Skillbuilder Webinar Series
Ask the Experts: A Conversation on Real-World Risk Management
Date: September 1, 2020
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm ET
Cost: $0 (Complimentary)
Panelists: Dr. Douglas Brown, Mr. Carl Pritchard, and Mrs. Susan Parente
Join Essential Assets Group in welcoming a panel of truly passionate Risk Management Experts for an engaging conversation on applying risk management principles for today’s real-world scenarios and ensuring relevance throughout an organization’s decision-making process.
Today’s digital economy creates the opportunity for an exponential number of projects, new job roles, and means of collaboration. It also creates a need to look at project risk management from a new perspective. Applying risk management processes to projects is no longer acceptable to be a simple exercise done in isolation, it must be integrated across the organization’s decision-making processes to ensure all angles are considered.
Join Essential Assets Group in welcoming a panel of truly passionate Risk Management Experts for an engaging conversation on applying risk management principles for today’s real-world scenarios and ensuring relevance throughout an organization’s decision-making process.
The panelists will discuss risk aspects such as:
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Why is risk management different today?
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What lessons are frequently learned the hard way?
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How can project managers avoid the obvious mistakes?
Space is limited, so sign-up today!
About the Panelists
The panelists are industry experts, colleagues, and co-authors (with several other subject matter experts) of a book on global Risk Management best practices called “Global Hot Spots: How Project and Enterprise Risk Management Practices Drive Business Results Around the World”. Learn more about their book, Global Hot Spots: How Project and Enterprise Risk Management Practices Drive Business Results Around the World on Amazon.
About Your Host
Ms. Alison Gonzalez, PMP is the CEO at Essential Assets Group and is driven to enable organizations to advance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their people to accelerate process improvements and innovative technology solutions. With extensive experience in strategic planning and client engagement for government contractors, the Department of Defense, and various Federal Agencies, she helps each client uncover their Essential Assets. Alison holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Market Development, a bachelor's degree in marketing, and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Product Manager (CPM).
Douglas Brown, Ph.D., PMP
Dr. Douglas Brown helps organizations kick the habit of under-performing processes and failing projects. A former Army officer, he holds a doctorate in policy analysis, is a lecturer at the University of Southern California, and is the International #1 Best-Seller author of multiple books on aspects of implementing project, portfolio, and program management. In more than 20 years managing and consulting with private-sector and government organizations, he has saved tens of millions of dollars by bringing contracts and processes under control and hundreds of millions of dollars in program assessment and redesign. Residents of Williamsburg, Virginia; he and his wife enjoy live arts, travel, and dogs.
Carl Pritchard, PMP, PMI-RMP
Carl Pritchard is principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates. He is a recognized lecturer, author, researcher, and instructor. As a trainer, he is the “fun guy” of project management, engaging audiences on topics from any of his seven textbooks. Carl served as lead chapter author for the Guide to the PMBOK, Risk Chapter (4th Edition). His work as an instructor takes him worldwide, training for learning organizations, private clients, and the Project Management Institute®. He is a U.S. Correspondent for the U.K. project management magazine, Project Manager Today, and was PMI Global’s “Best of the Best” in project management for 2019, earning the Eric Jenett Award.
Susan Parente, PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP, CRISC, RESILIA
Susan Parente is a Principal Consultant at S3 Technologies, LLC, a Senior Instructor-Consultant at Essential Assets Group, and a University Professor at multiple Universities. Mrs. Parente is an author, mentor and professor focused on risk management, and traditional and Agile project management. Her experience is augmented by her master’s in engineering management with a focus in Marketing of Technology from George Washington University, DC, along with several professional certifications. Ms. Parente has more than 20 years’ experience leading software and business development projects in the private and public sectors, including a decade of experience implementing IT projects for the DoD. She is also the co-author on a forthcoming publication, “Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile With Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects”.
