PMI Alamo Chapter Virtual Membership Meeting - September

Virtual

Alamo PMI Chapter Virtual Event September 29, 2026

Join the PMI Alamo Chapter for an engaging virtual evening featuring Ben Chan, Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Leadership Trainer.

Ben will bring practical leadership insight, real-world perspective, and strategies designed to help professionals strengthen how they lead, communicate, and influence others.

Event Details

Date: September 29, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST
Location: Virtual via Zoom

Topic:  The Culture Clash: Building a Project Team Culture for Performance

Keynote Speaker

Ben Chan
Executive Coach | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Trainer

Ben is known for helping professionals and leaders strengthen their leadership presence, improve communication, and grow their ability to lead with confidence and purpose.

Why Attend

This virtual event is an opportunity to:

• Gain leadership insights from an experienced executive coach and keynote speaker
• Connect with professionals across the project management community
• Strengthen your leadership perspective
• Expand your professional network
• Engage with the PMI Alamo Chapter community

Whether you are a project manager, emerging leader, executive, or professional looking to grow your leadership capabilities, this session is designed to provide meaningful insight and connection.

Stay Connected

Visit www.alamopmi.org for registration updates and additional event details.

Connecting People. Growing Leaders. Driving Project Success.

We Are Stronger Together.

Professional Development Day: Where Strategy Encounters Reality: Discipline for Strategic Execution

Endeavors

Where Strategy Encounters Reality: Discipline for Strategic Execution

Date:  October 3, 2026

Time:  0800 - 1:30pm | Doors open at 8:00am

Location: Endeavor's Center

Meal: Continental breakfast and Lunch is included. 

Description

The prior session on Strategic Portfolio Management explores the question: Which work matters most?

This workshop focuses on what happens after execution begins—when organizations struggle to maintain alignment, accountability, decision clarity, and coordinated movement under pressure. Together, participants will examine the more difficult operational question:

Why does the right work still fail to move?

The workshop is structured around three progressive waves of strategic drift:

• Wave 1: Where Execution Begins Losing Clarity
• Wave 2: Where Accountability Breaks Down
• Wave 3: Executive Discussions

Each wave combines facilitated table discussions, audience reflection, operational analysis, and candid conversations around the organizational challenges participants are currently navigating within their own environments.

The session focuses on how teams maintain alignment once ambiguity, competing direction, delivery pressure, and cross-functional friction begin impacting execution. Participants will leave with practical approaches for improving decision clarity, strengthening accountability across teams, surfacing tradeoffs earlier, and keeping work coordinated as conditions continue to evolve.

PDUs: 5

Talent Triangle

Power Skills / Business Acumen

Agenda

• Registration and Networking
• Workshop Introduction and Strategic Framing
• Wave 1: Where Execution Begins Losing Clarity
• Break and Networking
• Wave 2: Where Accountability Breaks Down
• Wave 3: Executive Discussions
• Lunch and Networking
• Strategic Outcomes and Adaptive Portfolios
• Final Reflection Activity
• Workshop Close

Learning Objectives

• Examine how ambiguity, competing priorities, and delivery pressure begin affecting execution once strategic work enters delivery.
• Evaluate how decision clarity, accountability, and ownership influence coordinated execution under pressure.
• Apply practical approaches for improving alignment, surfacing tradeoffs earlier, and strengthening accountability across teams.

Speaker Biography

Christopher D. Gentry is the Founder and Principal Consultant of StrategyPMO, specializing in strategic execution, portfolio governance, and enterprise transformation. With nearly 20 years of experience, he has supported Fortune 500 companies and state and federal government organizations through modernization, transformation, and complex cross-functional initiatives.

Christopher is a speaker, academic instructor, author, PMI PMP/CAPM Study Hall contributor, and former PMI chapter officer and board member.