Short Narrative/Description:

We conducted a new type of an event at the December 2021 Section Meeting: our first Professional Night: Path to Quality. It was designed to give floor to YOU, the Quality Professionals of Northern Virginia. It was a success! Twelve randomly selected Quality Professionals spoke 5-6 minutes each introduced by 3 moderators.

In our post-meeting online poll, the December 2021 meeting participants highly praised this Professional Night and overwhelmingly voted to continue at the January 2022 Section Meeting to give floor to those who did not have time in December.

In addition, the Section Chair will present his Section Chair's Report to brief the participants on the State of the Section. Note: This is the first Chair Report since the Chair's May 2021 Quality Matters presentation.

Overview of the Program Content:

Section Business. The Section Business part of the meeting will likely be shorter than usual as a number of Section Business items will be touched upon in the Section Chair's Report.
Section Chair's Report. After that, the Chair will present his report on the State of the Section. This is the Report promised to you at the December meeting.

• This Report is to inform you what the Section Volunteers work on, what they accomplished last year, and where the Section is going.


• This Report is NOT a call for volunteers, although you are welcome to volunteer based on what you hear.

• We will first give floor, in random order, to those who attended in December but did not have an opportunity to speak. Those people already know the speaking format since they heard the December introductions.


• Time permitting, we will continue, in random order, with those who are in attendance in January but were NOT in attendance in December.


• If we run out of time without having everyone introduced, we will continue with the introductions in subsequent meetings.


• The Moderators will continue facilitating the introductions as in December.


• We will use the same questions as in December and will have the same time limit of about 5 minutes per person. PLEASE REVIEW the 9 questions that you will be asked and THINK AHEAD of what you want to say to other Quality Professionals in attendance about yourself and your experience.


• The questions will be projected to your computer's WebEx screen. Also, you are encouraged to turn your camera on when you speak. If you are on the phone, you will need to view the questions on the Section's web page or similar when you speak.


• Note: This Professional Night: Path to Quality is not a call for volunteers. It is about YOUR Path to Quality. You will not be asked whether you volunteer or plan on volunteering unless you want to raise this yourself as part of a relevant question (such as Q4, Q8, or Q9).