Do you manage risks, OR do they manage you?

Speaker: Lyn Heaton

Event Date/Time: June 20, 1:00 pm Eastern Time, 10:00 am Pacific Time

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How well do you manage risk on your projects?

Every project has elements of risk within it, dealing with those risks is so much more than just a simple plan.  What do you think of when you hear the word Risk?  An event that could negatively impact your project or something else?  Join me to review the basics of risk management.  We will then focus on ways to identify risks for projects as well as strategies that you might use to deal with them.

Learner Outcomes: 

1.  Review the basic aspects of risk management

2.  Explore risk identification tools & techniques

3.  Find strategies for handling risks if they do occur

Lyn Heaton, PMP

Lyn is the owner of Heaton Business Consultants, LLC providing project management training since 2008 in a variety of settings; corporate, military, PMI chapters, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

She received her Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification in 2001.  She holds a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. 

Lyn previously worked for 19+ years in the Telecommunications industry at Sprint Nextel.  During that time, she worked on many of their multi-million dollar projects in the Long Distance and Wireless divisions.