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Upcoming Events
Moderated Panel:
The Power of Projects
Online talk with
🔹Dr. Casey LaFrance
🔹Péter Balogh
🔹Chris Solie
🔹Alec Asgari
Moderation:
🔹Oliver F. Lehmann
Details, Registration: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7412808750035566592/
Time:
Sunday, 11 Jan 2026, 🕒 2:30 PM UTC
Virtual Fireside Talk:
Managing Quality in Project Business
Online talk with
🔹Vahe Avetisyan
🔹Oliver F. Lehmann
Details: https://project-business.org/quality_in_project_business/
Rescheduled!
Time: Jan 23, 2026, 7 PM UTC
Registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8rNcBVniQoKHRMOUaQMM5w
There are more public events in the process of scheduling. Come back soon to see them when they are published.
Recent Events
Happy Hour:
Best Practices Die Hard. Situational Leaders Survive
🔹PMI – Silicon Valley Chapter and
🔹PMI – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Time:
December 11th, 2025, 5 PM – 7 PM PST
Hosts: Dulce Lord, Marie Spark
Roundtable and Masterclass:
P3GQA Conference on MegaProjects
- 1 Dec., 2025, 8:30 – 9:30 AM GMT; Roundtable discussion:
Experiences with Troubled Projects under Contract
How can Project Business break the Iron Law?
- 9 Dec., 2025 , 8:30 – 10 AM GMT; Masterclass:
Project at Risk, Business in Crisis?
Time to Step up. Strategies to Regain Control in High-Stakes Project Business.
Jointly with Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg and Alberto Osman we reframe what’s possible in capital-intensive and complex MegaProjects
Sometimes, Project Business is good business, sometimes it’s bad business, and in worst cases, things may get really ugly.
Life Online Talk:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Project Business
An event by:
PMI – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Time:
December 3rd, 2025, 6 PM – 7:30 PM PST (Online)
Talk at the yearly PM-Summit 2025 of the PMI Germany Chapter in Hamburg:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Project Business
- 11 Nov., 2025, 11:50 AM – 12:30 PM CET
- Language: English
- Host: Franziska Höhne
Speaking at:
PMI Romania Annual Conference 2025
26 September 2025, 09:00 – 18:00 EEST: Conference by PMI Romania Chapter in Bucharest, Romania.
Details and registration: https://conference.pmi.ro
Evening Live Talk:
Kundenprojekte im Dialog
24 September 2025, 18:00 CEST: Evening event at TPG The Project Group in Munich (German).
Moderation:, Oliver F. Lehmann, Andreas Hock.
Details and registration: https://project-business.org/abendevent-kundenprojekte-im-dialog/
Virtual Fireside Talk:
Winning Legal Disputes in Project Business
28 Juni 2025, 19:00 CEST: Talk at the Project Business Foundation, online (English).
Moderator: Oliver F. Lehmann
Guests: Sarah Schütte (UK), Dr. Casey LaFrance (USA)
Life Talk:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Project Business
02 June 2025, 18:00 CEST: Talk at the PMI Germany Chapter in Munich (English).
Host: Chanaka Perera.
Details: https://pmi-gc.de/component/eventbooking/local-group-event/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-in-project-business
Members Workshop:
Powering Performance: Driving Success when Projects are Your Business
24 May 2025, 11:00 CEST: Online workshop at Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria (English).
Details and registration: (will follow)
Note: Limited to members of the institute.
Virtual Fireside Talk:
Dealing with Conflict in Project Business
23 May 2025, 13:30 CEST: Online talk at the Project Business Foundation (English)
Details and registration: https://project-business.org/fireside-talk/
LinkedIn Live Talk:
Warum Projektgeschäft oft scheitert, bevor es beginnt
5 May 2025, 12:30 CEST: Talk at Connecting Dot (German)
Details and registration: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7322999423859347456/
Panel Discussion:
Panel Participation
2 April 2025: Speaking at TPG The Project Group Live Event Perfektes Tuning für Ihr Project Management (German)
More: https://tpg-projektmanagement-event-2025.grwebsite.de/
Special Interest Meeting:
AI in Project Business – Rock in the Surf or Whirlpool into Chaos?
