Chapter Meeting

Peter de Jager

Change Management - Culture Challenges?

When: March 9, 2006
5:00-7:15 p.m.
Where: Summit Lake Winery
Capitol View Room (upstairs meeting room)
1707 South Summit Drive
Holts Summit, MO 65043-2100
(573) 896-9966
Directions to Summit Lake Winery
Cost:

For Members and Non-members: $20.00

Registration is needed by March 2. We encourage you to use the online registration/payment process by clicking on REGISTER

Individuals planning to pay by check or cash can register by sending an e-mail to pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org

Organizations registering as group should send a list of the attendee names, company name, and preferred method of payment to pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org

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Cancelation: If you register but can't attend the event, you may cancel before the registration deadline. You will receive a refund by check after the event. The amount of the refund will be less a 10% processing fee. To request a refund, please notify pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org

You may not cancel your registration after the registration deadline, but we encourage you to send someone in your place.
PDUs: The PMI Mid-Missouri Chapter is a PMI Registered Education Provider, and aims to provide educational opportunities to all its members. This event provides 1.0 PDU credits for certified Project Management Professionals.
Menu: Swedish Meatballs
Hot Wings
Mini Pizzas
Veggie Tray
Fruit Tray w/ Asst. Cheeses
Petit Fours
Agenda:
5:00 Social
6:00 Program
7:00 Business Meeting
7:15 Adjourn

About the Program:

If you're delivering a project, then you're introducing a change into your organization. Regardless of how much hard work went into delivering that project on time, on spec. and to budget... if people don't embrace the change that it introduces, then the project is ultimately a failure. This presentation takes a humorous hard look at change management and proposes that it isn't as difficult to manage as our past failures in this area might seem to suggest.

So, if you're interested in the following;

  • How to get anyone to do anything.
  • How to turn Resistance into Enthusiastic Support.
  • The single point of failure in Change Management.
  • How to avoid the thing mentioned above.
  • Managing Change is not as difficult as we make it out to be.

    ...Then come out and laugh for a Change.

    Speaker Biography

    Peter de Jager

    Peter de Jager is a speaker/consultant on the issues relating to the Management of the Future -- Technological and otherwise.

    He has published 100's articles on Problem Solving, Creativity, Change and issues relating to the future and technology. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Scientific American.

    Having spoken in more than 30 countries he is recognized worldwide as an exciting and engaging speaker. His audiences have included the World Economic Forum, The World Bank and The Bank for International Settlements.

    In his presentations he attacks, with humor of course, the myths surrounding our understanding of the Change process and technology. His talks are accessible by both staff and upper management. The sole objective of his presentations, despite the seriousness of the topic, is to provide actionable items which immediately help with both the management of change and the ability to cope with change.

    His presentations are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most importantly, directly applicable to the change & technology challenges facing us both personally and professionally.

    Articles published in:

    The Washington Post, Datamation, Computerworld, Information Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist, Scientific American, Toronto Star, Innovative Leader, Executive Technology, CIO Magazine, Corporate Computing, Information Center, Computing Canada and Info Canada

    Currently has monthly columns in The ABA Bankers Journal , Municipal World, Galt Global Review, HR Gateway, CIPS Across Canada, and Managing Change & Technology.

    His Computerworld Canada column is syndicated across the IDG family of publications, including: Singapore, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Computerworld USA.

    Estimated monthly readership? In excess of 1,000,000 readers worldwide.

    He is also the president of the Global Future Forum - NA www.thegff.com

    AND sits on the advisory board of the Society for Leading Change www.theslc.org

    Media exposure?

    More than 2,000 interviews and appearances including, Dateline, Nightline, Crossfire, Fortune, Forbes, Today Show, BBC World Report, NPR and CSPAN as well as profiles in The New York Times, FT of London, Globe & Mail, Financial Post, Esquire and The National Post.

    From the NY Times Profile? "A talent for simple metaphors and pithy pronouncements"

    www.technobility.com