The Cost of Being Easy to Work With

This is an online only event from 12 - 1 pm on the 21st of October 2026. A MS Teams link will be sent out when registrations close the day prior to the event.

About the Event: 

Being dependable should be a professional strength, but too often it becomes an invitation to take on more. Work tends to flow towards the people who create the least resistance, while those who either resist, delay, or underperform are quietly given a free pass.

This session explores the hidden cost of being the reliable ‘safe pair of hands’, why women can experience this pressure particularly sharply, and how clearer boundaries, responsibilities, and priorities can stop helpfulness becoming exploitation.

Always as provocative as ever, Youssef will share some insights and provide some tips and tricks on how to balance this out..

About the Presenters:

Youssef Mourra is the founder, Director, and Principal Consultant at Nonsuch. He delivers consulting across all the layers of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (P3M) in organisations of any size and type. He is known for developing practical and pragmatic solutions that help organisations achieve their desired business outcomes and to execute their strategies. He also has deep experience with Benefits, Risk & Change Management, Assurance and Portfolio Management. He is a member of the Better Business Case Review Group and a sought-after Gateway Reviewer for The Treasury.
Youssef is a trusted advisor by several ‘C’ suite executives and project offices throughout New Zealand in both the public and private sector. Youssef’s particular area of focus is working with organisations at the ‘C’ suite to help develop governance frameworks, strategies, and approaches to strategic realisation and capacity planning. He does this by helping clients adopt portfolio management by identifying, defining, and prioritising portfolios of projects while ensuring the expected benefits and outcomes are delivered too.
Youssef has been in New Zealand since December 2003 and became a fully-fledged Kiwi in 2018. He was born in Lebanon and grew up in Sydney. He describes himself as a recovering Australian. He has worked in Australia, the UK, Europe, and Asia.
Youssef is based in Wellington, married, and has three adult children. When he has spare time, he enjoys music, reading, fruit trees, cricket, theatre, travel, wine, politics, and etymology (the history and study of words).

PDU's Available:

1 PDU - Available

Course Identifier: PMINZCHCH21102026

PDU Claim Code: 0129JKRI84

Hosted by: PMINZ Christchurch Branch and proudly sponsored by NonSuch.