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Lenka Pincot
Chief of Staff to the CEO at Project Management Institute
Paris, France
In the current role as Chief of Staff to the CEO at the Project Management Institute (PMI), Lenka manages the global enterprise transformation portfolio and drives its execution across eight regions, including strategic growth initiatives and post-acquisition integration. She is a global transformation executive with over two decades of experience leading complex strategy execution, driving business growth and innovation, fostering enterprise agility, and spearheading cross-functional transformation programs.
Part of the transformation efforts, Lenka leads PMI’s global Thought Leadership agenda - shaping research and direction for the future of the project profession, estimated at 40 million professionals. Lenka represents PMI on the Board of the Agile Alliance to achieve its growth.
Lenka operates at the intersection of executive strategy, operational delivery, and market influence. She consistently utilizes her strong background in technology to position organizations at the forefront of innovation. Her career spans senior roles in large banks and Fortune 500 corporations, including leading enterprise agile transformation at Raiffeisenbank and building a pan-European Digital Services unit at United Technologies. Her experience includes 10 years in management and strategy consultancy, with 4 years of P&L responsibility for the consultancy practice she built.
She holds a Master's in Computer Science, a Digital Excellence Diploma from IMD, and executive education from MIT Sloan, INSEAD and EWOB. A certified PMP, PfMP, PMI-PBA, and PMI-ACP, she brings a powerful combination of strategic foresight, operational excellence, and C-suite credibility.
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Speaking Topics: Organizational Agility, Transformation, Leadership, System Thinking, Culture Change, Women Empowerment, Change Management, Dealing with Complexity, Di
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Agility and innovation in financial services
June 23, 2023
Panel discussion: How to build responsive organizations
June 23, 2023
Featured Topics
Agile Transformation
How to lead agile transformation that became an imperative for companies that want to stay on the topc of the game in VUCA world
Impact of Technology
Technology is changing the way we work, the way we interact, but also the way how we need to rebuild internal structures of organizations to stay relevant and competitive
Low code / No code & Decentralized Innovation
Innovation is forced by constraints and limitations, such as Low code/No code technology is becoming mainstream due to its potential to remove company bottleneck of scarce IT professional resources
Navigating the Future: Agile Transformation and Reskilling in the Financial Industry
The Financial Executives Journal
October 24, 2024
The financial services industry is one of the most influenced by disruptive technologies. IMD’s biennial study Digital Vortex steadily places the financial industry in the top position of sectors reshaped by digital transformation. Traditional banks deal with ambitious fintech challengers, while customer expectations from incumbents’ digital capabilities continue to evolve.
Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Digital Transformation
The PMI Salary Survey: What It Says and How to Use It
Project Management Institute
January 04, 2024
Results from PMI’s latest salary survey reveal that PMP certification holders earn higher median salaries than non-PMP certified professionals. But the newly released 13th edition of the survey explores the salary landscape in much greater depth. In this post, Lenka Pincot shares the survey’s most important findings and offers insights into how you can use the survey to gain a competitive edge.
Let’s Direct our Potential for Creating Something Good and Useful! Interview with Lenka Pincot, PMP
PM World Journal
October 10, 2023
Interview about the career path from Analyst to the Chief of Staff to the CEO of the Project Management Institute - the leading authority in project management.
How to Decide Where to Take the PMP Exam
Project Management Institute
October 03, 2023
Ready to take your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam? PMP certification is the global gold standard for project professionals, helping you work smarter, earn more, and capitalize on a wider range of job opportunities. But before you dive into the PMP exam, you have a decision to make: take it online, or go to a test center? In this post, Lenka Pincot helps you weigh the pros and cons so you can make the best decision for you.
Tags: Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership
Transparency as part of agile culture
LinkedIn
November 14, 2022
One pillar of an agile organization culture is transparency. But what is it really? Can we tick it off by putting documents on a shared drive and make anyone free to dig in? Or by putting information on a board where everyone can find it (if they know what to look for… )? That does not seem to be enough.
Interview With Agile Transformation Master Lenka Pincot
AppVerticals
September 01, 2022
With more than 20 years of international and multi-industry experience, Lenka started her career as a management consulting analyst to later become organization-wide transformation leader focused on the agile way of working and increasing customer value by use of digital technologies.
Her core expertise is aligning business and IT strategies to deliver long-term impact and enhance organizational response-ability. She has outstanding experience in driving digital transformation, implementing new technologies, promoting agile methods and process automation to achieve sustainable and foreseeable value for customers.
While working in different role capacities, be it a transformation leader, business leader, or management consultant, her goal remains to achieve measurable outcomes.
Without any more delay, we would start with her interview to get more insights into her valuable experience.
Now without any delays let’s get started with the interview.
Dare to chase your career dreams
LinkedIn
July 09, 2022
Interestingly enough, when I'm approached by men to provide a mentoring session, their most frequent questions are about practical aspects and “how to” of strategic management, innovation and leadership. It is sad that despite increasing representation of women in leadership positions, women still experience the need to put extra effort to be recognized and get access to career opportunities. So here we go:
Tags: Leadership, Change Management, Business Strategy
Essential toolkit of an agile transformation leader
www.projectcubicle.com
March 21, 2022
Large organization transformation that requires changes on several fronts is indeed hard to manage. Mostly because the company under the transformation does not stay still until all the changes really happen. The difficulty comes from trying to keep 3 to 5 years consistent change effort while the company external environment constantly creates new challenges and calls for adjustments. It is worth noticing that the world around us is not slowing down, rather on the contrary.
