Speaker

Lorenzo Vetrano is an Agile Coach at Alten Switzerland and Agile Committee Manager at the PMI Southern Italy Chapter. His professional lens centers on project management, agile transformation, and leadership development, with a focus on building teams that deliver sustainable value beyond project outputs. His experience spans more than two decades and draws on organizational psychology, flow science, and competitive sports to support high-performing teams grounded in trust, purpose, and shared ownership. He also speaks regularly at international conferences on agile leadership and team dynamics, with the DASSM credential serving as a relevant professional anchor.

 

From Group to Tribe: Building Sustainable Teams That Deliver Beyond Projects What if the most valuable thing a project delivers isn't the project at all? Lorenzo Vetrano explores that question in his session, "From Group to Tribe: Building Sustainable Teams That Deliver Beyond Projects". This practical, high-energy session reframes what project success means, exploring team sustainability at every level – individual, team, and organizational – offering fresh perspectives and actionable insights to build teams that create value long after delivery ends. Drawing on organizational psychology, flow science, and lessons from competitive sports, Lorenzo introduces a practical framework for transforming groups into tribes — high-performing communities connected by trust, shared purpose, psychological safety, and collective ownership. Through a live Tribe Assessment and real-world examples from both project and sporting environments, participants see how sustainable team cultures become force multipliers for innovation, adaptability, and stakeholder value. Live pulse polls, small-group work, and facilitated reflection give attendees a hands-on read on their own team's maturity, while open Q&A lets them stress-test the ideas against their own delivery environments.

 

Learning goals summary:

• Understand that it's not just about what a project delivers; it's about the team you build while delivering it.
• Empower project leaders to see disengagement, burnout, and siloed behaviors not as inevitable delivery costs but as an opportunity to build trust, ownership, and sustainable energy into their teams.
• Learn how to build simple no-code AI agents using widely available platforms — no programming required.
• Learn the Group → Tribe diagnostic model for quickly assessing team maturity.
• Discover a simple team-flow framework linking engagement, role clarity, and decision-making speed.