Speaker Kit · For event planners and programme chairs
Dr. Jimmy J. Godard
Keynotes and workshops on PMO governance, AI oversight, and leading through disruption for audiences from front-line delivery teams to boards and agency leadership.
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Introduction
Meet Dr. Godard
A short introduction to his background, approach, and the governance conversation he is most often invited to lead.
Full session footage from recent engagements is available on request. Contact us and we will send a link relevant to your audience and format.
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DM/IST
Doctorate of Management
MBA
Business Administration
CB-PMO®
Certified Baseline PMO
PMOGI-ABPI
Authorized Partner Instructor
PMP
Project Management Professional
Biographies
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Short biography
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Dr. Jimmy J. Godard is a senior executive, doctorate-holding practitioner, and PMO certification instructor with twenty-five years of governance leadership. A former Fortune 100 senior vice president, he has certified practitioners across twelve countries and teaches leadership at three universities. He speaks on Leadership, Strategy, PMO governance and AI oversight.
Short biography
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Dr. Jimmy J. Godard has spent more than twenty-five years inspiring teams and helping organizations navigate disruption, beginning as a peak-time bank teller and rising to senior vice president of a Fortune 100 financial institution. That trajectory is why his sessions land with both front-line business, project managers and the executives who fund them: he has held both roles.
He holds a Doctorate of Management in Organizational Leadership with a specialization in Information Systems and Technology, an MBA, and the CB-PMO® and PMP credentials. He teaches project management, leadership, and business at Portland State University, George Fox University, and the American College of Healthcare Sciences, and serves as Director of Programs for tahe Society for Information Management.
Through Train-the-Trainer cohorts delivered with PMO Global Institute, Dr. Godard has certified practitioners across twelve countries and four continents. Each year he leads medical and service projects in Cambodia, Haiti, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
He is a Certified Career Coach, and every engagement begins with the same question he asks of himself: why do you lead?
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Signature sessions
Six topics, three formats
Every session is delivered as a keynote, a half-day working session, or a full-day intensive, and is tailored to your audience before the engagement. No two presentations are identical.
Keynote · 60–90 min · Signature
Can You Show an Auditor Who Approved That AI Tool?
The governance gap almost every organization now has and few can see. What auditors are beginning to ask, what evidence they expect, and the four artifacts that answer them without choking innovation.
Audience
Executives, PMO leaders, risk and audit teams
Keynote · 60–90 min
The PMO That Governs Instead of Reports
Why most project offices are trusted with the status update but ignored during strategy decisions and the structural and cultural shifts that move a PMO from administrative overhead to strategic authority.
Audience
PMO directors, VPs of transformation, delivery leaders
Full-day intensive
Designing Governance That Survives Pressure
A hands-on working session on decision rights, intake discipline, capacity modeling and stage-gate authority. Participants leave with functional governance artifacts built for their own environment, not slides.
Audience
Corporate and public agency PMO teams
Keynote or half-day workshop
Building a High-Performing PMO
A practical blueprint for a PMO that delivers. Defining purpose, establishing intake rules, building leadership trust, and tracking the performance metrics that actually change decisions.
Audience
PMO setup teams, enterprise architects, operations executives
Keynote · Signature session
Know Your Leadership Compass: Lead with Passion & Purpose
Command-and-control leadership fails in hybrid environments. Grounded in the Know Your WHY framework, this session challenges leaders to clarify who they are, what they stand for, and how to guide teams through rapid change.
Audience
Corporate leaders, association conferences, executive audiences
Keynote or executive briefing
Leadership in Uncertain Times
Economic volatility, supply chain shifts and policy change test leadership resilience. The specific behaviors that steady an organization, enable high-stakes decisions on incomplete data, and hold distributed teams together.
Audience
C-suite executives, board members, regional leaders
Additional sessions are available for financial services and data governance audiences, including fintech modernization and enterprise data governance. Ask and we will send descriptions.
Investment
Published, so you can plan
A published floor lets you budget without a call. Travel and accommodation are billed at cost for engagements outside the Pacific Northwest.
Format
Fee
Virtual keynote
60 minutes including Q&A
From $9,500
Association, nonprofit or education keynote
60–90 minutes
$12,500
Corporate or agency keynote
60–90 minutes
From $20,000
Half-day workshop
3–4 hours, participative
From $30,000
Full-day intensive
6–7 hours with working artifacts
From $40,000
Multi-day or program
Scoped to your objectives
From $55,000
Event partnering process
What happens between signature and stage
Eight steps, every engagement. This is the preparation that makes the session specific to your audience rather than generic.
01
Initial conversation
A call to establish the outcomes you need from the session, not just the topic you have in mind.
02
Refine the topic to the theme
The session is shaped to fit your programme's wider narrative rather than dropped into it.
03
Collaborate with other speakers
Direct coordination so messages complement and reinforce rather than overlap or contradict.
04
Research the audience
Interviews with expected participants to surface the specific issues and challenges in the room.
05
Customization and design
The presentation is built for your audience. No session is delivered twice identically.
06
Coordinator pack
Your event coordinator receives the short bio, photography, session description and A/V requirements in one place.
07
Custom handouts
Where useful, originals are created and supplied to your coordinator for reproduction.
08
Final A/V and sound check
Technical check and confirmation of timing before the event begins.
Technical
A/V and technical requirements
In person
- Lavalier or headset microphone — not handheld
- Confidence monitor visible from the stage
- HDMI connection with 16:9 projection
- Freedom to move; no fixed lectern
- Green room access 45 minutes before
- Permission to photograph and record for archive and promotional use
Virtual
- Zoom, Teams or Webex — platform confirmed in advance
- Technical rehearsal 48 hours before
- A named producer managing chat and Q&A
- Attendee questions surfaced live where possible
- Recording permitted and shared with attendees
Lead times
Keynotes are typically booked six to nine months ahead. Workshops require a minimum of six months for tailoring and audience research. Shorter notice is sometimes possible — ask.
What we need from you
Audience profile and seniority mix, the theme of the wider programme, session length and slot time, and the names of any other speakers covering adjacent ground.
Experience
Organizations that have brought Dr. Godard in
Bonneville Power Administration
Keynotes
SHRM
Keynotes
City of Portland
Workshop
Apex Systems
Webinars
International Institute for Learning
Webinars
American Academy of Private Practice in Speech Pathology and Audiology
Keynotes
George Fox University
Faculty
Portland State University
Faculty
American College of Healthcare Sciences
Faculty
Clackamas Community College
Faculty
Society for Information Management
Keynotes
Association of Change Management Professionals
Keynotes
IIBA Chapters
Keynote - Workshops
PMI Chapters
Keynotes - Workshops
ProjectWorld
Keynotes - Workshops
Business Analyst World
Keynotes - Workshops
Administrative Professionals Conference
Seminars
Oregon Association of Government - Information Technology Management
Keynotes
What organizers say
“Dr. Godard personalized his presentations to our agency’s strategy and goals, challenging our leaders to innovatively think about ways to meet our mission. His inspiring words resonated with managers from the front-lines to the C-Suite. Throughout the day to current, our attendees continued referencing Dr. Godard’s words.”
Rachelle Powers
BPA, Business Manager
We are indeed blessed to have known and gotten a chance to listen to Jimmy’s presentation
Bobby Taruc
Program & Project Manager
Dr. Godard empowered me to change the narrative of my future and has helped me get focused on how to attain the experiences and lifestyle that I desire most