Advising begins with understanding what matters.
Whether you’re guiding a colleague, supporting a leader, or working with a client, effective advising begins with understanding what matters. It requires thoughtful questions, attentive listening, and the judgment to offer guidance others can use.
Join this engaging one-hour session to explore how everyday conversations can become opportunities to influence decisions and move work forward. Discover practical ways to look beyond the initial request, invite fresh thinking, and help others identify a clear next step.
Designed for leaders, project professionals, internal advisors, and anyone whose work depends on helping others succeed.
What You’ll Learn
At the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Recognize when an initial request needs further exploration before offering advice.
- Identify purposeful questions that uncover needs, assumptions, and differing perspectives.
- Describe how attentive listening strengthens advice and recommendations.
- Identify ways to help others turn advice into a clear, practical next step.
Lisa DiTullio
International speaker in project management and impactful storyteller
Lisa DiTullio is a consultant, trainer, and internationally recognized speaker in project management with more than 25 years of experience introducing PMO and portfolio management models into organizations.
She previously served as Vice President of Portfolio and Program Management at Foundation Medicine and as director of the PMO at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, where she built project management practice into everyday operations.
Lisa is an instructor for PMI® PMTraining™, a published author and podcast contributor, and a frequent speaker at industry events, where she is known for using storytelling to deliver practical project management insight.