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🎤 Speaking & Thought Leadership Portfolio

Career resilience comes from curating diverse, cross-industry experiences that compound into authority and opportunity. This repository documents proven talks, workshops, and frameworks on innovation leadership, change management, and cross-sector project delivery. It showcases real-world impact while providing reusable resources for aspiring speakers and portfolio professionals building their own platforms.

Book Alicia M Morgan for keynotes, webinars, and executive sessions that translate complex transformation into clear, human-centered action.

▶️ Book Alicia M Morgan as Speaker or Keynote

What you’ll find:

  • Signature talks with documented outcomes and speaker materials
  • Actionable frameworks tested across aerospace, nonprofit, education, and enterprise contexts
  • Direct links to recordings, presentation decks, and related GitHub repositories

🔹 Signature Talks & Key Topics

Empathetic Leadership: A Key Approach to Effective Change Management

(PMI webinar — 20,000+ views, 4+ star rating)
Watch the Webinar

What audiences gain:

  • Practical tools to reduce resistance and accelerate adoption during organizational change
  • Ready-to-use scripts, diagnostic questions, and team rituals that build psychological safety under pressure
  • A framework for reading stakeholder concerns and responding with both clarity and compassion

Leading Innovation in Traditional Environments: Bridging Tradition and Agility

Q&A Sample – PMI Chapters

What audiences gain:

  • Strategies for introducing agile practices inside high-governance or legacy organizations without triggering resistance
  • Case studies from nonprofit, education, and enterprise contexts showing how to scale from pilot to playbook
  • Language patterns for influencing executives and skeptics by connecting innovation to risk mitigation and measurable business value

Beyond Basic Strategic Power Skills: Building Cultures of Innovation

(Presented for PMI chapters and professional associations)

What audiences gain:

  • A reframing of “soft skills” as strategic capabilities for navigating complexity, visibility, and high-stakes decisions
  • Coaching tools that shift project leaders from task managers to innovation enablers
  • An actionable plan for embedding innovation behaviors within existing PMO and portfolio structures

Strategic Yet Agile: Leading with Innovation

Session Highlight – Agile & Innovation

What audiences gain:

  • Methods for balancing long-term strategy with rapid experimentation in volatile environments
  • De-risking tactics using data, prototypes, and stakeholder co-creation
  • A personal roadmap for leading with curiosity, courage, and clarity in ambiguous conditions

Closing the Execution Gap: Bridging Knowledge, Implementation, and Trust

Watch the Talk

What audiences gain:

  • Root-cause analysis of why projects stall between strategy and delivery
  • Trust-building frameworks that align knowledge, execution, and stakeholder accountability
  • Practical tools for operationalizing plans in high-stakes, high-visibility environments

🔁 Repeatable Workshop & Keynote Formats

Delivered to PMI chapters, enterprises, universities, and professional associations as keynotes, webinars, or interactive workshops.

  • Agility in Ambiguity: Leading with Structure and Experimentation
    For leaders navigating unclear requirements, emerging AI capabilities, or rapid market shifts.
  • Navigating Cross-Sector Leadership: From Nonprofits to Enterprise
    Transferable power skills drawn from aerospace, nonprofit, education, and corporate experience.
  • Storytelling for Strategic Influence
    Transform data, dashboards, and lessons learned into narratives that drive executive action.
  • EWTG 2025 – Leading Technology & Innovation in Traditional Environments
    Conference Session Materials
    A playbook for Executive Women in Texas Government on driving AI adoption, innovation patterns, and PM discipline within public-sector contexts where governance, legacy systems, and stakeholder alignment are critical.

🧩 Connected Resources & Credentials

Grounded in cross-industry delivery as a PMP-certified innovation strategist with multi-million-dollar portfolio experience.

  • Cross-Industry PM Playbook
    Templates, prompts, and reusable patterns for projects across sectors.
  • Innovation in Action
    Living repository of tools, experiments, and frameworks for modern project leadership.
  • 🎓 Professional Background
    • PMP-certified with proven track record managing complex, cross-functional initiatives
    • Recognized innovation advocate and Women in Technology honoree

🛠️ Facilitation Approach & Workshop Tools

Sessions blend strategic frameworks with hands-on exercises designed for immediate application.

  • Virtual delivery: Microsoft Teams / Zoom with interactive breakouts and collaborative activities
  • Shared resources: Google Drive + OneDrive for real-time co-creation and toolkit distribution
  • Practical assets: Excel dashboards, retrospective templates, innovation canvases, and storytelling frameworks teams can reuse immediately

📺 Extended Learning & Multimedia

Continue the conversation through video content and curated playlists.

🔔 Subscribe: YouTube Channel


Why Document This as a Portfolio Asset

This repository serves dual purposes: demonstrating authority while empowering others to build their own speaking platforms.

  • Evidence over claims: Documents cross-sector expertise through recorded talks, audience feedback, and reusable frameworks—providing tangible proof for clients, employers, and collaborators.
  • Addresses real problems: Tackles recurring leadership challenges like execution gaps and change resistance with tested solutions others can adapt to their contexts.
  • Models the path: Shows mid-career professionals how to blend consulting, speaking, and thought leadership into a resilient, values-aligned portfolio career with multiple income streams and professional freedom.

🔗 Connect & Book

✳️ Available for PMI chapters, professional associations, enterprise teams, and academic institutions seeking practical transformation content.


Attribution & License
When adapting materials, please credit: “Based on work by Alicia M. Morgan – github.com/AliciaMMorgan
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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