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Flora Tromelin with FCT Strategies LLC Joacim Mattisson with Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Lars Lagerman with Arizona Swedish Consulate

October 30, 2021 by Karen

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Flora Tromelin with FCT Strategies LLC Joacim Mattisson with Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Lars Lagerman with Arizona Swedish Consulate

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In today’s world, businesses often operate across geographic borders. Worldwide shipping, digital products and services make it easier for the business owner to export, and for the client to buy from overseas.

It also means that many things can get lost in this cross-cultural setting, causing major communication issues in business.

FCT Strategies LLC is specialized in international matters, and offers tailored consulting services in: Flora Tromelin with FCT Strategies LLC Joacim Mattisson with Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Lars Lagerman with Arizona Swedish Consulate

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  • Cross-cultural communication
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  • Organizational management

Flora-Tromelin-Phoenix-Business-RadioXFlora Tromelin is the founder and CEO of FCT Strategies LLC, a French native, former U.S. military spouse, mom, and travel addict.

Her experience includes over 20 years of experience as a global leader and advisor for the U.S. Federal Government, responsible for cross-team communication and the management of cross-cultural international events.

She has led multicultural teams of up to 35 people and managed events of up to 5,000 attendees.

She met with her husband, a now-retired U.S. Army Officer, during her tenure as Chief of Protocol to the U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco.

Follow FCT Strategies on LinkedIn and Facebook.

The Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in Arizona promote trade, commerce, investments and business opportunities between Arizona and Sweden. SACC-Logo

They offer effective industry specific programs, events, fundrasing, corporate programs, trade missions, business matchmaking and networking.

They also offer talent mobility opportunities for young professionals, both from the US to Sweden, and from Sweden to the US.

Joacim-Mattisson-Phoenix-Business-RadioXJoacim (Yoo-Ah-Kim) Mattisson– or Jay – is an investor and connector.

He helps international businesses build relationships with trade partners in Arizona.

He’s the President of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in Arizona (SACC-AZ)

Jay is also a board member and adviser for the German American Chamber of Commerce Arizona and SACC USA, comprising of 19 chambers all of the U.S.

He enjoys hiking in the magnificent Arionza desert or float down the Salt River in a tube.

Connect with Jay on LinkedIn and follow SACC-AZ on Facebook and Twitter.

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Honorary Swedish Consulate of the State of Arizona and those consulate matters, such as passports, drivers licenses, residence permits and Swedish language proficiency test.

It also promotes trade and business between Sweden and the State of Arizona, and works to spread and inform on Swedish culture, literature and music.

Lars-Lagerman-Phoenix-Business-RadioXHonorary Consul Lars Lagerman serves as Swedish Consul for the State of Arizona. He has served in this position from 1995 to 2007, and again from 2014 to present.

Mr. Lagerman was born and educated in Sweden before obtaining his Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Gustavus Adolhus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

He obtained his law degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1978 and has worked in the areas of real estate development and real estate finance, with a nitch practice in international transactions, practicing most recently at the prominent law firm of Snell and Wilmer L.L.C.

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E3 Carrie Van Sickle from GE Digital and Kristen Call from PetSmart

March 17, 2018 by Karen

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E3 Carrie Van Sickle from GE Digital and Kristen Call from PetSmart
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E3 Carrie Van Sickle from GE Digital and Kristen Call from PetSmart

Kristen Call, for the love of technology, has over 20 years’ experience in the retail and payments technologies and has served in a variety of capacities.  Achievement highlights include several patents and has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal and Nightline for entrepreneurial endeavors. Out of the ashes of her years of entrepreneurship she took her lessons achieved to continue to build a successful career in software implementations at corporations including NCR, American Express, Pier One and PetSmart.   She is also the current residing president for IIBA’s local Phoenix chapter. She is honored to have the privileged of working with so many brilliant people.

Her expertise includes intangible assets such as team building, corporate culture disruption, applying the scientific method to project implementations, infusing agile techniques in waterfall environments, and creating the game of winning.  Tangible assets include a degree in philosophy, sociology and a global MBA.  She holds certificates as Scrum Master and Product Owner.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-call-7b6253a/

About PetSmart: https://www.linkedin.com/company/165454/

About IIBA: https://www.linkedin.com/company/51934/

About IIBA Phoenix Chapter: https://phoenix.iiba.org

Carrie Van Sickle is a Sr. Program Manager with GE Digital.  As a member of the Strategic Accounts Delivery team, Carrie is responsible for helping customers worldwide achieve desired outcomes through development and deployment of digital transformation strategies.  Carrie received her PMP credential in 2007.

Before joining GE Digital in 2016, Carrie was with SAP in a variety of roles including five years as a Director for the Data Science & Analytics organization and several years on the commercial side of the business as a Services Sales Manager.  Prior to SAP, she held positions with several Fortune 500 companies including leading global delivery for Amkor Technology and consulting for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

She holds a Bachelor of Science with honors and a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Last year she received her MBA from Ball State University with a concentration in Sales Management.

Carrie lives in Chandler, AZ with her husband Jim where she enjoys all of the outdoor recreation Arizona has to offer including hiking, running, and snow-skiing.  She currently volunteers with Girls on the Run and Kyrene Del Norte’s Running Club and supports the Yavapai Humane Society, Pacific Marine Mammal Center, and Phoenix Children’s Project.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjvansickle/

About GE Digital: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2681277/

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned.  Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”  

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t.  Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better.  Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results.  Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise.

