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From Projects To Impact: Leveraging Lean Startup To Scale With Confidence

Scaling isn’t about doing more. It’s about learning faster, pivoting smarter, and delivering stronger outcomes.

This session reframes project leadership from delivering outputs to driving measurable business and customer outcomes. Using lean startup principles, teams can prototype, pivot, and pitch their way to validated solutions, testing assumptions earlier, reducing wasted effort, and scaling with far more confidence.

We’ll bring this approach to life with AI and collaborative whiteboarding, showing how teams can synthesize insights quickly, map customer journeys, generate solution options, test hypotheses, and align stakeholders around the highest value opportunities. Along the way, we’ll explore how project leaders can build the culture, psychological safety, cross-functional learning, and an experimenting mindset, that makes this way of working stick beyond a single project. Walk away with a more adaptive, outcome focused approach that helps you move faster, learn smarter, and deliver impact that lasts.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the shift from managing project execution to driving measurable business and customer value, and why this shift matters as teams scale.
• Apply the prototype, pivot, and pitch framework to test assumptions early, adapt based on real data, and avoid over-investing before validating a solution.
• Use AI tools and collaborative whiteboarding to run design thinking exercises, such as Crazy 8s and customer journey mapping, that surface real user needs quickly.
• Pitch validated learnings and early engagement data to stakeholders, treating them like investors, to secure resources and scale with confidence.
• Identify practical ways to build a culture of experimentation and psychological safety on their teams, including cross-functional learning loops and upskilling, so scaling becomes a team habit rather than a one-time project effort.

 Agenda

6:00 - 6:25 PM - Networking

6:25 PM - 6:30 PM - Chapter Notes

6:30 PM - 7:15 PM - Presentation By Isaac LaMothe

7:15 PM - 7:30 PM - Q&A

7:30 PM - Meeting Closes

About the Speaker: 

Meet Isaac E. LaMothe, A Johnson & Johnson AI & Digital Senior Director that is a seasoned technology, commercial, and supply chain executive who brings over 15+ years of experience marked by a strong penchant for embracing change and leading strategic business and digital transformations. As a serial entrepreneur, he has always had a passion for learning and experimenting as he has co-founded 2 startups. Isaac draws from his startup and small business experience to assist organizations in crafting and implementing transformative strategies tied to operating models, capabilities, portfolios or products, always prioritizing outcomes over outputs across pivotal sectors like Consumer Health, Medical Technologies, and the Pharmaceutical. Leveraging Agile, Design Thinking, UX, Portfolio, and Product Management frameworks, Isaac has been able to help teams innovate by reducing the risk and uncertainty towards delivering value this relentless focus on outcomes has resulted in his colleagues calling him “Mr. Value” at J&J. Isaac enjoys traveling and trying out new food with his wife and their two youngest children. Outside of work, Isaac is also very active at his local church; he and his wife mentor local youth groups and host blood drives, fundraisers, and health awareness sessions to improve the mental and physical well-being of others in his community.