Celebrating IPM Day with Nokia

We are pleased to be part of the Nokia International PM Day Symposium and to support Nokia’s PM Community with our thought leadership and presentation on the topic: "Building a More Sustainable Project Outcome." 

The theme of this year’s event is “Together”, and the response from Nokia is that their PMs' really felt that the presentations from this year’s symposium came together to create a meaningful and valuable experience.

It’s very early, yet already, hundreds of individuals have started to download and watch our webinar. The feedback has been resoundingly positive.

If you wish to view the webinar, please access the following link.

Building A More Sustainable Project Outcome

International Project Management Day 11/2/17

Happy International Project Management Day. To celebrate, Kristina Kohl, MBA, PMP, Principal of Becoming Sustainable presents "Building a More Sustainable Project Outcome" for Nokia's International PM Day. Global project management professionals are learning about:

1. Sustainable Development Goals and the Triple Bottom Line  
2. The Sustainability Journey and the Value Added by Project Management Methodologies
3. Projects and Best Practices for Embedding Sustainability into Organizations
4. Case Studies and Tools for Building a More Sustainable Project Outcome

Project managers can have a significant impact by driving organizational environmental, social, and governance vision through the PM process. Here are some ideas:

1. Incorporate Sustainability Criteria into the Portfolio Selection Process
2. Align Project Benefits with Business and Sustainability Goals
3. Engage Diverse Stakeholders
4. Create Organizational Value by Embedding Sustainability into Program Management Methodologies
5. Provide a Vehicle for Addressing Organizational Challenges and New Opportunities
6. Promote a Culture of Sustainability Through Adopting Sustainability as a Component of All Projects

How is your organization celebrating International PM Day?

10 Strategies to Build a More Sustainable Organization

Kristina Kohl, MBA, PMP, and Principal of HRComputes and Becoming Sustainable presented a webinar for Ascentis as part of the "Build a Strong Organization Series." The following are some of the top 10 ideas for HCM professionals to promote sustainability with your organization:

1. Participate in the development of C-suite strategic sustainability vision.
2. Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand, educate, and inform of needs and requirements.
3. Develop leadership competencies and development programs to create sustainable leaders.
4. Redesign job functions, descriptions, and performance metrics to align with the organization’s sustainability mission.
5. Share your organization’s sustainability story to attract and retain top talent.
6. Empower employees to embrace CSR and to contribute ideas and suggestions that impact locally and globally.
7. Develop training materials to educate and inform employees and to help them align personal and organizational goals.
8. Support organizational redesign to break down silos and promote cross-functional collaboration.
9. Create and support communication strategy that meets employees where they are on their sustainability journey.
10. Define success and measure with metrics.

In order to read the blog post and find the recorded webinar, visit:

http://www.ascentis.com/2017/10/free-hr-webinar-on-sustainability/

Building a Sustainable Workforce

Back by popular demand. Please join our principal, Kristina Kohl, on September 29th, 2017 1:00pm EDT for "Building a Sustainable Workforce" as part of the Ascentis Webinar Series. Ever wondered how being environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable as an organization can impact the success of your organization? In this presentation, learn how having a strategy around overall sustainability can improve employee retention, organizational culture, engagement, diversity, and inclusion.  Gain insight into research that demonstrates alignment between sustainable strategy and HR strategy to create shared value.

For SHRM members, this session offers continuing education credits. The discussion considers the impact of sustainability and corporate social responsibility on SHRM BoCK competencies.

Register here:
http://info.ascentis.com/sustainable-workforce-sept19.html

Kristina Serves on Ocean Exchange Awards Review Panel Granting $200,000 in Awards

Kristina Kohl, Principal, is please to have served on the 2017 Solutions Review Team for Ocean Exchange joining other sustainability professionals to select 12 finalists for the coveted Ocean Exchange Neptune and Orcelle Awards. These awards are each $100,000.

The winners of the Neptune and Orcelle Awards will be selected at the October event in Savannah, GA where teams present to hand-selected delegates from business, government, and academia who vote who receives the awards. At this same event eight collegiate finalists pitch for the $10,000 BIG Pitch Award.

Ocean Exchange seeks solutions with working prototypes that reduce waste and the use of nature’s resources while increasing productivity and respecting cultures around the world. Ocean Exchange is primarily sponsor funded including Gulfstream (General Dynamics), Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, Bunge, Georgia Power (Southern Co), Georgia Ports Authority, Savannah Economic Development Authority, and Oceaneering.

