PMI CRB Chapter Meeting - November 2025
November 04, 2025
5:30 PM PST - 7:30 PM PST
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CG Public House
9221 W Clearwater Ave.
Kennewick, WA 99336
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CHAPTER MEETING & GUEST SPEAKER
Your PMI-CRB Chapter Board is pleased to continue its efforts for the 2025 - 2026 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 Virtual on Tuesday, November 04, 2025
Please select the appropriate ticket type (Virtual or On-Site) when you are registering:
- If you select the On-Site option, please come to the venue at 05:30 PM for Networking
- If you select the Virtual option, you will receive a link instructions a day before the meeting. The Zoom meeting starts at 06:30 PM
- Dinner service starts at 06:00 PM. Dinner is included within the registration fee.
CHAPTER MEETING & PRESENTATION
05:30 PM - Arrive at the venue 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 - "Strategic Developmental Mapping Process" presented by Dr. Leesa Duckworth from PNNL
DR. LEESA L. DUCKWORTH
Dr. Leesa Duckworth is a Senior National Security Specialist, focused on international arms control and nuclear nonproliferation at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Duckworth is also an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist specializing in process and human performance optimization. With over 33 years of experience in national security, her expertise allows her to take on large and complex challenges, including dysfunctional teams, and broken processes in addition to helping individual people to realize actionable options for overcoming limiting factors or even failures, to achieve success.
In 2022, Dr. Duckworth led a multinational team of experts in the evaluation of the French and German Nuclear Disarmament Verification Exercise and was able to both identify where things did not work as expected and deliver a multilevel causal analysis that provided pathways to overcoming each challenge. In 2024, Dr. Duckworth designed and developed two quadrant structures to enable the analysis of processes, procedures, technologies, and techniques applicable to disarmament verification, and to determine their values. She is also passionate about taking on big challenges outside of her traditional mission spaces; in 2021, she and a colleague modeled a new approach to reducing the risk of insider threat using a new organizational awareness and staff development approach. This model was presented to the Department of Defense C-Int Symposium and subsequently highlighted to an international audience via a Nuclear Threat Initiative panel discussion at the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management summer conference in 2022. The panel garnered accolades for the new approach from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the result of which has been ongoing development of the concept through partnership with Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Today, Dr. Duckworth’s position holds a specific emphasis on arms control and nuclear nonproliferation, as she serves as a U.S. expert in several multinational forums. Concurrently, Dr. Duckworth leverages her combined operational experience and organizational psychology expertise to build collaborative bridges, help teams and individuals communicate effectively and overcome performance issues, optimize team construction to take on challenges across topics and spaces, build and develop the next generation of experts across spaces, and help organizational elements grow capabilities. She does this through her approach to strategic development engineering. Dr. Duckworth holds both an MS and PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, dual MS degrees in Organizational Leadership, and Organizational Management, and a BSOE in Human Services/Psychology with a minor in Industrial Safety. She is also currently pursuing an MS in Project Management that should be completed in 2026. Before her civilian career, Dr. Duckworth also served in the U.S. Navy.
"Strategic Developmental Mapping Process"
Strategic Developmental Mapping is a methodology developed by Ph.D. Industrial and Organizational Psychologist, Dr. Leesa Duckworth. She created this Strategic Mapping process in 2005 and has been offering it to both individuals and organizations actively since 2012. This technique looks at the psychological aspects of how people connect to their work and how to optimize the paths of individuals, groups, and organizations and the processes they impact or employ.
Why is the Strategic Developmental Mapping process so important today?
Today’s workforce is struggling. Early career employees entering the workforce are often lost, have no idea where they might fit into the workforce or why, and have difficulty even articulating what makes them stand out from the pack, much less being able to create a hype to which they would have to live up. This is reflected in the increasingly common effect of an inability of a candidate to explain why the applied to a position or why they chose the organization itself. Gallup (2022)[1] suggests that not only is this absence of purpose a problem, but those same candidates are often already looking for a different opportunity as early as the day that they start their job (48%). Many employers are lucky if those new hires stay a year, and the reality is often significantly less.
The disillusionment epidemic is not limited to fresh, new workers. Established employees in many cases are feeling burnt out and disillusioned with their jobs, career choices and even employers. Seasoned employees want to do what they love, and love what they do, and there is rarely a mechanism to help them align the two. This has created an increasing trend in workplace burnout[2] (76%), loss of productivity, and even absenteeism, which ultimately result in a financial loss to the organization.
How does Mapping help?
The Mapping process serves multiple functions:
- To guide the user (organization or individual) to be forward leaning (looking to their future) to generate an inclusive, developmental roadmap to their success.
- Facilitates the identification of behavioral and developmental actions required to attain the envisioned result.
- Removes the opportunity to reject functions as impossible before identification of how they can be accomplished, through a backwards planning approach.
- Reveals where opportunities for collaboration and advocacy exist, and how to seek those out.
- Identifies behavioral barriers to success and facilitates the development of mitigation strategies and practices to eliminate the negative element of their influences.
[1] Hemphill, E.B. (2022). Uncomfortable (but necessary) conversations about burnout. Gallup Workplace. https://www.gallup.com/workplace/406232/uncomfortable-necessary-conversations-burnout.aspx
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MEETING TYPE - Hybrid (Virtual) & On-Site Meeting
ON-SITE VENUE - CG Public House, 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 Sunday 11:55 pm immediately preceding the Tuesday meeting.
EARN PDU - Earn 1.0 PDU by attending this organization meeting.
CANCELLATIONS - please check our Cancelations & Refunds policy.
Tickets
$20.00 On-Site Member
$30.00 On-Site Guest
$10.00 Virtual Member
$15.00 Virtual Guest
$15.00 On-Site Student Member
