December 2022 | Achieving measurable performance improvement @ PACE with Business Resilience by Dr. Serhiy Kovela, David Roberts and Sheila Roberts

In this session we will review Business Resilience as a strategic capability, enabling Project Leaders to navigate the increasingly complex and unpredictable market environment. We introduce Business Resilience Framework, a new comprehensive guidance to drive business benefits in all market conditions. The Business Resilience Framework enables Project Leaders to select a PURE Strategy to deliver Progress @ Pace™ leading to measurable benefits of improved resilience.

The presentation is based on the material from the book “Business Resilience: A Practical Guide to Sustained Progress Delivered at Pace” (https://www.amazon.com/Business-Resilience-Practical-Sustained-Delivered/dp/139860464X) published by Kogan Page in April this year. The authors took advantage of 150 years of collective experience working with the UK government, professional and accreditation bodies, consulting and training organisations, and clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, software, and higher education to create a robust guidance for sustained organizational progress.

Key points:

• Business Resilience is the new focus for Project Leaders in a VUCA world
• Business Resilience delivers sustainable benefits in all market conditions
• PURE strategies provide practical scenarios to overcome project pain points
• Profiling tools and measures to track Business Resilience improvements 

Dr. Serhiy Kovela is a practitioner, scholar, and educator with over 23 years of experience in project management and business IT, consulting and delivering training programs for executive audiences internationally, and teaching students across various institutions in North America, the UK, and Europe. He is Associate Professor in Project Management at the Northeastern University London and Chief Value Officer at Resilience Professionals Ltd.

Serhiy has an MSc in Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. in Computer Science, and an MBA. He also has a broad range of professional qualifications in project management and is an Accredited AgilePM Trainer, Accredited Business Resilience Trainer, and Facilitation Practitioner. As a practitioner, Dr. Kovela has worked in the private sector and state-sponsored organizations providing training and management advisory services focused on increasing organizational efficiency with better management of projects, programs, and information technology. Having lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of contemporary independent Ukraine while pivoting from international touring as a dancer to academic and industry pursuits, Serhiy has experienced many aspects of what we presently call the VUCA world. He developed a profound appreciation of the importance of one's ability to adapt at pace, both at the individual, community, and national levels, giving rise to his keen interest in organizational resilience. Dr. Kovela's multi-faceted personal and professional experience is a unique asset helping his work with client organizations in the business resilience space.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/serhiykovela/

David Roberts is a business owner, consultant, and trainer. He designs and delivers customized programmes and best practice certifications for corporate executives in transformations, projects and business decision-making around the world. David started consulting practice whilst teaching on university MBA programmes as a young member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Twenty years later, following executive positions in global pharmaceutical companies and director positions in the UK and overseas public sector health organizations, negotiating, planning and completing major initiatives and transformations, he established his own organization, CUPE International. It became the 1st APMG Consultancy and Training Accredited Organisation in 2004, and since then has led strategy implementation, anticipating, and adapting services to ever-changing client requirements. 

David is also a Non-Executive Director of the Agile Business Consortium since 2019, a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) and Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC). He is also an occasional University guest-lecturer in Business Management, CMI Assessor and Auditor in Programme and Project Management best practice.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-roberts-7476b8/ 

Sheila Roberts is a consultant, trainer and examiner in programme and project management plus supporting areas. Her expertise has been sought through her appointments as a PRINCE2 examiner, quality reviewer for several qualifications and to serve on the AXELOS PRINCE2 reference group. She has also been appointed as an APM Assessor for Chartered Project Professionals (1st cohort) and Chair of Examiners for the esteemed APM PMQ, PPQ and Risk qualifications. Her standing in the consulting and training industry was confirmed by her election (by competing organizations) as Chair of the Industry Trade Body, ASPECT. Sheila has contributed to publications and published articles.

Sheila is COO of CUPE International, pursuing her interest in resilience which started as Sister leading a team in ITU, and that she has since recognized as needed in all organizations. She is now focused on providing support to organizations and teams to become more resilient in volatile and uncertain conditions.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-roberts-0462b22/