Leading in uncertain and difficult times

Stephen Carver will use the Battle of Britain to illustrate various themes. Using his unique style as academic, businessman and teller of tales. This event is suitable for all levels of project management.

During his talk, Stephen will look at:

• Projects versus programmes
• Complexity
• Leadership in difficult times
• Managing uncertainty
• Dynamic environments
• Strategic visioning

Change is risk – but, it is also opportunity. Project and programme management are the conventional tools for managing risk, but recent cutting edge research at one of the UK's top business schools has identified that these conventional methods could be missing more than half the picture in the dynamic and complex environments that we currently navigate.

Using the analogy of flying (and based on his latest academic work), Stephen leads this fast moving and fun session looking at how projects and programmes can be managed in different ways and so improve risk management approaches. From flying solo to orchestrating the Battle of Britain, Stephen shows organisations how to get off the ground and lose their fear of flying with projects and programmes. This ground breaking lecture (recently showcased by the APM and PMI), changes perceptions of dynamic and complex risk and shows how much can be achieved by the few, for the advantage of so many!

Stephen is rated as one of the top 3 lecturers at Europe’s most successful MBA Business School, Cranfield. He has a reputation of taking complex management concepts such as project, programme and crisis management and being able to distil them down, into highly informative and fun lectures - often using “storytelling” techniques. His attitude is “if you haven’t done it – you shouldn’t be teaching it!”

Unusually, for an academic, he has spent most of his working life in real business and still runs his own, highly successful, project management company; his client list now reads like the FTSE/Dow top 100!

Stephen made this presentation to another APM branch recently and received the following feedback;

'Excellent - simple as that!'. 'A master class of master classes'. 'What energy'