Presentation:

"Change Management, Project Management and Sponsorship - Mapping the Love/Hate Triangle"

This session will provide a lighthearted "tongue-in-cheek" look at the relationship between sponsors, project managers, and change managers with a focus on the challenges of integrating their roles and responsibilities. Each group brings a unique set of skills and attitudes to the problems facing organizations as they strive to continually adapt to new markets, new technologies, and new processes. The dynamics of this mix of players can be brilliant, entertaining, and dumbfounding, but it is rarely dull.

Have some fun spotting yourself, your favorite project manager or sponsor among the archetypes presented. Enjoy some shared stories of how molehills become mountains and vice versa. Find renewed hope in your choice of change management as a career path and validate that you are no crazier than the
change manager sitting next to you.

Biography:

Marlee Lovatt is co-founder and president of Third Stage Alliance a communications and training firm that
has been in business for over a decade. She has over 25 years of experience in instructional design,
multimedia technologies, and project and change management. Marlee began her career in the teaching
profession and holds several degrees, including a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design,
University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Calgary. She has worked in the
education, oil and gas, engineering, and software industries and welcomes the challenges presented by
working with diverse adult groups. She is well versed in project management theory and practice and is
certified in the Prosci methodology for change management.

Marlee has extensive experience in implementing technology and process changes across organizations.
She has trained groups around the globe, including in Brazil and Saudi Arabia, on a variety of organizational processes, software applications, and new technology implementations. She is an accomplished, enthusiastic presenter, and has been a speaker at numerous conferences both in Canada and the United States, as well as South and Central America.
 

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