September 28 2026 at 07:41AM
Track Spotlight: Make an Impact
Sustainability has moved from strategic ambition to everyday project practice. In this track, five speakers tackle that shift from five different angles: systems thinking, standards, certification, financial modeling, and team culture. Making the case that "impact" isn't a bolt-on to good project management; it is good project management.
Aylin Kaptan - Projects Were Never Linear: Rethinking Value Creation Through Circular Systems
Aylin challenges the assumption that projects are inherently linear, drawing on circular economy principles and real examples from the built environment. Through reflective exercises and live polling, participants map their projects as systems and leave with tools to define value beyond time, cost, and scope.
Shushan Khachatryan van Krimpen - Delivering Projects That Create Lasting Value: A Practical P5 Workshop on Sustainable Project Delivery
Structured around the P5 Standard, People, Planet, Prosperity, Process, and Product, this workshop has participants apply the P5 lens to a guided case study, seeing how project decisions ripple out to stakeholders and the environment, and leaving with a repeatable method for assessing sustainability impact.
Lucila Dotto - The #1 Predictor of Project Success: Turning Sustainability into Execution
Lucila names the execution gap between sustainability as a strategic priority and sustainability as a delivered outcome, and shows how the free PMI-GPM ecosystem, paired with the CSPP™ certification, gives project professionals a structured system for closing it.
Frank Wijnands & Grant Davis - Time Value of Carbon: Financial Integration in NPV
Building on the Time Value of Carbon (TVC) framework they helped develop, Frank and Grant show how a project's CO2e performance can be evaluated the same way NPV evaluates money, against a Paris Agreement-aligned threshold rate, and walk through a hypothetical heat-pump case using carbon pricing like the EU ETS.
Lorenzo Vetrano - From Group to Tribe: Building Sustainable Teams That Deliver Beyond Projects
Lorenzo asks what if the most valuable thing a project delivers isn't the project at all, but the team you build while delivering it. Drawing on organizational psychology, flow science, and competitive sports, he introduces a framework for turning groups into high-performing "tribes," tested live through a Tribe Assessment.
Together, these five sessions span the full picture of sustainable delivery, from how we define value to how we prove it, fund it, and build the teams that carry it forward.
Join the Make an Impact track at the PMI NL Summit to see it in practice.
