July 15th
11:00 AM ET / 5:00 PM CET
Resource Management is a career many people discover by accident. Some RMs start in project management. Others come from operations, HR, finance, recruiting, production, delivery, or consulting. Many begin by solving staffing problems, coordinating schedules, or helping teams make better decisions - before realizing the work they are doing has a name. But as Resource Management becomes more visible as a profession, many RMs are asking the same questions: Where can this career actually go? What does growth look like beyond scheduling and allocation? And how do you move from being the person who fills requests to the person who helps shape capacity, hiring, utilization, and workforce decisions? Jill Neusner and RaShonda Gibson, RMCP®, will share how their own paths into Resource Management unfolded, what opportunities exist beyond the “Resource Manager” title, and how RM professionals can grow into more strategic, visible, and influential roles. Expect an honest, practical conversation about accidental career paths, organizational maturity, career progression, and what it takes to build a long-term future in Resource Management.
Ra Shonda Gibson is an accomplished business operations and resource management consultant. With more than a decade of experience helping organizations streamline operations, improve staffing and build resource management teams, she has planted her roots firmly in the Resource Management space. Her experience is cross-functional, which includes finance and operations, giving her a firm understanding of how to strategically align business initiatives with the appropriate talent while growing revenue and eliminating waste. Ra Shonda holds both the Resource Management Certified Professional (RMCP®) certification and the Advanced Resource Manager designation with the Resource Management Institute (RMI).
Jill Neusner is a Resource Manager at Envisionit, where she manages cross-departmental resource allocation, supports balanced workloads, and partners with creative, finance, account, and project teams to deliver outstanding work on time and within budget. Her path into Resource Management was shaped by years in agency production, creative project management, and video and film production, giving her a practical understanding of budgets, schedules, talent, and delivery. Jill has held RM roles at agencies including Momentum Worldwide, Upshot, Leo Burnett, and Blue Chip Marketing Worldwide, and brings deep experience in creative resourcing, freelancer management, utilization, and building RM practices that help teams do their best work.
Nora Fleischhut is an experienced transformation consultant, passionate speaker, and future of work enthusiast. After working in consulting at one of the Big Four for seven years, she’s now partnering with Runn on a mission to unleash the potential of organizations and people by creating more adaptable, human, and joyful ways of working and enabling a change of perspective. With her optimistic, collaborative, and innovative mindset, she creatively draws on methods and expertise from the fields of neurobiology, behavioral sciences, agile ways of working, and psychology. How her friends would describe her to a stranger: Unfalteringly positive.
Online
July 15th
11:00 AM ET / 5:00 PM CET
July 15th
11:00 AM ET / 5:00 PM CET
Resource Management is a career many people discover by accident. Some RMs start in project management. Others come from operations, HR, finance, recruiting, production, delivery, or consulting. Many begin by solving staffing problems, coordinating schedules, or helping teams make better decisions - before realizing the work they are doing has a name. But as Resource Management becomes more visible as a profession, many RMs are asking the same questions: Where can this career actually go? What does growth look like beyond scheduling and allocation? And how do you move from being the person who fills requests to the person who helps shape capacity, hiring, utilization, and workforce decisions? Jill Neusner and RaShonda Gibson, RMCP®, will share how their own paths into Resource Management unfolded, what opportunities exist beyond the “Resource Manager” title, and how RM professionals can grow into more strategic, visible, and influential roles. Expect an honest, practical conversation about accidental career paths, organizational maturity, career progression, and what it takes to build a long-term future in Resource Management.
Ra Shonda Gibson is an accomplished business operations and resource management consultant. With more than a decade of experience helping organizations streamline operations, improve staffing and build resource management teams, she has planted her roots firmly in the Resource Management space. Her experience is cross-functional, which includes finance and operations, giving her a firm understanding of how to strategically align business initiatives with the appropriate talent while growing revenue and eliminating waste. Ra Shonda holds both the Resource Management Certified Professional (RMCP®) certification and the Advanced Resource Manager designation with the Resource Management Institute (RMI).
Jill Neusner is a Resource Manager at Envisionit, where she manages cross-departmental resource allocation, supports balanced workloads, and partners with creative, finance, account, and project teams to deliver outstanding work on time and within budget. Her path into Resource Management was shaped by years in agency production, creative project management, and video and film production, giving her a practical understanding of budgets, schedules, talent, and delivery. Jill has held RM roles at agencies including Momentum Worldwide, Upshot, Leo Burnett, and Blue Chip Marketing Worldwide, and brings deep experience in creative resourcing, freelancer management, utilization, and building RM practices that help teams do their best work.
Nora Fleischhut is an experienced transformation consultant, passionate speaker, and future of work enthusiast. After working in consulting at one of the Big Four for seven years, she’s now partnering with Runn on a mission to unleash the potential of organizations and people by creating more adaptable, human, and joyful ways of working and enabling a change of perspective. With her optimistic, collaborative, and innovative mindset, she creatively draws on methods and expertise from the fields of neurobiology, behavioral sciences, agile ways of working, and psychology. How her friends would describe her to a stranger: Unfalteringly positive.
Online
July 15th
11:00 AM ET / 5:00 PM CET