In a disruptive business environment, agile transformation is typically just one of several strategically important initiatives that are executed simultaneously. Consequently, agile transformation leadership team deals with overloaded businesses teams that are supposed to undergo significant changes and at the same time to navigate in the maze of top priorities and pressing issues of the business as usual.
The key demand on the transformation leadership is handling the risk of losing change momentum while facing the challenge described above. What is the best way to achieve success? Change methodology or agile scaling framework plays an important part in the process, but let’s look closer at the capabilities that we look for in people involved in leading the transformation. Because change is hard for everyone and we naturally tend to care of the ones who are going through the change, but how about the change leaders? Who looks after them while some of the hardest part of agile transformation lies on their shoulders? They need to stay resilient and be ready to pivot any time.
Stakeholders: How to work together to make it a success?
LinkedIn
February 28, 2021
Every project has a varying number of stakeholders—sometimes too many. Trying to meet all of their requirements is often an impossible mission. Nevertheless, the project manager must be able to deal with all stakeholder situations smoothly, because the evaluation of the project’s success often lies in the hands of the stakeholders—and the people they represent.
Managing Changing Priorities With Agile
projectmanagement.com
May 07, 2020
When crisis strikes, the first thing we’d like to do is quickly re-prioritize, re-assign resources to the activities that provide the most value under the current circumstances and materialize the benefits as soon as possible. While this may be a distant dream for some organizations, it is far more realistic for those that have gone through at least the early stages of agile transformation.
How to achieve benefits from agile transformation
LinkedIn
January 06, 2020
The general expectation from conducting an agile transformation is strengthening your ability to quickly adapt and respond on an enterprise-wide level. If a company wants to get more efficient, there are several related topics that need to be addressed simultaneously—and they go far beyond the way of work of individual agile teams (company culture, strategic skill set development, performance management systems, efficient alignment of multiple teams accessing the same technological platforms and many more).
Let's look at the common expected benefits of agile transformation and the ways how to get there.
Chief of Staff to the CEO at Project Management Institute
PMI
January 01, 2023
- Member of the global executive team overseeing the Transformation Management Office (TMO), Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO), CEO & Board communications, and Thought Leadership teams (research and innovation).
- Drives the organization's strategic initiatives, ensuring seamless execution across the eight world regions
- Closely collaborates with the CEO and Board of Directors to align strategic goals with operational execution.
- Leads research and content creation team, Thought Leadership, to enhance PMI's global position as an authority in the project management field.
The crucial role of PMOs in the volatile world
PMI
June 27, 2025
In the opening keynote of the PMI China PMO Symposium, I shared my perspective on the role of PMOs in the volatile world, supported by the latest insights from PMI's Thought Leadership work.
With the new normal of perpetual transformations, organizations need to strengthen their strategic capability of enterprise agility by:
Hyper-awareness in terms of knowing what is impacting the business landscape, having an efficient way to acquire information and turn that information into insights, while making these insights accessible to the right people across your organization
Leading change in a cohesive way, which means minimizing waste of resources on uncoordinated changes. When we lack cohesion, we waste time through internal rework, hinder our teams with poor communication, and ultimately frustrate people, which may lead to the loss of crucial talent.
Minimization and prevention of debt creation – debt is anything that creates baggage and slows us down, such as technological debt hindering the adoption of new technologies, as well as debt caused by underinvestment in the skills of our workforce.
The capability of making the right decisions by fostering business acumen across all levels. Interestingly enough, PMI research shows that Business Acumen is the least invested in skill in the project management profession, and that’s something that should really change.
PMOs play a crucial role in each component of enterprise agility. They are positioned to drive innovation through strategic portfolio management, enable project success by exercising PMI’s M.O.R.E. broaden vision for the profession, and by championing upskilling in business acumen and sustainability skills.
Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Project Management
AI & Sustainability
London Tech Week
June 11, 2025
AI & Sustainability: with our ???????????? ???????????????????????? ????????????????, we had the opportunity to represent Project Management Institute on stage at the ???????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? - an exciting 3-day event full of the latest insights on tech innovations. We brought up the topic that is top of mind for executives and project professionals - ???????? & ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.
AI and Sustainability are the current major forces shaping our future. Their impact should not be understated - for instance, according to a recent PwC report, the responsible use of AI can boost the global economy by 15% by 2035. At the same time, according to the same report, the consequences of inaction on climate change can decrease the global economy by 7% by 2035.
It is clear that for organizations to succeed in the future, it is inevitable that they continually reinvent themselves to face these megatrends by fueling their growth with innovation. Especially, if the recent estimates of the speed of the whole industrial sector's reinvention are around 7 years.
At PMI, we like to connect the dots, so we researched the benefits of integrating AI and sustainability strategies for decarbonization (published in April and available on our website for free) and explored our other research to identify avenues that maximize the success of AI and sustainability efforts.
