Healthcare CoP: The Impact of a Pandemic: Project Management Jobs, Career Growth, Management, and Sustainability

About the Speaker: Lynn DiBonaventura is an award-winning global leader with more than 20 years of results-driven success in leading organizational change, performance improvement, learning & leadership development, talent strategies, and operational excellence across manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, and commercial functions for a variety of industries.

Lynn is currently employed as Director of Learning & Growth for CSL Behring where she has spent the past three years building a multi-disciplinary team specializing in sales training, leadership development, change management, and marketing operations. Prior to joining CSL Behring, Lynn spent 10 years as a global leader building Global Talent Development and Talent Acquisition functions for Keystone Foods and Teleflex.  She also served Fortune 500 clients as head of her own company, TGA Consulting.

Lynn currently serves on the Global Advisory Board for Achieve Next, a consulting company focused on accelerating the impact and collaboration of CFOs and CHROs. As a board member, she had the privilege of collaborating on a whitepaper called,” A CFO-CHRO Guide to Agile Business and Workforce Re-Entry, Recovery & Rebound, post-COVID-19”. In 2017, she was a key contributor to a book called, “The Relationship Engine” by Ed Wallace, which quickly became an Amazon Best Seller.

Lynn is a founding member of the CHRO Alliance Network, a member of Philadelphia Society of People & Strategy, Women in Biotech, Life Science Trainers & Educators Network, and the Association of Talent Development. 

Lynn graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Communications and received her Master’s Certificate from Manchester University, England, in Global Communications. She is an alumni member of the KPMG Executive Leadership Institute for Women.

Abstract: As project managers, we are all aware of the impact of change. The goal of this session is to understand the Prosci Change Model and gain some practical applications of how to use this model as a tool when navigating career development, growth, and change.

This session will be a hands-on working session where you will learn some ways to use the change model to navigate your career whether you are considering:

• How to develop in your current role
• How to find a new job in your current area of expertise
• How to transition careers

Throughout the course of the discussion, we will explore how the pandemic is shaping some of the latest trends and models in career development and search and how to consider these factors into your change management approach.

Throughout the course of the discussion, we will explore how the pandemic is shaping some of the latest trends and models in career development and search and how to consider these factors into your change management approach.

Learning Objectives:

By attending participants will:

• Understand employment market shifts and the impact on project management professionals
• Learn to apply techniques that will help you develop and evolve as a “candidate of choice”
• Learn about additional resources that may help you predict future employment trends