Chapter Meetings
February 2020 Chapter Meeting
Join Us and Speaker Dr. Hani Emari on Feb 2oth for Change Management for Business Success by a Project Management Professional
Speaker: Dr. Hani Emari, PMP
Hani Emari is a Professional Project Manager with work experience on over 25 large-scale projects from design and engineering to construction and facility management. Dr. Emari has the technical knowledge, interpersonal skills and broad market experience to deliver business development and project management services across the entire project life cycle for projects ranging in value from $500,000 to 500 Million USD for both public and private sectors. To prove his competence and credentials, Dr. Emari obtained his PMP Certification in 2016 and his Doctorate of Business Administration in Business Strategic Planning to complement his Project Management and Business Development experience. He has provided staff mentoring and coaching to a variety of industries and as part of his continuing education program. Dr. Emari is currently working as a Project Quality Manager with Brinker on a DTE Project, teaches Business of Engineering, a mini-MBA course with Wayne State University, and he is the Director of Corporate Outreach with PMIGLC.
Chapter meeting begins at 6:30PM. Washtenaw Community College - Room GM GM 320 https://www.wccnet.edu/visit/room-locator/gm.php
Doors open at 6:00 PM for networking and hors d'oeuvres.
Online registration closes at noon on the day 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: Strategy)
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 student ID
PMI-HVC Members get a $5 discount!
You must log-in to the chapter website to receive your member discount.
March 2020 Chapter Meeting
Join Us as Paul Rakowicz presents All Things Agile on March 16, 2020
Come learn about All Things Agile -
As more and more companies are looking at Agile, project managers need to be able to manage projects and understand various methodologies. Get an understanding of what Agile and the Scrum framework are as well as common pitfalls that teams often face implementing and using the Agile methodology.
Paul Rakowicz is an Agile Transformation Coach with Ford Motor Company. Paul served as VP of Development and was instrumental in implementing agile " using Scrum overlaid with a mature, custom DSDM scalable Agile Portfolio/Project/Product Lifecycle Management framework" at Lowry.
Chapter meeting begins at 6:30PM. Location Coming Soon!
Doors open at 6:00PM 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.
Earn PDU's: Meeting attendance equals 1.5 PDU's (Category: Strategy)
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.
April 2020 Chapter Meeting
Join Us for Speaker Babette Ten Haken for Building Trust: Tell the Stories Employees and Customers Really Need to Hear
PMI HVC STORYTELLING PRESENTATION AND MINIWORKSHOP, APRIL 23, 2020
Program Title: “Build Trust. Tell the Stories Employees and Customers really need to Hear.” Keywords: Communication, Workforce Profitability, Customer Retention 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. Explore the key elements of legendary storytelling. Rediscover your own Signature Stories, your legends, residing in the stories you currently dismiss as unimportant or bury because these stories are associated with workplace toxicity. By leveraging co-created storytelling, across the organization, successfully reflect the voices of employees, stakeholders and clients. The voices you can design and innovate new products, services and systems around. Leverage a storytelling culture as part of your compelling human capital strategy. When you continuously connect your story to everyone else’s story, you co-create Trust: the most powerful employee and customer experience of all. One of the most powerful human experiences of all. To get to where you need to go, Together. Outcomes and Benefits: • 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.
Speaker Bio:
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. BABETTE TEN HAKEN, ONE MILLIMETER MINDSET™ / SALES AEROBICS FOR ENGINEERS®, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2019-2020© 2 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.
Chapter meeting begins at 6:30PM. Location Coming Soon!
Doors open at 6:00PM for networking and hors d'oeuvres.
Online registration closes two day before the meeting at midnight
Walk-ins are welcome! We accept cash or check at the door.
Earn PDU's: Meeting attendance equals 1.5 PDU's (Category: Strategy)
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.
May 2020 Chapter Meeting
Join Us
Chapter meeting begins at 6:30PM. Location Coming Soon!
Doors open at 6:00PM 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.
Earn PDU's: Meeting attendance equals 1.5 PDU's (Category: Strategy)
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.
June 2020 Chapter Meeting
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.