We closed the event with more discussion about AI and Sustainability with Ana Paula Mundim Mary Lines Jamie Plumridge Alexander Puzeno and Paul McDonald - thank you for sharing your enriching insights!
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Projects with a focus on sustainability are more likely to achieve project success - however, we know from other PMI research that measuring sustainable impact is one of the key inhibitors to advancing sustainability strategies. This creates even more pressure to understand sustainability on a more holistic level and to make an effort to integrate sustainability metrics into project contexts.
Efficient integration of AI and Sustainability strategies on an enterprise level requires C-suite teamwork, which needs to drive further Enterprise Agility - a strategic capability that gives organizations the muscle to thrive in the state of perpetual transformation by creating an environment of fast actions and decision making in a cohesive manner.
Close to 40% of projects are launched to create products. In the context of AI and sustainability, this number is very important because consumers buy our products, not our internal projects. The operationalization of innovation by integrating these two disciplines is crucial for fueling growth and addressing market needs.
???????????????????????????????? & ???????????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???????? ???????????????? – the headline of our recent session at the Project Management Institute Global Summit Series event in Barcelona. We had over 100 professionals in the room to discuss achieving a smooth collaboration between project AND product managers to maximize the value of their efforts.
Why does this topic matter?
Because ???????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????? & ???????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????? ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????? ???????? ???? ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????? leading to a higher project success rate and business growth.
Recent Bain & Company research on consumer product organizations highlights that industry leaders with higher business performance invest more in digital product differentiators, which makes the transition between building new capabilities (innovation via projects) and the product operation models clearly a high-stakes.
We had a great debate during our session. My key takeaways are these:
In a brief poll, ????????% ???????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? in the room said they are supposed to reach the project & product ???????????????????????????????????? ???????? ???????? ????????-???????????? ????????????????????. That’s not great… it is a missed opportunity to approach projects and products strategically on a portfolio level, especially through the lens of enterprise prioritization and resource allocation.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????, ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????, ???????????? ???????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? were among the highlighted ???????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????? for smooth collaboration between project & product professionals. To overcome these obstacles, I recommend spending some time walking in other professionals' shoes. Recently, I’ve heard “product managers care only about customers and project managers care only about deadlines” – is it really like that? Find out by spending a day “on the other side”.
Professionals in the room voted on the most impactful practices to support the smooth collaboration and integration between projects and products – the winners are:
️ Portfolio management at the strategic level
️ Integrated governance and joint decision-making
️ Defining clear roles while being open for sharing, learning, and improvements on both sides
What is ???????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????, and why do we need to talk about it? Agility is often described as an ability to react, adapt, be flexible. On the enterprise level, on the level of the whole organization, we talk about a ???????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? that covers:
️ ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? as the ability to acquire information, filter noise, and distill insights that guide informed decision-making and urgency for reactions
️ ???????????????????????????????????????????????? as the ability to quickly and efficiently reprioritize, relocate focus and energy, and realign teams and their efforts toward the action that is needed
I recently interviewed professor Arturo Bris on this topic, and he noted that due to the speed and impact of large-scale changes, such as digital technologies, ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????.
Now, imagine what it means for organizations and their internal enterprise agility if they want to stay at the forefront of their industry and innovation.
Gaining enterprise agility is not easy as there are many layers of an organization in play. Indeed, there is culture and leadership mindset, but also data availability, tech stack, underlying infrastructure of information systems, and, very importantly, the corresponding design of teams and their interactions. If we want to progress on each of these layers and strengthen organization capabilities toward greater enterprise agility, we need to be able to orchestrate partial changes with a holistic view in mind.
I’m glad we kicked off this debate at our 2025 Project Management Institute Global Executive Council meeting in Barcelona. I had the pleasure of leading the panel with Ana Paula Mundim and Bruno Pont to dive deep into this topic and invite the council members to share their experiences with enterprise agility.
At the same time, our Thought Leadership team released our latest research on Enterprise Agility that includes interesting industry views. I’ll share the link in the comments. Stay tuned! This topic is incredibly important as we can see daily that the speed of change on a global scale is not slowing down
Best practices to win!
Projects, Agile & Leadership conference
September 26, 2024
How is a project success evaluated and who has the biggest say in that? In this talk, Lenka will share the latest global insights researched by the Project Management Institute focused on understanding how is the project management profession evolving while being confronted with disruptive forces that shape the future of businesses, and what does it mean for core skills that project professionals need to excel in to keep creating a desired impact.
Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Project Management
Project Management and its linkages with Innovation
Global Innovation Management Institute
July 24, 2024
In the global interconnected world, disruptive events are set for a ripple effect with consequences that are hard to predict. Organizations are pushed into a state of perpetual transformation, as now, the only constant is change, and frequent innovation becomes an imperative. I believe that to succeed in this environment is not only about keeping up with the latest technology advancements – attention to people is equally important.
According to Gartner, the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes in the past 12 months alone, and they are getting fatigued. Willingness to support organizational change collapsed from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022, which put change fatigue on top of the 2023 management concern. We don’t see 2024 slowing down.
Leaders need to create an innovation culture with human-centricity and empathy at the center of attention to strengthen fragile organization cultures that are being hit by anxiety fueled by frequent changes.
