Brantlee Underhill leads Project Management Institute’s (PMI) North America region to grow PMI’s relevance amongst organizations, individuals and communities. A Certified Association Executive (CAE) and nonprofit executive, Brantlee aligns PMI’s strategy and operational plans to serve PMI’s North American market and volunteer-led communities to empower people to make their ideas a reality. In her 20+ years with PMI, Brantlee has led community, organizational and volunteer leadership transformation to achieve greater engagement and value outcomes for PMI members around the globe. She has led the establishment of PMI offices in Dubai, Singapore and Brussels; coaches teams in change and stakeholder engagement; and co-led the start-up team for implementing PMI’s culture and change management capability. 

Brantlee will discuss how PMI’s 2021 Talent Gap report tells us that the global economy will need 25 million new project professionals by 2030 and that we can’t recruit skilled people fast enough. Keeping projects on track was a top challenge for business leaders in 2020, and that had to be managed alongside of organizational changes to digital transformation and business strategy. Project management played a pivotal role in 2020 as the world was faced with major changes, new initiatives, short timetables, and new ways of working. Learn how PMI is bringing project management skills to a broader audience – and how the focus is on giving more people around the world the opportunities and insights they need to work smarter.