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Speaker: Deborah Dunlap

Topic:  The Influence of Well-Being and the Built Environment on Organization

Summary: Change that offers benefits at all levels throughout the organization may be initiated when leaders understand how the built environment influences workplace well-being, employee performance, and organizational outcomes.  Organizations perpetually search for better ways to achieve organizational goals creating a state of constant change.  Although constant change becomes the norm, bringing about effective changes requires a shift in organizational culture.  Leaders have a tremendous influence over the success of an organization.  A focus on employee well-being and its relationship with growth and performance in organizations has gained more attention over the last decade or so.  Leaders who understand the built environment and how it affects workplace-well-being, performance and organizational outcomes may have a better opportunity to improve performance on the part of the employees, the leadership team, and the organization as a whole. 

Speaker Bio: A leadership/business professional, interior designer and educator, Deborah Dunlap holds a unique experience combination. As a business consultant, she works closely with businesses on achieving their goals by applying leadership research and strategies. She offers leadership training and speaking engagements to businesses and professional organizations.

As a Lead Designers at DCI Home Resource, Deborah delivers quality design and client service by guiding clients through each stage of the design project. As the founder of Dunlap Interiors, Inc., she caters to residential and light commercial clients. As an educator, she teaches to pass along knowledge and industry experience while training the next generation.

Influenced by extensive travel in Western Europe and the United States, her themes are anchored on clean, simple lines with warm sophisticated contemporary edges, and classic architectural styling. Her simple design philosophy combines quality materials, innovative space planning and current color palettes creating stylish functionality. Using this formula, Deborah strives to design solutions that deliver the space that suits her clients.

Deborah’s work has been featured in interior design magazines such as South Park Magazine and published in interior design textbooks, all winners of ASID Joel Polsky Award. Her interest lies in organizational leadership, well building design, evidence-based design and environmental psychology. She serves on the NC Museum of Art and the Winthrop Alumni Executive Board.

Deborah holds a BFA in Interior Design from Winthrop University; an MS in Interior Design from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and will complete a Doctorate in Executive Leadership at the University of Charleston in December 2019.

Key Focus: Executive & Organizational Leadership; Corporate Training, Evidence-Based Design; Education; Academic Affairs; Student Affairs; Design & Educational Research; Environmental Psychology; Kitchen & Bath Design; Remodeling and Renovation; Project Management

This is a working meeting designed for PMI Chapter members south of the city including Ballantyne.

PDU Category: Leadership

POC: ballantyne@pmi-metrolina.com

Community Chapter Meeting 

As a means of helping chapter and local community members who are certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) satisfy the continuing education requirements for re-certification, PMI Metrolina Chapter arranges its monthly meeting schedule to allow a 1 hour PDU training session to be incorporated into its normal meeting.

Topics presented during these sessions are designed to not only satisfy the PDU requirement for re-certifying as a PMP, but to also provide wide appeal to people involved in project management regardless of whether or not they are certified PMPs. The 1-hour sessions meet the educational requirements to qualify for 1 PDU credits for maintaining PMP® certification or to meet the requirement for attending 35 hours of formal project management education prior to applying to sit for the PMP® exam.

The sessions are open to all.