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WHEN:  December 13, 2016 
LOCATION: Firefly Fare, 16 Church Avenue SW, #100, Roanoke, VA 24011
TOPIC:  Holiday Celebration Chapter Meeting
SPEAKER: Bob Baim

Agenda:

• 6:00-6:45 PM - Networking and Dinner
• 6:45-7:30 PM - Speaker: Leadership as an Empowerment to Change in 2017
• 7:30-8:00 PM - Chapter End of Year Awards and Year Review
• Visit from a Special Guest

Leadership and change are both challenging. Leadership wears many faces and overall success is not easy to measure. Change management is difficult and is most often met with resistance. Changes themselves often end up differently than originally planned. Anyone that faces challenges to their role as a leader and at the same time is striving to initiate organizational improvements could be considered a glutton for punishment.

Bob’s presentation will explore how a leader, with the right focus, can successfully traverse the challenges associated with change in the upcoming year. Using simple tools and processes, a knowledgeable leader is able to manage change successfully while simultaneously gaining full support of the newly empowered organization. In this motivational presentation, Bob will present best practices for leading change along with the steps necessary to leverage them for even the most daring initiatives.

Speaker Bio: Bob Baim
 

Bob is an internationally recognized trainer, author and motivational speaker. He uses the power of motivation along, with principles of project management, to help corporations implement effective organizational change. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies in a broad range of industries including automotive, automation, oil and gas exploration, pharmaceutical, financial management, energy, consulting, software development, life and casualty insurance, process plant design and construction, research and development, telecommunications, and logistics.

Previously Bob held the senior leadership position in an information systems and computer operations organization where he led 330 professionals as they developed and thrived in a boundaryless organization. He has managed and led construction and power plant maintenance organizations, contract management, project control, and business management while working with five different electric utilities. Bob served also as adjunct professor with Idaho State University in the field of organizational behavior with emphasis on development of leadership skills.

Bob is a Civil Engineer, MBA with focus on strategic management, holds a certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), and maintains distinction as a Certified Cost Professional (CCP) from the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI).

Bob has trained over 13,000 professionals worldwide, primarily in project management process implementation and supporting soft skills development. His global travels include twenty different countries in the past fourteen years, during which time he spent over 100 days working in India. During his travels he demonstrates the importance of leadership-principled project management and promotes his book, Avoiding the OS Phase® now in its second printing.

 

Continuing Certification Requirements
	Technical	Leadership	Strategic	TOTAL
PMP / PgMP	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
PMI-ACP	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
PMI-SP	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
PMI-RMP	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
PfMP	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
PMI-PBA	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0

 

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