PMI APRIL 2026 LUNCHEON PRESENTATION
Join us for our monthly meeting and presentation on April 15 at 11:55 a.m.!
PMI – APRIL 2026 LUNCH PRESENTATION
Registration Deadline: April 12 2026
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Time: 11:55 a.m. - 1:05 p.m.
Where: Microsoft Teams
Agenda
11:55pm – Announcements and Introductions
12:00-12:45pm – Presentation
12:45-1:05pm – Comments and Q&A
Presentation Topic: Rise Above Routine: Embracing Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone
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Speaker: Darren Mann, PMP, Prosci, Maxwell Leadership Certified Coach, Speaker & Trainer
Speaker Biography:
Darren Mann, PMP, Prosci, and Maxwell Leadership Certified Coach helps project professionals lead with courage, consistency, and clarity. With 15+ years delivering high-risk initiatives across higher education, healthcare IT, and insurance, he has led projects exceeding $120M, managed $2M+ budgets, and built a 150-member PM Community of Practice recognized for institutional impact. Darren blends practical project leadership with change management and motivational teaching to help teams rise above routine and translate strategy into consistent action.
Presentation Title: Rise Above Routine: Embracing Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone
Presentation Overview:
Predictability feels safe—but it can quietly cap team performance, innovation, and engagement. Rise Above Routine equips PMs and leaders to recognize comfort-zone patterns, reframe fear as fuel, and build consistency that sustains momentum. Using stories and a guided self-reflection checklist, participants craft a 7-day micro-action plan and a “Bold Ask” to advance a real project or career goal. Attendees leave with practical tools to strengthen influence, resilience, and follow-through—on the job and beyond.
Presentation Learning Objective:
Enable participants to identify where routine is limiting impact and apply a simple framework to take courageous, consistent action aligned with project and organizational goals.
Key Learning points:
- Name the zone: Recognize emotional/behavioral cues that keep you in routine.
- Failure → fuel: Reframe setbacks to accelerate learning and innovation.
- Consistency wins: Use the ICAN Principle to drive daily, visible progress.
- Ask boldly: Communicate needs and make specific, timely requests.
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