June 9 - June 13, 2025
The Venetian | Las Vegas, NV
Registration is open!
Special Program: Professional Development
Getting future ready is more than making the right technology decisions. It also requires that companies and leaders prepare their organizations and teams for change, develop new skills, and re-architect their business processes.
BLUEPRINT 4D offers a unique opportunity for attendees to dive deep into sessions designed to empower and refine your skills as a Business Analyst, and provides an opportunity to get invaluable insights from best selling author and 4x CIO Chris Laping on leadership and building a high-impact team.
Working on your professional certifications? Earn continuing education credits for Business Analysis, HR, Finance and IT though our partnerships with SHRM, NASBA and IIBA!
Session Highlights
Professional Development
Unignorable: How to Become the Teammate Everyone Wants to Work With
Presented by:
Chris Laping, People Before Things, LLC
Most professionals focus on getting smarter—mastering tools, frameworks, and technical expertise. But the real key to standing out in your career isn’t just competence—it’s how you make people feel when they work with you.
This workshop is designed for high-performing individual contributors who want to increase their influence, impact, and career trajectory by mastering the human side of work. You’ll learn the underestimated power of being easy to work with, how to build trust across teams, and how to make yourself indispensable in an age where technical skills alone are no longer enough.
Professional Development
Unignorable Leadership: How to Build a High-Trust, High-Impact Team
Presented by:
Chris Laping, People Before Things, LLC
Great teams don’t just happen. They are designed. And the best leaders aren’t just experts in their craft—they are masters of trust, influence, and connection.
This workshop is for leaders who want to build teams that are not only productive but unignorable. You’ll learn how to create a culture where people do their best work because they want to, not just because they have to.
Professional Development
Unbreakable: Building Your Personal Future-Ready Operating System
Presented by:
Chris Laping, People Before Things, LLC
In a world obsessed with the next big tech disruption, bestselling author and 4x CIO Chris Laping reveals a surprising truth: the key to future success lies in timeless human fundamentals. In this powerful keynote, he reveals how to build your personal operating system for navigating change—one that’s engineered for growth rather than mere survival.
Drawing from extensive research into peak performance and nearly two decades of C-suite experience, Laping demonstrates why investing in people skills at 3x the rate of technical skills is crucial for sustained success. You’ll discover the simple ‘keystone habits’ that differentiate unbreakable professionals from those who struggle with change, and learn practical tools for maximizing your impact within your ‘four walls’ of control.
Whether you’re a hands-on practitioner or senior leader, you’ll walk away with immediately applicable strategies to upgrade your professional operating system, enhance your influence, and take conscious control of your future.
Professional Development
10 Tips for a Successful Grow Implementation
Presented by:
Tabitha Robinson, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Spoiler Alert! You are about to learn ten tips for a successful Grow implementation from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. These tips are derived from things we did exceptionally well in our implementation and things we would only share with our closest friends (and you’re invited)! Tips will span project planning, business design and decision-making, change management, user adoption, solution evaluation, and more. P.S. The password is “engaged”
Professional Development
Crafting Your Leadership Personal Brand: Stand Out and Lead with Impact
Presented by:
Jennifer Abraham, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Today, a leader’s personal brand is the cornerstone of influence and impact. This session will empower leaders to define, enhance, and communicate their Leadership Personal Brand to stand out and inspire. Attendees will learn key elements of an authentic leadership brand, practical steps to build and sustain it, and how to align it with personal and organizational goals. As an added focus, SMART goals will be introduced as a tool to make branding strategies actionable and measurable.
Guest Speakers
Mona Abou-Sayed
SVP Standard BioTools | Business Systems (SBS)
Mona has over 25 years of experience leading key strategic initiatives through organizational and lean transformations in technology companies. Mona started her career in the Telecommunications world as a system engineer, and went on to Tektronix Communications (a then-Danaher Company) for nearly 15 years in key roles in Customer Operations, Product Management, and as a Danaher Business Systems Leader driving continuous improvement. From there, she joined Mitel for almost 8 years, holding key leadership positions to drive strategic transformation across the business, including Strategic Planning & Execution, shifting Go-to-Market models, Product Management and Organizational Development & Talent. Currently, as SVP of Standard BioTools Business Systems (SBS), Mona brings her passion for lean methodologies and solving problems to enable organizational transformation and drive business growth to the executive leadership team.
Mona is an expect on driving key strategic initiatives by working directly with customers to understand their problems and driving cross-functional alignment.
Mona has a B.S. in Management Science and an M.S. in Operations Research from Southern Methodist University. Mona also is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and an ICF Associated Certified Coach (ACC). She enjoys traveling, working out and spending time with her family.
Lisa Klarner
Certified Change Management Expert & Organizational Coach
Lisa is an experienced business professional with a passion for driving change at organizations who are ready to move beyond what is possible. With over 25 years of corporate experience, Lisa has led change management strategy for enterprise-wide technology implementations, digital transformations, and large-scale workplace renovations. The first half of Lisa’s career was spent at Kimberly-Clark Corporation where she managed projects, led implementation teams and drove high impact change programs.
Now as the owner of LK Coaching and Consulting, which was formed in 2012, Lisa looks for every opportunity to make the workplace a positive place where strategic objectives are achieved, changes are embraced, employees voices are heard, and their unique strengths are known and valued. Lisa serves leading edge companies as they continually transform to align with the ever-changing landscape of their industry.
When it comes to change management, the strategies and plans Lisa has developed to date have increased acceptance at go-live, strengthened stakeholder relationships, built sustainable change champion groups and developed a knowledgeable post-implementation team. She has worked with global consulting firms, American manufacturing companies and global consumer products organizations.
