Relational
Project Management Lab
Hosted in the beautiful downtown Victoria, BC
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM PST
Sunset Labs
400 Herald St,
Victoria, BC V8W 3N8
Because projects don’t get projects done - people do.
The Relational Project Management Lab is for project managers, team leads, and change-makers ready to lead differently, shifting the systems we’ve inherited into communities of collaboration with healthy stewardship. We’ll explore the dangers of seeing neurodiversity as a threat to project success, how culture can be a gift to creating better team synergy, and how a collective style of leadership is actually the answer to project success. Participants will be given enhanced project management tools that integrate culture, neurodiversity and racial differences so that you’re not leading with the same old system’s instruction manual.
An immersive and engaging session, you’ll leave with leadership tools to manage conflict, build trust, and redesign how your team works together. Simulated project conflicts, how Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs got it wrong and team charters you can use the very next week as you begin your projects.
How Does Relational Project Management Differentiate From Traditional Programming?
| Area of Focus | Traditional Executive / PM Programming | Relational Project Management |
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| Project Management | Emphasis on tools, frameworks, and delivery processes | Focus on the intersectionality of human dynamics within established project frameworks |
| Stakeholder Engagement | Managing interests, influence, and communication | Cultural context, power, systemic privilege and narrative alignment in stakeholder systems |
| Leadership Development | Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, influence | Collective style leadership in an individualized culture |
| Change Management | Timelines, stakeholder buy-in, communication plans, and compliance | Focussed on identity shifts, and relational repair. Tools are redesigned to support psychological safety, shared ownership, and sustained cultural integration. |
| Communication | Clarity, persuasion, effective messaging | Storytelling as retention and recruitment, risk translation, and team alignment |
| Diversity & Inclusion | Organizational or values-based focus | Impacts of culture and privilege within standardized project management methodology |
| Neurodiversity | Awareness or accommodation framing | Systemic understanding of why decolonizing neurodiversity is the needed first step in creating change, awareness and equity |
| Psychological Safety | Team culture concept | Prioritized and in direct relationship with physical workplace safety standards and procedures |
| Learning Outcome | Capable leaders and managers | All stakeholders are seen and understood as project leaders equipped to navigate the responsibility and tasks given to them |
What to Expect
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This is not a sit-back-and-listen session. You’ll be part of a facilitated, dialogue-rich experience where participation is welcomed, not pressured. Through story, shared insight, and interactive exercises, you’ll learn alongside other professionals who are ready to lead differently — with room for reflection, honesty, and challenge.
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Led by Andrea McCoy, PMP and founder of Janklin Consulting, this session brings over 15 years of cross-sector experience in project strategy, leadership development, and cultural facilitation. Andrea won’t speak at you — she’ll speak with you, guiding real conversations about the systems that need to shift, and equipping you with tools to lead that change from where you are.
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This training is rooted in psychological safety. The venue will offer light refreshments, access to restrooms, and spaces to pause, stretch, or reflect throughout the day. Grounding practices are woven into the flow — because we know that sustainable learning happens through a regulated nervous system, not pressure or performance.
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You’ll receive practical resources you can apply immediately, including customizable templates, facilitation tools, and new approaches to team charters, risk registers, and conflict repair protocols. This isn't just theory — it’s a toolkit for redesigning the human systems underneath your project work.
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By the end of the day, you’ll draft a personal commitment: a practical, professional reflection on how you intend to lead with care — for your team and yourself. This becomes both a touchstone and a starting point, anchoring the insights of the day into a sustainable leadership practice.
Course Cost
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For project managers, leaders, and practitioners ready to deepen how they lead people and projects.
This rate reflects the full value of the Relational Project Management experience: a full day of in-person facilitation, research-informed content, applied tools, and small-cohort style learning. The course is designed for those navigating real project complexity and seeking approaches that centre dignity, clarity, and collective responsibility.
This is the anchor rate for the program and best represents the depth of learning offered.
Best suited for:
Project managers, consultants, people leaders, PMO professionals, and experienced practitioners. -
For those building credentials while building capacity.
This rate is available to individuals actively studying for their PMP certification or enrolled in project management education. Human-Centred Project Management complements traditional PMP frameworks by focusing on the human, cultural, and systemic realities that shape project outcomes.
Participants at this rate join the same cohort, conversations, and learning experience as all others. There is no separate stream or simplified content.
Best suited for:
PMP candidates, graduate students, early-career project managers, and emerging leaders. -
Organizations interested in registering multiple participants of the Relational Project Management Lab are invited to contact Janklin Consulting directly: andrea@janklin.ca.
Cancellation Policy
We understand that plans can change. If you need to cancel your registration, you may request a partial refund up until September 1st. After this date, we are unable to offer refunds, as venue and event costs are confirmed in advance.
A portion of each registration is non-refundable to help cover those commitments. We appreciate your understanding and your investment in creating a meaningful, well-supported learning environment.
Meet Your Facilitator
Andrea McCoy
While studying for her PMP certification, buried in Maslow’s hierarchy, stakeholder matrices, and detailed work breakdown structures, Andrea noticed a critical gap: people were present, but identity was missing. Traditional project frameworks acknowledged “team dynamics” but ignored how culture, neurodiversity, race, and power actually show up inside teams, clients, and partnerships.
Despite references to team stages and servant leadership, the real lived experiences of team members, their backgrounds, their bodies, their ways of thinking, were left out of the equation.
As a project strategist and facilitator, Andrea has spent over 15 years bridging that gap. Drawing from her lived experience as a woman, an immigrant to Canada, and a descendant of Indigenous Mexican, German, and Scottish heritage, she challenges the one-size-fits-all project mindset. Her work brings identity, care, and cultural fluency back into how teams plan, deliver, and sustain work — not as an afterthought, but as an essential part of team cohesion and ultimate project success.