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• December Chapter Meeting

  • When
    2025-12-17
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    11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Zoom Meeting

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  MEMBER AFFINITY BREAKOUTS

  

  Open Discussions on your Favorite Topics

  Members will be placed into breakout rooms with others that share similar interests. A facilitator will be in each room to keep the discussions on track. If you haven't already, please provide a topic or two you'd like to discuss by filling out this form: December Chapter Meeting - Breakout Topics – Fill out form

  Meetings are typically held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month

  
  Agenda:
  • 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM | Chapter News & Community Updates
  • 12:05 – 12:50 PM | Breakout
  • 12:50 – 1:00 AM | Closing Announcements

  Hosted virtually via Zoom | Link provided via email the day before event
  Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

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• 🍺 January Social 🍺

  • When
    2026-01-14
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    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Omni Brewery and Taproom in Maple Grove
  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  Networking Social with the DAMA-MN Community! 
  JANUARY 14 @ 4:00pm-6:00PM

  
  

  Come hang out with your fellow data nerds.

  
  

  Join us to:

  • Enjoy a FREE drink and apps (sponsored by glean)

  • Meet the 2025–2026 DAMA-MN Board and fellow data professionals

  • Mingle, network, and connect — no agenda, no pressure, just fun

  Open to members, guests, and anyone that wants to network with data nerds.
  

  Bring a friend or colleague — and drop in any time after work (between 4:00-6:00 PM)!

  Location:
  Omni Brewery and Taproom
  9462 Deerwood Ln N
  Maple Grove, MN 55369️

  Parking & Transit:
  Free onsite

  Special Thanks:

  
  

  This event is generously sponsored by glean,  Glean is the AI Work Platform that connects your company’s knowledge, people, and tools so everyone can find, use, and trust information. Teams use Glean Search, Answers, and AI Agents to safely automate knowledge work with enterprise‑grade security and governance. 

  BIG thanks to glean for treating our community to a cozy winter evening! 

  
  

  Stay Tuned for these Upcoming Events!

  February "I Heart Data Governance" Workshop with Meenu Howland

  April Data Career Fair

  October DAMA-MN Conference

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• January Chapter Meeting

  • When
    2026-01-21
  •  
    11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Zoom Meeting

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  6 Ways that Your Change is Sinking (and how to stay afloat)

  

  Join the DAMA-MN community in welcoming guest speaker Aakriti Agrawal at our January Chapter Meeting!

  
  

  Aakriti Agrawal, MBA, CDMP, ADGP, is a Senior Manager of Data Governance at a Fortune 100 company, where she leads large-scale data change initiatives. She holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Change from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and has dedicated her career to the intersection of data, transformation, and leadership. She recently published her first book, Data Governance Change Management, introducing the ANCHOR Framework for Change Leadership. Learn more about her book at ANCHORyourChange.com   

  Aakriti is also a serial nonprofit founder, having co-founded Girls Code Lincoln and The Nonprofiting Org. Recognized with the Inspire Founders Award and the Emerging Young Leaders Award, and nominated to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, Aakriti is a TEDx speaker and frequent presenter on data governance, change management, and women in STEM.

  This Month's Topic:

  Change is constant — but leading it well is anything but easy. In this session, author and change management expert, Aakriti Agrawal, shares how to navigate the emotional, cultural and behavioral shifts that come with change. Drawing from her book “Data Governance Change Management” and her ANCHOR model framework, Aakriti reveals practical techniques to reduce fear, build trust, and foster sustainable change. Whether you’re leading a data governance initiative, a new process rollout, or a culture shift, you’ll leave with actionable tools to help your people not just survive change — but thrive through it.

  Key Learning Objectives:

  • Explain the ANCHOR model and its core principles for leading successful, people-centered change.  
    
  • Identify six of the most common pitfalls that derail change efforts – and recognize early warning signs in their own organizations.  
    
  • Apply practical strategies from the ANCHOR model to build trust, reduce resistance, and sustain momentum during transformation. 

  
  

  Meetings are typically held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month

  Agenda:
  • 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM | Chapter News & Community Updates
  • 12:05 – 12:55 PM | Featured Speaker
  • 12:55 – 1:00 AM | Closing Announcements

  Hosted virtually via Zoom | Link provided via email day before event
  Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

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• February Chapter Meeting

  • When
    2026-02-18
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    11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual Zoom Meeting

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  Upcoming DAMA-MN Chapter Meeting - Save the Date!

  We’re publishing our upcoming meeting dates early so you can plan ahead and stay engaged with the DAMA-MN community. While speakers and topics are still being finalized, you can expect the same high-value experience our members have come to count on: actionable insights, professional networking, and alignment to the DAMA-DMBOK framework.

  Meetings are typically held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month

  
  Agenda:
  • 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM | Chapter News & Community Updates
  • 12:05 – 12:55 PM | Featured Speaker
  • 12:55 – 1:00 AM | Closing Announcements

  Hosted virtually via Zoom | Link Provided After Registration
  Open to members and guests — all are welcome!

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• Data Governance Workshop with Meenu Howland

  • When
    2026-02-26
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Minneapolis, MN
  • Spaces left
    30

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  UNLINKED: The Hidden Architecture Behind Data, Delivery, Process, and Governance

  Thursday, February 26 @ 9:00am-4:30pm
  Minneapolis, MN

  

  Join author and data strategy executive Meenu Howland for a full-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll uncover how to connect data, process, and business capabilities through her Organizational Relationship Architecture (ORA + ORG) architecture featured in her book Unlinked. This is not a “new framework”, rather a new way of working with your existing frameworks!

  
  

  Data management frameworks, process frameworks, and governance frameworks all promise alignment — but most organizations still struggle to make them work together. 
  Join Meenu Howland, CDMP, CSM, CPBI, author of Unlinked: The Biggest Gap Your Business Never Knew About and the Unspoken Architecture That Will Finally Fix It, for an immersive one-day workshop that reveals the hidden structure connecting strategy, data, and delivery. This session introduces Meenu’s groundbreaking Organizational Relationship Architecture (ORA)— a practical model that links business capabilities, data lifecycles, and governance outcomes into a single, actionable structure. Participants will leave with a shared language for alignment and a workshop toolkit that they can immediately apply to improve trust, quality, and efficiency across their enterprise.

  Who Should Attend:

  This workshop is designed for data governance leaders, enterprise and business architects, process professionals, AI and analytics leaders, and change management practitioners who want to move beyond frameworks and build connected systems that actually deliver.

  You'll Learn How To:

  • Identify structural misalignments between data, process, and capability models
  • Map business capabilities through data and process lifecycles
  • Redefine ownership and stewardship using lifecycle-based governance
  • Apply the four governance outcomes — Clarity, Trust, Efficiency, and Risk Reduction — to real business scenarios
  • Design change strategies that embed adoption, not resistance

  About the Facilitator:

  Meenu Howland is the Founder and CEO of Neuronova Consulting and author of Unlinked. She brings over 16 years of experience leading enterprise data and governance strategy across industries, bridging business architecture, AI alignment, and organizational design. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member for TheAssociation.AI and has presented at industry events including DGIQ, EDW, and AIGOV.

  Included with Registration (over $300 Value):

  • A free digital copy of Unlinked
  • Multi-template pack and Quick start alignment workbook.
  • A half hour of one-on-one Q&A to be scheduled after the workshop

  
  

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