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We're back with another PMI-LA recap!

Yesterday, attendees joined us for Dad Jokes & Deadlines, a refreshingly different conversation on leadership with Tim Boyd.

Through humor, storytelling, and real-life experiences, Tim challenged us to think beyond project plans and reflect on the impact we have on the people around us. It was a thoughtful session that sparked plenty of discussion, and quite a few laughs along the way.

Thank you to Tim Boyd for sharing his insights and to Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education (Caltech CTME) for supporting the event. We also appreciate everyone who joined us and made the conversation so engaging.

We hope to see you at a future PMI-LA event.

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What's the biggest thing you've learned this year?

Your professional brand is more than a static resume. It's the story of your impact, your network, and your continuous growth.

Complex career transitions and high-stakes project environments require more than one perspective. You don't have to figure it out alone. When you intentionally surround yourself with a strategic circle of mentors, peers, and advocates, you build the kind of career resilience that compounds over time.

Tomorrow, PMI-LA is hosting an interactive workshop on exactly this — Developing Your Personal Board of Directors with David C. Doan. You'll map your current network, identify the gaps, and leave with a concrete action step. 1.5 PDUs included.

📅 June 17 · 6:00–7:30 PM · Virtual
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/44agTP0

Don't leave your professional trajectory to chance. Build your board. Diversify your insights. Lift others as you climb.

🔄 Repost if you believe your network is your net worth.

What a week at PMI-LA.

Over the course of a few days, project professionals from our community came together to discuss leadership, team motivation, and lessons learned from real-world experiences.

We kicked things off with Andrew Gromenko and Kostiantyn Romanov, who challenged attendees to think differently about time tracking, visibility, and team performance.

On Friday, Scott Springer, EdD, PMP joined project professionals from multiple PMI chapters to explore why effective leaders adapt their style based on the situation, team, and challenge in front of them.

Then on Saturday, our PMI-LA Book Club discussed Projectland Goes to the Movies: 22 Blockbuster Strategies for Project Success, followed by a leadership presentation from Asia Bribiesca-Hedin on moving from task tracker to project leader.

Thank you to our speakers, volunteers, partner chapters, and everyone who joined us throughout the week. The conversations, questions, and shared experiences are what make this community special.

And we're not done yet. We have more events coming up this week.

LA Metro deployed 300 buses and 2,000 staff to move fans to SoFi Stadium for the FIFA World Cup.

Most people would notice the buses.

Project managers might notice the purple sign.

The sign sits in a parking lot. It tells people where to go, which gate to use, what they can bring, what they can't bring, and where to find more information.

Pretty boring.

Until you imagine 70,000 people showing up without it.

Suddenly it's not a sign anymore. It's the thing preventing thousands of people from asking the same questions, standing in the wrong lines, or heading in the wrong direction.

We've all seen versions of that on projects.

The information exists somewhere.

A stakeholder can't find it.
A team member asks the same question someone asked yesterday.
A decision gets delayed because nobody knows where to look.

The work itself isn't always the hard part.

Sometimes the challenge is making it easy for people to take the next step.

That's one of the things project managers do every day, often without anyone noticing.

The purple sign just happens to be doing it for soccer fans.

If you're the kind of person who notices things like that, you'll probably enjoy being around other project managers.

And if you're also a soccer fan, join us for our FIFA World Cup Final Viewing Party on July 19 at Yard House in Marina del Rey.

Come for the match.

Stay for the conversations.

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Your weekend plans just got more productive.

Today, project professionals from across PMI chapters are getting together to talk about leadership styles and how to adapt your approach to different teams and situations.

Tomorrow, PMI-LA Book Club explores lessons from Projectland Goes to the Movies, followed by a leadership discussion on how to move from task tracker to project leader.

Two events. Two days. Plenty of ideas you can bring back to work next week.

📅 Today: Multi-Chapter Leadership Webinar
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📚 Tomorrow: PMI-LA Book Club
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Which conversation would help you most right now?

Before a project succeeds, someone usually makes another person's day easier.

A project manager clarified the next step. Shared what they knew. Caught a risk before it became a problem. Helped a teammate move forward with confidence.

Those moments rarely make headlines, but they make work and life a little better for the people around us.

That's why National Making Life Beautiful Day feels surprisingly relevant to project management.

PMs create clarity, support, and progress when people need it most, and we celebrate you today.

React below and tell us how you made life a little more beautiful this week:

❤️ I made someone's work life easier
👍I helped bring calm to a busy week

What's one small thing you did this week that helped someone else succeed?

Mountain lions don't carry project charters. But someone had to build them a bridge.

The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing spans 10 lanes of the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills. It took coordination across federal agencies, tribal nations, conservation groups, and local government; years of stakeholder alignment before a single cubic yard of soil moved.

That's the part most people skip over when they talk about this project.

The crossing gets attention for what it looks like: 50,000 native plants, engineered soil, a living landform stitched over a freeway. But the harder work was getting 12 different organizations to agree on a shared definition of success before the design even started.

That's a stakeholder problem. A scope problem. A communication problem. Nothing exotic about it, just the same stuff you're navigating right now, probably in a smaller room with fewer cameras.

The first PM decision on Annenberg wasn't technical. It was: what does success look like for a mountain lion?

The mountain lions couldn't answer that. Someone had to ask it on their behalf.

What's a project you've worked on where the real stakeholder wasn't obvious at first?

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