What Projects Teach Teams About Change (Whether PMs Mean To or Not)
Time
11.00 - 11.30
Details
As the World Health Organisation highlights systems thinking as a critical future skill, this session helps project professionals understand how their delivery choices shape organisational behaviour over time, not just project outcomes. It shapes how teams interpret risk. It reinforces what gets prioritised under pressure. And it quietly teaches people what to expect from the next change.
From a systems perspective, projects don’t just deliver outcomes, they condition the organisation. Over time, patterns form: how uncertainty is handled, how decisions are made, and how much confidence teams have in navigating change.
This Birds of a Feather session brings project managers together to explore the system signals our projects send, often unintentionally, and how everyday delivery decisions influence long-term change capability.
Key Features
This Birds of a Feather session will leave you with these outcomes:
- Understand how repeated project experiences shape trust, confidence, and fatigue over time, and why this affects how smoothly future work runs.
- Leave with a simple way to review their own project decisions through a systems lens, helping them make choices that reduce friction and strengthen change capability in future initiatives.
Nissi Ozigbu
Nissi is recognised as a trusted voice on strategic change and leadership in modern organisations. Through The Growth Hut, and her frameworks The Visible Leadership Launchpad™ and Trust to Transform™, Nissi provides the tools and mindset to move beyond managing activity to shaping outcomes.
A core focus of Nissi’s work is helping leaders and transformation professionals understand that their presence is part of the system they lead. She shows how their decisions, language, and visibility shape behaviour, trust, and momentum across an organisation, and how presence, when used deliberately, becomes a practical business lever for reducing risk and improving outcomes.
Her career spans nearly two decades delivering transformation across finance, government, life sciences,
consulting, and the non-profit sector. Nissi has led programmes for global organisations and worked closely
with founders and senior leadership teams, supporting change that improves performance, strengthens
confidence, and delivers measurable business results.