Events Calendar

PMI-DVC: Leadership Challenges in the Post-COVID Era

📅 Date: February 27, 2025
🕒 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
🌐 Venue: via Zoom
🎟 Registration: Complimentary for Members and Non-Members

Agenda:
7:00 - 7:15 pm Chapter Announcements
7:15 - 8:15 pm Presentation
8:15 - 8:30 pm Q&A

The world has changed in many ways since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for leaders. Almost every organization (regardless of its size) is still resolving what does the normal business environment look like going forward, and how do we take into account work-life balance? Is it a return to 5 days a week for everyone back in the office, 100% remote, or some hybrid-model in between?

Regardless of whether you are a line manager with direct reports, or a PMP leading a project team, the challenges for you today are also shifting.  In this virtual action-oriented discussion, we will explore possible answers and insights to these challenges based on research revealed in DDI’s* Global Leadership Forecast 2025.**

Some key areas we will discuss:

• From 2022 to 2024, trust in immediate managers took a dramatic nosedive from 46% to 29%.
• Stress is surging among leaders. 71% report a significant increase in their stress levels, as compared to 63% in 2022.  54% are concerned about burnout, and 40% are considering leaving to improve well-being.
• Frontline Leader’s Purpose Fades as C-Suite Thrives. C-Suite leaders have seen a steady increase in their sense of purpose – rising from 62% in 2022 to 67% in 2024, frontline leaders experienced a 20% decline in their sense of purpose compared to 2020.
• We will discuss what we as individual leaders can do to reverse these critical trends?

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn what some of the changes and therefore challenges are for leaders in the Post COVID work environment.
2. Participants will gain insights into what actions they can take to develop more trust with their team members.
3. Participants will learn strategies and specific actions they can take to improve their own stress management and well-being.
4. Participants will learn actions they can take to improve their members’ connection to the purpose of their work and organization.

Speaker Bio:

Bill Blackburn, CDR, USN (ret) is the founder and President of Blackburn & Associates, LLC and a Franchisee of Academy Leadership LLC.  He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Leadership for Villanova University.  A Naval Academy graduate, he has spent three careers and over 40 years immersed in the study and practice of leadership and exceptional performance. During his 20 year career as a naval officer and aviator, he served in critical leadership roles that required both his own personal leadership and his ability to build teams and organizations to achieve highly complex assignments. In 15 years as a consultant for Gap International, a firm known for its expertise in breakthrough business results, Bill honed his skills as an effective executive coach for senior business leaders. His partnership with these leaders and their teams consistently resulted in their businesses producing sustainable exceptional business performance. Since joining Academy Leadership in 2009, Bill has led both public programs and designed and delivered internal leadership programs for public and private organizations. He is a skilled facilitator in leadership development, strategic and operational planning, organizational alignment and team building.