On a strategic level, I think that concepts of enterprise agility and resilience are not enough anymore – we need to strive for anti-fragility, a term that originated in the macroeconomy discipline and was coined by the professor, former trader, and hedge fund manager Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
In such a context, Global Innovation Management Institute's question about the linkage between innovation and project management takes on a new dimension. The answer goes far beyond the obvious: "You need projects to execute an idea." Today, we need much more.
The state of perpetual transformation is causing a push to blend distinct approaches into hybrid models (in the project management profession, working in hybrid frameworks increased by 57% between 2020 and 2023 - the data are published in the Project Management Institute 2024 Pulse of the Profession report) and the distinction between optimizing operations and innovation is being blurred by the rise of disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain - creating a strong business case for positioning your PMOs close to the C-suite to manage project portfolios with focus on agility, efficiency, striving for impact and strategy advancement.
Leaders need to support their teams by helping them acquire competencies such as problem-solving, business acumen, system thinking, and collaborative leadership to ensure the success of their transformative projects.
Enterprise Agility / Resilience
Swiss Corporate Networking Group
June 26, 2024
Enterprise AGILITY, RESILIENCE, and ANTI-FRAGILITY were on the agenda of the recent Swiss Corporate Networking Group meetup in cooperation with our PMI Switzerland chapter.
What did we talk about? Enterprise Agility, Resilience, and Anti-fragility are concepts that play important roles in our current world characterized by interconnectedness:
A case for anti-fragility: Local events are gaining global attention and causing a ripple effect of disruption, such as instability of supply chains, increased geopolitical risks, and market volatility. A few players can turn such disruptions into growth opportunities – that’s what is called anti-fragility. Enterprise tactics to achieve anti-fragility include constant innovation, adapting, experimenting, exploring, rapid iterating, decentralization, diversification, and multi-skilling.
A case for agility: Consequently, a concerted effort is required to move the needle of the global challenges. Sustainable impact comes from cultivating ecosystems of partners aligned around the same purpose rather than focusing on individual success with a win-lose mindset. To achieve that, organizations need the ability to understand their environment and its underlying structures, envision the potential of technology and innovation, and adjust rapidly to drive the impact. Tactics to increase enterprise agility include fostering psychological safety for high performance, open dialog, growth mindset, connecting and collaborating, frequent feedback loops, and data-driven decision-making.
A case for resilience: Business ecosystems need resilient infrastructure to thrive; that’s where regulated industries play a critical role as enablers for business growth and innovation. Resilience – the ability to withstand shocks and disruptions, such as cyberattacks, extreme weather events, or regulation changes, is based on solid risk management, fostering structure and discipline, maintaining business continuity plans, diversifying key suppliers and materials, and maintaining robust enterprise health.
Tags: Agile, Digital Disruption, Project Management
AI Transformation of Project Management
GPMF
June 02, 2024
I had the honor to provide a keynote during the opening ceremony of the Global Project Management Forum in Riyadh and share the latest from the PMI Thought Leadership on AI transformation of project management.
Key insights :
Project professionals, who use GenAI on at least 51% of their projects, apply complex AI use cases 3X More than professionals who use GenAI only on up to 15% of projects – we call these complex use cases Augmentation as they provide a sophisticated decision-making support for project professionals, hence delivering a true transformative power of GenAI technology.
If there are certain organizational enablers in place, GenAI is used more strategically and safely and project professionals receive more support for adoption of this disruptive technology from the senior leaders. Key organizational enablers are having a defined strategy and objectives for GenAI adoption, and installing AI governance and polices.
During the keynote I shared the top three skills in which project professionals should invest their time to get the most from GenAI. Two of them will probably not surprise you – data literacy and prompt engineering. But the third one is eye opening - ability to understand business requirements. GenAI is a tool that can make you more productive, but it does not replace the need to excel in the core of the project management profession and your ability to deliver impact, that’s on you!
Successful Sustainability Strategies
Amistat Group
May 28, 2024
Sustainability is a business and operational excellence challenge. In the list of the top global risks for the next 10 years identified by the World Economic Forum , 4 out of 5 are environmental with a profound business impact. A recent study that has tracked the economic impact of 185 extreme weather events between 2000 and 2019 calculated a yearly average loss of 143 billion dollars. Another risk, biodiversity loss, refers to the significant economic value that the earth's ecosystems provide – such as food provisioning, carbon storage, or water and air filtration. If we’re about to replace these natural ecosystems, it would cost us more than $150 trillion annually—about twice the world’s GDP—according to academic research and BCG analysis. Simply said, we can’t even afford to be unsustainable.
So how can we be more successful with our sustainability strategies? That was the main topic of my today’s keynote at the 7th annual World OPEX forum in Berlin. I referred to the insights from the recent research we did together with the Harvard Business Review Analytical services. You can download to full report on our Project Management Institute website.
And what are my personal takeaways?
Environmental challenges impact whole industries: they change business landscapes, global supply chain management, production processes, and consumer behavior. The environment can’t be separated from the business.
Sustainability is not a call for 'another' transformation—it's an opportunity to embed sustainability objectives in the existing digital transformation and reap significant benefits. The key to success lies in a holistic approach that leverages innovation for a broader impact. This is not just about doing good for the environment, it's about driving real business value and operational excellence.
