PMI UK Webinar: Everyday Ethics for Project Managers: how can you be a positive force? 16th October 2025

This webinar on Everyday Ethics traces the history of ethics to the present day, and uses Case Studies from Sarah’s practice to illustrate commonly-experienced challenges for Project Managers everywhere and to show where PMs can seek ‘everyday’ to improve project health. Sarah will use international research to explore the practicalities for PMs of Everyday Ethics: ‘doing’ business; key skills; and the organisational compass. We will then look-ahead to the ‘new workplace’, the emerging use of AI and its intersection with ethics. Finally, Sarah will collate the data on how diversity makes a workplace more ethical, healthy and happy, and ultimately successful!

Speaker

Sarah Schutte (LLB, Solicitor-Advocate, CAPM®), trainer, Mediator (CEDR and CMC) and facilitator. Director of Schutte Consulting Limited and Co-Founder of Peridot Consulting International LLP. Based in London UK. Sarah specialises in construction, engineering, infrastructure and technology projects across the built environment. She has had a tri-partite legal career over almost 25 years: early years in private practice, a decade as in-house Senior Counsel at both client and supplier; and now, since 2014, she is an independent consultant to industry.

Her broad and deep field experience translate to pragmatic support, focussing on breaking down complex legalities and putting law in its practical and purposive context to nurture confident business strategists and capable contract users. Sarah has wide experience in collaborative contracts and partnering/ alliancing arrangements, designs visuals for contract tools and processes, and has a keen eye for a holistic whole-life approach. Her technical project management accreditation adds an unusual edge to her legal work, and her site boots are always to hand!

Sarah volunteers at PMI and APM (nominee Volunteer of the Year 2021), supports local schools and her University on careers, and has judged several student-entrepreneur Enactus competitions. She recently completed 8 years as a school governor, supports a local women-led retrofit hub and is a popular industry interviewee, conference speaker and panel member.