A Storm is Brewing! Don't pass up this opportunity to hear Storm Cunningham, a highly sought-after conference speaker who has been called "the world's thought leader on community revitalization and natural resource restoration." One of the most popular keynote speakers at last October's PMI Global Congress, Storm will be our guest speaker for the March monthly meeting of the Silver Spring Chapter of PMI, on Wednesday evening, March 9, 2011. Author of "reWealth" and "The Restoration Economy," Storm is CEO of REVITALIZ, LLC, the Washington, DC firm that created Revitalization Forum: the world's first web tool that makes it quicker and easier for communities and regions to create, fund, launch, and manage a comprehensive revitalization program. Storm's topic on March 9: "Restoring the Planet: Seven Success Factors for Managing Complex Revitalization Projects." This is an event you won't want to miss!

To register for this event, please CLICK HERE.

FLASH NEWS!! Come early for a special 5:30 pm "extra-PDU-at-no-extra-cost" session by Chris Cole,  who will be discussing the challenge of Managing Change. Chris, a member of the PMI Silver Spring Chapter Board of Directors, is co-founder of MC2 Consulting and General Contracting.

Cost of the event, which will be held at the Blair Mansion Inn (7711 Eastern Avenue - Silver Spring, MD 20912), is $35 (payment in advance, or $40 at the door). Sign-in and networking begin at 6:00 pm (or 5:00 pm if you're also coming to the early session), dinner is at 7:00 pm, and Storm's presentation begins at 8:00 pm sharp. This event is worth 1.5 PDUs (or 2.5 PDUs if you attend the early session as well!). For directions to the Blair Mansion Inn, click here.

Storm Cunningham is CEO of REVITALIZ, LLC (formerly Resolution Fund), a Washington, DC-based firm that helps communities, counties, tribes, regions, and nations ignite rapid, resilient renewal of their economy, their natural resources, and their quality of life. They are the creators of Revitalization Forum, the world's first web tool for comprehensive community revitalization.

Storm is the author of "The Restoration Economy" (published in 2002), and "reWealth" (published by McGraw-Hill in 2008). Bill Leary, former Director of Natural Resources, White House Council on Environmental Quality, says of reWealth: "This is the book world leaders should be talking about! In reWealth they will find the path to revitalizing our economy, restoring our environment, and renewing the quality of our lives."

From 1996 to 2002, Storm was Director, Strategic Initiatives at the Construction Specifications Institute, a 50+ year-old association of 18,000 architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers.  They provide training and certification for construction specifiers and document specialists, and their formats are the standard for quality commercial construction in the U.S., Canada, and several other countries.  During this time, he was CSI's staff liaison to the U.S. Green Building Council.

Storm was previously CEO of a small manufacturing company that developed aquaculture systems based on a pioneering water purification technology invented at the Smithsonian Institution.

A former Green Beret SCUBA medic, Storm is an avid SCUBA diver, motorcyclist, and amateur herpetologist.  His passion for integrating economics and nature goes back to his undergraduate business major and biology studies at Windham College in Vermont. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, USA.

March 9, 2011: Christopher Cole - Managing Change - 5:30 pm at Blair Mansion Inn

Chris Cole, a member of our own Board of Directors, will be discussing the challenge of Managing Change, in a special 5:30 pm session preceding Storm Cunningham's presentation on March 9.  In a world which resists change where change is inevitable, this is an appropriate and timely topic!

Chris is one of the two founders of MC2 Consulting and General Contracting. He began his career in the construction industry nearly 20 years ago. He has a Master Project Manager certification through the Academy of Project Management, and a Six Sigma Yellow Belt. MC2 Consulting created and offers a soft skills and project management training program through MC2 Consulting. Realizing a need to produce better managers, and not just great test takers, Chris takes managers through various courses such as managing change, decision making & critical thinking, team building, time management and others. 

As noted above, sign-in for this special 5:30 pm "extra-PDU-at-no-extra-cost" session begins at 5:00 pm.