CHAPTER MEETING & GUEST SPEAKER
"Why Your Leadership Brand Matters"
April 4, 2023

Your PMI-CRB Chapter Board is pleased to continue its efforts for the 2023 Program Year to enhance and provide value to the membership by offering Monthly Chapter Meetings. 

Please join the PMI-CRB Chapter for our On-Site or Hybrid (Virtual) on April 4th, 2023. 

Note - We have limited Virtual seats, (100) and limited On-Site seats (100 seats - first come, first serve) available at CG & Public House.

Please select the appropriate ticket type (Virtual or On-Site) when you are registering:

• • If you choose the virtual option, you will receive link instructions on April 3rd, 2023, after 6pm. 
    • Important! - the Zoom meeting starts at 06:30 PM
  • If you select the On-Site option, please come to CG & Public House Event Center Meeting Room at 05:30 PM for Networking. Dinner service starts at 06:00 PM. Dinner is included within the registration fee.
    
    • Buffet style dinner includes Classic Meatloaf, Creamy Baked Ziti, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables, Green Salad, Roll & Butter, Dessert. For Gluten free or Vegetarian Entrees, during registration choose the option "Yes, I am requesting a Gluten free or Vegetarian Entree" or email [email protected] by 3/31/2023.

CHAPTER MEETING & PRESENTATION

05:30 PM - Arrive at CG & Public House Event Center Meeting Room for On-Site Meeting 
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM - Networking
06:00 PM - 06:30 PM - Dinner & Networking
06:30 PM - On-Site/Virtual/Zoom Meeting/Presentations Start
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM. - "Why Your Leadership Brand Matters?" by Brian Fort

   Brian Fort
Rear Admiral (retired) U.S. Navy

Brian Fort, is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He completed a 32-year career in the U.S. Navy culminating his service as Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Japan. During his distinguished career, he led joint, combined, and multi-national organizations both at sea and ashore. His naval service included seven command assignments including command of Navy destroyer command of numerous Task Forces at sea, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, Navy Region Hawaii and Navy Region Japan. He has extensive global operations experience across the Indo Pacific, Oceania, Middle East, High North Atlantic, and Mediterranean. As a twice-served Navy Region Commander, he has significant disaster preparation and recovery experience to include global pandemic response for which the Emperor of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun-Gold and Silver Stars. He is also a Naval Nuclear Engineer and commanded one of only three Navy nuclear training commands.

Mr. Fort is a graduate from the Naval War College with a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies. He is also a graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College, a George Washington University Elliot School Fellow, taught leaders hip at the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England, and completed executive education at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Mr. Fort has been published in books on maritime security and naval history and written for numerous magazines and newspapers on the topics of leadership and naval operations, history, and heritage. He is a celebrated keynote speaker including multiple television and radio interviews and record testimony to the Hawaii State Legislature. He is an avid naval history enthusiast (including a cameo in the 2019 movie Midway), and very passionate about the environment, particularly our world’s oceans and waterways.

Today, he is a resident of Richland, Washington and the Vice President of Strategic Programs for Atkins Nuclear Secured, supporting some of the most challenging Manhattan Project and post-Cold War environmental cleanup projects in the world.

"Why Your Leadership Brand Matters?"

“We live in an inherently dangerous and complex world, and we do inherently dangerous and complex work - work that is high hazard, high consequence, and high impact.  Some examples are work that involves chemical, nuclear, or biological materials, fuels, or explosive materials and weapons. There’s also work involving systems with high temperatures and pressures, work involving utilities, construction, demolition, or heavy equipment, and industries involving transportation over the road, on the seas, along the rails, and through the skies.  Medical, agricultural, and manufacturing industries make up other examples, as does the work of first responders, and those in military, space, and security operations, and many, many more.

Such work requires a respect for the working environment and an appreciation of kinetic and potential energy, relative motion, mechanical dynamics, and of course, the human factors involved, such as distraction or fatigue.  We feel assurance in our inherently dangerous world of work because of things like training, certifications, education requirements, professional engineering designs and safeguards, policies, procedures, protocols, and the like.  Many of these industries also require regulation and oversight, and in some cases the need for routine audits, examinations, and assessments.  Collectively, we refer to these as standards, and they apply to many aspects of our lives and work.

And yet, incidents and accidents still happen, resulting in significant loss, injury, and in the most tragic of events – death.  In almost every case, follow-on investigations conclude these events were preventable.  These same investigations almost always result in an increase in standards (e.g., more training requirements, additional certifications and safeguard controls, modified policies and procedures with new requirements, increased oversight and regulation, and new examination, audit, and assessment requirements). While this is sometimes important and appropriate, it’s an exceptionally weak substitute for poor leadership in the first place.  This is why your leadership and your leadership brand matters.”

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MEETING TYPE - Hybrid (Virtual) & On-Site Meeting 
ON-SITE VENUE - CG & Public House Event Center Meeting Room, 9221 W Clearwater Ave. Kennewick, WA 99336
DINNER MENU - Buffet style dinner. Dinner is included within the registration ticket and fee. 
NO HOST BAR - As always, a No Host Bar will be available during the Networking.
REGISTRATION - Required no later than Monday, 4/3/2023 at 5:30pm immediately preceding the Tuesday meeting. 
EARN PDU - Earn 1 PDU under the "Business Acumen" category by attending this organization meeting.
CANCELLATIONS - please check our Cancelations & Refunds policy. 

We Hope You Can Join Us For Our Event!