Donna Fitzgerald

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Donna Fitzgerald
Research Director
3 years at Gartner
31 years IT industry

Donna Fitzgerald is the role service director for the Program and Portfolio research area. Her responsibilities include helping companies improve their program and portfolio management capabilities. Ms. Fitzgerald uses her personal experience… Read Full Bio

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Worthy Causes and Doing What We Can to Help

by Donna Fitzgerald  |  September 17, 2009  |  Comments Off

After almost a week away in Orlando at the PPM Summit I decided to take a few minutes and catch up on my email.  As it always does with me — one click lead to another and before I knew it I found myself at the ESI site checking out their Stand Out Scholarship designed to help unemployeed individuals brush up their PPM skills so that they hopefully can get a job.  Call me naive but I was delighted by existence the program.  It is my deepest believe that all any of us are called on to do to help others is just what we personally have the resources to do (be it skills, time or money).  Clearly ESI is in a position to offer professional training and they’ve chosen to make available some scholarships to those who need the help.  Whether or not that training gets someone a job can never be guarranteed but just knowing that someone thinks you’re worthy of investing in can be a big ego boost and for some that might be all it takes to get their career back on track.

I’ll be writing more about the conference tomorrow but for today I just wanted to give a “hat’s off” to ESI.

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