Speaker

Peter Ryan is Strategy Delivery Head at the International Baccalaureate, where he leads strategy and transformation programme delivery for the global education organization. He brings more than three decades of international programme and transformation leadership, including six years as Managing Director of emagine in the Netherlands and a term as a PMI Netherlands Board Director, and holds a postgraduate diploma in project management from University College Cork. He is a founding partner and board member of Agelerate, a board of project leaders working to raise delivery standards across the profession.

 

Delivering Strategic Value in a New Era What does it take to turn delivery success into lasting strategic value? Bálint Blaskovics, Carmine Paragano, and Peter Ryan tackle that question from three angles, academia, consulting, and strategic leadership, in their panel discussion, "Delivering Strategic Value in a New Era". This practical, interactive session shows how project professionals can close the gap between delivery and impact at every level (project, portfolio, and organizational), offering fresh perspectives and actionable insights to connect strategy, execution, and value. Carmine Paragano explores enterprise agility as a strategic capability, showing how foresight and adaptive governance enable continuous value creation in an AI-driven world. Bálint Blaskovics examines why delivery success so often fails to translate into strategic impact, offering a practical framework and competencies that help project managers act as value translators between strategy and execution. Peter Ryan draws on his experience leading strategy and transformation programmes to highlight the leadership behaviors and decision practices that convert execution into meaningful outcomes. Through integrated talks and facilitated dialogue, participants leave with a multi-angle framework for keeping strategic value visible throughout the project life cycle.

 

Learning goals summary:

• Understand that it's not just about delivering on time, budget, and scope; it's about translating that delivery into visible strategic value.
• Empower project professionals to see the gap between delivery and impact not as a threat but as an opportunity to lead, influence, and create lasting value.
• Gain a practical, multi-angle framework, drawn from academia, consulting, and strategic leadership, for connecting strategy, execution, and value.
• Learn the leadership behaviors and decision practices that keep strategic value visible throughout the project life cycle.
• Come away ready to act as a value translator in your own organization, whatever your role in the project life cycle.