Calendar of Events

July 15th (Thursday) - PMI Orange County & Silicon Valley Joint Webinar

Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling

Description of Webinar

Have you missed a promotion due to what has been acknowledged as "the glass ceiling"?  While this phenomena has been brought to light in the '70s, invisible barriers and bias continue to exist preventing qualified individuals (women and minorities alike) from advancing upward in their organizations regardless of their achievements.

"In a world where talent is distributed equally among women and men, an economy that does not fully tap into the leadership skills offered ... is necessarily inefficient," says Chicago Booth Professor Marianne Bertrand. "Talent is left on the table when (individuals) are not placed in leadership positions, and the economy suffers."

Join us as PMI-OC has women from the Silicon Valley and Orange County chapters discuss how they have overcome inequalities to advance in their careers.  They will recount their professional journeys in the corporate world and, more specifically, in the project management arena.

Time of Webinar

From 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM 

Attendee Cost

Free Event

Biographies of Speakers

Catherine Tonne, PMP, M.B.A., SAPM, CSM, CSPO Catherine has exceptional experience in project, program, and portfolio execution and leadership, including 10 years of personnel management. She has held senior level positions of Senior Program Manager, PMO Director and Senior Director at multiple entities including Visa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Northland Controls. She has extensive experience in creating and growing PMOs and has built and led successful Business Analysis practices. She is well versed in traditional and modern Project Management methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches. Catherine has created innovative processes for portfolio ranking, project complexity scoring and business requirements prioritization ratings. Her diverse industry experience includes environmental, management consulting, aerospace, physical security, IT, product development and launch, telecommunications, high performance networks, academia/science research, financial services, and payment processing. Catherine has been active in PMI, holding several positions on the SFBAC (NCC) Board of Directors and multiple PMI International Board appointed leadership positions and strategic committee chairs.	mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ramya Kailas, MBA, PMP Ramya is a Lead Technical Project Manager with Nestle USA. She is a highly influential leader with over 15 years of experience and is known for her successful and proven track record in Data, Leadership and Project Management. She has led several cost-cutting and revenue growing project opportunities for her employer, while leading a wide array of diverse teams towards successful business results. Her organizational skills, collaborative and measured approach, and extensive experience have given her a unique ability to connect with associates in a meaningful way and effectively lead passionate and energetic teams to success. Ramya has also been involved with many DE&I leadership initiatives within Nestle and has mentored several colleagues across the company and community throughout their careers. She was recently promoted to VP of Communications at PMI-OC after serving as the Director of Knowledge Management for 5 years. A graduate of UCLA & USC, Ramya is a dual degree holder, an MBA graduate and a certified Project Management Professional.
Narmela Sargis, MBA, PMP, CSM Narmela is a Senior Program Manager / Portfolio Manager with over 20 years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies.  Currently, she is managing the migration of over 700 applications to the cloud.  She has been a volunteer with PMI-OC chapter for the past six years.
Carol Flint, Senior Director of Program Management As Senior Director of Program Management for the Wired and Wireless Group (WWG) of Xilinx, a company at the forefront of 5G technology, Carol is responsible for the smooth execution of all the WWG product development and processes. She leads a Program Management team to deliver large, complex projects and programs, ranging from silicon and board design to SW/IP development to customer engagements.  In addition, Carol is also responsible for training new project managers and documenting project management processes at Xilinx.  She has been a Program Manager at Xilinx for the past 20 years and previous to that, was a Program Manager at Hewlett Packard.

PDUs issued for this event

1.25 PDUs in the Leadership category.