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📅 Date: Oct 20, 2026
🕒 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30pm EST
🌐 Venue: via Zoom
🎟 Registration: Open to members and the public for a fee

Russ Parker is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Officer turned Project Manager. As the owner of Forty-Four Risk PM, LLC and creator of The Bearded Risk PM YouTube channel, Russ teaches project managers how to elevate their risk maturity with clear, practical methods grounded in real project environments.

He holds the PMP®, PMI‑RMP®, PMI‑ACP®, and CPMAI™ certifications and serves as a PMI‑ATP Instructor for PMP®, PMI‑RMP®, and CPMAI™ exam prep. Russ blends high‑stakes military planning experience with deep PMI‑aligned expertise, helping teams move beyond checkbox risk processes toward proactive, strategic risk leadership

Many project managers have sat through risk meetings that generate vague lists, unclear owners, and registers that quickly go stale. The issue isn’t the team—it’s the process. This session shows how structured, PMI‑aligned risk workshops create meaningful insights, stronger ownership, and a living risk register that supports real project decisions.

Retired Marine Corps officer and PMI‑RMP® instructor Russ Parker walks through a practical three‑step system—Plan, Facilitate, Follow Up—that transforms risk identification from a passive meeting into an active workshop. Attendees will learn how to write actionable risk statements, surface Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns, and build a follow‑up plan that keeps risks visible and managed.

What Attendees Will Learn

• The difference between risk meetings and risk workshops
• How to plan and structure an effective workshop
• How to write clear, actionable risk statements
• Techniques to surface deeper risks using PMI‑aligned methods
• How to build a follow‑up plan that keeps the register alive
• Practical lessons grounded in real project environments

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