Many challenges we need to overcome are foundational – the complexity of the topic creates a challenge for explaining it in simple terms. Understand the barrier to adoption based on the sustainability awareness baseline.
Embedding sustainability in your purpose drives real transformation – as with everything in business, it is mainly about the mindset.
Tags: Business Strategy, Leadership, Sustainability
The Future of Project Work: Moving Past Office-Centric Models
Project Management Institute
March 21, 2024
At the PMXPO 2024 virtual event, now available on demand, Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff to the CEO and the executive leader for the PMI Thought Leadership team, shares insights from the Pulse of the Profession report, 15th Edition, "The Future of Project Work: Moving Past Office-Centric Models.”
Lenka talks about the future of project work and trends to prepare for in 2024 to help the participants:
- Identify and analyze key trends in relation to the future of project work;
- Gain actionable knowledge and strategic insights to proactively prepare for emerging trends; and
- Foster adaptability and informed decision-making within the evolving professional landscape.
Perpetual transformation: how to thrive when transformation became a new norm?
PMI Ukraine Chapter
September 30, 2023
With the steep rise of emerging technologies, especially generative AI, the perpetual transformation became a new norm. Organizations need to evolve constantly to keep the pace, the call for organizational agility can’t get any stronger. Lenka will share PMI insight and her experience of impact of transformation on the project management profession and how to get ready for the future challenges.
Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Project Management
Personal brand as career accelerator
PMI UK
March 08, 2023
Keynote on the International Women's Day conference organized by PMI UK. Talking about how to build a personal brand and how can such brand help you progress in your career.
Get Your Mindset Future-Ready: How to Create Workforce and Operational Agility
Informaconnect
December 08, 2022
Guide to getting yourself oriented in the current challenges of banking impacted by technologies. You will have the opportunity to test your own mindset, as well as learn how to work with organization culture to make it the driver for digital transformation.
Agile transformation: How to deal with a demanding change using the SWITCH
Symphera s.r.o.
September 22, 2022
Agile transformation is primarily a change in culture and mindset, but as such cannot be done without changes in the company’s management system, team settings, processes and technologies and IT architecture. The high complexity of interconnected changes is a great challenge on its own, yet if it is combined with a long period of needed time and the need to constantly respond to changing conditions, because customers and competitors do not wait for us to transform. How to keep direction and energy despite the difficulty or agile transformation?
Lenka Pincot shares her practical experience on how to manage large-scale organizational changes using proven methods such as Objectives and Key Results (OKR), but she will also present lesser-known approaches, such as the Value-Based roadmap or Destination Postcard. She will show us an internally created program for Agile Leadership development and will demonstrate how to use such program to identify and remove systemic barriers to transformation. At the end, Lenka will moderate an interactive mini-workshop, where you will have the opportunity to try out how to deal with a demanding change using the SWITCH change management method.
Importance of Agile Leadership
www.meetupy.cz
May 05, 2022
I was invited to students meetup platform to introduce impact of emerging technologies on banking industry and importance of agile leadership to build hyper-awareness and ability to act.
Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Project Management
Organizational Transformation and Leadership
PMI Czech Republic chapter
August 26, 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, effective leadership and collaboration are paramount for successful and lasting change. In this insightful interview, Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff to the CEO at PMI, shares her extensive experience and expertise in organizational transformation. She offers a deep dive into the strategies and challenges of steering organizations through transformations in the modern era.
Throughout the conversation, Lenka emphasizes the importance of a clear vision, effective communication, and the empowerment of middle managers as key drivers of successful change initiatives. She explores the evolving nature of work, particularly in the context of digital transformation and disruption, and highlights the necessity for leaders to be adaptable and fluent in diverse ways of working.
Don’t get bogged down by the details of the technology
IMD
January 10, 2024
IMD Alumni Stories:
When building a digital strategy, leaders should focus on how technological disruption will reshape their business and industries to unlock new growth opportunities, says change management expert Lenka Pincot (Digital Excellence Diploma 2021).
Shaping Tomorrow: AI in Project Management
Dubai International Project Management Forum
January 16, 2025
AI will significantly shape the future of project management by automating routine tasks, enhancing efficiency, and improving decision-making through predictive analytics. However, there are concerns about over-reliance on AI, which could diminish critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Additionally, biased or incomplete data can affect AI’s decisions, and reliability. This panel will explore the pros and cons of AI in project management with a debate on AI’s promising benefits and critical concerns in the area project management.
Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Project Management
Project Success Panel
Project Management Institute
September 24, 2024
The first insights of our global Project Success research were revealed during the Project Management Institute 2024 Global Summit opening session!
Project success is a very important topic, especially now that AI is changing our jobs. We need to know WHERE and HOW we deliver the most value; that’s where we need to focus. This research helps us understand.
We also see that project success varies across industries. That’s very telling; there is no one-size-fits-all. We need to keep exploring our ways of working and increasing our personal agility to adjust and select what works best and lead our project teams through that.
