Attention: anyone involved in change!
Virtual and hybrid working are now mainstream. In 2022, in the 13th year of the Virtual Working Summit, we look at two key aspects of our working lives today: hybrid working and making risk management work.
You are invited to join participants from more than 80 countries around the world. With them, you can listen to five brilliant speakers, and send questions for us to ask. Our twin themes for 2022 are ‘Hybrid’ and ‘Risk’.
This year we also celebrate two second editions of Penny Pullan’s books: ‘Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for success with remote or hybrid work and teams‘ and her book with Ruth Murray-Webster ‘Making Risk Management Work: Engaging people to identify, own and manage risk‘ (Summit participants will be able to get copies at slightly reduced prices throughout the summit).
Each day, we focus on one inspiring leader, sharing an audio interview lasting 30-40 minutes. The questions we ask are drawn from the summit participants. We have an online discussion for you to join in with. There is no set time – you can access the session and listen to it on the day at a time to suit you. The summit is a unique, virtual way for you to develop your skills, without hassle. There is no charge to register to listen in to each speaker via the web each day.
Who should attend? Anyone who wants to make their hybrid work even better and who needs to grapple with the challenges of change, disruption and risk. This year, that could be anyone: People who can’t be in the office but need to keep going remotely. People in a hybrid working situation. People who manage a team or projects across cities, countries or continents. Professionals who work with clients, or sell to them, remotely. People who need to build trust and engage others, despite the distance between them. Teleworkers and digital nomads. People who want to reduce their own impact on our climate. People who want to work smarter, not harder. All of these people are likely to be dealing with uncertainty and disruption.
Meet Our 2022 Summit Speakers
Dr Penny Pullan
Monday
7th November 2022
Hybrid: When you can't all be together
Dr Ruth Murray-Webster
Tuesday
8th November 2022
Biases
Tim Russell
Wednesday
9th November 2022
Hybrid: Impact, not input
Dr Michelle Tilley
Thursday
10th November 2022
Making Risk Easy
Eleanor Winton
Friday
11th November 2022
The Disruption Game Plan
I promise to protect your privacy. You can find out the details of how I do this by looking at our privacy policy. By signing up, you consent to receiving e-mails from me, Penny Pullan of Making Projects Work Ltd. The summit uses e-mails to inform you of future summits and speakers, to ask for your input on possible speakers and your feedback. We use e-mails to ask you to send in questions for the speakers, to let you know what’s happening each day of the summit and to provide you with links to summit sessions. In between summits, you’ll only receive occasional emails, which may include links to useful resources related to virtual working, Penny’s books and other related resources. You can of course unsubscribe at any time.
Dr Penny Pullan, our founder and host, says: “Nearly three years after lockdowns began, we want to be able to work in a variety of ways. One of these is hybrid, where some are together and others are working remotely. Of course, this can be tricky and, while we have always had to manage risk to some extent, hybrid working brings extra challenges.
We have five speakers all with unique contributions to make, on hybrid, on risk management, on disruption, on cognitive biases at play, on heightening impact when hybrid, plus on how to use virtual workshops.
As well as hearing these superb sessions, let’s also tap into each other’s knowledge and experience. During the summit, our LinkedIn group will be the focus where we share what works and inspire each other to become even better. Once you register, you’ll receive the link to join this group by e-mail.”
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Meet Our 2022 Summit Speakers
Penny Pullan
7th November 2022
Hybrid: When you can’t all be together
Dr Penny Pullan, your Summit Host, will kick-off your summit on 7th November. Her session will be ‘Hybrid: When you can’t all be together’.
The second edition of her bestseller is now out: Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for success with remote or hybrid work and teams. This book has a whole chapter devoted to Hybrid.
While most of the world went virtual in 2020, Penny went virtual nineteen years before. 9/11 grounded her as she was about to fly to her first programme’s two week kick-off meeting in New York. Instead, it had to happen virtually! Since then, she has supported organizations and individuals all over the world and across industries to be more effective virtual leaders, across industry sectors from banking to telecoms, and pharma. She sees core elements in how we collaborate creatively whether virtual, hybrid or in-person, and is keen to.
