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 Inclusive Leadership

Speaker: Shikha Parakh

Speaker Bio:  Shikha Parakh is a result-driven and highly accomplished Project Management Professional with 18+ years of experience. She has a proven history of developing global, project delivery models and instituting PMO frameworks. She specializes in guiding multi-million-dollar, project portfolios. She is adept at evaluating business needs and aligning priorities with innovative solutions.

She currently serves as Sr. Strategy Execution Manager for the office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. In her current role, she is leading enterprise teams on Novant Health Board directed 3-year long term diversity, inclusion and health equity goals for the organization. Prior to joining Novant Health, She led one of the Cognizant’s large strategic financial services account’s Program Management Office.

Shikha holds a Master’s degree in Physics. She is a certified Project Management Professional, Certified Scrum Master and certified diversity facilitator. She serves as chair for Asian Business Resource Group (BRG) which is ranked as Top 19 BRG in the nation. She gives back to the community through her organization AWEBA (Asian Women Entrepreneurs and Business Alliance) by assisting Asian women in reaching their full potential. She is also a proud recipient of the 2018 and 2019 Jump Start Grant from the city of Charlotte. She also serves as a board of directors for the USPAACC- Southeast chapter. She is currently participating in the Emerging Business Leaders program conducted by Charlotte Regional Business Alliance.

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.