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IN-DEPTH PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE
Thursday, August 27, 2026
12:00 - 3:30 PM ET
Project management literacy for the whole organization — not just the people with the title.
Most organizations don’t have a project management problem, they have a role-clarity problem. Projects rarely fail outright. They stall because no one is sure who is responsible for what, where to take a problem, or when the project is officially complete. Making the Thing Happen is project management literacy for the whole organization — not just the people with the title. Work piles up in the gaps between people, and good projects die quietly. Not from one big failure, but from a dozen small “I-thought-you-had-it”s that never get said.
The free, introductory session shows you the tools that exist and names them. In the three-hour course, you’ll walk through a real project and look at it from the first question to the final checkmark. You’ll leave with a way of seeing you can use daily. This course won’t turn you into a project manager — it isn’t trying to. It’s for everyone who is handed pieces of a project without ever being shown how it all connects. It’s where the shape of the whole comes into view — and where your piece sits inside it. When an organization works from a shared language, the gaps where projects stall start to close on their own.
By the end of the session, you’ll be able to see the structure underneath any project — enough to:
- Know what makes something a project, and not an open-ended task — so you stop pouring effort into work with no finish line.
- Recognize who owns a project, and why ownership often has to cross departments — so people pull toward one outcome without trying to do each other’s jobs.
- Read where a project stands at any moment — so problems surface while they’re still small, instead of becoming the thing that blows the deadline.
- Know what it takes to complete the project — claim the win, put it down, and capture the lesson — so the next one starts smarter than the last.
WHO IT'S FOR
- Founders, entrepreneurs, and small-business owners
- Nonprofit leaders and arts administrators
- Marketing, agency, and creative professionals
- Team leads and coordinators who run projects without the PM title
- “Accidental” project managers — anyone handed the project without the training
It’s for people who move projects across
the finish line, in any field.
REGISTRATION:
Individual Registration price is $395.
Early Registration price (by August 13) is $350.
Group discount price ($25 per person) is $325 for any organization that registers three (3) or more people. Each participant from a participating organization is required to be a paid registrant. No group viewing is permitted unless all participants are registered. For larger group pricing, please contact us.
You must register by August 13, 2026 to receive the Early Registration Discount. Cancellations are accepted if request is made at least 10 days prior to start of the course. Within 1-7 days or "no show", the full registration fee will be charged. When possible, please send a substitute instead of cancelling. We do not charge a fee for registrant substitutions.
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR,
TOPHER WOLFE
CL Project Management Consultant 
For twenty-five years, Topher Wolfe has worked in film and television as an Assistant Director. The job has a deceptively simple description: the Director is in charge of what you see on the screen; the Assistant Directors are in charge of getting it there. Note the plural — it’s a team. From 2nd 2nd AD to Key 2nd AD to 1st AD, Topher has worked the floor from every position.
For the better part of the last decade he has been a 1st Assistant Director — the person at the center of the floor — on scripted television series for Showtime, NBC, Peacock, TNT, BET, Apple TV+, and FX. Crews of a hundred or more. Immovable deadlines. Decisions measured in seconds, with real money riding on each one. The way he describes the job: “I don’t tell people how to do their jobs. I tell them where they need to be and when they need to do it.”
Nobody on a film set calls that project management. But that is exactly what it is. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the Directors Guild of America’s Assistant Director Training Program — one of the most selective professional programs in the industry — Topher has spent his career walking into rooms full of experts, each one the master of a single department, and getting all of them to move as one.
His expertise is the space in-between departments. It's getting a complicated thing done — on time — in a room where everyone has mastered one piece of it. It's the same job whether you're making television or running an operation that can't afford to fail. Topher lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he’s an avid football fan, a cornhole fanatic, and a self-described mediocre golfer who loves to grill.
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