PMI Region 5 2009 Leadership Meeting

“The Best is Yet to Come”

The leaders of PMI’s Region 5 Chapters met on January 29 through 31 at the Region 5 2009 Leadership Meeting to learn from and share with each other around the theme, “The Best Is Yet to Come”.  PMI’s Region 5 consists of 14 Chapters in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and North Carolina.  It boasts nearly 20,000 PMI Chapter members and includes both the 2007 Component of the Year (Washington DC – Category 4) and the 2008 Component of the Year (Central Virginia – Category 3).

The annual event, hosted this year by the PMI Silver Spring Chapter, was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland.  According to its website, the PMI Silver Spring Chapter “provides an open forum for professionals in the field of project management in Silver Spring, Maryland and the surrounding Washington, DC metropolitan area to promote the principles of the Project Management Institute through networking with other project managers, sharing project experiences, providing and receiving training, and supporting project managers in their certification and continuing professional development efforts”.  

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About the Author Ron Taylor Ron Taylor, MBA, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in the Washington D.C. Mr. Taylor is a project manager, lecturer, trainer, author, and consultant, and is the principal and founder of the Ron Taylor Group. He has over twenty five years of experience in managing projects. Ron began his career as a member of the faculty of the University of Kentucky, where he was nominated Teacher of the Year. After moving to the U.S. Census Bureau, he managed several multimillion dollar projects and led the Bureau's Project Management Board of Directors. Ron is the Immediate Past President of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the largest PMI Chapter in the world with over 8,500 members.  During Ron’s Presidency, the Chapter was named 2007 PMI Chapter of the Year and Ron was named 2008 PMI Chapter Leader of the Year.  Ron served as a member of the faculty of PMI’s College of Performance Management and a member of PMI's Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) project team. He has been a featured speaker at several project management conferences and symposia.  Ron holds both the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from the Project Management Institute and the Master Certified Knowledge Manager (MCKM) certification from the International Knowledge Management Institute.  Ron lives in Virginia and can be contacted at rontaylor1@verizon.net.

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