Chapter Calendar

PMISC - 29th May 2025

Are you navigating complex stakeholder relationships in your projects? Want better engagement from sponsors, committees, customers and your own teams? Join us bright and early for a hands-on workshop focused on building trust, communication, and collaboration.

Projects don’t succeed in isolation—they thrive on strong, trusting relationships. Whether you’re navigating leadership dynamics, stakeholder expectations, or team communication, the ability to foster engagement is critical.

BIO

Savvas Leondas is a seasoned facilitator, coach, mentor and guest speaker with over 35 years’ experience in organizational, professional, and personal development.

Holding a Bachelor of Engineering from Monash University, he spent a decade in various Engineering and IT roles before founding his own practice, Savvas Leondas Enterprises. 

Savvas has collaborated with small-to-medium enterprises and divisions within larger organizations, across various industries, focusing on business strategy, leadership development, and talent engagement.

Savvas combines deep knowledge of human behaviour with practical strategies to inspire growth, improve performance, and foster lasting change. 

His breadth and depth of background and experience…..

Savvas is known for his ability to connect with others and deliver impactful, sustainable, results-driven solutions

With a proven track record of transforming individuals and teams.

Beyond his professional endeavours, Savvas has been an active member of various industry bodies including until recently the Southern Strength Agile Manufacturing Network.

His approach emphasizes patience and persistence, encapsulated in his mantra, "me ypomoni ke epimoni ola ginonde®" (with patience and persistence, you can achieve anything).

SESSION SUMMARY 

Summary of Event Information:

Projects don’t succeed in isolation—they thrive on strong, trusting relationships. Whether you’re navigating leadership dynamics, stakeholder expectations, or team communication, the ability to foster engagement is critical. Open communication, mutual trust, and collaborative engagement are a critical ingredient to successfully manage steering committees, influence sponsors, customers, compliance bodies, or lead project teams. Strong stakeholder relationships are foundational to successful project delivery.

This highly interactive morning workshop will get you thinking, talking, and sharing strategies for improving communication, trust, and engagement across your project landscape. With facilitated table discussions and hands-on group exercises, you’ll explore real-world scenarios and walk away with practical tools to help you spark more fruitful and aligned conversations with your stakeholders.

Key Focus Areas:

• Stakeholder Communication that Works – Learn to tailor messages to diverse audiences.
• Building Trust Across the Board – Explore what makes trust stick in complex projects.
• Engaging with Influence – Techniques to manage up, down, and across.
• Real Talk at Round Tables – Hands-on discussions where you'll learn as much from your peers as from the facilitators.

What You'll Walk Away With:

✅ Practical techniques to foster stakeholder alignment and deal with project team members
✅ Greater awareness of your stakeholder engagement style
✅ Tools to improve trust and reduce friction
✅ Fresh ideas from peers across industries