two techniques for thinking differently about a project, and how the insights developed can be used to identify risks and manage opportunities to improve project outcomes.  Bring along a small team, or join a team on the night, and compete in the challenge to think differently.

Agenda

• 5:45 pm Registration, refreshments and networking
• 6:30 pm Introduction and Presentation
• 7:30 pm Q&A Session and wrap up
• 8:00 pm Close

 

Speaker

Dr Karen Thompson, FSI FAPM FHEA is an award-winning project management educator and co-founder of Responsible Project Management.  She is a member of the British Standards Institute Committee for Project Controls, member of the Project Management Institute Curriculum Review Committee, and adjunct faculty member at the universities of Southampton and Portsmouth.  Karen has worked on projects for more than 45 years, first in the field of information systems and technology, and then in education and research on project management.  Today the focus of her work is at the intersection of sustainability and project management, using systems thinking to underpin the mind-shift required for managing project to deliver beneficial outcomes for people, planet, and prosperity.