Dr. Joel Carboni, GPM-B
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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joel Carboni, GPM-B
Deliver M.O.R.E. With Integrity: Putting Sustainable
Performance at the Center of Project Value
Bio:
Dr. Joel Carboni is the founder and president of GPM and is globally recognized as the subject matter expert on integrating sustainability, ethics, and value delivery into project and portfolio management. He is the architect of the P5 Standard for Sustainability in Project Management, the Sustainability Competence Standard, the Sustainable Project Management™ Practice Guide, and the Project Sustainability Reporting Guide—foundational frameworks used by practitioners, enterprises, and governments worldwide.
For more than sixteen years, Dr. Carboni has worked at the intersection of projects, governance, and systems change, advising organizations on how to move beyond compliance-driven sustainability toward decisions that hold up under real-world pressure. His work focuses on turning sustainability from a reporting exercise into an operational discipline—one that influences what gets approved, funded, built, and measured.
A member of the Forbes Business Council and a Forbes-recognized sustainability leader, he contributes to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. He serves on international working groups shaping next-generation sustainability and pollution reporting. His contributions to the profession earned the IPMA Achievement Award for Integrating Sustainability in Project Management and recognition by Thinkers50 for advancing regenerative business thinking through his book Becoming Regenerative.
Dr. Carboni is the Global Ambassador for Sustainability at Thinkers360 and is consistently ranked among their Top Thought Leaders in Project Management. His current work centers on integrity-based decision-making, regenerative project design, and redefining project success around value that is worth the effort and cost.
Abstract:
PMI’s M.O.R.E. mindset asks leaders to manage perceptions, own success, reassess relentlessly, and expand their perspective. The missing link is that “value” is still too often defined as scope, schedule, and cost. In a world of climate risk, supply-chain fragility, and social volatility, that definition is obsolete.
In this session, Dr. Joel Carboni—architect of the P5 Standard and PRiSM™ method and one of the framers of the Paris Climate Accord—shows how to embed sustainable performance into the heart of M.O.R.E. so projects deliver value that lasts. Drawing on real cases from infrastructure and energy portfolios, he will show how to use impact thresholds and multi-capital thinking to decide which projects should not proceed, how to govern those that must, and how to communicate “enough” to boards and sponsors who are under pressure to do more with less planet, less budget, and less time.
Attendees will leave with a practical lens for redefining “project success”, so it holds up—not just at go-live, but when regulators, communities, and the next generation start asking harder questions.
Learning Objectives
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Reframe “project value” in line with PMI’s M.O.R.E. mindset using sustainable performance rather than just the iron triangle.
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Apply the concept of impact thresholds to decide when “more” is no longer value-creating but value-destroying for the organization and society.
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Integrate the P5 Standard and PRiSM™-style thinking into PMO governance, project selection, and benefits realization.
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Communicate project trade-offs to executives and sponsors in a way that is honest about constraints yet focused on continuous value.
