Special recognition to our volunteers who have made the Chapter a success this past year.  With over twelve years volunteering with non-profits, I have a deep appreciation for dedicated and hardworking volunteers.  As we ramp up to the 2020 year we have many new volunteer opportunities open for members to join our team of professional project managers. Please consider becoming a PMI-MN volunteer. I know that there is no greater reward than the opportunity to volunteer with passionate volunteers in an outstanding organization.

The year 2019 has realized positive changes for the Chapter including new policy changes. I encourage everyone to view and read the Amended Policy Manual on our website. These amendments are crucial in aligning our Chapter with PMI Global; both our Chapter and PMI Global share a promising vision for the project management economy. These policies such as the Finance Committee’s Gift Card policy and Volunteer Committee’s Credit Hours policy will help execute our mission of providing value to members and the community through opportunities for career development and to advocate the advancement of the project management profession and its disciplines.

In the coming year, under the direction of our incoming Chapter President Sara Swanson, PMP®, the Board will collaborate with members as we aspire to be recognized globally as a premier, best-in-class, innovative community of project managers who embrace world class practices. I am eager to see Sara take the helm of the Chapter’s leadership beginning January 1, 2020 and flourish our passion into new accomplishments.

I look forward to our Chapter helping not only experienced but also new project managers enhance their skills, reinforce their passion, and discover insurmountable success in our project management economy. We are in this together, this is our community, this is our Minnesota Chapter.  Let’s continue to innovate and prosper in 2020. Thank you for the opportunity to have served as your 2019 Chapter President.

May your holidays be filled with peace, joy, love and passion.  A very Happy New Year to everyone.

Regards,

Janice Pyka PMI-Minnesota Chapter, MPM, MBA

PMI-Minnesota Chapter President

PMI Value Tree

Sara Swanson, PMP® (President 2020), Kimberly Berger (PDD Chair 2020) and Michael O’Connor, PMP®, PgMP® (Director at Large 2019-2020) recently had an opportunity to walk the halls of PMI’s headquarters in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, as part of the PMI® Leadership Institute Meeting October 2019—North America.

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to headquarters, and were fortunate to meet a variety of people and get insight into many programs during this time and celebration of PMI’s 50^th anniversary.

We were able to see the life-size dashboard on the third floor: the Value Tree. The Value Tree is how PMI measures success, and is a visual that shows how we can all travel this journey together as we empower people to make ideas a reality. Now, there is a video that explains this new way PMI is measuring success as we empower people to make ideas a reality.

The following outline is a brief overview of the PMI Value Tree:

PMI delivers value for nearly 3 million professionals working in nearly every country in the world, to enhance their careers and mature the project management profession.

PMI offers value products and services:

• Membership
• Certification
• Online Learning
• Publications
• And more

PMI ensures to invest in the future and continuing to serve their stakeholders. PMI is focused on being more metric driven and focused in these metrics going forward.

PMI Has created the Value Tree to illustrate how focusing on efficiency and success of their business will, in turn, create more value for their customers.

• Customer growth, over 500,000 members
• Certification, over 1.5 million certification holders

Metrics:

• Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), create a long-term relationship
• Customer Growth, increase membership
• Net promoter Score, index that measures customer satisfaction, move the NPS score up
• Leadership, empower people and successful outcomes with strategic initiatives

The bottom line is that PMI wants to be the undisputed global leader in project management. It is an exciting time and the future is even brighter.

We encourage you to learn more about the Value Tree with this video, and to share it with others in your network.

​​​​​Warm Regards,

Sara, Kimberly and Michael

Member News

New Members for the Month of November

Heather Albrecht	Erik Gellerstedt	Mark Levy	Mandi Rae
Elizabeth Arndt	Jennifer Goihl	Tina Lilja	Brian Rames
Lawrence Birch	Kyle Gruber	Gregory Lindstrom	Anthony Rensch
Curt Bursaw	Clare Hahneman	Paula Loch	Jeff Rust
Jeffrey Campbell	Glenn Hauck	Jason Lohrenz	David Sajevic
Wendy Chermak	Bryan Heger	Jenelle Masterson	Jeffrey Serba
Steven Dietrich	Christina Hepner	Joshua Maurer	Cheryl Smith
Rob Downs	Melissa Hohertz-Foat	Mat Mensah	Ken Stauffer
Peter Engebretson	Eric Hollan	Andrew Nawrot	Katrina Storms
Melanie Erickson	Franklin Igogo	Trent Nelsen	Julie Streier
Elizabeth Foderick-Stewart	Margaret Kirwin	Benjamin Nelson	Orwa Tahaineh
Nicole Galloway	Carter Krech	Hemraj Nimnauth	Tokichiro Tezuka
Caitlin Garlick	Tiaira Lee	Derek Pyle	Teri Trachy
Star Vilaysack	Elizabeth Whelan	Kristopher Wright

New PMP® Certifications for the Month of November

Mohamud Ahmed	Catherine Carlson	Andrew Nawrot	Katie Weber
Ilja Aljoskin	Babalola Coker	Aimee ODonnell	Amanda Wichern
Martin Besore	Kris Gauthier	Jason Leary	Erin Yates
John Bettendorf	Anthony Larson	Samantha Schindler	Thomas Zimba
Dawn Brady	Angela Marsh	Emiliano Urbina

Chapter Officers

Janice Pyka, MPM, MBA President - 2019 Geraldine Marks, PMP® Director of Governance/Secretary Adam Cherrill, PfMP® Director of Finance Sara Swanson, PMP® President Elect - 2019 Manish Kalra, PMP® Director at Large Alisha Walter, PMP® Director at Large Mohamed Diab, MBA, PhD, PMP® Past President - 2018 Devi Chetty, PMP® Director at Large Michael O'Connor, PhD PMP®, PgMP®, IPMA-B, NPDP Director at Large