Chapter Meetings

This Meeting Will be Online Only
Information to join the meeting will be emailed the day of the meeting 

Do your internal and external customers trust the stories you tell? Are these stories actually use- or business cases which stop, just when they need to continue? Courageous and compelling storytelling is your key to business growth: acquiring, serving and retaining customers, partners, stakeholders and your colleagues: the internal customers you serve. 

• Leverage Signature Storytelling, Legendary Storytelling, to catalyze more productive and profitable communication and collaboration across your own organization, your partners’ and your clients’, regardless of professional disciplines, job titles, pay grades, levels of education and generations;
• Poke holes in value silos based on the differentiated value of employees who solve problems differently. A storytelling culture becomes a key component of a purpose-driven human capital strategy; and
• Develop more visible, relevant and valuable employees who understand how their stories, and “what they do,” are connected to “what everyone else does” in attracting and retaining partners and clients. 

Babette Ten Haken is a Signature Storyteller of Workforce Legends. She serves organizations and associations wrestling with the impact of today’s interconnected technical environments on workforce and leadership capacity to handle change. Babette translates across people and professional disciplines.

Create bridges across the Voice of the Employee / Voice of the Customer communication disconnects which can marginalize, exclude or intimidate employees, partners and clients.

Babette Ten Haken’s Signature Stories are forged from her own experiences as a STEM professional, Voice of the Customer Facilitator and Six Sigma Green Belt working on new product development teams, right around the time the Internet of Things exploded into our business environments. She focuses people on what they have in common, rather than on what separates them. Babette motivates people to combine courage and critical thinking skills to create Trust, one of the greatest employee - and human - experiences of all.

Babette is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association, where she serves on the Michigan Chapter Board of Directors. She graduated with dual degrees from both Washington University, St. Louis MO USA and University College, University of London, UK. 

Note New Start Time

• The meeting will start at 7pm and end at 9pm
• Online registration closes at noon on the day before the meeting.

PDUs Earned = 1.5 in Strategy

Location - Online

Price

Student pricing - $10 with valid student ID

 Register as a student.  Then show up at the door and present your studuent ID 

PMI-HVC Members get a $5 discount!

You must log-in to the chapter website to receive your member discount.

What do Google, rocket fuel, Gatorade, artificial insemination, MRIs and ultrasounds, television and breathalyzers have in common? Along with a significant percentage of all innovations in technology and healthcare, these have roots in fundamental research performed at a university. U.S. institutions currently spend $75 billion per year on fundamental and applied research, providing the building blocks for another $400 billion per year in government and industry developmental R&D. How can project management be a part of this process, especially at the beginning when the goals are by definition uncertain? How do you make a work breakdown structure for pure knowledge? What are the challenges of working in this sector and managing the business side of science? 

Jim Walke is a Senior Project Manager at the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative at the University of Virginia.  He is currently PM for a project under the DARPA SocialSim program, modeling the spread and evolution of information online. Formerly, he was PM for an IARPA FunGCAT project with the goal of preventing the accidental or intentional creation of biothreats through DNA manipulation, and also for a six year NIH project under their Bioterror Defense program. Simultaneously, Jim has applied the principles of project management to grant writing, leading successful efforts with scientific teams to secure funding from NIH, NSF, DoD, and other agencies.  He works remotely from Ann Arbor, Michigan.  

Meeting Details

• Doors open at 6:00 pm for networking and hors d'oeuvres.
• Online registration closes at noon on the day of the meeting.
• Walk-ins are welcome! We accept cash or check at the door.

PDUs Earned = 1.5 in Strategy

Location

TBD
 

Price

Student pricing - $10 with valid student ID

 Register as a student.  Then show up at the door and present your studuent ID 

PMI-HVC Members get a $5 discount!

You must log-in to the chapter website to receive your member discount.

Join Us for a Networking Event as we head into our Summer Break! 

Chapter meeting begins at 6:30PM.  Location Coming Soon!  

Doors open at 6:00PM for networking and hors d'oeuvres.

Online registration closes at midnight 2 days before the meeting

Walk-ins are welcome!  We accept cash or check at the door.

Earn PDU's:  Meeting attendance equals 1.5 PDU's (Category: Leadership)

Pre-registrants get a $5 discount!

Student pricing - $10 with valid student ID

 Register as a student.  Then show up at the door and present your studuent ID

PMI-HVC Members get a $5 discount!

You must log-in to the chapter website to receive your member discount.