Donya Ziraksari
Senior Technical Manager Microsoft
Donya Ziraksari is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft and an experienced program manager with over 15 years of delivering complex programs across the technology, hyperscale data center, oil and gas, renewable energy, and infrastructure industries. She is the Founder and President of Project Plus Solutions LLC a training and consulting company and Equal Human Rights Organization, a non-profit, where she advances project management excellence, technology, research, education, and human rights advocacy. Donya is an award-winning human rights advocate, public speaker, and the author of Tehran to Miami and Random Beings.
Seminars
Data center projects are facing growing resistance from communities and local authorities, often driven by misinformation and lack of early engagement. Take part in this workshop to shift from reacting to resistance to building proactive community alignment and buy-in, using real scenarios to handle objections and strengthen trust.
- Working through real examples of community concerns and misinformation to test messaging and improve stakeholder buy-in
- Sharing proactive community engagement strategies and identifying trusted local voices that could help build trust before project kick-off
- Learning from success and failure stories of engaging with zoning boards and community stakeholders
- Defining steps to maintain continuous community alignment throughout the project lifecycle and avoid late-stage resistance
