PDD Speaker
Manager, IT Service Implementations
Boldyn Networks
Sarah Mossembekker
Sarah Mossembekker is a PMI-ACP certified project manager and Manager of IT Implementations at Boldyn Networks, leading cloud, ERP, and agile transformation projects in higher education. With over a decade of experience, she helps institutions overcome resource constraints and complex governance to deliver impactful, collaborative technology solutions.
Actually get a project done in Higher Ed: practical communication strategies to motivate your overworked and reluctant stakeholders
Power Skills
Delivering projects in higher Ed (or any government agency) comes with unique challenges: shared governance, multiple competing priorities, academic calendars influencing timelines, and stakeholders who are overworked, distracted, and were "volun-told" told to be on your project.
In this session you’ll learn practical strategies to communicate in ways which build trust, motivate teams, and keep project momentum going to deliver on time.
While these lessons were learned in complex higher ed technology projects, they can be applied in any environment where:
- Stakeholders do not report to you,
- They are stretched too thin,
- or even, possibly…disengaged.
You’ll leave with actionable communication tools to motivate teams where you do not have direct authority. We'll discuss strategies to reach distracted, stakeholders with differing communication styles, and practice frameworks to build trust and accountability when competing priorities and decentralized teams fight for stakeholder attention.