We also see that a couple of things increase the chances for success—a measurement system and a meaningful purpose. Once we believe in our projects, we don’t let them fail. And to believe and see that purpose, we need to be recognized and listened to, so that we can steer our projects the right way!
Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Project Management
Leading AI-driven Business Transformation: Are You In?
Project Management Institute
November 16, 2023
C-level executives are experiencing significant pressure to transform their businesses to leverage the unprecedented potential of AI technologies. Our guests will discuss and share recommendations and practices to help executive leaders successfully implement AI-driven transformations in their organizations.
Impact of geopolitical uncertainty on industries and economy
PMOGA India Hub
October 14, 2023
Geopolitical shifts and rising uncertainty in the global operating environment are significantly affecting industry, projects and the global economy. Inflation, recession, war, climate change, trade disputes, pandemics, energy access, industrial espionage, cyber attacks have a far reaching impact on the economy. In most economies, the priority remains achieving sustained disinflation while ensuring financial stability.
To discuss these and more, we have renowned international experts, Ambassador Rahul Chhabra (Former Secretary, Economic Affairs at Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India) and Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff to the CEO of Project Management Institute.
Implementing ai in project management – global expert panel discussion
greyfly ai
September 18, 2023
Global Project Management experts discussed the impact of project and data maturity on implementing AI in project management. Furthermore, we heard how established project processes and high-quality datasets significantly enhance AI effectiveness, and in turn how these may optimise project outcomes. You will gain valuable insights into how mature project capabilities and data-driven approaches is revolutionising project management through AI. Whether you are a senior project executive or responsible for project delivery, this discussion provides valuable knowledge and practical strategies to harness AI within Project Management.
Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Change Management
Adaptive organizations
SME Banking Club
November 25, 2022
Panel discussion about how to transform into adaptive organization, psychological safety, impact on leadership and how to empower the teams in the financial services industry.
Beyond Labels: Reimagining How We Get Things Done with Lenka Pincot & Sandy Mamoli
The Agile Ideas podcast
May 26, 2025
What if the real power lies not in choosing a side—but in mastering both? We explore how blending agile and traditional project management is redefining success across industries.
In this thought-provoking episode, I’m joined by Lenka Pinka, Chief of Staff to the CEO at Project Management Institute, and Sandy Mamoli, Agile Coach, former Olympian, and Agile Alliance board member, to unpack one of the most persistent tensions in the world of work: agile vs. traditional project management.
But what if this debate is outdated—and even unhelpful?
Together, Lenka and Sandy challenge the false binary and advocate for a more nuanced, collaborative approach. Drawing from their global experience across industries and methodologies, they explain how today’s most successful organizations don’t choose sides—they blend practices fluidly based on context, outcomes, and evolving needs.
This conversation is full of compelling insights for both project professionals and agile practitioners. From fears of “agile dilution” to misconceptions about governance, we explore how shared values and a focus on delivery can bridge methodological divides. As Sandy puts it, the new PMI–Agile Alliance partnership is like "two fully whole, independent people who together create something magical."
Whether you see yourself as a traditional project manager, a scrum master, or somewhere in between, this episode will reshape how you think about frameworks, governance, and the future of work. If you're ready to move past methodology wars and start focusing on what really drives success, this is your episode. Listen now, and join the conversation on how we can build better ways of working—together.
Chief of Staff Leading 5 Enterprise Teams at PMI with Lenka Pincot
Next level coaching
November 25, 2024
In this episode of "Leveraging Leadership," Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff at PMI, discusses her role in leading the office of the CEO and overseeing five enterprise teams, including transformation management. She emphasizes the need for structure, rigorous prioritization, and agility, explaining how her team handles day-to-day tasks while she focuses on strategic decisions. Lenka also highlights the importance of business awareness and working closely with a great CEO to be a successful Chief of Staff.
Tags: Agile, Business Strategy, Project Management
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears
eBullient
October 04, 2024
In this episode of the Business Simplicity Podcast, host Chris Parker speaks with Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff to the CEO at the Project Management Institute, about leadership and transformation. They explore the idea of “leading from love,” self-acceptance, and how leadership starts with understanding and trusting oneself. Lenka shares insights from her career in Agile coaching and Project Management, reflecting on personal growth and the value of human connections in leadership. They also discuss the significance of the Rumi quote, “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears,” relating it to agile transformation, innovation, and building a purposeful work environment.
How to Talk With Your Executive Leaders About Projects with Lenka Pincot
PMO Strategies
September 29, 2024
Are you struggling to get your executives’ attention when it comes to project decisions?
Do their eyes glaze over when you speak “project manager” instead of business?
Are you frustrated that they don’t get how valuable you are to delivering on the organization’s strategy?
If so, I’ve got you.
In this week’s episode, I’m joined by my friend Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff at the Project Management Institute (PMI), where she leads global transformation efforts and oversees the enterprise PMO.
Lenka shares powerful strategies to help you rethink how you talk to executives so that your projects—and your PMO—get the support they need.
Key takeaway: Learn how to translate your project talk into business value that executives understand, to drive faster decisions and strategic success.
Transforming Visions: A Journey with Lenka Pincot into Agile Leadership, Digital Transformation, and the Future of Project Management
Listen Notes
January 22, 2024
In this episode, we discuss:
Common challenges organizations face in adopting agile approaches and strategies to overcome them.