Penny is a director of Making Projects Work Ltd, and she has hosted these Virtual Summits since 2010. You can contact Penny on Twitter at @PennyPullan or by responding to the summit e-mails.
Dr Ruth Murray-Webster
8th November 2022
Biases
Enabling curiosity, creativity, collaboration and challenge to thrive in our new world full of uncertainty. Bias is inherent and needs to be dealth with when managing risk. Ruth sets out how in her new chapter in the book, co-authored with Penny, Making Risk Management Work: Engaging people to identify, own and manage risk.
Dr Ruth Murray-Webster is recognised as a leader of project-based organizational change and risk management, performing roles as a practitioner, advisor, facilitator, researcher and author. She is a Director of Potentiality UK and Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford: Saïd Business School.
Ruth’s doctoral research focused on organisational change from the perspective of the recipients of change. She has co-authored numerous books on the people aspects of risk management. The synergies between risk and change continue to drive Ruth’s thinking, writing and practice.
Tim Russell
9th November 2022
Hybrid: Impact, not input
Tim Russell of Microsoft is a veteran of communication technologies down the years. His experience has taught many things, not least that technology usually isn’t the answer. It has a role, a place and a purpose in the hybrid world, but in reality we, the wet-ware, define the success of hybrid working. He will be answering questions on hybrid from the perspective of his role as a solution architect at Microsoft.
Dr Michelle Tilley
10th November 2022
Making Risk Easy
Ruth will interview Michelle on how you can make risk management easy in a very large and very complex project.
Michelle has 35 years in the construction industry and for the past 16 years has been a director of construction and infrastructure businesses, driving excellence in health and safety performance as a priority. She has a track record of transforming construction businesses; enhancing productivity, embedding Lean thinking, driving digitalisation, and leading process re-engineering to unlock efficiencies whilst improving the safety and welfare of workers.
Michelle is currently PMO & Digital Director at Hinkley Point C, with responsibility for digitising nuclear, designing and delivering the FOAK Nuclear Plant digital twin in Europe, while also leading and automating the Project Management Office function.
Eleanor Winton
11th November 2022
The Disruption Game Plan
Eleanor is a foresight and innovation specialist whose career has spanned legal policy, money laundering investigations, innovation and future thinking. She designed, built and led KPMG’s Future Institute in the UK, the firm’s first foresight capability, and has worked with the senior leadership teams of organisations spanning multiple sectors and industries from healthcare through to mining, logistics and financial services.
Today she is the owner of Foresightfully, a boutique consultancy, which specialises in supporting C-suite leaders to think and act differently in the face of rapid and unpredictable change; that might include refreshing strategy, motivating the leadership team, bringing the ‘outside-in’ perspective or providing one to one challenge. Eleanor specialises in creative thinking on strategy, leadership and culture and brings experience, insight and provocation around global trends, future ready leadership, scenario planning, strategy, innovation and disruption.
She’s the co-author, with Dr Ruth Murray-Webster, of The Disruption Game Plan.
Here’s Why You Should Sign Up for the 2023 Virtual Working Summit
Attend from the comfort of your own home or office
All the interviews can be listened to online. There’s no travel or hotels to book, saving you money and avoiding you having to take time off work and arrange cover to attend, and spending time away from work and your family.
Online Access to the Interviews
The interviews will be available online, for free, on the appropriate day of the summit so you can listen to them at your own convenience.
A panel of hand-picked expert speakers
Your expert speakers have been chosen by your host, Dr Penny Pullan. They will expand your thinking and provide tools and techniques for you to try out, safe in the knowledge that they’re coming from experts.
The Chance to Upgrade
To gain access to all the interviews, forever, and one to one interaction to discuss each session with the Summit host.
I promise to protect your privacy. You can find out the details of how I do this by looking at our privacy policy. By signing up, you consent to receiving e-mails from me, Penny Pullan of Making Projects Work Ltd. The summit uses e-mails to inform you of future summits and speakers, to ask for your input on possible speakers and your feedback. We use e-mails to ask you to send in questions for the speakers, to let you know what’s happening each day of the summit and to provide you with links to summit sessions. In between summits, you’ll only receive occasional emails, which may include links to useful resources related to virtual working, Penny’s books and other related resources. You can of course unsubscribe at any time.