19. Level Up your Project and Change Management

Yogyata is working as a Product change leader in the semiconductor industry which is the largest supplier of photolithography systems. She has experience in Operational and Organization Change Management which involves service and product based industries. Her experience spans; commercial, supply chain, operations & technology and across culture and behavioural change, new operating implementations of tools and process-driven business change. She is a passionate change management professional making a positive impact on people, products, and processes in the evolving world of modern business. The fact that she chose to work within Change Management, was in no way a random decision, but a choice based on how much she loves doing what she does - which is what fuels her ambition and determination to grow and be the best version of herself, both professionally as well as personally.

What is Yogyata's proudest achievement?

To be able to participate in a public forum like this with Change management expertise represented across the globe, and to talk about something she is passionate about which is Change Management.

Martyn's relationship wtih APMG began over 20 years ago in 2000, and he and his team now have over 21 years of developing successful accredited training and certification products in the Project and Programme management marketplace across the world.

Although Martyn is not a trainer, he has helped thousands of individuals, their teams and organisations acquire new skills over his career.  He has a great appreciation of the value professional certifications bring, and how the training market has evolved over the years both in terms of content and in delivery.

Martyn's career highlights include:

• Winner UK Trade & Investment Northwest International Trade Award
• Scottish Power Small Business of the year
• Contribution to the Community Award - Cheshire

Martyn states his proudest business achievements included seeing an opportunity to purchase Prince2.com when no one else wanted it, being the first PRINCE2 accredited online product in the marketplace, and myself and my team going on to train at least 500,000 students through our PRINCE2 courses.  Throughout his professional career he has raised over £100k for charity.

Rajiv's relationship with APMG spans many years. He has more than 25 years experience managing diverse range of projects, programmes and change management in both private & public sectors in UK and abroad.

This experience has allowed him to develop a strong training and consulting business, acting as the lead trainer for Praxis Framework and Praxis Professional, Agile Project Management, Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Working in Small Projects (WISP), Change Management, Managing Successful Programmes and PRINCE2.

In addition, Rajiv's achievements include:

• Programme, project and change management Consultant for organisations in a range of industries
• High-risk Gateway Reviewer for Cabinet Office
• Author of several blogs, articles and videos in programme, project and change management
• National Field Hockey Umpire and National Coach
• Employee of the Year for LabVantage Solutions Limited

More recently, Rajiv successfully mentored Ricardo Santos and Rebecca Cummings, to become the first and second individuals to achieve their Chartered Project Manager Award from APM via Praxis Professional Route worldwide.

Rajiv's proudest achievement in his work was having the courage to set up Raj Khanna Associates Limited, an accredited training provider, and using the opportunity to mentor and coach several associate trainers. All of our trainers have gone on to become successful and provided excellent learning experiences for our participants.

Currently working for Irish Rail as a Programme Manager, Ricardo leads the team responsible for delivering a €1billion railway electrification project. Having worked on railways, renewable energy, telecoms and software development, Ricardo has a successful track record in nine different countries around the world. Cognizant that changing processes is impossible without the transformation of people, Ricardo defends that only happy teams can deliver great outcomes.

His achievements include:

• Chartered Project Professional (ChPP)
• Praxis Professional (PFP)
• Change Management Practitioner (CMP)
• Master of Engineering in Engineering Management
• Post-graduate Diploma in Management
• Post-graduate Diploma in Project Management
• Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Electrical Engineering

Ricardo's proudest achievement professionally is to have successfully delivered large-scale projects in four different continents, nine countries and across a wide range of cultures. On a personal front, Ricardo is proud of the fact that his three sons look up to him. 

Tricia brings extensive cross-sector management and team leadership experience spanning service delivery and national operations mngt, contracts & commercial mngt, project management, Business Development, CRM & Account/event management to her current role with the Association of Project Management in the UK.

Tricia holds a commercial role with APM (the Chartered body for the project profession) to develop Corporate relationships and engagement options through a partnering programme. She is responsible for  building sustainable partnerships and supporting pan-sector organisations to design and deliver competency-based development opportunities for their project communities.

Tricia's proudest achievements are raising her talented and wonderful daughter and in a business context establishing and operating a number of successful national satellite businesses, with a focus on people development and excellent customer support.