Delve into Lenka's global experience, focusing on leading transformation initiatives in diverse cultural contexts and the impact of culture on these efforts.
The integration of predictive and agile methodologies within an EPMO, exploring benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls.
Strategies for initiating and sustaining culture shifts, along with fostering psychological safety within teams during transformation.
The alignment of transformation efforts with overall business strategy and the role of customer centricity in successful digital transformation.
Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Project Management
Future-Proofing PM Careers in the Age of AI
PM Podcast
December 18, 2023
Episode Highlights:
Understanding the AI Revolution: We kick off the episode by setting the stage for AI's impact on project management. Lenka Pincot joins us to shed light on this rapidly evolving landscape.
Future-Proofing Your PM Career: We discuss the necessity for project managers to develop AI competencies, focusing on AI literacy, data proficiency, ethical awareness, adaptive thinking, and tech collaboration.
Adapting to AI in Project Teams: The conversation will explore how AI integration affects entire project teams, and the importance of fostering a culture of innovation and AI acceptance.
PMI's Course Spotlight: We delve into PMI's "Generative AI Overview for Project Managers" course, an essential resource for staying updated in this changing field.
Can AI increase success of projects?
greyfly ai
June 22, 2023
AI in Project Management - a job thief or a helper? I always look at technology as something that can help us amplify the value we create, and AI is not an exception. But it always leads to the same question over and over again - what is the true value that we deliver? What is the essence of it? And how to use technology as an opportunity to do things better instead of facing it with fear of the unknown.
Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Project Management
Strategic Project Leader podcast: How To Go From Project Manager to C-suite via the PMO by Lenka Pincot
Strategic Project Leader podcast
May 13, 2023
Strategic Project Leader podcast focuses on helping project managers to break the glass ceiling and become a C-level executive. In this episode, I am interviewed by the podcast author Fola Alabi and I share my learnings, career experience and take aways.
Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Change Management
Episode #14 Career Pivot with Lenka Pincot: From consulting and tech to banking
Ani Filipova
August 30, 2022
I joined podcast Change is possible that focuses on career growth. I shared my experience when working for a non-profit organization, where I learned these two things that helped her for the rest of my career:
- Discover what working with meaning and purpose is
- Understand efficiency. When you work with volunteers, no one wastes time with nonsensical tasks; people value their time and focus on what matters.
Regarding mentors, I always had one of the most unconventional ones. I was taught this: when you have an issue, think about your famous superhero and what they would do.
My three key takeaways for those who are thinking about changing their careers:
1. Keep track of your achievements. Work on your brand and make it easy for people to understand who you are and what you can offer.
2. Work on your self-awareness and use it to build your resilience.
3. Be observant, and connect the dots.
Agile transformation in the finance industry
Buzzprout
October 05, 2020
How to approach agile transformation in finance industry which is regulated and typically known for processes and rules rather then for agility? IN this podcast, I talk about change framework and engagement of stakeholders in the change by promoting future core culture values.
Tags: Digital Disruption, Leadership, Open Innovation
16 Webinars
Bridging the Divide: A Panel Discussion on Project & Product Team Collaboration
The Agile Network
May 27, 2025
Are your project teams and product teams operating in silos? Join our expert panel as they delve into the crucial touch points between project work and product development, revealing how stronger collaboration can unlock greater efficiency and innovation. This dynamic discussion will explore practical techniques to foster understanding, stronger collaboration, and ultimately drive mutual success in delivering impactful outcomes. Join us for this moderated panel discussion where we uncover actionable strategies to bridge the project-product divide.
Lenka LIVE: Enterprise & Industry Agility
The Agile Network
May 27, 2025
Enterprise agility is getting into spotlight! As we experience increased volatility of business landscape, organizations look to strengthen their strategic capabilities to be faster at reactions on an enterprise level. Not an easy feat considering all internal organizational and technical dependencies… Lenka LIVE session will explore avenues to greater enterprise agility and discuss the role of agile teams in supporting this core capability.
LENKA LIVE - Portfolio Management – Where Everything Comes Together
The Agile Network
May 27, 2025
Successful projects and products are high-stakes and organizations need a well-defined approach to how they manage and track work across the enterprise portfolio. Simply focusing on individual teams and their direct integration is not enough. You need to see all the teams and all the work in context across the system. But knowing what to look at, how to measure it and how to see it in relation to other parts of the system is not easy.Join Lenka Pincot and a panel of experts as they discuss why portfolio management is so critical, what it entails, and the what and how of understanding the work.
Project Management MythBusters
The Agile Network
April 27, 2025
Ding, ding, Round 2! At last months Agile Network Micro Conference, Lenka Pincot and Stuart Young went toe to toe to take on Agile Myths. Now, we're back—this time, Project Management is in the hot seat! Get ready to challenge assumptions, separate fact from fiction, and dive into a high-energy debate.
