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This panel discussion with Cate Murray, Kupe Kupersmith and Lisa DiTullio will focus on best practices and techniques around these hot topics and challenges leaders are currently facing:

1. How can we engage employees and get them excited about work, projects, etc.?
2. How can we both push and set boundaries?
3. Methodologies & Practices – Waterfall vs. Agile, what’s better?
4. How can we drive and influence change and adoption?
5. How can we measure and increase productivity and progress?

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Cate Murray has an 18+ year career in IT Services and Talent Acquisition, where she has performed various roles within recruiting, sales, and management. She has led the PMO & Business Operations Practice for 10 years. Cate was instrumental in building and rolling out our Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) solution in 2019. Cate was named a Principal in the business in 2021. Cate is PMP, CSM, and Scrum@Scale certified. She is a Professional Development Author for MSSQLTips.com, a Speaker at PMI® Professional Development Day events, and a Speaker on the Project Summit*Business Analyst World conference series.

Kupe Kupersmith possesses over 20 years of experience in Agile, business analysis, project management and software systems development. He is the co-author of Business Analysis for Dummies and is an industry requested keynote speaker at conferences such as BBC, BA World/Project Summit, PMI events, etc. Being a trained improvisational comedian, Kupe is sure to make you laugh while you’re learning. Kupe is a connector and has a goal in life to meet everyone!

Lisa DiTullio is the principal of Project Chalk Talk. She delights in developing project management capabilities for biotechnology organizations through simple project management practices. She is the author of multiple project management books and is a recognized international speaker in her field. Lisa has held a training contract with The Project Management Institute for the past 10 years. Lisa believes all organizations must adopt modern project management practices to achieve implementation excellence and to keep up with the rapid pace of change.

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