🌍 Calling All Digital Nomads + Location-Free PMs! 🚀 Are you a project manager who works remotely, travels frequently, or doesn’t feel rooted in any one geographic location?
I’m Cris — currently working in global education and living the nomadic life (4 countries in 6 years and counting!). Like many of you, I’ve found that joining a traditional, location-based PMI chapter doesn’t always make sense — or offer the kind of value we’re looking for.
So here’s the idea: What if we started a digital-only PMI chapter — built by and for nomadic, remote, and globally-minded PMs?
We could create a space to: ✨ Share insights across work cultures and time zones 🌐 Support each other through constant transitions 🧠 Learn and grow together — regardless of where we are in the world
If this sounds even remotely interesting to you (pun intended 😄), drop a comment below! Whether you want to join, help organize, or just learn more — I’d love to connect.
Let’s build something that reflects the way we actually work.
Thank you Cristina Santoro for sharing such a thoughtful idea! Your passion for creating a space for digital nomads and global PMs truly stands out. Love this vision, a digital-only PMI chapter fits today’s remote work style. Count me in to explore more. It’s a great step to support and learn from fellow PMs around the globe, no matter where we are.
How would this differ from what we have with this community? We have virtual events, networking opportunities and similar benefits to a virtual chapter?
Kiron
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2 replies by Luis Branco and Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz
Apr 23, 2025 6:01 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Kiron Bondale That’s a great and important question — and I believe it deserves thoughtful consideration.
You're absolutely right: PMI already offers valuable virtual events and a vibrant global community.
I’ve benefited from them myself.
Where I see potential differentiat in Cristina Santoro's idea is not in the format (digital), but in the focus and identity of the proposed chapter.
While current digital offerings serve a broad audience, a “digital-only” chapter for location-independent PMs could:
- Offer continuity and depth for a niche community that thrives on global movement,
- Foster peer support for transitions — between countries, roles, or time zones,
- Prioritize cross-cultural project realities as a lived experience, not just a topic,
- Build an identity that’s born digital, not just adapted to digital.
That said, you raise a critical point: we should avoid redundancy and fragmentation. Ideally, this could be designed in harmony with existing PMI communities, possibly even as a pilot extension or specialized virtual interest group within PMI.
Looking forward to seeing how this conversation evolves — and to contributing in a constructive way.
Best regards,
Luis Branco
Jul 04, 2025 10:09 AM
Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz
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It's true, Kiron. We've reached a good level of engagement in the projectmanagement.com community. Various participants would also post and comment in their mother tongues, to involucrate the diverse language culture that is present through the global members of the community.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Cristina Santoro I love the spirit of this initiative — it truly resonates with the evolving reality of how many of us work today.
Your idea captures something essential: the need for a professional “home” that’s not tied to geography, but rather to mindset and mobility.
What excites me most is the opportunity to:
- Cultivate a space focused on transitional challenges, cultural agility, and time zone navigation;
- Share practices grounded in lived global experience — not just theory;
- Create continuity and support for professionals often “between” chapters or time zones.
I’d be delighted to support, exchange ideas, or help shape this — not as a replacement for the existing PMI structure, but as a complementary space that reflects the way we actually live and work.
Let’s make it happen!
Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
How would this differ from what we have with this community? We have virtual events, networking opportunities and similar benefits to a virtual chapter?
Kiron
Dear Kiron Bondale That’s a great and important question — and I believe it deserves thoughtful consideration.
You're absolutely right: PMI already offers valuable virtual events and a vibrant global community.
I’ve benefited from them myself.
Where I see potential differentiat in Cristina Santoro's idea is not in the format (digital), but in the focus and identity of the proposed chapter.
While current digital offerings serve a broad audience, a “digital-only” chapter for location-independent PMs could:
- Offer continuity and depth for a niche community that thrives on global movement,
- Foster peer support for transitions — between countries, roles, or time zones,
- Prioritize cross-cultural project realities as a lived experience, not just a topic,
- Build an identity that’s born digital, not just adapted to digital.
That said, you raise a critical point: we should avoid redundancy and fragmentation. Ideally, this could be designed in harmony with existing PMI communities, possibly even as a pilot extension or specialized virtual interest group within PMI.
Looking forward to seeing how this conversation evolves — and to contributing in a constructive way.
Best regards,
Luis Branco
Instead of creating "another" PMI chapter, I would rather develop the existing offers for project managers (is there anything missing, does it need to be organized differently, etc.) and make online content from the chapter accessible for everyone.
Laura Schofield , is there maybe already a working group for the development of the online communities?
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1 reply by Laura Schofield
Apr 23, 2025 4:04 PM
Laura Schofield
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Hi Svenja, I am not aware of an existing volunteer role regarding this intersection of online community and chapters. I will certainly update should things evolve and new volunteer opportunities become available.
Online Community Specialist| Project Management InstituteNewtown Square, PA, United States
Apr 23, 2025 7:04 AM
Replying to Svenja Merle
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Instead of creating "another" PMI chapter, I would rather develop the existing offers for project managers (is there anything missing, does it need to be organized differently, etc.) and make online content from the chapter accessible for everyone.
Laura Schofield , is there maybe already a working group for the development of the online communities?
Hi Svenja, I am not aware of an existing volunteer role regarding this intersection of online community and chapters. I will certainly update should things evolve and new volunteer opportunities become available.
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1 reply by Svenja Merle
Apr 24, 2025 2:51 AM
Svenja Merle
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Hi Laura, that would be awesome.
There is already so much available - organizing it in a way, that the target group described by Cristina Santoro feels addressed would be wonderful.
Hi Svenja, I am not aware of an existing volunteer role regarding this intersection of online community and chapters. I will certainly update should things evolve and new volunteer opportunities become available.
Hi Laura, that would be awesome.
There is already so much available - organizing it in a way, that the target group described by Cristina Santoro feels addressed would be wonderful. Saving Changes...
How would this differ from what we have with this community? We have virtual events, networking opportunities and similar benefits to a virtual chapter?
Kiron
It's true, Kiron. We've reached a good level of engagement in the projectmanagement.com community. Various participants would also post and comment in their mother tongues, to involucrate the diverse language culture that is present through the global members of the community. Saving Changes...
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