Job Seekers

Title: Bridging Lean Management Theory to PM Practice and Career Growth

Summary: This session introduces the core principles and models of Lean Management theory and demonstrates its applicability to project and program management. We will explore the overlap between Lean Management and Project Management methodologies and will discuss opportunities where PMs can leverage Lean for career advancement, including identifying meaningful training opportunities and certifications that can provide a distinct professional advantage.

Objectives: 

1. Understand Lean and Lean Management principles and frameworks
2. Identify overlap between Lean Management and Project Management methodologies
3. Define the value proposition of specific Lean/Six Sigma certifications and the PM career path

In-person only event.

Join us for a presentation: Shift: Into Mental Agility and Resilience with Kristy Morgan of Apex Leadership Partners! 

Summary:

Over the past few years, we’ve all faced incredible disruption—economic shifts, layoffs, rapid changes in technology, and new expectations for how and where we work. When your career path takes an unexpected turn, how do you adapt and move forward with confidence?

This interactive session explores how mental agility and resilience can help you stay focused, optimistic, and effective during times of change. You’ll learn how to manage uncertainty, recover from setbacks, and turn challenges into opportunities. By shifting your mindset and practicing the habits of resilience, you’ll be better equipped to navigate your job search—and your next chapter—with clarity and purpose.

https://crestcom.com/leadership-trainer/kristy-morgan/

Presenter: Kayla Quijas

Contact:  kaylaqcareercoaching.com

Title: The PM Readiness Triangle: The Fastest Path to the Right Role

What We’ll Cover: How to apply the PM Readiness Triangle to accelerate landing the right role

• Why do so many capable professionals shrink their goals the moment they start job searching – while others land their dream jobs fast? The difference usually isn’t talent. It’s balance.

   In this session, you’ll learn how to use the PM Readiness Iron Triangle – Experience, Credentials, and Network – to diagnose exactly what’s keeping you stuck and fix it with a focused plan. You’ll walk away with a clear way to assess your current strategy, identify the fastest lever to pull, communicate your value with confidence, and pursue roles that actually match your capability.

Key Takeaways:

• 1. Apply the PM Readiness Iron Triangle to evaluate your job search strategy
  2. Develop a balanced approach to your job search strategy
  3. Build confidence in your value to communicate effectively

Presenter: Rachel Rozen

Topic: Professional Networking: Cultivating Strategic Networking Habits

What We’ll Cover:

This interactive webinar will focus on making networking feel more intentional, human, and sustainable. Rather than treating networking as something you’re either “good at” or not, the session will emphasize simple habits and practical frameworks to help you build relationships with greater ease and confidence over time.

The goal of the webinar is to help participants leave with clarity, not a long to-do list. Everyone will be encouraged to identify one or two actions they can start using immediately to help networking become a sustainable habit, rather than something that is avoided or postponed.

Key Takeaways:

• Networking works best when it’s treated as a skill built through small, repeatable habits.
• Simple conversation frameworks make it easier to listen, respond, and go deeper without forcing it.
• Thoughtful introductions, shared resources, and invitations are powerful ways to add value.
• Progress comes from choosing one or two actions to practice consistently, not trying to do everything at once.

Presenter: Angie Callen

Topic: Design Over Default: Turning Values into a Career Navigation System

What We’ll Cover:

In this session, Angie Callen explores how to move from default decision-making to intentional choice by turning values into a career navigation system. Participants will examine how values show up in real-world work and career scenarios, learn how to use them as a filtering and prioritization tool, and walk away with a clearer, more grounded way to evaluate options, make trade-offs, and move forward with confidence — in a job search and beyond.

Key Takeaways:

• Clarify your core values and recognize how those values influence satisfaction, motivation, and decision-making at work.
• Recognize how values show up in practice, including where misalignment often creates friction, indecision, or burnout.
• Apply a values-based lens to career decisions, including job searches, role evaluations, trade-offs, and growth paths.
• Use values as a filtering and prioritization tool, not just a reflection exercise, when facing uncertainty or competing options.
• Increase confidence and clarity by making decisions that are intentional, defensible, and aligned with how you want to work, lead, and live.

Presenter: Peter McCauley, Director of Staffing & Solutions at PDS

Topic: Professional Networking

What We’ll Cover: In this workshop, we will provide an overview of how project managers are viewed in the job market and how they can position themselves to be easily found and stand out with local recruiters. Additionally, we will discuss what recruiters are looking for in LinkedIn profiles, submitted resumes, and completed job applications.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to optimize your resume: (not ATS keywords)
  • In terms of its structure and content
  • Capture the recruiter’s attention
  • Demonstrate alignment with the role requirements
• Develop a strategic networking approach:
  • Personal networking
  • Social platforms (LinkedIn)
• Discuss current market dynamics and how to identify aligned job opportunities

Lynn Juve, a career coach, is returning to discuss the resume must haves for successful career pivots. Lynn will cover the top 3 tools to start your career change (before you feel ready).

1. Position your skills with clarity and confidence.

2. Translate your past experiene into future-ready value 

3. Understand the non-negotiables hiring manager expect

Time:  10:30-11:45am

Networking 11:45-12pm

Hybrid event @ Koelbel Library and TEAMS. 

Bespokeprofessional.com

@tylerpollesch

@mollyliepins

@Bhuvaneswari (Bhuvana) Vasudevan
@DianeChapp

@LynnJuve

Personal Brand Management for Tomorrow's Project Manager

Presented by: Tyler Norman, MBA   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Do you find yourself known as the project management or business analysis expert at your organization? Would you like to one day?

Many of us hold this title, formally or informally, and it carries with it elements both positive and negative. 

In this session we’ll discuss establishing or cultivating a personal brand as an expert, leveraging that brand for your career development, and avoiding many of the common pitfalls that can come with personal brand building.

Hybird event: In-Person Koebel Library + Virtually on Teams

We are teaming up with PMI Metro St. Louis Chapter! 

Arrive: 10:15am

Time:  10:30-11:45am

Networking 11:45-12pm

Hybrid event: in-person and hosted on teams! 

"Mastering LinkedIn Strategies for Job Seekers: How to Showcase Your Expertise & Personality"

Your LinkedIn presence has an impact on your job search and speaks to hiring managers. This session, led by Shawn Teasley, Owner and Strategist at Social Tonic, will dive into the types of posts and content that can elevate your job search, helping you establish credibility, showcase your expertise, and demonstrate what makes you stand out.

By the end of the session, participants will have learned:

• How to craft posts that impress hiring managers and recruiters
• Ways to show gratitude, cheer on others, and build community through your LinkedIn presence
• How to step out of your comfort zone and develop a content strategy that showcases your “zone of genius”

Location: Koelbel Library 

5955 S Holly St, Centennial, CO 80121

Arrive 10:15am 

Networking 11:45-12pm

 @tylerpollesch
@shawnteasley
@DanJackson
@AustinPlummer
@PMIMetropolitanStLouisChapter
@mollyliepins
@Erinhallstrom
@Arthurlarsen
@bhuvaneswarivasudevan

The Job Seekers Leadership Team is planning a Recruiter discussion. 

This is virtual event hosted in collaboration with PMI Metro St Louis Chapter. 

Join via the TEAMS link. 

Time:  10:30-11:45am

Networking 11:45-12pm