Virtual Event - Aligning Your Team to Make Better Decisions with Choosing By Advantages

Northern California Community of Practice
Sep 5-5, 2025

 

Moderator: 
Jeff Long
Jeffery Long has practical business experience in project management, executive coaching, and continuous improvement, having managed numerous projects in the construction, land development, and telecommunications industries and served a varied customer base, including U. S. Department of Energy, Bechtel, Chevron, Shell, AT&T, Genentech, and Roche. Jeff served as the Global Operational Excellence Lead at Roche/Genentech, ensuring capability-building programs met ongoing business needs.  Key among them was implementing CBA as a key approach for making decisions.

Speakers: 
Paz Arroyo
Paz is a Quality Leader at DPR Construction, she supports the implementation of a Culture of Quality across the project lifecycle nationally. She has construction industry experience internationally, with a strong background in lean. She earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley studying decision-making for sustainable design. She is also the LCI NorCal training lead.

Annett Schöttle
Annett earned her PhD at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, on requirements and incentives to create a collaborative Lean project delivery system for capital projects. She works as an independent Lean consultant, with extensive experience in megaprojects, helping project teams collaborate to develop, align, and optimize production planning from project start to commissioning, and implementing CBA for better decision-making in various settings. Annett is a founding member and trainer for the German LCI.

Randi Christensen
Randi is an engineer and earned her PhD at Aalborg University in Denmark, focusing on how we learn from project to project, and how Lean Construction methods can support this. Her experience ranges from Danish Defense to implementing Lean in a UK megaproject and helping Copenhagen Municipality implement CBA. She is a Sustainability Director at COWI, focusing on decision-making to drive projects in a sustainable direction by incorporating multiple voices and diverse pools of knowledge.

Recommended Reading:  
Building Decisions: How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success


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