Volunteering Spotlight: Let's Meet Tasheka Dorsey-Wilson

 

Tasheka Dorsey-Wilson is a wife, pet parent, and PMO Director with 20 years of project management experience, currently serving as a PMI Global Volunteer Leader on the Sustainability Outreach Team.

Which project management certifications do you currently hold?
Project Management Professional (PMP) and GPM-B

Which volunteer team do you currently support? 
Sustainability Outreach Team

What impact does your volunteer team have on the project management profession?
As fellow project management professionals, our team hopes to provide practical advice, tools, and resources to make incorporating sustainability thinking and principles into projects easy and effective.

How does your volunteer experience benefit your day-to-day job as a project professional?
I love collaborating with others and the exchange that happens when we learn from each other. Volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to the community and sharpen your skills. My volunteer experience allows me to learn new things and apply them, meet new people and expand my network, and keep a pulse on new trends and ideas in our project management industry. As I learn, I can more easily translate the new trends and ideas into simple practices and solutions that my teams can apply to our day-to-day projects to become more valuable and effective.

Which M.O.R.E. principle do you apply most in your work as a project practitioner, and how does it influence your approach to delivering project success? 
Own Project Success Beyond Project Management Success is the M.O.R.E. principle that I use the most. In my role as a PMO Director at REV, I take full accountability for the success and failure of all the projects in my organization's portfolio to ensure that we are using our finite resources, people and budget, optimally. I am incorporating tools such as AI to save time and increase efficiency. We incorporate sustainability thinking into our decisions to find opportunities and solutions that drive long term value and have social and economic benefits for our company and the local communities we serve. Every project is an investment that is undertaken for a purpose. Understanding how each project connects to our organizational goals and strategy helps me shape stakeholder understanding to drive impact and outcomes that align with those goals.

Is there a ProjectManagement.com article or webinar you found helpful? Can you share the title or link? 
The Secret Leadership Mindset That Improves Project Delivery

Where can others connect with you?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasheka-dorsey-wilson-pmp-9862149a

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