Complex Project & Procurement Executive Leadership Program

About the Program

This program will focus on concepts related to complex project and procurement leadership. Participants will gain an enhanced understanding of project and procurement complexity in situations where:

• Interconnected and interdependent factors bring emergent and unpredictable outcomes;
• Dynamic and adaptive socio-cultural interactions of multiple stakeholders require collective leadership of project sponsors, project managers and senior executives to re-invent governance beyond hierarchy and consensus-building; and,
• Nurturing high performing teams is essential to achieving project and procurement success in environments evolving at the fast pace of digital and social media interactions, within a backdrop of low trust perceptions.

Participants will have the added advantage of acquiring shared knowledge and best practices with the participants in the Telfer Masters of Business in Complex Project Leadership (MBCPL) and the Certificate in Complex Project and Procurement Leadership (CPPL). 

Who Should Attend?

This program is intended for individuals at the Director and Director General levels (EX-1 to EX-3 or equivalents) of organizations leading, or contemplating leading, complex projects and procurements. It is also suitable as a refresher for those with the PMCD3 designation.

Note: Not all projects are complex; however, almost every project will experience some level of complexity at some point of their lifecycle, mostly due to the attitudes and expectations of stakeholders, and the open digital environment in which they operate.

What You Will Learn

• Gain knowledge of the fundamental elements of Telfer’s Complex Project and Procurement programs to achieve a more in-depth understanding of the elements that tread through complex projects and procurements, and the strategic thinking skills required.
• Gain knowledge of the collaborative and collective leadership required to engage stakeholders in meaningful interactions and to nurture practices that will re-frame engagement and governance.
• Acquire in-depth understanding of the importance of initial conditions, and the adoption of wide perspectives in the development and assessment of strategic options.
• Practice first-hand some methodologies used to manage complexity and increase responsiveness to rapidly changing environments.
• Increase business acumen, with more in-depth understanding of the behavioural drivers of private sector stakeholders, and new approaches in building collaborative relationships and contracting models.
• Acquire knowledge of advanced negotiations approaches that better address cognitive and emotional needs in a complex project environment.

Program Takeaways

• How to assess project and procurement complexity and specific approaches to improve their management.
• How to refresh complex project and procurement governance and re-frame stakeholders engagement.
• How to better understand industry interests and negotiate collaborative undertakings.
• How to foster and nurture a culture of complex project leadership.

Program Facilitators

Mariette Fyfe-Fortin

Program Co-Director

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Mariette Fyfe-Fortin

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A dynamic leader with proven ability to transform vision into action and deliver targeted results, Mariette Fyfe-Fortin is recognized for her leadership of government business transformations and change management initiatives, complex project procurements, and services delivery in sectors ranging from acquisitions/procurement, corporate services, information management, to real property management. Retired from the Canadian Commercial Corporation as Vice-President, Strategy and Organizational Development (2009-14), she oversaw the corporation’s strategic planning, managed government relations and communications, and corporate services. Supporting the President and the Board of Directors, she acquired unique perspectives in corporate governance, investment management, business development and capture, and legal risk management. While in tenure, Mariette was also a member of the Clerk of the Privy Council Assistant Deputy Minister Learning Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2014, dedicated to the development and implementation of the learning and continuous development for Assistant Deputy Ministers and equivalent positions across the federal public service.

Most recently Mariette has participated in the development and taught at the University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management in the Complex Project and Procurement Certificate program (2015-19). She holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Université de Montréal (1978) and has accessed the executive cadre through the federal government Career Assignment Program (1993).

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Daniel Hébert

Program Co-Director

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Daniel Hébert has spent most of his 38-year career in defence procurement and holds an executive Master's degree in Complex Project and Procurement Leadership from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. He has been Project Manager of several billion-dollar projects, including the Tank Replacement Project (TRP) and the Medium Support Vehicle System (MSVS) project, and serving as Deputy Project Manager of the Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV) project. He worked at Public Services and Procurement Canada as a Senior Procurement Advisor and Senior Director with the Defence Procurement Strategy Secretariat. As Director of the Project Management Support Organization, he oversaw the Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) program that aims to develop better Department of National Defence project managers. Most recently, Daniel has been co-leading Telfer Executive Programs’ Complex Project and Procurement Leadership (CPPL) program as well as the Complex Project and Procurement Executive Leadership Program (CPPELP). Daniel also holds a Master's degree in Reliability Engineering. 

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