***Event Cancelled***

Due to unexpected low attendance in La Crosse, Wisconsin, tomorrow’s scheduled PMI La Crosse event (Culture: The Key to Organizational Agility) has been cancelled.

We will apologize for the inconvenience and will return all attendees their respective registration fees.

Introduction/Description:

In the language of sociotechnical organization design, every organization is a composite of the technical system by which it does its work, and the social system by which it governs the conduct of its work. In other words, every organization is the product of its processes and its culture. The degree of an organization’s agility, then, is the product of the agility of its processes and the agility of its culture. In fact, experience teaches us that it is the organization’s culture that is the key to its agility. Yet, while designing and maintaining agile processes is an engineering discipline that is well understood, designing and maintaining an agile culture is a leadership discipline that is not well understood.

This presentation will introduce field-tested models to better understand:

• What an organizational culture is.
• How it fits into the organizational ecosystem, diagnose its current state and design a desired state.
• The forces that, by design or by default, influence the reinforcement of its current state or its movement toward some future state.

About the Speaker:

SPEAKER BIO: Jim Ruprecht

Jim is Co-Founder & Principal Consultant at agilityIRL where he educates, coaches and consults to motivated leaders at all levels in matters of organizational leadership and leading cultural change in order to achieve organizational agility.

Based on his experience creating 9 new organizations, renovating 4 under-performing ones, and re-designing 2 that were not well positioned for the future, Jim shares the pragmatic lessons he has learned for leading cultural change on local, national and international teams.  He has also curated those lessons in his book, Windward Leadership: Taking Your Organization into the Prevailing Winds on Political Seas.

An accomplished leader in real life, Jim has previously held positions ranging from VP of IT, then a VP in Product Development, at a global, $5 billion business unit of a Fortune 250 medical device manufacturer; to COO of a small, second stage, biopolymer engineering firm; to “chief digital officer” at a privately held aircraft manufacturer; to the startup of several “boutique” consulting firms. He has also served on several boards for non-profit and for-profit organizations.

Where:

University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

3200 Student Union (UW-La Crosse’s *NEW* student Union Center)

Student Union Room 3105

UW-La Crosse Parking information – https://www.uwlax.edu/parking/

Registration Details:

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Introduction/Description:

In the language of sociotechnical organization design, every organization is a composite of the technical system by which it does its work, and the social system by which it governs the conduct of its work. In other words, every organization is the product of its processes and its culture. The degree of an organization’s agility, then, is the product of the agility of its processes and the agility of its culture. In fact, experience teaches us that it is the organization’s culture that is the key to its agility. Yet, while designing and maintaining agile processes is an engineering discipline that is well understood, designing and maintaining an agile culture is a leadership discipline that is not well understood.

This presentation will introduce field-tested models to better understand:

• What an organizational culture is.
• How it fits into the organizational ecosystem, diagnose its current state and design a desired state.
• The forces that, by design or by default, influence the reinforcement of its current state or its movement toward some future state.

About the Speaker:

SPEAKER BIO: Jim Ruprecht

Jim is Co-Founder & Principal Consultant at agilityIRL where he educates, coaches and consults to motivated leaders at all levels in matters of organizational leadership and leading cultural change in order to achieve organizational agility.

Based on his experience creating 9 new organizations, renovating 4 under-performing ones, and re-designing 2 that were not well positioned for the future, Jim shares the pragmatic lessons he has learned for leading cultural change on local, national and international teams.  He has also curated those lessons in his book, Windward Leadership: Taking Your Organization into the Prevailing Winds on Political Seas.

An accomplished leader in real life, Jim has previously held positions ranging from VP of IT, then a VP in Product Development, at a global, $5 billion business unit of a Fortune 250 medical device manufacturer; to COO of a small, second stage, biopolymer engineering firm; to “chief digital officer” at a privately held aircraft manufacturer; to the startup of several “boutique” consulting firms. He has also served on several boards for non-profit and for-profit organizations.

Where:

Charter House

Edwards Hall

211 2^nd Street NW

Rochester, MN  55901

Registration Details:

Session Description: 

When most people think about Agile, they equate it with Software Development and Manufacturing.  But what is a newly minted Certified Scrum Master to do when he doesn’t have a software project on the horizon?  Can he take this new Agile framework to something less traditional?   Come on the journey to see if Agile can flip a house.

About the Speakers:

Tom Auld, CSM, PMP

Collaborative Leadership Team

Tom Auld is an Agile Coach, Trainer and Product Owner with the Collaborative Leadership Team.  His Agile journey started in 2006.  Tom has been fortunate enough to work on Agile initiatives with world-class organizations such as Boston Scientific, Best Buy, Medtronic, Target, General Mills and TCF Bank.  Previously, Tom was a Principal and Engagement Manager for a National Consulting firm.  Most recently Tom was the Associate Chief Information Officer for the University of Minnesota.

Schedule of Events:

• 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m – Sign in and Networking
• 11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m –  Lunch and President Announcements
• 11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m – Presentation

Session Description: 

Working with multiple bosses can create numerous challenges. This breakout session offers strategies for working with multiple bosses so you can take matters from maddening to manageable.

About the Speakers:

Kristy Walz

Confluence Consulting, CEO (Chief Everything Officer)

Kristy Walz is a results-oriented business consultant with over fifteen years experience in leadership positions in consultative sales and customer service, and a background in organizational development and marketing. In addition to her responsibilities with Confluence Consulting, Kristy serves as adjunct faculty for campuses within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, and is the Development Director for the Franciscan Spirituality Center. She is a keen observer with deep curiosity about human interactions and the ability to turn data into decisions.
With an infectious passion for excellence, Kristy will challenge and motivate your team to commit to personal and professional improvement with bottom line results.

