Presidents Message

Frank Pugh, PMI Tallahassee Chapter President

PPMI Tallahassee Chapter Members and Friends:

It is hard to believe that a whole quarter of 2025 is already behind us. In this time your PMITLH Chapter Board hascompleted strategic planning activities, organized and activated committees, and has set a strong pace in conducting events and communicating with our stakeholders.

On Friday March 7th, we submitted our Charter Renewal application to PMI (a full three weeks early). Debbie Rivenburg, our PMI Board Liaison, attended the Leadership Institute Meeting late last year. The knowledge that she brought back helped us end 2024 successfully and get a massive head start on this year’s renewal. As we said in our last message to you all, we adopted PMI:Next principles, and focused on knowing our members, championing our PMI brand, and growing through partnerships.

In meeting our goal to get to know you better, we have budgeted for the adoption of new engagement and survey tools that will allow us to interact with you in a more focused and light touch manner. These short, focused surveys will involve you in important chapter decisions. We want to hear about what we are doing right, where we have fallen behind, and how we can improve.

Regarding our goal to champion our brand, we are committing to frequent high value interactions with you through a combination of networking, chapter meetings and professional development activities. We will feature PMI project managers, business leaders, varied industry experts and inspirational growth proponents in our offerings. They will engage you in short format programs like those above as well as two long form events in May and September. These long form events will not only give you the chance to pack in the PDUs but also teach and/or reinforce actionable skills and provide lasting impact.

Regarding partnerships, we are also working to engage other PMI chapters to further strengthen our long format professional development events. In recent years we have collaborated with nearby chapters both virtually and in person. We will do so again. We are also engaging with organizations that champion one or more of our key project
performance areas. As one of our Project Management Principles is to “enable change to realize the envisioned future state”, we are sure that you will benefit from the knowledge transfer opportunities enabled by our collaboration with the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP). In addition, we firmly believe that the most important partnerships are struck with our members. We want to work
side by side with you. This enthusiasm is reflected in our adoption of the Volunteer Engagement Platform (VEP). We describe the VEP more in this edition of the newsletter.

In closing, we want to make your PMI Tallahassee membership easy, meaningful and rewarding. The coming quarteris going to be an exciting one. We are looking forward to a chapter meeting and a lunch and learn in April. The chapter meeting speaker will look at Commercial Real Estate through a PM lens, and in the lunch and learn, a former GE executive will address us on some of the intangible aspects of being a successful executive. We will punctuate the end of April / beginning of May with a networking gathering where you can meet other members and speak one on one with board members. Then, we will make a strong statement in mid-May with a Professional Development Day. Then comes another full-power chapter meeting in June, this one featuring an artificial intelligence topic. Whether your communication preference is social media, email or simply visiting our website, we encourage
you to keep us close by as your busy spring unfolds.