Transformational Leadership
The Agile Network
April 27, 2025
Organizational change is not an easy thing. How do you shift the culture, practices and mindset of an entire enterprise and have it stick after the consultants leave? Often times companies over-index on the methodology or process they’ve decided is the one true path, but without dynamic leaders who understand that their primary function is to become a living embodiment of that change and how it shows up, the change very rarely takes hold in a lasting way. Join Lenka Pincot, Dennis Stevens, and Dave Prior for a conversation about Transformational Leadership. What is it? How do you know if you have it in your organization? Why do you need it? And how do you develop it internally if you don’t have it on board already?
Lenka LIVE - Connecting the Middle with Lenka Pincot
The Agile Network
April 27, 2025
Lenka Pincot will lead an expert panel discussion on how organizations undergoing change can thread the needle between Senior Management and the teams by engaging the (frozen) middle and inviting them to be part of the organizational change in a way that gives them agency to drive and supports change both above and below.
Using AI in Product Development
The Agile Network
March 27, 2025
PMI Chief of Staff to the CEO, Lenka Pincot, and PMI Director of AI Engagement and Learning Kathleen Walch on how Artificial Intelligence ie being used in product development, software engineering, and digital platforms.
Redefining Project Success and How it Impacts Project and Product Leaders
The Agile Network
March 27, 2025
PMI Chief of Staff to the CEO, Lenka Pincot, Mike Griffiths who is the Agile SME and heads up knowledge acquisition at PMI and the Dave Prior, CST and host of drunkenpm radio, discussing the way PMI has redefined the what "success" means for a project, how that is impacting project leaders at all stages of their career, what steps they can take to remain competitive in the job market and how to prepare for the inclusion of artificial intelligence in project and product work.
Tags: Business Strategy, Careers, Project Management
Agile Mythbusters!
The Agile Network
February 27, 2025
Lenka Pincot and Stuart Young are here do some Agile and Project Management Mythbusting. They'll explore the validity of some widely held ideas about Agile and Project Management, dig down to discover if there is any truth to them, and if not, they aren't they'll expose those myths for the charlatans they are!
Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Project Management
Future skills of Project Managers
University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague
December 15, 2022
Delivered lesson to international group of students of Project Management about the impact of technology on industry transformation, current challenges of of project and product managers, need for agile approach and strong Power Skills.
Effective Enterprise Transformation: How to Set up for Success using Practices from the Disciplined Agile (DA) Toolkit
PMI Netherlands Chapter
November 10, 2022
To be effective at Enterprise Transformation, organizations must embrace the philosophies of becoming a learning organization. Successful transformations require the adoption of new ways of thinking, new ways of working, and new technologies. This is where it gets challenging for many organizations.
Because every organization is unique, with unique priorities and challenges, we need a fit-for-purpose and flexible strategy that reflects actual situations to get you from where you are today to becoming a learning organization in the future.
During this webinar, we will explore a real case study and share experiences on how to Align, Improve and Thrive in your Transformation journey using practices from the DA toolkit.
Topics covered:
1. What it means to be an Agile Transformation leader.
2. How to effectively manage organizational transformation in large-scale organizations.
3. How to address people skills and competencies at scale.
4. A few tools and practices from the Transformation blade of the DA toolkit.
Transformation Manifesto: Co-creation workshop to increase transformation success!
Project, Agile and leadership conference
September 20, 2023
People with similar interests and goals often find a common language and inspire each other. At the 15th annual Project, Agile & Leadership conference, we put the British idiom “Birds of Feathers” into practice and developed it into four thematic areas. This platform aims to promote reflection and joint discussion on specific topics and issues and, of course, joint networking. Let’s come together to seek new perspectives, share previous experience and create a space for the exchange of ideas. We invite you to join the discussion and networking and look forward to flying together towards new possibilities.
BoF Transformation, C-level management – a case study and discussion aimed at those involved in managing transformation, working on transformation and C-level management. BoF is facilitated by Lenka Pincot.
Business Agility, Culture Change and Building High Performing Teams
Location: Virtual Fees: TBD
Service Type: Service Offered
Business Agility became an imperative in the era of industry digitalization. In order to became an agile company, culture shift towards purpose-driven and empowered teams must be facilitated. And with pressing digital disruptors without the legacy baggage, companies need to learn how to act quickly and learn how to adapt.
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Transparency as part of agile culture
Dare to chase your career dreams
Stakeholders: How to work together to make it a success?
Chief of Staff to the CEO at Project Management Institute
The crucial role of PMOs in the volatile world
AI Transformation of Project Management
Successful Sustainability Strategies
Perpetual transformation: how to thrive when transformation became a new norm?
Introducing Citizen Development in an organization
Get Your Mindset Future-Ready: How to Create Workforce and Operational Agility
Supercharging agility through low-code/no-code: creating more room for innovation
How to ignite community passion for Sustainability
From Strategy to Execution: Positioning TMO and PMO Teams for Maximum Impact
Global Business Agility report interview, EFMA
Impact of geopolitical uncertainty on industries and economy
Agile Transformation panel
Adaptive organizations
Coffee talk: BURNOUT - How to spot, prevent and address it!
Panel discussion: Learning from biology on organizational transformation
Episode #14 Career Pivot with Lenka Pincot: From consulting and tech to banking
President, NGO chapter organization
System Thinking and its role in Strategy and Innovation
Future skills of Project Managers
System Thiking and strategic management
Stakeholder engagement
AI & Sustainability