Schedule of Events:

• 5:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m – Networking, Coffee/Breakfast
• 5:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m –  Coffee/Breakfast and President announcements
• 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 a.m – Presentation

Conference Keynote Speakers      Carol Grannis Leading Edge Co-Founder & Managing Partner Cindy Maher Leading Edge Co-Founder & Managing Partner Joe Perzel Partner JPerzel Inc and Program Manager at Surescripts LLC. Registration Form with Agenda Keynote and Speaker Bio’s

This day is designed to re-energize you while providing an opportunity to network and learn from others!

• TOP NOTCH keynote speakers.
• Expert breakout sessions.
• 6 PDUs ( 1 per speaker session)
• Networking with TOP project management professionals and stakeholders from the entire region.
• Improve your PM knowledge
• Great value to your organization
• $125 per person (includes lunch)
• $15 discount for PMI La Crosse- Rochester chapter members

Introduction/Description:

Working with multiple bosses can create numerous challenges. This breakout session offers strategies for working with multiple bosses so you can take matters from maddening to manageable.

About the Speaker:

Kristy Walz – Confluence Consulting, CEO (Chief Everything Officer)

Kristy Walz is a results-oriented business consultant with over fifteen years experience in leadership positions in consultative sales and customer service, and a background in organizational development and marketing. In addition to her responsibilities with Confluence Consulting, Kristy serves as adjunct faculty for campuses within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, and is the Development Director for the Franciscan Spirituality Center. She is a keen observer with deep curiosity about human interactions and the ability to turn data into decisions.

With an infectious passion for excellence, Kristy will challenge and motivate your team to commit to personal and professional improvement with bottom line results.

Registration Details:

• 8:30am-8:45am – Networking; coffee/breakfast
• 8:45am-9:15am – coffee/breakfast and President announcements
• 9:15am–10:30am – Presentation

Coffee, orange juice, bagels, scones and muffins
Breakfast Menu List:

Description: Ask any group of experts to define the elements of team performance and you will get a long list. Ask them in what order to those elements and you will get a long discussion. Long lists and long discussions are not actionable.

In this presentation Doug Peters will reduce those long lists down to three variables. He will then demonstrate how those elements combine to create a three-dimensional puzzle that must be solved each time a team is built. Finally, he will present his Team Launch Strategy that organizes the building of a team into a Phase/Gate system for team development that develops high performance teams faster, better, and at less cost than traditional team building approaches.

Doug’s work is based on the best practices of high performance teams at 3M. These best practices were developed over an intensive twenty-year period of implementing high performance new product teams, business, teams, executive teams and improvement teams in over 75 divisions of 3M Company. He has applied this learning to high performance teams in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 organizations. His worked was published in the PDMA Tool Book and was presented to an International PDMA conference in Orlando, Florida.

About the Speaker:  Doug’s work with teams began in graduate school where he focused on the use of teams and small groups in counseling and therapy. His corporate experience began in Control Data’s productivity department where he was charged with determining why quality circles worked in some companies and not in others. Since that time he has conducted over 400 team training and team building events.

Over the last 25 years Doug has worked with a wide range of teams in a variety of organizations. He specializes in new product development teams, business teams, executive teams, and major project teams. He has also worked with customer service teams, quality improvement teams, process improvement teams, self-directed work teams, sales teams and others.

Doug has designed and delivered hundreds of workshops on a wide variety of topics to a wide range of organizations. He is a subject matter expert in personal effectiveness, interpersonal effectiveness, team effectiveness, organizational effectiveness, and supervisory/management development.

Registration Details:

• 5:15pm – Sign in, Network
• 5:30pm – Dinner and President Announcements
• 5:45pm– 7:00pm Presentation

Menu List: 

To Be Determined (TBD)

Join the La Crosse/Rochester PMI Chapter for our annual holiday social in La Crosse, WI.  The evening will include plenty of networking opportunities with other local Project Management professionals.  In addition we will have games, prizes and FUN!  We look forward to you joining us for a great evening of networking!

Menu:

The La Crosse/Rochester will provide an assortment of appetizers during the networking happy hour.  All attendees are responsible for beverages.

Rochester Event – The Tap House (Mix, Mingle, and Network)

Assortment of appetizers will be provided throughout the networking happy hour.  The attendees will be responsible for their beverages.  Join us for games and networking!

Introduction/Description: Real World Games for Collaboration and Facilitation

Are you tired of boring meetings?  Have you tried to run meetings where more people are checking phones and computers than sticking to the agenda?  Stop the madness and break out the games.  Yes, that’s right, get more done with higher collaboration in less time by using innovation games. This session is highly interactive and tons of fun.  Come and learn some of the top innovation games and how to use them on requirements, designs or implementations.  You will be ready for your next meeting just by using a few of these simple games and your users will want to attend your next meeting.

About the Speaker:

Liz Sundet, MBA, PMP, CBAP, CSM

Liz is involved with multiple areas of the business with her primary work as a consultant for SharePoint.  Her work includes developing strategies to aid in collaboration and content management, facilitating groups in developing business architecture and taxonomies, or working with end users on identifying needs, areas of improvement, user adoption and training.  Liz uses tools and techniques from project management, business analysis, scrum/agile, change management, and lean/six sigma.  As a trainer and speaker she hopes to inspire others to learn something they can apply to their own work immediately.   You can find her blog at www.itsocialbutterfly.wordpress.com or follow on twitter handle @percusn.