Meeting/Event Information

Speaker: Dr Todd Hutchison

Topic:  Process Guides Behaviour – Making Project Governance Work

Governance is about setting and guiding behaviour towards a culture that facilitates project success.  It  is not about enforcing compliance, rather to establish a framework that enables constructive behaviour that aims to assure a structure for performance. This session provides a perspective on portfolio, program and project management through encapsulating the key guiding principles, and the systems, functions and processes that enables executive level engagement and support, whilst building a positive, informed and supported approach to team development and leadership.

 Learning Outcomes:

• Appreciate the key principles in human behaviour that gets results;
• Explore the reasons why projects fail despite having governance frameworks;
• Recognise the governance function from a behavioural perspective;
• Recognise the key governance roles from executive leadership to project auditing;
• Understand the physical systems, functions and tools that comprise governance;
• Consider the PMO functions and the initiatives that influence engagement; and
• Explore how to gain and retain executive support.

Governance works well when it is established to support and guide the engagement and influence of team members that lead to greater workplace results.  It avoids an enforcement approach, with an educational and support experiences that are guided by robust processes.

This is an in-person event.

 For this event attendance, PMI Members will earn 2 PDUs.

About your Presenter

Dr Todd Hutchison has personally led projects in over 260 organisations across 21 countries. He was a former President, National Chairman and Global Board Director of PMI, and is the current Global Chairman of the International Institute of Legal Project Management that has legal practitioners certified in legal PM in 69 countries, driving change in the legal profession worldwide.   Todd is an adjunct Associate Professor at ECU, and is teaching project management and contract management at masters and diploma levels.  His fascination in influencing human behaviour and driving cultural change extends to roles in high governance areas, including defence, law enforcement,  juridical and security domains, including working as a digital forensic specialist in homicide and major crime.