Speaker Profile
PAYSON HALL
Payson Hall is a former U.S. Army Ranger and consulting project manager for Catalysis Group, Inc. in Sacramento. Formally trained as a software engineer, Payson’s early career included software development, hardware/software system integration, and Independent Verification & Validation. As his career progressed, his role shifted to include increasing project management responsibilities, with a focus on technology projects.
Today Payson coaches project managers, teaches project management skills, consults, and performs project reviews in a variety of fields, including transportation, communication, software development, education, financial services, and healthcare.
Payson has consulted on projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his 40-year career. He has published over 250 project management articles, developed numerous project management and problem-solving classes, written a book on project sponsorship, and is a sought-after conference speaker who specializes in demystifying project management topics and communicating important ideas while entertaining audiences.
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Payson Hall
August 14 2024
12 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management?
Improving an organization’s risk management efforts can seem like a Sisyphean task - one step forward, two steps back. Why? Is there something inherent in human or organizational behavior that makes us incapable of sustaining and improving our approach to risk?While risk management theory continues to advance, improving implementation on the ground has been problematic. Though most executives readily acknow..
![Project Triage: Applying Scarce Resources to Maximum Effect Project Triage: Applying Scarce Resources to Maximum Effect](https://www.grceducators.com/image/cache/catalog/2022-Speaker%20/85-95%20-%20NEW%20IMAGE/Payson%20Hall-80x90.jpg)
Payson Hall
September 12 2024
12 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Project Triage: Applying Scarce Resources to Maximum Effect
Nearly all organizations have some limits on the resources available for projects. The challenge for project managers, portfolio managers, and sponsoring executives is to allocate the available resources to best effect.Allocating resources effectively requires clarity on the business priority of the individual projects in the portfolio and a realistic assessment of their health.This session will explore ele..
![Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future](https://www.grceducators.com/image/cache/catalog/2022-Speaker%20/85-95%20-%20NEW%20IMAGE/Payson%20Hall-80x90.jpg)
Payson Hall
October 10 2024
12 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future
Is a project’s fate preordained? Does a project’s past suggest its likely future? Can anything be done to influence that future when the current signs aren’t promising? Payson Hall has participated in and reviewed many projects during his 40-year career. In this session, without claiming mystical powers, Payson shares problem symptoms observed on projects in both the public and private sectors and dis..
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Payson Hall
November 07 2024
12 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Pushing Decisions to the Right Level of the Organization
Managing projects is a challenging job. Project Managers are constantly making decisions, but which decisions should be made by the PM and the team alone, and which should be escalated to leadership?In this webinar, Consulting Project Manager Payson Hall offers tools for discussing priorities with Sponsors and explores methods a project manager can use to assure decision-making is consistent with organizati..