44. How to engage Stakeholders

Jeroen offers and manages training sessions to develop proficient consultants, aiming to enhance customer business growth. He has drawn this from extensive practical experience across diverse customer assignments, including roles as CIO, Portfolio Manager, Program and Project Manager specializing in ERP and Cybersecurity, M&A Change and Implementation Manager, Business and IT Architect, Data Migration Manager, and Trainer/Coach.

Jeroen is a member of BPUG, Agile Business Consortium, APMG and PeopleCert / Axelos knowledge domains, getting a holistic view on how to improve the company and provide value to customers. 

Jeroen is an APMG Accredited trainer for Managing Benefits™, Enterprise Big Data Professional® & Analyst®, ABC Scrum Master and Product Owner, Stakeholder Engagement™, Lean Six Sigma®, OBASHI®, BiSL®, AgilePM®, AgileBA®, Agile Change Agent® . He is also PeopleCert/Axelos Accredited trainer for PRINCE2®, MSP®, MoV®, MoP®, ITIL®4, PeopleCert DevOps Fundamentals 

Since 2021, he has been offering his comprehensive perspective to colleagues at Accenture, aiding in the continuous development of their skills and enthusiasm, while also extending his insights to client companies to foster business expansion.

Dublin, Ireland

Currently contracted as European Change Lead for Canada Life Services on their IFRS 17 Program. With over twenty-five years’ experience in consulting and running my own businesses, I have travelled and worked extensively throughout Africa, Europe as well as the USA. With a proven track record of driving business growth, delivering transformational and IT change, I have successfully led high performance teams in delivering complex digitisation and business improvement initiatives into banking, insurance, petrochemical, mining, higher education, and local government entities.

Nick's proudest achievement: Launching great kids into the world successfully.

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Tom Kruse is an aspiring grateful leader who believes in the power of trusting and authentic relationships. Having traveled to over 25 countries, he has witnessed how every single one of us is connected by the same basic human needs. He currently works for Business Relationship Management Institute, cultivating relationships with individuals and teams to help organizations satisfy their purpose. He has also written and edited over sixty tactical & thought-piece articles covering a wide array of topics including Emotional Intelligence, Business Relationship Management, AI, DevOps, Agile, and human connection.

Tom's proudest achievement: Taking the initiative to travel the world. I took a leap of faith to start traveling. Through it, I learned about our shared humanity and grown both personally and professionally. If I had not followed my heart, I would not be doing what I am today.

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Patrick is a consultant and educator with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations adopt and adapt best practice frameworks.

His areas of expertise include IT service management, governance, information security, project management and Agile practices, and organizational change management.

Patrick holds certifications as many disciplines including ITSM, governance, project management, Agile, etc.  He is an expert speaker at many national and global industry events, and has authored a wide variety of published articles, including being host of the Making IT Work vlog on YouTube.

Patrick lists his proudest achievement as having had the privilege of working with more than 400 organizations to help them get better results using best practice framework...and having the bruises to prove it!

Laurie Bowman is a trainer and mentor with Synchrony Projects, he is passionate about sustainable project planning, risk management and control. With over 3 decades of experience in helping organizations navigate complex projects, Laurie's focus is on supporting individuals and organizations to uplift their capability so they can deliver successful and sustainable projects

Laurie's professional achievements: 

• Registered Professional Engineer (Environmental Engineering)  
• Chair of Engineers Australia’s Ethics Working Group
• Accredited trainer for APMG and AACE International

Laurie's proudest achievement is raising his son, Zac.