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Subject:  The Future-Ready Project Manager: Implementing AI, Expanding Careers, and Leading What’s Next

This session reframes AI as a career accelerator. Attendees will explore emerging project management career pathways enabled by AI, including transformation
leadership, AI-augmented project delivery, product and platform management, and AI implementation roles. The discussion will focus on how project managers can apply their existing skills while building AI literacy and confidence to remain competitive and relevant.

As artificial intelligence, automation, and electrification reshape industries across Michigan and beyond, many experienced project managers are navigating career disruption, uncertainty, and rapid change—particularly in automotive and manufacturing sectors. While AI and robotics are transforming how work is delivered, they are not eliminating the need for project leadership; they are redefining it.

Aligned with PMIGL’s 2026 theme, Implementing AI in a Project Management World, this presentation connects PMI’s evolving standards and tools—PMBOK® 8th Edition, PMI-CPMAI™, and PMI Infinity™—to practical, achievable next steps. Participants will leave with renewed optimism, a clear understanding of future-ready PM roles, and an actionable roadmap to reposition themselves for the next chapter of their careers.

Speaker: Susan Gordon-Jackson

Susan Gordon-Jackson is a healthcare IT strategist, certified AI consultant, and project management leader with decades of experience guiding complex technology initiatives across hospital systems, health plans, and community organizations. She brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, practical execution, and servant leadership to every engagement.

With a background spanning healthcare system, project and program management, Agile delivery, and emerging AI technologies, Susan is passionate about helping others use AI responsibly to enhance planning, problem solving and impact. She is especially committed to demystifying AI for non-technical audiences and empowering women, youth, and community leaders with future-ready skills.

Susan holds a Master of Science in Information Systems from Lawrence Technological University where she has also served as an adjunct professor, teaching graduate-level courses in Project Management and Health Information Systems. She has been a PMIGL member since 2011.

Agenda

Speaker: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Attendees will receive 1.0 PDU for this event.

REGISTRATION NOTE: Advance, online registration will close at 12:00noon the Wednesday prior to the meeting.  Please register in advance to secure your seat.