The following Presentations have been presented recently and are planned:
- 2020-10-22 "Project Management and Artificial Intelligence" presented to the Association of IT Professionals (AITP) and the Chicagoland PMI chapter
- 2020-10-29 11am EDT: "Project Management of Digital Transformation" -Great IT professional
- 2020-11-17 11am EST: "The Power of Soft Skills (this is PM related, but not 100%) - Great IT professional
- 2021-02-10 11am EST "Manage Your Time and Tasks Before They Manage You" - Great IT professional
- 2021-03-23 11am EDT "5 Steps to Play With and Learn AI " (AI and Machine Learning That You Can Learn) - Great IT professional : register here for the Live webinar or Replay available after live webinar here
- 2021-05-18 11am EDT "All the Things About The Internet of Things (IOT) - Well, At Least An Overview" -Great IT professional: Register for Free Live Webinar here or Replay available after live webinar here
Other topics that Henry is available to present:
- PM Negotiating: An interactive learning experience. Attendees learn successful negotiating by doing
- 7 big tips for Managing your communications (email, chat, texting, phone)
- 8 tips to Manage Work Like a Project Manager, Even if You're Not a Project Manager
- Networking Effectiveness: an audience participation event
- Coaching for Effectiveness
- Strategies and Techniques to Improve Your Presentation Skills
- Successful Kickoff meetings
- Steps to Starting a New Program or Project
- Organizational Change Management - How to influence people to make change for the better
- The topics listed below may also be presented
Henry can also present these topics that he has been presented in the past:
- Presentations in the past for the Great IT Professional
- 2020-10-22 "Project Management and Artificial Intelligence" presented to the Association of IT Professionals (AITP) and the Chicagoland PMI chapter
- 2020-09-24 "Project Management and Artificial Intelligence" presented as one of several on the Great IT Professional. Supporting blog post with reference information.
- 2020-05-12 "Project Management and Artificial Intelligence" presented to the PMI Central Illinois Chapter. Supporting blog post with reference information.
- 2020-03-18 "Lessons Learned from Reality Project Management” presented to the PMI Calumet Chapter (Northwest Indiana Chapter)
- 2020-02-18 AI Panelist "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad AI?" - Supporting blog post with reference information.
- 2019-09 "The Power of Soft Skills" presented to the ADP Annual Global PM Conference
- 2019-05-06 "Managing Digital Transformation and Disruption" presented at the Symposium of the NJ PMI Chapter.- blog post with reference information
- 2019-03-20 "The Project Manager as Coach" presented to the PMI Calumet Indiana chapter
- 2018-06-05: "How to Coach Yourself and Your Team for Increased Effectiveness": Presented at IBM Technical Leadership Exchange (TLE) to a standing room only audience, also broadcasted live globally and video replays are available to IBMers. Highly rated by participant surveys. Continue to receive inquiries and contacts who find the replay helpful.
- 2018-01-16: "PM As Coach, a Deeper Dive": Presented virtually at IBM to live global audience and replays continue to be available. Highly rated by participant surveys.
- 2017-11-14 "Watson and AI" presentation for PMI NJ chapter meeting. Highly rated by participant surveys.
- 2017-08-08 "PM as Coach" : presented virtually to IBM Project Management Knowledge Network (PMKN) streamed to 286 global attendees with replays being made available. Highly rated by surveys
- 2016 February: "A Primer: Programming an Internet of Things (IoT) Device on IBM Bluemix" presented at IBM Connect Conference in Las Vegas. This was a technical presentation about an IoT device created by Henry Will. This presentation was given as an entry level walk-though of how to create and program an IoT device.
- 2015-05-28 "Social Project Management with Discipline" Presented live via streaming to global IBM PM community and replays made available. Content covered social team sharing tools and how to use them while maintaining PM discipline. Highly rated by participant surveys.
- 2015-02-12 Presentation on social tools and where to find resources at IBM. Given at IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown NY for technical leaders of new acquisitions.
- 2013-12-04 "How to Influence Adoption of Social Business" Covering Organizational Change Management. Presented at IBM Technical Leadership Exchange (TLE) and broadcasted live globally. Video replays are available to IBMers. Highly rated by participant surveys.
- 2013-08-29 and 2013-12-12 "How to Get Work Done in IBM" - Presentation on community wiki formed for IBMers to find tools within IBM.
- 2009 RACI, Roles and Responsibilities (given June 19, 2009 for PMlessonsLearned.com) http://pmlessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/09/pmll-episode-0072-raci-roles-and.html
- 2009 Networking Workshop: A hands-on approach to learning to social network one-on-one http://henrywill4.blogspot.com/2009/05/networking-workshop.html
- 2009 Project, Program, and Portfolio Metrics (PMlesssonsLearned.com Feb 2009): http://pmlessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/03/pmll-episode-0058-project-program-and.html
- 2006 Crisis Project Management of near shore projects (PMI NJ Symposium: May 2006): http://www.pminj.org/pminj/pminj_public/06-smp/065smps.mr
- 2002 Project Management in the Midst of Chaos (PMI NJ Symposium: May 2002): http://www.pminj.org/02-smp/025smps.mr
- 2010 Project Manager, Project Leader (PMlessonsLearned.com: 21Jan2010) http://pmlessonslearned.blogspot.com/2010/03/pmll-episode-0090-project-manager.html
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Bio:
Henry Will, PMP, CSM, SSM (SAFe Scrum Master), SA has 11 patents and is currently a Technical Project Manager responsible for Artificial Intelligence projects. He has a Professional Certificate in Data Science and has worked in Machine Learning and Chatbots.
He has previously led programs for AI including work in the IBM Watson group.
Henry founded a group of thousands of project managers from around the globe in a group he began in May 2006 called PMLessonsLearned.com. For several years, the group held several conference calls a month for and by Project Managers. Many of these are podcasted and still available. Calls rotated each month through sharing lessons learned, PMP Exam Preparation and a PM Job Shop call. Henry was the host of the monthly PM Best Practices calls.
Henry’s experience began with his involvement in the early 1980’s in Military Avionics projects, continued through years of industrial and consumer product design (including video games and a Veterinarian Blood Chemistry Analyzer for which he is named on the patents), and in recent years with business applications (HR, Banking, Financial investments, Pharmaceutical, Industrial, Manufacturing, and Publishing).
Mr. Will has worked on small to medium size projects (lasting 7 weeks to 4 years) in Artificial Intelligence, product development, software development, and infrastructure in both local and global environments.
Please contact Mr. Will using twitter (@henrywill) or via linkedin to schedule a speaking engagement or conference presentation.
