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The PMI Keystone Chapter wants to connect with PMI members, Project Managers and the project management professional community to drive the field of project management forward in the Carlisle area. 

We hope you will join us at our regular monthly meetings to learn how you can expand your network and collaborate with us to create and share consumable content, tools and resources.

The feature presentation will be as follows:

Topic : Managing Motivation: Leadership Lessons from an AT Thru-Hike

Leadership, management, and motivation are not just metaphors, but things that the physicality of an endurance hike can inform…and it comes with beautiful trail pictures. 9 lessons from the trail remind us of how to self-manage and manage teams, all learned from the physicality of the trail.  These lessons lead to a realization of a simple technique to manage personal motivation to take on challenges. 

Participants will learn a technique for managing motivation that empowers success, as well as be reminded of 9 steps that have application directly to the management of projects to help us be better managers and leaders.

Speaker: Kendall Lott, CEO and President, M Powered Strategies, Inc

With over 20 years of experience in the federal government and as a consultant, Kendall Lott is the CEO/President of M Powered Strategies, Inc, a change management consulting firm in Washington DC that supports organizations in public service.  His professional background includes government service as a Presidential Management Fellow and as a career civil servant at the Departments of Agriculture and Justice, as well as service as a Peace Corps Volunteer (Micronesia).  His government consulting career has taken him for extensive tours in Jordan, India and Malaysia.  His professional interests and experiences are in economic analysis of projects, business process reengineering and design, organizational change management, program design, and coaching.

A certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), he has served as a volunteer with Washington DC Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMIWDC) for over a decade, and was an active member of the board for 8 years.  His volunteer roles include executive management, as he has been the COO and CEO of PMIWDC, the Executive Director of the Project Management Day of Service, the Chairman of the Board of the PM4Change non-profit organization, and the host and producer of the PM Point of View® podcast. He has won volunteer leadership awards with PMI at the regional and nation level.  In 2017, he completed a thru-hike of the 2,189-mile Appalachian Trail.

Kendall is a Gallup certified StrengthFinders® coach, and holds a Master of International Relations from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Indiana University, Bloomington.

DATE:  Wednesday, April 24, 2019

TIME:  Networking and dinner begins at 6:00 PM followed by the Featured Speaker starting promptly at 6:30 PM.

LOCATION: Giant/Martins, 1149 Harrisburg Pike, Carlisle, PA 17013, Parking lot in rear.

PROTOCOL: Dress code is business or business casual.  

COST: There is no charge for this meeting to Chapter members. A nominal fee of $5 will be charged to non-Chapter registrants and attendees. Chapter members must log-in to the Chapter website in order to receive the discount.

(You will need to log-in to the PMI Keystone Chapter Website in order to receive the Chapter Member discount.)

If you have someone who you feel will benefit from this session, please feel free to invite them.

Attendees can self-report up to 1 PDU - TBD. PDUs for monthly meetings do not get updated automatically for attendees.

CONTACT: For questions please email: carlisle--manager@pmi-keystone.org