PMI-Southern Ontario Chapter

PMI-GTISLIG Dinner & Presentation Thinking on Purpose for Project Managers: Outsmarting Evolution with Bill Richardson

Date	Start	End		Event Registration
16 Oct 2008	6:00 PM	8:30 PM		Registration has ended.

PMI-GTISLIG

Speaker: Bill Richardson, PMP

Topic: Thinking on Purpose for Project Managers: Outsmarting Evolution

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Location: 89 Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut Street,Downtown Toronto (Lombard Suite, 2nd Floor). (click here for map)

Check www.gtislig.org for details.

Speaker Profile: Bill Richardson, PMP

Bill Richardson is an internationally renowned Project Manager Coach and Speaker who teaches professionals to discover their true potential and achieve their personal and professional goals. Through his work, he has helped hundreds of individuals, teams, communities and organizations revitalize and re-envision their companies' project management strategies and create streamlined processes that continue to produce consistent, significant gains.

Bill Richardson has over 35 years of experience in Project Management, training and coaching. He is Project Management Professional (PMP) certified, with extensive insider experience leading major technological and change initiatives in the Financial Services industry at a major Canadian bank.

His diverse roles in the banking industry include commercial account management, corporate cash management, sales management and a broad spectrum of program and project management assignments within Global IT. Bill calls upon this background in his international consulting and coaching business, which supports clients in all areas of leadership development, program and project management and executive coaching.

Program Description: Thinking on Purpose for Project Managers: Outsmarting Evolution

Your brain is the most powerful tool you have. Unfortunately, it can also be your worst enemy. The human brain has been shaped by eons of evolution for one solitary purpose - keeping us alive in a threatening environment long enough to successfully reproduce. Unfortunately for us, the automatically generated habits and patterns of thought, or mindsets, that helped our ancestors survive back then can be useless or even actively harmful when applied in modern-day situations. As a result, faulty mindsets and autopilot thinking - and our inability to detect these "mindfields" before they blow up in our faces - can cause problems ranging from failed projects at work to relationship woes at home, as well as the many other seemingly inexplicable disasters that crop up in our day to day lives.

Join Bill Richardson for an informative and entertaining look at how your thinking determines your outcomes, and learn how you can retool these processes to ensure that your brain is working for you, rather than against you, in both your professional and personal life.

Agenda:
6:00 PM Doors open for registrations and dinner will be served
6:50 PM Announcements & Introductions
7:00 PM Presentation starts
8:25 PM Thank you note
8:30 PM Event closes

Registration Fee: (Includes 5% GST)
PMI Members - $40.00 (Please provide membership number when register)
Non PMI Members or Guests - $50.00

PDUs: 1.5

Cut-off date for registrations 12:00 noon of Tuesday, October 14, 2008 or earlier if the registrations are full.