Resilient Leadership in Action: Turning Project Challenges into Career Wins™

Turn Project Pressure into Leadership Opportunity

📅 Wednesday, October 28, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT
💻 Virtual Lunch & Learn

Project managers are constantly navigating competing stakeholder priorities, tight timelines, limited resources, and unexpected change. How you respond in those high-pressure moments can influence not only project outcomes—but also how others view you as a leader.

Join the PMI Emerald Coast Chapter for an engaging Lunch & Learn featuring Shirley Ellis, Founder and CEO of Intentional Impact LLC.

In Resilient Leadership in Action: Turning Project Challenges into Career Wins™, Shirley will share practical strategies for strengthening resilience, adapting during high-stakes situations, and maintaining alignment when priorities shift. Discover how everyday project challenges can become opportunities to demonstrate leadership, strengthen credibility, and prepare for greater responsibility.

What You'll Learn

Participants will learn how to:

• Reframe challenges into opportunities that keep projects moving forward

• Model steady leadership that builds credibility others want to follow

• Align executive expectations with project realities

• Build a leadership presence that opens doors to bigger roles

Meet the Speaker: Shirley Ellis

Shirley Ellis is the Founder and CEO of Intentional Impact LLC, where she helps organizations develop decisive leaders who turn strategy into consistent action and measurable performance.

Drawing on more than a decade of experience as a Principal Project Manager leading cross-functional teams and complex initiatives in regulated environments, Shirley brings a practical understanding of the challenges project professionals face.

Today, she equips professionals from mid-level through senior leadership with performance-driven strategies that strengthen decision-making, credibility, leadership presence, and organizational impact. Known for her contagious energy and powerful storytelling, Shirley creates learning experiences that move people to action.

Join us October 28 and discover how the challenges you face today can become the career wins that shape your leadership tomorrow.

Attendees of this event will earn 1 PDU.

Hosted by our PMI Emerald Coast FL Chapter Board Members.