March 2022 PMI-MC Monthly Chapter Event

PMI-Montgomery County MD Chapter March 2022 Monthly Evening Event

Wednesday,  March 2nd 2022

Presenters: Ms. Adrienne Somerville (MS) & Mr. Michael Taylor (MBA)

Presentation Abstract: Today, talent management is often represented by individual leaders inconsistently attempting to perform workforce planning by, for example, identifying work requirements, analyzing the existing workforce, equating skills gaps to staffing gaps, or relying on adding new resources to rectify workforce weaknesses. These efforts are ineffectual, often lacking any consistent standards or a cohesive long-term talent management strategy. For years, we have seen in the value, mission, and vision statements of many organizations the words “people first.”

Yet when you have a conversation with the average employee, he or she often does not feel as if he or she is first at all. Today, Mr. Michael Taylor and Ms. Adrienne Somerville will offer the establishment of a new standard of ensuring employees, at all levels, know they represent the organization’s most valuable resource: its talent! In essence, people are the bedrock of all organizations, upon which talent management and all other company enablers rests. Mr. Taylor and Ms. Somerville will share the top talent management concepts, and encourage
participants like you to take the necessary action to spearhead your professional talent management initiative for your individual gain, while promoting talent management
throughout your company for its organizational gain.Lastly, Michael and Adrienne will also convey the need to not only understand talent
management but the data and its organizational value. They will ensure PMI MC Chapter
participants understand the importance of collecting data about their workforce, as it is the foundation regarding the knowledge, skills and abilities of workforce members. Whether this is your first talent management event or you are a seasoned talent management professional, you will find keys to help you design, develop, and deploy a rewarding and successful talent management career and/or program.

Ms. Adrienne Somerville: As NAVAIR’s first Talent Management Program Manager, Adrienne designed, developed and deployed the integrated approach to workforce skills planning and management: increasing flexibility and agility to Department of Defense, Navy and NAVAIR requirements; nationally synchronizing a variety of functional and organizational skill efforts; and providing the total workforce a clear, consistent skill-based career roadmap and
developmental framework that identified skill gaps and better utilized desired skills to target training resources and meet program requirements.

Additionally, Adrienne has over 13+ years expertise in Talent Management and Leadership Development that stems from her Navy career and continues now simultaneously with her own consulting groups, Talent & Technical Solutions Corporation (TTSC) and Somerville Consulting Group LLC (SCG), where Adrienne serves as the CEO of both companies.

Ms. Somerville is an Amazon International Best Selling Author of Wingspan (her debuting talent management book), accolades include being named the 2021 Project Opportunity Pitch Competition winner, Career Communications Women of Color 2020 President’s Award winner and the Career Communications Women of Color 2011 Managerial Award winner.

Mr. Michael Taylor:

Michael currently cultivates a high performing workforce by designing and delivering relevant and innovative development programs that engage individuals and teams at all levels of the organization. Michael has more than 20 years of professional experience in, change management, mentorship, organizational development, and strategic planning working in the federal government sector. Michael is a certified Inside Out Coach, professional facilitator, and public speaker. In 2020 Michael and two business partners launched Talent & Technical
Solutions Corporation where Michael serves as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Michael is a professional speaker, lecturer, husband, father and Pastor.