"MARVelous 2025" - Member Appreciation and Recognition of Volunteers of 2024
We are excited to celebrate your part in making the PMI Central Virginia Chapter great at this year’s Member Appreciation and Recognition of Volunteers! Join in a MARVelous evening of:
- Food
- Professional headshots
- Guest Speaker
- Networking
Date/Time: March 4th, 2025, 5:30 to 8:30 P.M.
Plenty of networking and easy access. There will be a cash bar, but all paid admissions receive a drink ticket to kick off the evening. Dinner will be served.
Special guest speaker:
Anthony Reed, MBA, MS, CPA, PMP is a true “Renaissance man” which makes him the perfect soft skills and leadership expert.
Title:
TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW TYPE T PROJECT MANAGER
Did you know that there’s a direct link between managers and marathoners? They’re both Type
T’s. Managers are “mental” Type T’s. And marathoners are “physical” Type T’s. And Type T’s are
thrill seekers. They thrive from taking calculated risks to achieve a goal.
Successful endurance athletes and business managers exhibit the same characteristics to thrive.
They manage change by taking calculated risks and gradually expanding their comfort zones.
This is how a miler becomes a marathoner and an individual contributor becomes a successful
manager. They must incorporate change, manage risk, and motivate people to go up hill at a time
when they want to quit. All of this must be achieved in a stressful, challenging business
environment.
Companies today are struggling to maintain morale while doing more work with fewer monetary
and human resources. This isn’t an easy task. Preparing for and completing a marathon is the
perfect backdrop for examining the problems and challenges faced by today’s managers.
Whether you’re in a high-pressured meeting or encountering predators on Kenya’s Lewa
SafriCom Marathon course, you must be able to react quickly to make critical decisions with
limited information. You should weigh the advantages of a short-term sprint with finishing in the
long run. You must become a marathoner, who successfully uses their knowledge to embrace the
uncomfortable, to push towards new limits mentally and physically, and to conquer challenges.
The presenter is a former Fortune 500 executive, 132-time marathon finisher, and two-time
National Distance Running Hall of Fame inductee.
Three Learning Objectives
1. Motivate yourself and your team members without a budget.
2. Manage the negative, victim mentality.
3. Embrace fear and risk to move outside your comfort zone.
Three Takeaways
1. Life begins outside of your comfort zone.
2. Being able to relax, while under stress, helps your team focus.
3. Use M&M’s to kill the ANTs in your life.
- Interactive Elements
- Breakout discussions
- Q&A
- Handouts
- Talent Triangle Category
- Power Skills
Mr. Reed has excelled as a:
- Fortune 500 international information technology executive,
- World history making, 132-time marathoner,
- Two-time national distance running hall of fame inductee, and
- Thirty-time international award-winning documentary writer and director.
This high achiever has delivered rock solid, practical advice to over 15,000 professionals and executives throughout the USA, Canada, Brazil, and Europe.
He received the 2024 President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition Hero Award. He has appeared in publications, including USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, PMI Today, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Runner’s World, and the Journal of Accountancy. He has authored over fifty articles and six books. The running clothes and other artifacts from completing his history making marathon are with the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.