She has an eye for the greater vision and expertly weaves this vision into the change management strategies she implements. Throughout each change initiative, Lisa prioritizes senior leadership support and employee engagement from start to finish. She is a hands-on team player who works to gain an in depth understanding of the people impact. There is a balance between people needs and delivery, which she successfully maintains in her work, becoming an advocate for the people while staying in lockstep with the project manager and governance bodies.
Looking beyond change management, Lisa brings her international coaching experience and corporate background together to deliver professional development workshops and individual coaching to create teams that perform at optimal levels. Connecting employees to their natural born strengths and creating a team that functions in a respectful, results-oriented way.
Lisa is a certified PROSCI® Change Management Professional and a certified life and career coach through Quantum Leap University.
Lisa’s unique set of skills and experiences along with her desire to be a change driver, positive advocate, and partner to all her clients enables successful long-lasting change.
Louisa Benedicto
SVP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion,
Hays Specialist Recruiting
Louisa is Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I), Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability at Hays – covering the Americas region including Canada, the U.S., and Latin American Countries. She specializes in DE&I, enabling our clients to implement best practices that ensure everyone gets a fair opportunity in the recruitment process. Louisa spends her time partnering with clients to help them reach their ED&I goals, by ensuring they are familiar with current market trends, and techniques that will enable them to find the best talent. Louisa is also a graduate from the Inclusive Leadership program at Centennial College.
Louisa began her career with Hays in the UK in 2002 and moved to Japan in 2008 to help lead an acquisition. She then moved to Canada in 2013 where she currently lives with her wife and two children. Additionally, Louisa is fluent in Spanish and Japanese, and was certified as a coach in 2016. As an expert in recruitment and hiring trends, Louisa has also been featured in a variety of publications including CBC’s On The Money, Huffington Post Canada, and the Canadian HR Reporter.
Shaun Cheatham
Chief Commercial Officer, Hays
Shaun is responsible for the creation and execution of sales strategies for Hays in the U.S.. Shaun is also charged with running the Major and National accounts organization for Hays U.S. With over 20 years of staffing industry experience, Shaun started his career with Hays in the Tampa office where he led the U.S. organization in sales six out of his ten years in production. Prior to Hays, Shaun worked at one of the largest staffing firms in the world where he held a number of Sales and Sales Leadership positions. Shaun resides in the Tampa area with his wife and daughter.
Jessica Nemmers
CISO, Flair Data Systems
Jessica Nemmers is a Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with Flair Data Systems. In her role, Jessica acts as an advisor to organizations providing guidance on all aspects of cybersecurity, from developing strategies for protection and resiliency to implementing controls to meet compliance requirements. With over 25 years in the IT industry, Jessica’s passion for security began while working in datacenter operations at Perot Systems (now NTT Data). She later became the first CISO at Commercial Metals Company (CMC) where she built a cybersecurity program from the ground up. She went on to become a Chief Security Officer in the financial industry at Elevate Credit. As a board member and an experienced Chief Security Officer, Jessica works with security leaders, executives, and boards to establish a common understanding of cyber risk and improve the decision-making process around cyber program investments.
Jessica is a co-author of “The CISO Mentor” and has received recognition as a trailblazer for women in technology by the Dallas Business Journal and one of the “Dallas 500” most powerful business leaders in North Texas by D Magazine. She is known in the Dallas/Ft. Worth community as “The Ballerina Turned CISO” due to her prior career as a professional ballerina. Her unique career journey has fostered passion projects focused on mentorship for women in technology and those wishing to transition into cybersecurity from other careers.
Jessica is a proud mom of 4 grown children and works in Texas and Maryland, where she lives with her husband, David.
Will Markow
Vice President of Applied Research – Talent, Lightcast
Will Markow is the Vice President of Applied Research at Lightcast where he oversees the consulting and research team focused on strategic workforce planning, skills-based hiring strategies, and the impact of emerging trends and technologies on the workforce.
Will’s research with Lightcast is routinely featured in national media outlets, and he has overseen hundreds of custom consulting and research projects for Fortune 100 companies, technology vendors, training providers, workforce development organizations, and government agencies. He has also testified before congress and advised multiple White House administrations on key issues related to the future of work.
In addition, Will is a frequently cited commentator on the cybersecurity talent shortage and, in partnership with CompTIA and the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, leads the development of CyberSeek, an interactive online tool providing definitive data on the cybersecurity workforce across the United States.
Delvin Fletcher
President & Chief Executive Officer,
International Institute of Business Analysis
Delvin Fletcher joined IIBA as President and Chief Executive Officer in January, 2020 and serves our dynamic, global organization of members, volunteers and partners in more than 100 countries. He holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and is both a Professional Engineer (P. Eng) and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). Prior to joining IIBA, Delvin was CIO of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario where he led digital transformation in a complex membership and regulatory not-for-profit.
He spent his early professional years with KPMG Management Consulting serving on strategy, marketing, technology and operations projects in North America and EMEA. He has served in leadership roles with both multinationals and high growth privately held companies, including SAP and Shred-it International as well as entrepreneurial ventures, interim leadership roles and not-for-profit organizations, including Ethoca Limited, where he was CIO and Xchange Technology Group where he was COO responsible for global IT, HR, operations and professional services.
Susan Moore
Certified Business Analysis Professional, Agile Practitioner and author, The Virtual BA Coach
Susan is the Community Engagement Manager at IIBA. Before that, she was a business analysis professional with more than 20 years’ experience in finance, insurance and utilities industries working on both the Business and IT sides of organizations. Susan speaks frequently on business analysis-adjacent topics such as career development, essential skills, and virtual communication. She writes about these topics (and more!) at TheVirtualBACoach.com.
Susan holds CBAP and AAC certifications as well as other business analysis and agile certifications.
