The Critical Success Factors for Organizational Transformation

This signature Chapter event features three (3) keynote speakers who will address The Critical Success Factors For Organizational Transformation from different perspectives, focusing on why and how transformations occur.

To celebrate the Chapter's 45th Anniversary, we are pleased to offer registrants a coupon good for $10 off the full price! Please use coupon code PMIC45_LF2022 at checkout!

Participants of this event will earn 4 PDU's in Leadership in the PMI Talent Triangle®.

Why attend? Come and join us to learn the latest concepts, strategies, and critical success factors to champion Organizational Transformation for business success.

Benefits

• Transformation: Learn from industry leaders how to transform and champion for business success
• Growth Mindset: Gain insights into cultivating the right culture and environment that promote organization wide transformation for sustainable growth
• Innovation: Take away new ideas and approaches to implement innovation and transformation in your teams
  
• Develop Greater Focus: Understand fresh perspectives and concepts for transformational leadership and the new normal

Session Details

About the Speaker:

Laura Beres is a business executive with over 15 years of experience across corporate strategy and operations in retail and consumer industries, transforming programs and building new organizational and market-facing capabilities.

Currently, Laura serves as the Vice President of Enterprise Transformation at Ulta Beauty, where she is accountable for the management and execution of Ulta Beauty’s enterprise initiative investments. She leads the Enterprise Portfolio Management, Program Management, Change Management and Value Realization capabilities of the enterprise, leading work to connect the vision and aspirations of the company to its activities. Previously, Laura served as the Senior Director of  Strategic Portfolio Delivery, where she led the most complex, transformational initiatives for the enterprise working with the senior leadership team. She also led Conscious Beauty at Ulta Beauty^TM, a holistic approach to beauty that gives guests access to choices and transparency across clean ingredients, product sustainability and more. In this role, she was responsible for the development and delivery of the strategic approach and executional program, the assessment and management of risk, and its quality and success across internal and external partners. Laura also led Corporate Strategy at Ulta Beauty, supporting the organization in developing its long-term vision with the senior leadership team.

Laura began her career in the financial services industry where she gained experience in commercial lending across small and middle market companies. After earning her M.B.A., Laura worked at Deloitte Consulting, advising primarily on growth and transformation strategies in Consumer Packaged Goods. She also held leadership roles at Deloitte in the CMO organization and on large global accounts, both developing and executing strategies.

In the fall of 2020, Laura joined the Board of Directors for Nanophase Technologies. She has previously served on Associate and Auxiliary Boards for non-profit organizations in Chicago, as well as the Board of Directors for Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras.

She earned her M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and has a B.S. in Finance and B.A. in Oboe Performance from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Laura lives with her husband and three young children in Naperville, Illinois.

About the Speaker:

Andy joined the Greater Chicago Food Depository as Head of Technology and Transformation in May of 2021. As a volunteer before joining the Food Depository, he led a team to develop the organization’s foundational Information Technology Roadmap. He also served as Interim Chief Information Officer beginning in October of 2019. Andy is responsible for the systems that enable the Food Depository to operate today and the active portfolio of projects building the systems and data to better serve our community tomorrow.

Prior to joining the Food Depository, Andy was a Managing Director at Accenture, and he brings three decades of extensive experience building teams and leading organizations to optimize business processes using technology. Consulting within multiple industries – including Consumer Goods, Agri-Business, Retail and Electronics – Andy specialized in supply chain processes and systems. He was very honored to be part of the international group of IT professionals recognized with a Computerworld Smithsonian Award for innovative use of information technology to benefit society.

Outside of work, Andy can be found enjoying time with family and friends, on a bike, at a disc-golf course or in the mountains.
Education

Andy received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

About the Speaker:

Barbara A. Trautlein, PhD is author of the best-selling book Change Intelligence:  Use the Power of CQ to Lead Change that Sticks, principal and founder of Change Catalysts, and originator of the CQ® System for Developing Change Intelligence®. For over 30 years, Barbara has coached executives, trained leaders at all levels, certified change agents, and facilitated mission-critical cultural transformations - achieving bottom-line business and powerful leadership results for clients.  In 2015 she had the honor of being awarded Change Management Consultant of the Year by the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Midwest Chapter.  She is gifted at sharing strategies and tactics that are accessible, actionable, and immediately applicable.  Her blend of research and real-world expertise makes her an in-demand speaker at conferences around the globe.  Barbara has a unique ability to connect with her audiences, from C-level executives in Fortune 50 organizations to front line employees, and across industries, from steel mills to sales teams, refineries to retail outlets, and healthcare to high tech.  Clients served include Abbott Laboratories, BP, Cisco, Ford, the NYPD, and Save the Children.  Barbara holds a doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan