Calendar of Events

Title: PMI Brightline Initiative with Tahirou Assane, MASc, P.Eng., PMP, Director, Brightline Initiative at PMI

Date/Time: Thursday, February 16, 2023 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

PDU: 1.5 Business Acumen

Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: Free for Members, $5 for Non-Members

Overview:

Brightline® delivers insights and solutions that empower leaders to successfully transform their organization’s vision into reality through strategic initiative management.

The Brightline® Initiative develops and provides a holistic knowledge and networking platform that delivers solutions and insights to successfully bridge the expensive and unproductive gap between strategy design and strategy delivery.

Speaker:

Tahirou Assane, MASc, P.Eng., PMP

Director, Brightline Initiative at PMI

Tahirou Assane has over 20 years of experience in leadership roles, civil engineering, strategy, transformation, and project management. As Director of Brightline at PMI, Tahirou oversees the activities under the three benefit pillars of thought and practice leadership, networking, and capability building. Through Brightline, Tahirou led the development of the Organizational Transformation Series, championed Brightline flagship event Strategy@Work, and pioneered the very first Digital Transformation in Action Conference.

Prior to PMI, Tahirou worked as the deputy director of infrastructure and project management group in the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) supporting the successful implementation of peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development projects around the world.

Before the United Nations, Tahirou was a senior project manager with the Ministry of Transportation in Ontario where he provided technical capabilities and expertise to ensure excellence in the delivery of complex highway projects with multi-disciplinary teams.

Tahirou is a co-author of several book articles and reports including Blockchain-Driven Transformation (2021), The Transformation Playbook (2019), Transforming Beyond the Crisis (2020), and Perpetual Transformation (2022).