Ocean Exchange Review Panel

Kristina Discusses CSR and Sustainability on RadioVision Network TV

Kristina joins RVN TV Host, Joe the Insurance Guy ,on "Morning  Coffee" to discuss her book " Becoming a Sustainable Organization. Check it out at Kris on Radio Vision

Kristina Kohl Speaks at the Pyramid Club Author Night

 Kristina Kohl spoke about key topics from her book, “Becoming a Sustainable Organization”, on June 8 at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia. The large crowd not only listened intently, but also participated in a lively discussion facilitated by Ms. Kohl. The attendees held a wide variety of professions including graduate students, engineers, and small business owners. Kristina engaged the gathering through discussion questions and real-world examples. After the presentation, people stayed to discuss sustainable strategy for their own businesses as well as for the United States as a whole.

“Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management Approach” provides tools to organizations as they embark on their sustainability journey. Through case studies, best practices, and lessons learned, organizations gain the techniques to drive change. The book highlights ways to engage both internal and external stakeholders in order to promote natural and social capital.     

It examines the role human capital management professionals and policies play in ensuring that employees become fully engaged in sustainability. The book is available at https://www.crcpress.com/Becoming-a-Sustainable-Organization-A-Project-and-Portfolio-Management/Kohl/p/book/9781498700818

 

                     

Kristina Kohl Speaks at The Pyramid Club's Author Night

Join us at the Pyramid Club on June 8th (6-8PM) where Kristina Kohl, author of the book, "Becoming a Sustainable Organization" will join us for a fabulous conversation!  

 About the book:

Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management Approach lays out a framework to create organizational value while preserving natural and social capital. The book provides a roadmap for organizations during their sustainability journey by sharing case studies, best practices, and lessons learned, as well as tools and techniques to drive change.

This book is an ideal resource for project and portfolio managers, as well as executive managers, in organizations that are embarking on a sustainability journey. It explains how to engage both internal and external stakeholders in order to reframe strategy to drive this transformation. It examines the role human capital management professionals and policies can play in ensuring that employees become fully engaged in sustainability. It also recommends baseline measurements and metrics to help managers ensure sustainability initiatives remain on track.

 

 

About our guest author:

 

Kristina Kohl is the managing principal of HRComputes, a management
consulting firm that provides strategic guidance, program, and project
management to corporate clients in order to maximize their human capital
investment through technology and change management. Kristina leads the
Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Strategy practice for the firm and
provides strategic guidance to senior management on the value proposition of
adopting a sustainable strategy. HRComputes is a registered New Jersey
Sustainable Business, WBE, and SBE. They are recipients of the Gotham Green
Award for sustainable strategy and a certificate of recognition from the New
Jersey EPA for sustain- ability innovation.

Kristina speaks at industry events including the PMI Global Conference and the
Society for Human Resource Management Global Conference. In addition, she has
been a guest lecturer for the University of Pennsylvania, La Salle University, and
the Project Management Institute. She has authored white papers and articles for
online publications of Project Management.com, Sustainable Brands, and the
Wharton Magazine.

For tickets Author Night Pyramid Club

Lend a Hand

From our friends at the Sustainable Business Initiative, a great opportunity to engage community groups, students, and your children around protecting the environment and social responsibility.

The Sustainability WheelTM

Driving Project, Program and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel by authors Richard Maltzman and David Shirley is another great resource for project management professionals who are seeking to drive the concepts of sustainability into their organization’s project, program, and portfolio processes. Using The Sustainability Wheel^TM , they have identified 6 key interrelated components that are critical for embedding sustainability into to project management process. While the approach is relevant for individual project managers, it seeks to address the enterprise level through focusing on the PMO level in order to develop systemic protocols that impact organization wide projects, programs, and portfolios.

This book is structured to help the reader understand how an organization is connected to sustainability.  In order to explain these connection points, the authors utilize the parts of the wheel to connect to the road leading toward a more sustainable organization. The book contains many case studies and real life examples of these practices.

 Rich and Dave have a great deal of project management experience and the bridge that they build between the project management profession and the core concepts of sustainability-people, planet, and profit-serve as a useful guide to project management professionals. The authors are winners of the 2011 David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award.

It is a must read. Enjoy your sustainability journey!

Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success

Kristina Kohl, MBA, PMP

Author of Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management Approach

Becoming a Sustainable Organization

People, Planet, Profits, and Projects

People, Planet, Profits and Projects

The aforementioned piece provides great insight and tools to promote sustainability within the field of project management. The author, Rich Maltzman draws on findings from the survey that Kristina Kohl co authored with Tom Baker and Pedro Echeverria for PMI entitled "The Voice pf Sustainability Project Managers." The original survey can be found here.Voice of PM