Dr. Yousuf Ahmad has over 25 years of healthcare experience including health insurance, physician group practices, and multi-hospital health system. For the past 5 years, he has been leading AssureCare, transforming it from a start-up to a high-growth company with industry leading care management technology platforms.  In this episode of Center Stage, Dr. Ahmad shares the importance of learning and gaining knowledge in his journey in the healthcare industry from programmer, to president of a...

Marcia Anderson, MD, is Cree-Anishinaabe whose roots go back to the Norway House Cree Nation and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. She graduated with her M.D. from the University of Manitoba in 2002 and has since served in a variety of leadership roles, including as head of the Section of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health; medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority; a past president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada and executive director,...

How good is your company at change management? How can we combine technology and change to improve performance? How can organizations create more effective environments of learning? How do we find the hidden talent within our organization? This Center Stage podcast is with professor and entrepreneur Dr. Nabeel Ahmad about the disruptive effects of change, automation and data on talent development. Dr. Ahmad is Chief Strategy Officer of Changeforce.AI, a software platform for helping...

Katrina Pugh, a faculty member and former Academic Director of Columbia University’s Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) Master of Science program, helps our Center Stage audience explore the value of networks.  Kate has over 20 years of consulting and industry experience in the financial services, life sciences, energy, information technology, and international development sectors. She was co-investigator with Monash University on a PMI-funded research study, Building project managers...

In this podcast, Susan Coleman and Ed Hoffman discuss the importance of empowering women in order to create collaborative organization cultures where diversity, creativity, innovation and the easy negotiation of difference can thrive. Susan Coleman has over 30 years of experience training and facilitating tens of thousands of people around the world in negotiation and collaborative strategies to build common ground as well as empowering women through negotiation. Susan works extensively on...

In this podcast, Greg Robinson discusses leading complex programs and the leadership required for the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) will be the world’s premier space science observatory when it launches later in 2021. Webb’s revolutionary technology will explore every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, to everything in between. This podcast features themes around leading...

Knowledge is about learning from experience – whether your personal exploits or from the experiences of others.  Pim de Morree and Joost Minnaar quit their professional jobs and co-founded Corporate Rebels to identify companies that have innovated how to better engage people with their work. By learning from the experiences of others, they developed insights on things that any organization or practitioner can do to make work fun.  Their work captured the attention of such media as The New...

Ronit Avni founded Localized, a platform that unlocks educated talent for global companies, because she wanted to enable talented professionals living in emerging markets to have world-class career opportunities regardless of where they live.  As an immigrant to the United States, Avni knew firsthand that poor local economic conditions often lead to “brain drain” in which educated workers leave their home countries to seek better jobs elsewhere. “Many countries lose 30% of their population...

Are you working in an organization where it seems there are lose-lose internal dynamics among managers?  If so, why is that and how can you help to change it? The nature of work today requires collaboration and teaming to drive business outcomes like never before.  Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for organizational leaders, managers and teams tackling tough problems.   In this episode of Center Stage, Johanna shares how optimizing individual...

For the past two years, PMI has discussed gymnastic organizations that need to be adaptive and innovative to survive disruption.  This session explores how practitioners too need to become cognitive athletes, putting adaptive, creative and sensing muscles into enhanced performance.  Listen as Ade McCormack, the founder of the Disruption Readiness Institute, and Joseph Cahill explore how to prepare for an unknowable future. As work continues to shift from enacting processes to more creative...

Joseph Cahill, Chief Customer Officer at PMI, Peter Merrill, President at Quest Management Inc., and Ron Young, CEO and Chief Knowledge Officer at Knowledge Associates International, discuss creating standards for knowledge innovation.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Customer Officer at PMI, and Jason Warnke, Senior Managing Director, Global Digital Experiences Lead at Accenture, discuss the impact of digital experiences on technology-enabled transformation.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Customer Officer at PMI, and Dr. Rodolfo De Acutis, Global PMO Lead R&D at Nestlé, discuss the leadership of emotions and the critical role of power skills for PMO and portfolio organizations.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Customer Officer at PMI, and Dr. Alan Richter, Founder and President of QED Consulting, LLC, discuss ethics in business and its impact on projects and organizations.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Customer Officer at PMI, and Cali Williams Yost, Founder and CEO at Flex + Strategy Group, discuss how work flexibility is here to stay.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Customer Officer at PMI, and Liam Fahey, Cofounder and Partner at Leadership Forum LLC discuss organization analysis through enhanced intelligence and insight.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer at PMI, and Iain Hamilton, Head of Creative Industries at Highlands and Islands Enterprise, discuss the leadership of creative projects and initiatives.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer at PMI, and Naoki Ogiwara, Managing Director at Knowledge Associates Japan, discuss knowledge within organizations.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer at PMI, and Sean Kelley, Talent Innovator, discuss insights on change, talent acquisition, and women in technology.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer at PMI, Lili Csorba, Corporate Relations Executive for the ENACTUS Queen Mary student team, and Gavin Henderson, Project Management Business Advisor from the PMI United Kingdom Chapter’s London Branch, discuss how mentoring occurs in an entrepreneurial setting.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer, & Abhishek Gupta, founder of Montreal AI Ethics Institute, discuss how technology can advance positive or negative social outcomes and ethical considerations.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer & David Dabscheck, founder and CEO of GIANT Innovation discuss creating innovation to deliver value to companies.

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer Global Customer Experience and Engagement for PMI & Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, Chief Executive Officer, Tony Elumelu Foundation

Joseph Cahill, Chief Operating Officer Global Customer Experience and Engagement for PMI & Peter Temes, Founder and President, The Institute for Innovation in Large Organizations.