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☕ 6:30 AM CT Chapter Breakout Room - Join us with your morning brew! This isn’t just another networking session—it’s a casual, no-pressure way to exchange ideas, hear quick project management tips, and connect with professionals who can offer fresh perspectives. In just a short time, discover a new strategy, a job lead, or even just a renewed sense of connection in the field.
💡 7:00 AM CT - ProjectBites sponsored educational program begins with the following two topics:
Unstick Your Product Management Career
Teresa Jurgens
Product management is a relative newcomer on the scene within the realm of successful project execution. Whether you work on IT projects or with tangible new products, business objectives for product management are similar. Corporate strategy, portfolio balance, project execution, and team development are necessary skills for a product manager to master.
In this interactive session, we will identify key business objectives for successful product management. Using a set of creativity tools, you will begin to align your own experiences as a product manager with traditional business deliverables for product development. Finally, you will take home a simple, three-step template to plan your personal development goals to launch and accelerate a purpose-driven career as a product manager.
Unlocking the Key to Your Success as a Leader and Manager
Paul Pelletier LL.B. CAPS PMP
This presentation explores how to navigate the challenges of hybrid work to achieve outstanding outcomes. Attendees will gain practical insights into leveraging leadership strategies, tools, and technology to ensure seamless collaboration, productivity, and team engagement in a hybrid environment.
About our speakers
Teresa Jurgens
Teresa Jurgens is a writer, speaker, and executive coach helping leaders tap into creativity for successful innovation. She helps organizations improve time-to-market for new products through building collaborative teams and delivering enhancements across the innovation ecosystem. Teresa has worked with product teams around the world in a variety of industries, including food and beverage, home appliances, medical devices, publishing, petrochemicals, non-profits, and more. She is the author of The Innovation Book series (available at Amazon), including The Innovation Leadership Book (coming in 2025). Teresa lives in Tucson and enjoys hiking among the majestic saguaro cactus.
Paul Pelletier LL.B. CAPS PMP
Paul is a ground-breaking expert specializing in workplace respect, workplace civility, diversity/inclusion, leadership, and conflict management. Paul uses his skills and experiences as a corporate lawyer, professional speaker, manager, project manager and business leader in his work and is a regular presenter at global conferences and events. Paul is the past Chair of Diversity and Inclusion at the Attorney General Of BC, Legal Services Branch and both a member of the Métis Nation of BC and of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. He is also the author of two books, including The Workplace Bullying Handbook. He is represented by the National Speakers Bureau.
Event details
- Wednesday May 21, chapter breakout room 6:30 AM CT, program start 7:00AM CT
- Self-reporting PDU information and meeting recording provided by ProjectBites
- Free registration for PMI Nashville members
- Can't make it? No need to cancel, the relevant details will be provided by ProjectBites following the event.
Tickets
$0.00 PMI Nashville Member Ticket
