PMI Tulsa & OKC Professional Development Day 2026
Premier annual conference bringing together project professionals for a day of inspiring speakers, practical learning, and meaningful networking.
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🚌 Skip the drive and ride with us!
Reserve your seat on our party bus and enjoy the journey with happy hour, drinks, games, and great company. Registration is available with and without transportation.
Speakers
Luke Goetting - M.O.R.E. Framework
Luke Goetting is a globally recognized Future of Work keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, and author of Unlocking NextGen Talent: How to Connect, Engage, and Future-Proof Your Workforce in the Age of Digital Natives & AI.
He has captivated audiences at the PMI Global Summit 2025 in Phoenix, the Global Project Management Forum in Riyadh, and PMI conferences in Houston, Nashville, Ottawa, and across North America.
As Principal of LTG Strategy and host of the Gen Z @ Work podcast, Luke's talks, workshops, and resources help organizations maximize their multigenerational workforce and develop high-impact leaders in the AI era. Named 2024 Speaker of the Year by MPI Greater New York, his expertise has benefited industry giants like Dell, IBM, and AMD.
Prepare for a talk that informs and entertains - Luke Goetting is here to transform your organization's future!
Melisa Meral - Team Dynamics
Melisa Meral is a Certified Somatic and NLP coach, a bestselling author, and a former Fortune 100 HR leader. She helps audiences shift from managing time to managing attention. Drawing from her background in organizing and behavioral coaching, she shares practical, human-centered strategies to help teams work smarter, calmer, and more consciously.
John Allen - Stakeholder Engagement
John Allen is a Project Management Professional and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with extensive experience leading modernization and process improvement initiatives. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant with Linea Solutions, Inc., where he supports organizations in the pension and benefits administration space with modernization efforts, operational improvements, and complex project delivery.
John specializes in helping organizations strengthen project governance, align initiatives with strategic goals, and improve execution across teams. He has also worked extensively with organizations to establish and mature Project Management Offices (PMOs) and to integrate emerging technologies - such as artificial intelligence - into project management and operational workflows.
Drawing on both project management and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, John works closely with agencies and leadership teams to implement practical solutions that streamline processes, reduce waste, and improve overall organizational efficiency.
John's session is titled The Human Touch at Machine Speed: The New Art of Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder engagement is changing - not because relationships matter less, but because attention, trust, and context are harder to earn. This session moves beyond traditional stakeholder registers and communication plans to focus on the real art of engagement: designing how stakeholders receive meaning, build trust, make decisions, and take action. Attendees will learn a practical engagement operating system and see how AI can support the work without becoming the work.
Travis Johnson - Practical Leadership
Imagine starting life with 36 moves, 12 different schools in 6 states, bouncing through 5 foster homes, surviving two murder attempts, and sleeping on the streets. That was Travis.
Today? He's a retired Navel Flight Officer, award-winning podcast host, powerful keynote speaker, and executive performance coach who now helps others turn their greatest adversity into their greatest strength.
Jalen Byford - Resume Writing & Interview Preparation
Jalen Byford is Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), bringing more than two decades of technology and leadership experience across state government, healthcare, and the private sector. His career includes serving as CIO for Humana Healthy Horizons in Oklahoma, technology leadership roles with Aetna Medicaid, the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES), and Oklahoma Heart Hospital.
A PMP and ITIL-certified leader, Jalen has spent his career building teams, developing technology professionals, and navigating the hiring process from both sides of the interview table. He also serves as President of Techlahoma and is actively involved in Oklahoma’s technology and professional communities.
At PDD, Jalen will share practical, current perspectives on the Dos & Don’ts of Resume Writing and Interview Preparation in 2026, including what hiring leaders actually notice and how candidates can better position their experience in an increasingly AI-influenced job market.
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