Chapter Meeting

Business Acumen

Important Note: If you are a PMI member from another chapter, please register as a non-chapter member for this event and self-report your PDU credit. 

Registration will be closed 3 hours before event starts. Meeting link will be sent out before start time to the email address entered at time of registration. 

Program


We will open at 5:20 pm to give attendees a walkthrough of the tool, and networking sessions start at 5:30.

5:30 – 6:00 pm

Message from our Chapter President and Chapter updates.

6:00 – 7:00 pm
(1 PDU Strategic and .5 Leadership)

Project Knowledge for Resilience, Wellbeing, and Reinvention

Knowledge Café construct creates the right space and mindset to ignite your mind for resilience, innovation, and reinvention!

COVID-19 scrambled everything. The risk of knowledge loss has increased. Organizations and project managers must lead with clarity while building trust as we recover. Knowledge exchange through—human interactions are the most significant channels for transferring all human core capabilities like curiosity, empathy, resilience, sense-making, reinvention, and wisdom. Human faces around a cup of tea or coffee are irreplaceable, whether face-to-face or virtual.


The Project manager must jettison those knowledge, skills and learnings that have decreasing values like lapels and technical-skill-only and embrace the skills that have increasing values like empathy, business intelligence, curiosity, and knowledge management for resilience and reinvention. At the end of this presentation, attendees will learn how to:

  • Explore how knowledge transfer enables resilience, innovation, and reinvention for physical, mental, and financial health
  • Identify strategies for realignment to lead through uncertainties
  • Positioning for reinvention— redesigning yourself and organizations for tomorrow.
  • Ignite your mind, optimize your knowledge for resilience, and reinvention with knowledge.

 

Speaker:

Benjamin Anyacho, MBA, PMP

Global citizen Benjamin Anyacho, a Nigerian-born Texan for about two decades, is passionate, a quintessential project and portfolio manager, knowledge management (KM) cognoscente for 20+ years, with a mission to mentor one million servant-leaders. He is a fun, engaging and author, including the upcoming thriller, The Knowledge Cafe. Complex-complicated projects and stakeholders are his bailiwicks. He simplifies complexities and gets knowledge transferred seamlessly. Benjamin’s works have been recognized locally and globally. He has presented original content (research papers and presentations) at multiple PMI Global conferences and LIM, NASEM-TRB, AASHTO, university commencements, symposia, etc., and a Journal of Knowledge Management reviewer.


Benjamin is a relational “bridge-builder.” A servant leader who has spent most of his life helping people to become their best. He is a missionary and a philanthropreneur. Complex-complicated projects and stakeholders are his bailiwicks. Benjamin is the Executive Director of Apostolic Bridge Builders, Inc. (ABB), Austin, Texas, since 2002. ABB has successfully rallied hundreds of leaders in government, business, education, media, non-profit, and faith communities to the table to connect, collaborate, build synergy and partnership for cities/regional transformation. He is a founding Advisory Board member of Austin Disaster Relief Network since 2008—the largest disaster relief network in central Texas that has recruited and trained 13000+ volunteers/crisis managers, with over 170 affiliated local organizations. Benjamin co-hosted the radio/TV show Austin Arise! and is an Adjunct Professor at Park University and ITT Technical Institute, both in Austin, Texas.


He serves on several national and global boards, committees, and project panels. NASEM-TRB’s Information and KM Committee, NCHRP project panels, AASHTO’s Committee on KM, etc. He is the TRB/AASHTO Information and Knowledge Management Research Subcommittee chair, 2021, a board of trustees’ member of Juliana King University, Houston, where he was honored with a doctorate in leadership. Benjamin was the 2018 charismatic president of the Project Management Institute, Austin Chapter, leading the board to increase NPS from 6.6 to 8.6, membership 12.11%, gained 97% overall CS.


He is a certified PMP®, holds BBA and an MBA in Global Business from St. Edward’s University Austin, Texas. A runner, lives in Austin with his wife, Precious, and two teenage children, Ben and Amara.
More about Benjamin.? www.BenjaminAnyacho.com

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Questions

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Information

Type of category: Chapter Meeting

Type of activity: Business Acumen

Date: June 29th, 2021

Hour: 17:30 to 19:00

Number of PDUs: 1.5

Price

Members:$5.00

Non-Members:$10.00

Location