May ALFISIG Meeting

Speakers: Scott Stribrny
Topic: Leadership: Cracking the Code for Today’s Professionals

Leading projects in a changing world is especially challenging work. Just when you are feeling most pressured and vulnerable, you need to be strongest and most generous in mind and spirit. Indeed, as HBR author John Kotter notes, "More change always requires more leadership." What makes a great leader? This presentation begins to answer this question by presenting a project manager relevant five-rule framework to apply in real life (adapted from the Harvard Business Press book “The Leadership Code” and detailed in a recent series of Cutter Consortium Executive Updates co-authored by the speaker).

Beginning with the ultimate rule of leadership, personal proficiency, the speaker will discuss seven principles that guide effective leaders. The speaker will then explore the short-term orientation of leadership, with examples for day-to-day action, about how the great leader must be a talent manager and be an executor. Finally, the speaker will discuss the long-term orientation of leadership, how the great leader must also be a human capital developer and a strategist. Some leaders may have skills as executors and end even talent managers in order to get things done. However, as a leader reaches more senior levels in the organization, they must become proficient in all of the areas.

Attendees will learn how we:

• Apply leadership rules to enable disciplined actions that accomplish desired organizational outcomes that drive favorable business results.
• Avoid the trap of emphasizing one element of leadership over the others.
• Crack the leadership code — and take your leadership to the next level.

Bio: Scott Stribrny brings nearly 40-years of experience in software, systems, and management to his client engagements and his Loyola Executive Education courses. An internationally acknowledged authority in project management, information systems/technology, systems engineering, and lean development and management, Scott is interested in the intersections of business, technology, and organizational risks.

Beginning a corporate career with a start-up firm that went from zero to 100 million dollars in just five years, Scott moved on to a Fortune 50 conglomerate where he worked with industry leading engineers, scientists, and the executive suite. Scott ascended to management and was responsible for the development of groundbreaking products and services where he applied best practices in project management. His accumulated management experience ranges across many industries, including aerospace, telecommunications, finance, insurance, retail, information services, and manufacturing.

Scott is president, co-founder, and managing director of Group Atlantic, Inc.; a senior consultant in the business technologies strategies practice for IT research company the Cutter Consortium; and a thought leader at the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. His courses on leadership development, high-performance teams, requirements definition, risk management, and project estimating are well known for their innovation and practical applicability.

PDU Awarded for Attendance: 1

Date: May 30, 2018
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: Conference Call only. Registration required to attend for PDU credit.

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