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Here are the highlights of the Project Management as a Strategic Partner discussion that we will hear:

1. Helping organizations link strategy with execution.
2. Explaining OPM3 as the acronym for the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model. It is the first standard for organizations published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
3. How OPM3 relates to organizational maturity.
4. An Executive's Guide to OPM3.
5. The OPM3 Cycle.
6. The 3 Interlocking Elements of OPM3: Knowledge, Assessment and Improvement.
   The Knowledge element describes organizational project management and organizational project management maturity. The Assessment element is the procedure by which an organization can measure itself against the description of maturity in the Knowledge element, in order to gauge its organizational project management and its maturity. The Improvement element provides information to assist an organization in determining and selecting paths to navigate from its current state of maturity to a more desired state of maturity.
7. The Benefits of OPM3.

Katherine Shawver is a 27 year employee of Sprint Nextel, a Fortune 100 international telecom business. Katherine’s professional career spans various assignments in Information Technology including client server management, hardware and software engineering projects and most currently is active with systems training curriculum development and delivery projects. Katherine is currently an Educational Consultant in Sprint University, an internal performance support organization. She is a practitioner of Project Management having achieved PMP status in 2001.

Katherine is a 9 year member of PMI having served as a Chapter President, project manager for several Chapter LDEC projects, Component Mentor coaching and mentoring the leaders of 25 PMI chapters in Northeast North America USA and as a chapter member representative on the Component Services Member Advisory Group.

Katherine is dedicated to life-long learning, a graduate of PMI’s Inaugural Leadership Institute class. She actively pursues opportunities in volunteer leadership having served as an officer on a regional Board of Directors for the Girl Scouts USA, self-education with regard to efficient boards of director performance, governance related topics for not-for-profit organizations, team building and leadership, and many books and articles focusing on personal leadership skill assessment and development. Katherine participates in an informal "exchange" program she created among her PMI leader peers by sharing valuable lessons learned from books, periodicals and seminars/workshops.

Katherine is interested in the areas of improving communications, strategic planning and operational alignment with strategic plans as well as a champion of global diversity throughout the PMI organization.