678-591-7868
www.THEPMOSQUAD.com

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E2 Lynda Stanton from WebPT and John Sievila from Cancer Treatment Centers of America

March 1, 2018 by Karen

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E2 Lynda Stanton from WebPT and John Sievila from Cancer Treatment Centers of America

John Sievila is PMO Project Director for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.  John is a graduate of University of North Dakota with a BSEE. As an accomplished Technology professional with extensive PMO experience in large-scale projects including Healthcare (PACS, HIS, RIS, etc.), John has successfully led large scale PMO driven projects and programs, including Professional Services organizations throughout his career. Expert at developing and aligning corporate strategies with operating processes, organizational structures and IT, John has built development models and project delivery methodologies for large scales projects including PACS, CRM and data warehousing.

John’s career highlights include 3M Healthcare implemented PACS projects for USC University Hospital, Baylor Medical Center, University of Washington, and Blodgett Medical Center. Supported RSNA and trade-shows in Singapore and Japan. While at Imation (3M Spinoff) John led the team (Project Director) for CRM selection (RFP, RFQ) and Deployment. Negotiated license fees. Acted as IT liaison to (5) business units. Moving to Eloyalty (Formerly Bentley Group) performed logistics technology selection (RFP/RFQ) for GE Medical Systems. Project Director (CRM deployment) for RCN, Frontier Telecommunications, Century Link, and Agilent (HP Medical devices). While at Braun Consulting John was the Program Manager for DirecTV which included technology selection and deployment for CRM and data warehousing solution.

John enjoys a good round of golf and working with K9 rescue groups.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-sievila-72133/

About CTCA: https://www.linkedin.com/company/20260/

Lynda Stanton began her career as a business analyst working on financial systems at Phoenix-based Apollo Education Group.  After enjoying varied experience at Apollo, which included internal audit and playing a key role on a PMO for a $13M business transformation project, she moved into the consulting world.  As an advisory consultant at PwC, Lynda led efforts to develop an adoption dashboard for a large cloud application implementation and ran the PMO for a $10M+ trade promotion system transformation.

Feeling it was time for a new challenge, Lynda began working in the newly established PMO for Phoenix-based software company, WebPT.  Over the last year, Lynda has worked with WebPT leadership to create the PMO function as well as manage internal projects including obtaining a security certification and the efforts to integrate a new acquisition.

Lynda lives in Scottsdale with her husband, 2 dogs and a cat.  She spends her free time doing yoga and volunteering for the Arizona Animal Welfare League where she is also a member of The League, AAWL’s Young Professionals Council.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndastanton/

About WebPT: https://www.linkedin.com/company/webpt/

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned.  Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”  

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t.  Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better.  Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results.  Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise.

678-591-7868

www.THEPMOSQUAD.com

Tagged With: cross department project management, CTCA, Daptiv, data syncs, dog rescues, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, fitting into corporate culture, GMO mix, governance prioritization, governance process, Health Information Management System, HIMSS, how to communicate effectively on projects, IIBA, information security, internal audit, internal PMO, interviewing for PMO, Lynda Stanton, MRI installation, organizational management, PMBOK, PMI, PMI mentors, PMO Director, PMO mentors, PMOJOE, PMP, premiere cancer care, process improvements, project management impact on customer service, Project Management Institute, project methodology, project proposals, PwC, remediation plan, SAAS based EMR, Sensei Projects, strategic process, Team Red White and Blue, THE PMO SQUAD, Trello, Veteran PMO Mentoring Program, WebPT, what to look for when hiring PMO

E1 Jill Smith from Safen Group LLC

February 20, 2018 by Karen

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E1 Jill Smith from Safen Group LLC
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E1 Jill Smith from Safen Group LLC

Jill Smith is a seasoned entrepreneur and consultant. Collaborative and outgoing, Jill is always looking for ways to improve efficiencies and effectiveness, both in her business and with those that she consults with. She’s a big fan of processes that improve output and making things happen. Oftentimes the best results come through communication and leadership training.

Currently she is the COO of Safen Group LLC. She and her team are disrupting the collections industry. Safen Group provides Pre-collection services without charging a commission on what’s collected.

www.linkedin.com/in/BecauseJillSaidSo

www.SafenGroup.com

jill.smith@safengroup.com

602-628-0301

ABOUT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned.  Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”  

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t.  Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better.  Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results.  Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise.

678-591-7868

www.THEPMOSQUAD.com

Tagged With: conflict management, Digital project management, do it like you mean it, eCommerce project management, empathy in the workplace, executing new tech projects, executing projects as a PM, Executive Leadership, Financial Services project management, finding a mentor, Galvanize, Healthcare project management, hiring a project management consultant, hiring a project management firm, hiring a project manager, implementing new product, implementing new service, informal mentoring, IT project management, organizational management, Phoenix StartUp Week, PMO, PMOJOE, project management, Project Management 101, Project Management Best Practices, project management execution, project management strategies, project managers, Retail project management, Software Development project management, Technology project management, THE PMO SQUAD, tracking tech projects

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