The Ithaca Branch of Project Management Institute (PMI), Rochester, will host an online talk by RJ Davies on Friday, January 14, 2022, from 12noon–1:15pm. The topic will be "Leadership in Project Management." There is a small registration fee, but attendees do not need to be PMI members.

Find the registration link and full details in the PMI Calendar of Events listing.

Have you ever wondered: What are the differences between leadership and project management, or how could I improve as a leader in the role of project manager?

Join RJ Davies as he shares his thoughts about the traits of leadership in the form of the "Leadership Pyramid" and how it relates to project management. He will also share an introduction to “The Four Agreements” and how practicing them relates to the "Leadership Pyramid” and strengthens one’s potential effectiveness as a leader in the role of project manager.

Speaker:

RJ Davies, JD
Former Director, Project Management Office
Cornell University

Bio:

RJ Davies is the former Director of the Project Management Office in Cornell Information Technologies, who has more than 40 years of information technology (IT) project management experience. Prior to his retirement from Cornell University in the fall of 2019, RJ provided strategic leadership for delivering high-value, Cornell-wide, large-scale IT projects and for the oversight of Cornell’s IT Governance project process, including IT capital project prioritization.

Before joining Cornell in 2007, RJ worked for New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG), managing large IT projects for administrative information systems development, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and information resource management.

Prior to joining NYSEG in 1981, RJ managed large administrative information system development projects for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

RJ has a Juris Doctor degree from Chase College of Law and a B.S. in computer science from Cornell University. He is a Life Member of the IEEE.