26 March 2025: Speaking at Munich Project Management Days 2025 by 3PWorks in Munich. (German)
More: https://3pworx.com/meetup-event/muenchner-projektmanagement-tage-2025/
Interview:
The Cost of Chaos in Projects 2025
24 Februar 2025: In this episode of PM Cowboy, we discuss how to be adaptive to the volatile market in Project Business.
Host: Mark Engelhardt
| Watch: |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phWgth7rNAg (English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFdpRUrJGA (German) |
Special Interest Meeting:
Healing Days for Cross-Corporate Projects
20 November 2024: Keynote at Münchner Projektmanagement Tage 2024 by 3PWorks in Munich.
More: https://3pworx.com/meetup-event/muenchner-projektmanagement-tage-2024/
Congress:
Healing Days for Cross-Corporate Projects
8 November 2024: Keynote at the Project Society Conference 2024 by PMI Serbia Chapter in Belgrad.
More: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7253385979292528640/
Webinar:
Happy Customers, Bottlenecks, & Opportunities in Project Business
10 October 2024: A 1½-hour webinar on Project Business Management by PMI Czech Republic Chapter
Panel Discussion:
The Next Wave of Trends & Innovation
22 September 2024: A 1½-hour panel discussion on Project Management by APD Academy.
Click here to register on LinkedIn
Panel Discussion
Performance Management for Empowered Career
1 September 2024: A 1½-hour panel discussion on Performance Management by APD Academy.
Webinar
Buddy, the AI Assistant for PMP Learners
22 May 2024: A 1-hour introduction to Buddy, the perfectly trained Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant for certification candidates, helping to accelerate and intensify the learning process.
Buddy is a solution developed in my Ryan, Lehmann partnership with Dan W. Ryan from New York.
Charity Conference
3rd Talk Around the Clock
2-3 February 2024: A 24-hour virtual charity conference to benefit Médecines sans Frontièrs (Doctors without Borders) in Palestine with 25 speakers from the global Project management community.
The event was championed by the PMI Sweden Chapter
My roles: Project manager, speaker, Panel moderator
Letter from Médecines sans Frontièrs (German & English)
Details: https://talk-around-the-clock.com/
Interview
PM Cowboy
4 January 2024: External Projects are Different? Project Business Management.
The Complexity Unveiled:
Project Business Management Beyond the Basics | PM Cowboy Podcast EP.13
Host: Mark Engelhardt
Watch: https://youtu.be/mahDMQxI69g
Chapter Event
Lunch n Learn
17 August 2023, speaking at the PMI Austin Chapter on “Bringing Money Home with Projects.”
Details: https://pmiaustin.org/calendar-of-events?month=7&year=2023
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Special Interest Meeting
Münchner Projekt-Management-Tage
22 June 2023, speaking at the event of 3pworx on “Situational Project Management” (German).
Charity Conference
Talk around the Clock
14-15 April 2023, 24h online conference. Together with volunteers from the PMI Ukraine Chapter, Iryna Udovenko and Stefaniia Pyrohova, I organized the event with 45 speakers.
Beneficiary was UNICEF’s aid program for the victims of the 02-2023 earthquake in Turkiye and Syria.
Details: https://talk-around-the-clock.com
Interview
Should We Go Agile or be Situational?
16 Mar 2023, online talk with Dr. Tony Prensa, CEO & Founder @ TP Global Business Consulting.
Recording
Interview
Project Business – Lessons from NASA
24 Feb 2023, online talk with Ed Hoffman, former Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA, with a focus on cross-corporate team building in project business.
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Chapter Event
Conflicts in Project Business
30 Jan 2023, 7 PM CET, Presentation at PMI Germany Chapter. Topic: Conflicts in Project Business (German).
Interview
Legal Acumen for Project Business?
30 Jan 2023, online talk with Sarah Schütte, a lawyer with a focus legal knowledge for better project business in an international context.
Interview
Managing Risks in Project Business
16 Dec 2022, online talk with Dr. David Hillson, the “Risk Doctor” on the transfer of risk management principles from internal projects to cross-corporate Project Business.
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Chapter Event
Introducing Process Groups: A Practice Guide
28 Nov 2022, presentation at PMI Germany Chapter in Ulm.
Interview
Certification for Project Business
21 Nov 2022, online talk with Lee R. Lambert, a founder of the PMP certification, on the impact of project management certification on Project Business Management.
Congress
The Cooperative Transformation in Project Management
21 Nov 2022, Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator (Photo) at the Project Management Summit of the PMI Bulgaria Chapter.
