Events Calendar

PMI – FALL PDC 2026

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026

Time:  7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Registration Deadline: October 30, 2026

Where:Prairieland Park, 503 Ruth Street W, Saskatoon, SK

Agenda

7:30 - 8:10 - Breakfast and Introductions

8:10 - 8:30 - Opening Remarks

8:30 - 9:45 – Phil Jewell

10:00 - 11:30 – Amanda Dahl

11:30 - 12:45 – Lunch and Headshots

12:45 - 2:00 – Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan

2:15 - 3:25 – Panel Discussion

3:30 - 4:15 – Project of the Year Award Presentation

4:15 - 4:30 - Closing Remarks

PMI Talent Triangle:  7 PDUs

Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan

Performance Consultant to the NHL, NBA, and Olympians | Executive Coach

Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan lives by her philosophy of embracing challenges and pushing boundaries to achieve our highest potential. She’s worked in professional sport since 2001, becoming the first and only woman to be the Performance Consultant with the New York Rangers, New York Knicks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Edmonton Oilers. Amirault-Ryan has worked at five Olympic Games with the Canadian Gold Medal-winning teams of Women's Hockey, Cross Country Skiing, and Speedskating. She was also the Lead of Sport Psychology for Canada’s entire Olympic team for the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Olympics. For her ground-breaking work Amirault-Ryan has been recognized by the likes of the Globe and Mail's “Top Power 50” list and WXN Canada's “Top 100 Most Powerful Women”. Companies worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies Walmart, VISA, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills and Royal Dutch Shell, have hired Amirault-Ryan to help motivate them to lead under pressure and achieve sustained high performance.

• Topic : Excellence: Winners' Traits

Presentation Overview:

As one of the leading mental performance consultants in the field, Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan has coached and trained some of the world’s top athletes and teams. Throughout her career, she has witnessed what habits and behaviours are required for success. She will share her expertise on how you can create an environment that is more conducive to achieving success through personal and professional excellence.

Whether you’re in the sport arena or in the boardroom, Amirault-Ryan will share universal traits that are possessed by those that experience the most success in their field and how you can replicate it within your own careers, teams and organizations. Interspersed with real life examples from her Olympic, NHL and NBA championship experiences, Amirault-Ryan will ensure you leave this session armed with the recipe for success.

Presentation Learning Objective:

• Personal Development:  How to “put on your own oxygen mask first” by setting and attaining limitless goals for lifelong growth.
• Mental Health: How to develop and maintain winning habits through challenging times.
• Stress Management: How to perform through constantly changing adversity and refocus after setbacks.

• Resilience: How to learn how to be comfortable in the uncomfortable zone.

• Teamwork:  How to build a long-term winning culture within your organization by design through practice and resilience.

Phil Jewell

Phil Jewell is the Founder of Impact Leadership Development and Coaching, an author, executive coach, and creator of The Irrelevant Leader. With more than 20 years of leadership experience across military, government, and corporate environments, Phil helps leaders build stronger teams by leading with trust, character, and empowerment. Known for his honest storytelling, practical tools, and deeply human approach, Phil challenges leaders to stop being the centre of everything and start developing people who can think, decide, and act with confidence.

• Topic : The Irrelevant Leader: The Art of Leading by Letting Go

Presentation Overview:

The true measure of leadership is not how much your team needs you. It is how well they can keep moving forward when you are not there.

In this keynote, Phil Jewell challenges the traditional idea that strong leaders must be involved in every decision, solve every problem, and remain at the centre of all progress. Drawing from his leadership experience across military, government, and corporate settings, Phil explores how leaders can unintentionally create dependency by over-helping, over-controlling, and stepping in too quickly.

Participants will be invited to rethink leadership through the lens of trust, empowerment, and capability. Rather than building teams that wait for permission, this session will help leaders understand how to build teams that take ownership, make decisions, and move forward with confidence.

Presentation Learning Objective:

Participants will learn how to identify where they may be creating bottlenecks or dependency, shift from control-based leadership to trust-based leadership, and apply practical strategies to build more capable, confident, and empowered teams.

Amanda Dahl, PMP, ACP

Amanda Dahl is the owner and operator of her consultancy, Boost Consulting. She has 25 years of experience in program and project management, strategic planning, change management, operational excellence, business development, and facilitation, in multiple industries. Amanda has her B.Sc. Geology from the University of Saskatchewan, Master’s Certificate in Project Management, Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP), Lean Greenbelt, Six Sigma Blackbelt training, and Prosci’s Change Practitioner certification. She is also a mentor for the Women in Mining Women in Nuclear (WIM/WiN) SK Mentorship Program and a past Co-chair. She presents her technical and ‘real-world’ knowledge in an authentic, tangible way to enhance understanding and engagement, and enjoys connecting with people in a meaningful way.

• Topic : Linking Strategy to Projects: Why It Matters to Your Work

Presentation Overview:

Many employees hear terms such as vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities but aren’t always clear on how these translate into the projects they work on every day. Strategic planning can sometimes feel abstract or disconnected from day-to-day tasks, something that happens at the leadership level and doesn’t directly influence frontline work.

Strategy comes to life through projects. Projects are the vehicles that turn strategic priorities into action, and they shape how work gets planned, delivered, and measured across the organization. This session will explore how strategic priorities are translated into real project work through defined scopes, deliverables, timelines, resources, and success measures. It will also highlight the importance of employee involvement in shaping and delivering projects, ensuring alignment from strategy through execution.

Presentation Learning Objective:

Participants will learn how to break down organizational priorities into project-level work that is practical, structured, and actionable, helping connect the “why” of strategy to the “what” and “how” of project delivery. Regardless of role or job title, this connection supports clearer decision-making, better prioritization across competing projects, and a stronger understanding of how day-to-day project work contributes to organizational outcomes.

• Investment:
• $375/member early bird pricing
• $475/non-member early bird pricing
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• ***Contact pdevents@pminorthsask.com for information on student rates

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