Biography

Agnès Bédard brings extensive experience as a project manager, strategic advisor, agile coach, trainer, and university lecturer. She has participated in numerous professional and academic events and conferences, particularly in areas related to project management, agility, innovation, and organizational transformation.

At a pivotal stage in her career, she now seeks to share her insights and reflections, driven by a strong conviction: sustainable evolution begins with leaders’ capacity for introspection—whether they hold formal or informal leadership roles.

 

Dynamic and committed to the growth of teams and practices, she advocates for leadership in motion—progressing one step at a time while remaining firmly grounded in one’s values.

 

Workshop Description

Everything is moving. Everything is changing. Today’s project managers and project leaders operate in environments shaped by unprecedented social, economic, and environmental challenges: multiethnic and multigenerational teams, equity and inclusion, labor shortages, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and increasing organizational complexity.

 

In this context, traditional project management foundations are no longer always sufficient to ensure initiative success. Leadership has become a decisive factor, requiring continuous reinvention.

What if this reinvention drew inspiration from a field that has always adapted—nature?

Through the metaphor of the “project manager as culture cultivator,” this workshop invites participants to rethink their leadership posture in project management by embracing introspection, rootedness, and continuous growth. An innovative, human-centered approach that is firmly future-oriented.

 

Objectives

By the end of this interactive workshop, participants will be encouraged to:

• Reflect on their management style and leadership posture

• Define their “fertile organizational soil”

• Initiate a personal and professional introspection process

• Adopt an authentic leadership stance

• Discover and experiment with biomimicry principles—already applied in certain international contexts—to reinvent their approach to project management.