Speakers

Everything is Project Management: Make complexity work for you

Your career (and life!) are full of projects. So you may as well get very good at running them. Some projects are hard because they are badly designed or you don't have the right help. But many are hard because they are important.

This session explores how to approach complex legal, cross-functional, cross-border projects with more clarity, confidence and structure. Rather than hiding from complexity or pretending it is not there, we will look at how to embrace it, map it, and manage it in a way that helps important ideas succeed. Through a mix of practical examples, discussion and reflection, participants will change their mindset towards complex projects, understand the humans involved in a project, create shared goals, invite co-design, and maintain momentum through communication and visible progress.

The session will also encourage participants to think more broadly about project management as a life skill — one that applies not only to legal transformation at work, but also to the meaningful projects we carry in our personal lives and the way we set ourselves up for the rest of the year.

The work is complex because the work is meaningful. Don’t run from the complexity. Learn to lead it.

About Verity

Verity White is an award-winning lawyer, Accredited Specialist in Commercial Law, and a contract design expert, who loves improving business relationships with clear legal information and effective processes. As the Legal Director of Checklist Legal, she works with in-house legal teams to transform contracts, legal processes, and communication strategies to enhance business relationships.

Verity is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne and the author of Create Contracts Clients Love. She speaks internationally on legal innovation, contract design, and clear legal communication, empowering legal professionals to write and speak with impact—without losing legal precision. When she's not redesigning contracts to improve business relationships, she's generally covered in paint, dirt, or bike chain grease.

Find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verityw