Together, let us maximize project success
and truly elevate our world!
Interview with Pierre Le Manh, PMP
President and CEO
Project Management Institute
Interviewed by Yasmina Khelifi
International Correspondent, PM World Journal
Paris, France
Introduction to the interviewee
Pierre Le Manh is President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading organization for project professionals, providing universally recognized professional certifications including the PMP, lifelong learning and development, and content platforms and resources to 40 million professionals in more than 200 countries.
Since taking the helm in 2022, Pierre has led a broad transformation and expansion of PMI, positioning the organization at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution in project management. He defined a clear purpose and strategy, reignited growth, scaled operations, and strengthened PMI’s capabilities both organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions and partnerships.
Before joining PMI, Pierre served as Global Deputy CEO and CEO North America of Ipsos, one of the world’s largest market research companies, where he led major transformations and integrations, establishing deep collaborations with leading technology companies and doubling profitability. Earlier in his career, he was successively CEO of a digital publishing company in France and Global CEO of Consodata, a European pioneer in data-driven marketing. He started his career as a management and technology consultant at Accenture.
Pierre serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Peter Drucker Forum and as a French Foreign Trade Advisor to the French government. He is a dual American and French citizen, fluent in English, French, and Italian.
Listen to Pierre on his podcast, The Shift Code, or follow him on LinkedIn.
Interview
Q1: Thank you for accepting our invitation. It’s been three years since we last interviewed you[1]; can you remind our readers a little bit about PMI?
Pierre Le Manh (Le Manh): “PMI is the world’s leading authority for project management and, for that matter, project success. Our global community now includes about 1.85 million active certification holders, representing 7% year-over-year growth. We have more than 763,500 PMI members, more than 411,000 chapter members, and more than 18,500 active volunteers. This is an all-time record. Our expanding community remains one of PMI’s greatest strengths.
“Our purpose is quite ambitious: We maximize project success to elevate our world. Essentially, we believe that projects and project professionals can have a significant impact on our world, helping us all tackle the challenges we are all facing.
“How do we pursue that purpose? Mainly, we provide nearly 40 million project professionals worldwide with the resources, tools, thought leadership, learning opportunities, gold-standard certifications, and networking opportunities they need to stay on top of their game and to thrive as the world evolves.
“We often sum up our intent with the following. Our goal, as an organization, is to:
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- drive collaboration across industries and geographies;
- champion innovation, including AI-enabled capability building;
- build grassroots capacity through chapters and communities;
- advance equity so the profession grows stronger with more impact; and,
- strengthen outcomes by advocating for practices that maximize success
“This seems like the perfect time to plug our website, www.pmi.org, where you can go to find out all about our work, the resources we provide, and how you can get involved.”
Q2: What is PMI’s strategy for the coming years?
Le Manh: “We continue to execute against our PMI:NEXT strategy, which we officially launched in January 2024. The strategy was designed for the long term, though we continue to challenge our assumptions as we execute our objectives.
The strategy, like everything we do at PMI, is rooted in our culture values, Aim Higher, Make It Easy, Be Welcoming, Embrace Curiosity, and Together We Can, and is developed in pursuit of our purpose to maximize project success to elevate our world. This foundation provides stability for our long-term vision.
“Other key elements of PMI:NEXT are what we call our strategic plays. There are three of them. First, we seek to leverage our core strengths by building out community-generated knowledge platforms and resources. We’ve already made significant strides in the past 3 years, including rebuilding our pmi.org website, releasing our new mobile app, and developing PMI:Infinity AI assistant. Second, we will continue to support the project community with career-long learning and development. Here, we are continuously expanding our offering to aspiring project professionals, all the way through to advanced professionals. We offer learning resources and reports, as well as networking, volunteering, and mentoring opportunities to support professional development. Lastly, we will continue to enhance our gold-standard professional certifications, ensuring they remain credible, relevant, and stringently applied…
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How to cite this work: Khelifi, Y. (2026). Together, let us maximize project success and truly elevate our world! Interview with Pierre Le Manh, PMI President and CEO, PM World Journal, Vol. XV, Issue II, February. Available online at https://pmworldjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/pmwj161-Feb2026-Khelifi-Interview-with-Pierre-Le-Manh-PMI-CEO.pdf
About the Interviewer
Yasmina Khelifi
Paris, France
Yasmina Khelifi, PMP, PMI- ACP, PMI-PBA is an experienced project manager in the telecom industry. Along with her 20-year career at Orange S.A. (the large French multinational telecommunications corporation), she sharpened her global leadership skills, delivering projects with major manufacturers and SIM makers. Yasmina strives for building collaborative bridges between people to make international projects successful. She relies on three pillars: project management skills, the languages she speaks, and a passion for sharing knowledge.
She is a PMP certification holder since 2013, a PMI- ACP and PMI-PBA certification holder since 2020. She is an active volunteer member at PMI France and PMI UAE, and a member of PMI Germany Chapter. French-native, she can speak German, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and she is learning Arabic. Yasmina loves sharing her knowledge and experiences at work, in her volunteers’ activities at PMI, and in projectmanagement.com as a regular blogger. She is also the host and co-founder of the podcast Global Leaders Talk with Yasmina Khelifi to help people in becoming better international leaders.
Yasmina can be contacted at https://yasminakhelifi.com/ or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasminakhelifi-pmp-telecom/
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[1] Khelifi, Y. (2023). From Project Managers to Changemakers! Interview with Pierre Le Manh; PM World Journal, Vol. XII, Issue I, January. Available online at https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/pmwj125-Jan2023-Khelifi-Interview-with-Pierre-Le-Manh.pdf
