The Project Management Institute’s Washington, DC Chapter added an experimental Executive Breakfast meeting series to the learning opportunities it offered members in 2007. The Executive Breakfast series was conceived by the Chapter leadership and executives of The Center for Systems Management, the event sponsor, as a means of reaching out to senior executives with a stake in project management success.

The series was designed to put project management professionals and prominent speakers together in a small group setting that allowed for a more conversational style of exchange than is practical at some of the Chapter’s larger events.

Attendees expressed appreciation for this early morning alternative to the Chapter’s many lunch-and-learn meetings and its regular monthly dinner meeting; and the “intimate” setting that allowed plenty of time and opportunity to talk with the speaker and network with peers.