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Welcome,
I'm Steve Wake.
Steve Wake founded the EVM and the PMC Sigs in the Association for Project Management (APM) and was the Chairman of APM, leading it to chartered status. He is now a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Guild of Educators. He is also a Cabinet Office advisor. He advises and guides many organisations and delivers training to several government departments.
He has set up a working party to develop a GCSE in Project Skills, now called the Project Skills Alliance. Read more here. He is a member of the British Standards Institution M/S 2 committee, responsible for national standards in project programme and portfolio management, and he was its Chair from 2022-24.
He led the development of BS202001 Project Controls, in which MOD is a participant and works closely with the PsACE community, harmonising estimating practices in government and its supply chain. He also represents BSi on ISO WG12, developing guides for EVM.
He will be the founding Chair of the newly named Controls and Skills Authority, formerly ACOSTE.
He continues to curate the long-running and highly regarded EVA conference. Founded in 1996.
He adores music and silence in almost equal measure.
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Iain Minns
Global Service Expert for Project Controls, Arcadis
GenerAItional Change? Now or Never, Good, Bad or Indifferent? How do we make our industry attractive to the brightest and best so that we can reinvent before we are reinvented out? It is a sad fact that construction as an industry has not innovated or evolved at the same pace as others. Is it because there are no Ubers or Teslas in our industry? When was the last major transformational change in construction? Where are the disrupters and how do we harness them as a positive force to unleash the creativity of Gen Z and Gen Alpha to finally transform our industry? Those who refuse to change, die (Kodak, Blackberry, Nokia….?) but that doesn’t seem to permeate into the construction of infrastructure. How do we make our industry attractive to the brightest and best so that we can reinvent before we are reinvented out?
Tammy Watchorn
The Original Change Ninja
Don't be a hungry tiger You can't stop being hungry. But you can choose your approach to getting fed. Tammy Watchorn is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and creator of the APMG-accredited 4 Day Ninja Challenge. She learned the hard way of how difficult change can be inside large, complex organisations, spending years battling blockers, navigating resistance, and watching time and energy disappear into activity that delivered little real impact. Determined to find a better way, Tammy developed a human-centred, neuroscience-informed approach to change that focuses on behaviour, engagement, and genuine adoption within teams. Her work helps leaders understand how the brain responds to uncertainty, why resistance is natural, and how small shifts in everyday behaviour and approaches to change lead to successful outcomes. She is the author of The Change Ninja Handbook, The Change Ninja Returns, and The Change Ninjas vs Zombies. Books that blend storytelling, practical tools, interactive games and real-life insight to make change feel accessible and achievable. Through keynote speaking, writing, and immersive learning experiences, Tammy helps organisations move beyond process-driven change and create transformation that people not only accept, but actively choose.
Andy Brown
Strategic Purpose Consultant and Chair of the BSI Committee on Purpose Driven Organisations
How is the new international standard for purpose driven organisations, ISO 37011, relevant for projects? This new international standard, based on the current BSI PAS 808, is out for public consultation. We will explore the worldviews of a purpose driven organisation, the practices that the standard proposes and the relevance to the governance of major projects, as well as organisations and wider systems. Andy is a thought leader on sustainability, is at the forefront of the purpose driven business movement and now runs his own company supporting organisations to embed and operationalise purpose. He has worked within Government and the private sector for the last 30 years, leading on the natural environment, climate change, place-based regeneration, measuring the value of environmental and social prosperity and embedding purpose. In his last full time role as Group Chief Sustainability Officer for Anglian Water, he worked with the board to oversee the delivery of their purpose, “to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve”. This was embedded through a change to their articles of association in 2019 and since then he led the development of their six capitals investment decision making framework and a new Purpose Impact Assessment, which tracks the absolute value of the impacts and benefits Anglian Water has on the environment and society. He has worked closely with BSI to lead the development of the UK’s first standard for Purpose Drive Organisations (PAS 808, published in 2022) and now chairs the BSI National Committee on this subject which has successfully engaged the International Standards Organistion to develop a similar international standard (ISO 37011).
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Conversation Club is a broadcast series of linked discussions linked to EVA also takes place around the year. There is an archive of 60 recordings since October 2020. Attendees are invited to a free subscription. 1 hour CPD per broadcast.
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Recent Conversations
Conversation Club s3, ep 4:
Scandi Sauna Suggestion Box Bob Arnold Ben Fitzgerald
Conversation Club s3, ep 2:
Admitting your project is in trouble Tony Welch
